With Tokenize.it Fundraise, you have two options. Either you can send a Private Offer, meaning a dedicated investment proposal, to up to 149 investors and thus raise any amount. Or, you can raise up to €12 million from any number of investors. However, you may not publicly promote your offer.

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With the Public Fundraise Add-On, you can raise up to 8 million Euros from any number of investors and publicly promote your investment details, such as the current valuation.

This depends entirely on your goals as a founder, what your startup is aiming for and how much you want to raise. Tokenize.it's virtual shares (Genussrechte) are ideally suited for early-stage startups, as they allow you to perfectly tailor the platform to your fundraising needs. Friends & family, crowdinvesting, business angels or a combination of all of these – no problem at all.

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In short: No. We provide legally sound contract templates, and no notary appointment is required for either onboarding or investing. To issue and create virtual shares (participation rights), only a unanimous shareholder resolution is required during onboarding.

Tokenize.it offers different packages with different features, which also vary in terms of the variable fee. Here you can find an overview of all packages.

The only requirement is that your company is a GmbH or UG in Germany or Austria and is operationally active. This enables not just fundraising for startups, but for any company of any size.

Through the Tokenize.it secondary market, you can buy and sell virtual startup shares (participation rights) issued via the platform at any time — the market is open around the clock. This gives investors early liquidity without having to wait for an exit, and allows them to join even after the first funding round. The price is set directly between buyer and seller, and the transfer takes place directly on the Ethereum blockchain. A free, verified investor account is required. A fee of 2 percent may apply per transaction, which is borne by the seller — with no setup fees, subscriptions or hidden costs.

Tokenize.it's employee participation is based on the same virtual shares (participation rights) used for fundraising. Employees are thus economically participating in the same way as shareholders (dividends in particular are not always included in VSOP employee participation plans), but have no voting rights and are not entered in the commercial register. Cliffs and vesting can be set individually for each employee.

An ESOP (Employee Stock Option Plan) grants the right to acquire real company shares at a later date – a full participation with voting rights, but complex for a GmbH since every transfer must be notarised. A VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan), on the other hand, is a purely contractual claim to a payout based on the company's value: flexible and without a notary, though the payout is usually taxed as income. A participation right enables economic participation in the company's success without creating real company shares with voting rights. From a tax perspective, Tokenize.it's participation right is more favourable than a VSOP: returns are generally treated as capital gains and are therefore subject to the flat-rate withholding tax, rather than being taxed at the personal income tax rate like a VSOP payout.

The difference lies in how the returns are taxed. A VSOP payout is treated as employment income for tax purposes and is taxed at the personal income tax rate. With Tokenize.it's participation rights, however, the returns are treated as capital gains and are therefore only subject to the flat-rate withholding tax. For employees, this means a significantly lower tax burden on the participation proceeds. There is also no dry income problem, as Tokenize.it's vesting plans grant employees the right to decide for themselves when they actually receive the participation rights.

With an MCP connector, you can connect your AI like Claude to the Tokenize.it platform. For Claude, we have also written special skills that you can use after connecting.

A cap table cleanup with Tokenize.it is particularly suitable for startups and companies that are about to receive VC investment and already have numerous investors listed as shareholders in the commercial register. In general, VCs prefer as few investors in the commercial register as possible, so that the bureaucracy of shareholder resolutions and decisions is kept to a minimum. Since smaller investors in particular will only hold a negligible voting right following such a VC investment, it makes sense to exchange their company shares for Tokenize.it participation rights. This way they remain economically invested while the administrative burden on your startup is significantly reduced going forward.

There are two options for this: Either you have already found a startup you want to invest in that uses our platform – in this case, the founder simply sends you a private offer as a link. Click the link and follow the steps to complete the investment within minutes.

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If you haven't found a startup yet, you can easily get an overview on our website of which companies are using us for their funding round. If you're interested, simply click the relevant Invest Now button and request an investment on a no-obligation basis. The founder will then get in touch with you or send you a private offer directly.

Ja. Unsere virtuellen Anteile (Genussrechte) wurden mit führenden Anwälten entwickelt und unsere Smart Contracts werden regelmäßig auditiert und auf ihre Sicherheit geprüft. Unsere Plattform hat bereits mehr als 17 Millionen Euro an Assets tokenisiert.