An Advisor Agreement is a contract between an advisor and your startup, setting out the advisor’s role and compensation. Typically used with high-level strategic advisors, independent board members or members of your advisory board, compensation is in the form of a grant of options from your startup’s topco to the advisor (not cash).
Why generate this document?
Generate this document to onboard your advisors and agree their responsibilities and compensation. It describes the advisor’s role, e.g. sharing specialist experience or knowledge, providing general business advice and guidance, or making introductions for your startup. If your startup has engaged (i.e. established a working relationship with) several advisors and has an advisory board, the advisor will be required to attend regular meetings of the advisory board. When generating this document, Clara will ask you to select the advisor’s other duties from a list.
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From company formation to maintaining the cap-table, by using Clara founders can digitally form their companies in a range of jurisdictions, create and manage their cap-tables and generate legal documents. Clara is quickly becoming an integral part of the startup software stack.
Daniel Dos Reis
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Clara is a must-have for founders. Not only does it provide all the legal tools you need in a single platform, using Clara also signals to investors that you are a serious startup.
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Founder & CGO, Zid
IP Assignments, what? I didn’t even know they existed before Clara. For startups, setting up governance, corporate structures, data rooms and fundraising are all hard to get right. Clara’s legalOS is premium. It pays for itself.
Zohare Haider
Co-Founder & CEO, Jalebi
Binance uses Clara to incorporate and manage ADGM entities. The team at Clara are extremely efficient and go the extra mile to ensure we always have a smooth experience and meet our deadlines. Top-notch service!
Vishal Sacheendran
Head of Strategy and Operations, Binance
Starting a company is hard enough, but managing legal processes shouldn’t be. With Clara’s dedicated accelerator onboarding solution, companies can get the support and infrastructure they need to efficiently and professionally complete their legal due diligence and finalize an investment.
Amal Dokhan
General Partner MENA, 500 Global
Clara is a one-stop shop for everything equity related. All our data is safe and securely stored and accurately recorded. And our investors love having direct access. It has saved us countless hours and kept our cap table mistake free.
Jessica Anuna
CEO & Founder, Klasha
We spend a lot of time educating founders on basic legal concepts: what they need to do for us to invest in them. Clara automates these functions. As Clara’s first institutional investor, we knew intuitively from inception, this company will be a game changer.
Vijay Tirathrai
Managing Director, Techstars
You can’t beat Clara’s ESOP functionality. It allows us to grant options to our team in a few clicks while automatically updating our cap table. Truly next level.
Michael Hunter
Co-Founder & CEO, Holo
Founders often struggle with managing their legal function due to lack of expertise and resources. And we’ve seen poor legal structures create hurdles to our investing in otherwise healthy startups. Investors like ourselves love that Clara gives founders the tools they need to establish, grow and scale their startups from day one on a best-practice basis.
Shane Shin
Founding Partner, Shorooq
US cap table solutions aren’t tailored to the differentiated needs of international startups. Clara is the only cap table provider we found that had emerging market startups in mind. Add to that all the other things you can do on the Clara platform, from building your ESOP to data room management, and switching was a no brainer.
Omar Rifai
Co-founder, GrubTech
From company formation to maintaining the cap-table, by using Clara founders can digitally form their companies in a range of jurisdictions, create and manage their cap-tables and generate legal documents. Clara is quickly becoming an integral part of the startup software stack.
Daniel Dos Reis
Investment Director, Wamda Capital
Clara is a must-have for founders. Not only does it provide all the legal tools you need in a single platform, using Clara also signals to investors that you are a serious startup.
Mazen AlDarrab
Founder & CGO, Zid
IP Assignments, what? I didn’t even know they existed before Clara. For startups, setting up governance, corporate structures, data rooms and fundraising are all hard to get right. Clara’s legalOS is premium. It pays for itself.
Zohare Haider
Co-Founder & CEO, Jalebi
Binance uses Clara to incorporate and manage ADGM entities. The team at Clara are extremely efficient and go the extra mile to ensure we always have a smooth experience and meet our deadlines. Top-notch service!
Vishal Sacheendran
Head of Strategy and Operations, Binance
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