About

Built by someone who does this for a living.

Waterfall IQ makes exit economics clear to the people who live with the result: founders, employees, investors and the advisers between them.

Why this exists

Most people who receive a share of a sale see one number: the price. The number that matters is what reaches them, after preferred shareholders, SAFEs, debt, escrow and earnouts. In valuation work, that gap between the headline and the cash is the daily question: how a purchase price is allocated across the classes of a capital structure, and why a 20% stake can be worth far more or far less than 20% of the price.

Vivek has spent over a decade valuing private companies and their securities, covering equity allocation and option-pricing methods (OPM, PWERM and back-solve), 409A valuations, and fair value reporting for investment portfolios. He has led and reviewed well over a hundred valuations, built financial models and coached teams of analysts. Waterfall IQ turns the habits of that work into a tool anyone can use: careful ordering of claims, reconciliation of every figure, and explaining each step to a non-specialist.

How it is built

• Exact. Money is calculated in exact decimal arithmetic and settled to the cent. The classes always add up to the equity value.
• Tested. The engine runs against reference calculations and thousands of randomly built cap tables on every change. See how it is checked.
• Explained. Every result comes with a sentence saying why, and every report explains each input.
• Neutral. It does not need your legal documents or a connection to any cap table system. You enter the terms, so you stay in control of them.

Get in touch

Questions, ideas, or a cap table structure the tool should handle? Send a note. Early feedback shapes what gets built next.