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Glide vs Ledgy
If your cap table spans several European jurisdictions, Ledgy is built for that problem in a way US-first platforms are not — and in a way Glide is not. Glide holds a register; it does not carry national plan types.
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How does Glide compare to Ledgy?
Ledgy is a Europe-first equity and equity-plan management platform, built around European company law and plan types such as UK EMI, French BSPCE and German VSOP. Glide Equity shipped in August 2026 and holds a jurisdiction-neutral register with generic share classes and option plans. For a European scheme, Ledgy is the fit.
What Ledgy is
Ledgy is an equity and equity-plan management platform founded in Zurich and built around European company law from the start. It handles the plan types European companies actually use — UK EMI and CSOP, French BSPCE, German VSOP, RSUs, growth shares — alongside multi-jurisdiction reporting and employee-facing equity portals.
What Ledgy is genuinely good at
- Genuine multi-jurisdiction depth on European plan types, which is hard to retrofit onto a US-first product
- Employee equity portals and communication, treated as a first-class feature rather than an export
- HRIS integrations, so joiners and leavers do not have to be re-keyed
- Country-specific reporting for companies whose employees move between jurisdictions
Who Ledgy is for
- European headquarters with employees in several countries
- Companies running country-specific plan types rather than plain US options
- Teams who care about employees actually understanding their equity
Choose Ledgy over Glide if
- You are a European company and your equity plan has a national acronym attached to it
- You employ people in more than two countries and reporting is the pain
- Employee comprehension of equity is a stated goal, not a nice-to-have
Trade-offs worth checking yourself
These are trade-offs, not defects, and scope in this market changes. Confirm anything that would change your decision directly with Ledgy.
- US-specific workflows — notably 409A safe-harbour valuations — are not its centre of gravity; confirm scope if you are a Delaware C-corp
- Less name recognition with US investors than Carta, which can add a diligence conversation
- European breadth means the product carries concepts a single-country company will never touch
Side by side
| Feature | GlideShipped August 2026 | Ledgy |
|---|---|---|
| Cap table of record | Yes — shipped August 2026 | Core product |
| European plan types (EMI, BSPCE, VSOP)If your scheme has a national acronym, this row is the whole decision. | No — generic share classes and option plans only | Core strength |
| Employee equity portalGlide shows a holder what they hold. It does not do the explaining Ledgy is known for. | Basic — holders log in and see their own position | Yes, with employee communication built around it |
| Multi-jurisdiction tax and plan reporting | No | Core strength |
| Multi-currency payouts to employeesDifferent halves of the same problem for a European company. | Yes — SEPA, FPS, wire, stablecoin | Equity administration, not a payout rail |
| Token cap table | No — equity only | Confirm current scope directly |
Compiled from Ledgy's own published positioning, August 2026. Rows are answered feature by feature, and the ones Glide does not cover say "No" rather than being left out.
What Glide does today
Glide is a stablecoin business account that added a cap table, Glide Equity, in August 2026. It covers the register and the workflow around it; it does not cover valuations, fund administration, national plan types or tokens, and it is the newest product in this comparison by a wide margin.
- Glide Equity: a cap table of record for shares, options, RSUs, SAFEs and convertible notes, on an exact whole-share ledger
- Set up from scratch or migrate from Carta by uploading your Carta export files
- Email invitations, an accept-your-equity flow with e-signature, and holder logins that show a holder their own position only
- Data rooms, document storage, recorded valuations and rounds, and a full audit trail
- Stablecoin treasury: hold and move USDC on Solana and EVM chains
- On-chain multisig vaults — Safe on EVM, Squads on Solana — with M-of-N approvals
- Multi-rail payouts (ACH, SEPA, FPS, PIX, wire) alongside on-chain settlement
- Cards, payroll and contractor payments from the same balance
- Free equity calculators — dilution, vesting, SAFE conversion, waterfall, token unlocks
Other options worth a look
| Product | Why it is on this list |
|---|---|
| Vestd | UK-only, and better than a generalist if EMI is the whole job. |
| Carta | If your investors are US funds and diligence speed matters most. |
| Cake Equity | Australia and New Zealand share schemes. |
A fuller survey, including products Glide does not compare against directly, is at /alternatives/carta-alternatives.
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