Client Perks
Choosing Lighter Capital means gaining a capital partner that goes beyond funding, offering specialized services and valuable discounts to propel your growth.
We partner with leading software vendors and solution providers to offer discounts on a wide range of products and services that will help our clients increase revenue, save money, and power up productivity — all benefitting the bottom line.
Over $100,000
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Activate provides Lighter Capital clients with $25,000 in AWS credits valid for 2 years.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Explore how millions of customers are currently leveraging AWS cloud products and solutions to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability
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20% off our R&D tax credit/SR&ED rates! Free R&D tax/SR&ED software. Access to a team of R&D Tax/SR&ED experts - engineers and CPAs with a combined 30+ years of R&D Tax/ SR&ED filing experience who will handle your entire claim process, from preparing technical and financial reports to filing and audit defense. Option to receive a cash advance on your R&D Tax/SR&ED as early as one quarter into your tax year (i.e. 12-16 months before filing and only applicable to Canadian companies at this stage). Access to our Traction community. Free and discounted tickets to our online and IRL Traction events, including weekly webinars, monthly dinners, quarterly investor-founder meetups, and an annual conference. Go to https://boastai.grsm.io/lightercapital
Boast.ai automates access to billions in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives so companies can fuel their growth while preserving equity and avoiding red tape. Armed with $123M USD in funding, Boast.ai is on a mission to help innovative companies become successful. Boast.ai also runs Traction, a non-profit community of over 90k+ founders and tech professionals that brings leaders from the fastest growing companies like Shopify, Twilio, Slack, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc. to share learnings on building, growing, and scaling startups via weekly webinars, monthly dinners, quarterly investor-founder meetups, and an annual conference.
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Subscription: 30% off Monthly plan for 6 months or 50% off Annual subscription. Setup: $1,500 ($1K-2K in savings.)
Budgyt is a new and improved way to budget, built to deliver the speed, precision, and flexibility today’s finance teams need. Take control when building & managing budgets for multiple departments and/or projects, and save up to 80% of time and labor costs by trading error-prone, manual spreadsheets for a revolutionary no-code budgeting & reporting platform. You can onboard in as little as 3-5 days.
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Complimentary Total Addressable Market Analysis & 10% off services
The Linked Strategies Group specializes in supporting transformational organizations to secure more executive level meetings with their most ideal target market clients. Think of landing a conversation with Elon Musk or Tim Cook, or with the CMO of BestBuy, or CSO of Mckenzie, or the CEO of a small mid sized company as examples. We are best in class at executive meeting setting and we can provide your team qualified leads and sales opportunities guaranteed.
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Emerging Company discounted pricing, or 10% off first-year subscription, and waived implementation fees.
Carta allows private companies — from formation to IPO — to manage their equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. Their team is focused on building tools and systems that allow founders to raise a round, close financings, issue stock options, do 409A valuations, and more...all without spending thousands on unnecessary fees.
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We're offering Lighter Capital's startups and alumni the chance to leverage Chargebee's most popular plan, Rise, free for one year. This offer, worth $3600 in savings, will help subscription startups automate core billing and subscription management functionalities that are essential for accelerated growth.. Sign up for a Chargebee account. Click on the 'Go Live' button on the upper right corner of the dashboard, once you are ready to start processing payments. Click on 'Choose Plan'. Choose the 'Rise' Plan and click on 'Proceed'. Click on the Plan Name. Click on 'Apply Coupon' and enter the coupon code A8LIGHTERCAP
Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management product used by thousands of customers across 53 countries. New business owners and entrepreneurs can leverage Chargebee's plug and play solution to create a frictionless subscription experience, without writing a single line of code. Growing businesses can use Chargebee's powerful REST API to customize billing workflows.
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Get a Free month (in addition to the 30 day trial)
Chargent is the leading payments and recurring billing app on the Salesforce AppExchange. Control and manage your payments right where your customer data lives -- Salesforce. Get paid faster, with better visibility. Automate collections and other business processes based on your payments data.
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20% off our Implementation fees during onboarding (~ $7,500 value) for Lighter Capital portfolio clients and/or Community members.
Compass East scales finance and accounting operations for B2B SaaS. We provide full accounting and FP&A teams to streamline your finance operations and eliminate challenges around revenue recognition, SaaS KPI dashboards, budgeting, forecasting, GAAP compliance, and more.
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Free customised FX plan for your business
Deaglo provides the next generation of FX execution and risk management. We educate and empower finance teams to take control of their international revenues and expenses by implementing simple and effective hedging strategies.Through our banking ecosystem our clients immediately boost their profit margins by reducing their FX costs.
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50% off set up fee (based on monthly transactional volume and priced at approx. $300 - $5,000) AND $500 off first year of tax filings, if you choose to do your taxes through Escalon. To activate, email or call BriAnn Rachele: briann.rachele@escalon.services or 385.495.2393.
Since 2006, Escalon, together with acquired companies Early Growth and Full Stack Finance, is the one-and-done solution for all Essential Business Services, including FinOps (CFO services, bookkeeping and accounting, tax), PeopleOps (human resources, benefits, recruiting and payroll) and Risk (business insurance). Escalon is currently servicing over 5,000 companies, most of which are tech startups / SaaS. Our strategic advice and efficient services in finance & people-related matters enable us to escort early-stage companies through transformation into large enterprises or successful exits. Escalon can perform one or all of the above functions depending on your company's needs at any given time.
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Receive 25% off your first year of Forecastr. Includes FREE VIP onboarding + access to Forecastr's INVESTOR CONNECT platform.
Forecastr makes financial modeling simple for founders. Know your runway, how much money you need to raise and when. With Forecastr, you will know your numbers, be able to make better strategic decisions and impress your investors.
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30% off monthly plan for 6 months or 40% off annual plan.
Foundersuite is a 'full stack' software platform for startups raising capital. Customers have raised over $800 million in Seed and VC since 2016. Foundersuite includes an Investor CRM for managing your pipeline + a massive Angel/VC Database + an Investor Updater for sending regular newsletters + a collection of startup docs for getting the deal done. Built with love in San Francisco and used by startups around the world.
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20% off an annual subscription
Gappify Accrual Suite is the only solution on the market that automates the comprehensive Month-End Accruals process.\nPowered by RPA technology, Gappify's smart automation tool improves the efficiency, accuracy, and compliance of your accruals process - cutting 2-5 days off your month-end close, eliminating the risk of accrued liabilities audit penalties, and elevating your team into more strategic tasks.\n Gappify automates the process of vendor confirmations and PO/Budget owner confirmations for unbilled expenses and consolidates the responses into a comprehensive dashboard that also includes historical and month-to-date actuals. Instead of spending days manually reaching out to vendors and budget owners and creating complex Excel spreadsheets for historical trend analysis, Gappify streamlines the process, shortening it from several days to a couple hours.\n Eliminate hundreds of hours of manual work, drive tighter compliance, and improve the accuracy of your accounting with Gappify.
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30% off the total invoice for the first 3 months.
Go2 provides subscription-based customer support reps that you'll work with directly - just like you would with an internal hire. Your Go2 reps act as an extension of your team, and work with you in your tools. Go2 provides additional coaching and technology to create an infinitley scalable, and highly branded customer support team.
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15% off Grow’s Monthly and Annual Plans.
Grow's sales and marketing analytics software gives companies the ability to see everything, take action, and grow faster than ever. Grow allows businesses to connect all their sales and marketing data in one place so they can get the whole picture. Companies can also create custom metrics in minutes, and easily share reports to keep their teams aligned so they can make the right decisions, every time.
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75% off HubSpot's Marketing Hub Starter, Pro, or Enterprise software, HubSpot Sales Hub Starter or Professional software, and HubSpot's Service Hub, for the first 12 months, and 50% off for the next 12 months (Up to $40,000 savings over 2 years).. Startup Onboarding with tech set-up (reduced one-time $300 cost), dedicated strategy consulting, and round-the-clock support.. Access to world-class inbound marketing and sales training, education, and experts. To activate, visit www.hubspot.com/startups and select 'Apply Now' under the 'Seed Stage' OR 'Series A' sections (depending on your funding level to-date). From there, create your account and then select 'Lighter Capital' from the VC/Accelerator drop down list.
HubSpot is a software platform that helps you generate leads, close deals, manage your pipeline, and delight your customers. HubSpot offers a growth stack of products for customer relationship management, marketing, sales, and customer service: powerful alone, and even better when used together.
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20% off an annual subscription to PrepDD's Advance Plan. To learn more, contact Tom Kirby via email (tom@prepdd.com) with the subject line \"Lighter / PrepDD Client\"
A smart workspace for finance teams - simplifying workflows, information gathering, and document management.
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Up to 50% off standard fees, depending on ARR range, plus additional discounted services.
Meet the new standard in global payroll, HR and benefits. Remote makes it easy to onboard, pay, and delight your remote employees and contractors, anywhere in the world. We own the full stack, so you don't have to. Remote fully owns local legal entities in all our covered countries. By removing the intermediaries, Remote offers superior flexibility, speed, and cost efficiency to our customers.
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Recruiting: $5K off the first hire. Hireflow.ai sourcing automation: 6 months off premium subscription.
Rocket is a next-gen recruiting agency for high growth startups. We pair data and machine learning with an experienced recruiting team to create the best experience for both our clients and candidates.
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30% off on all Employment & Privacy Law documents. This offer includes: A living Employee Handbook, Policy Library with over 65 policies
SixFifty takes the efficiency of technology and combines it with top-tier legal expertise to provide trusted and affordable legal documents. Our customized document generation tool offers the affordability of doing it yourself, the confidence of knowing its backed by world-class legal experts, and the peace of mind from automated updates as the laws change. SixFifty is the easiest, most affordable way to create top-tier legal documents for your business.
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Waived Stripe fees for card transactions up to a processing volume of US$25,000
Stripe is a global payments platform that powers payments for online businesses all around the world. Whether you’re creating a subscription service, an on-demand marketplace, or an e-commerce store, Stripe helps you build and scale your business online by giving you access to a quality payments infrastructure so you can focus on what matters most to your startup.
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25% off any membership
A Market Network to Diversify Boardrooms and Cap Tables. If you are interested in building out your board with board-ready women with deep expertise in a variety of fields or network with investors, angels and funds, join The Fourth Floor’s new AI-powered platform to find the right people that will help you take your company to the next level.
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10% discount for Retained and small Build Out projects (1-5 roles). 15% discount for large Build Out projects (5+ roles). 15% discount for Embedded solutions (onsite, dedicated recruiter). For USA, contact Natalie Adams at Natalie@thesearchex.com or call +1 415-570-1390 quoting Lighter Capital Perks . For APAC, contact Jeremy MacLeod at Jeremy@thesearchex.com or call +61 0456-950-069 quoting Lighter Capital Perks
The Search Experience is a high quality specialist recruitment agency, building Sales and Marketing teams for disruptive technology companies across North America and APAC. We believe that finding and retaining top talent is key to business success and our experienced team of experts do exactly that.
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30% off Professional Employer Organization (PEO) services.
TriNet provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll and real-time technology. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most-growing their business. TriNet, incredible starts here.