Cafore strength
Startup legal design.
We support startups and growing companies that need to design their company structure, agreements, investment, vesting, intellectual property, and contracts before scaling.
Value for the case
Startups ready for investment, clients, and IP.
A startup's legal design must protect speed without sacrificing control. The right rules make it possible to raise investment, bring on talent, protect technology, and avoid disputes among founders.
Where we add the most value
Situations in which this strength changes the strategy.
A startup can grow fast and accumulate silent risks: a messy cap table, software without assignment, an unowned brand, nonexistent vesting, weak contracts, or mishandled personal data.
Founders without a clear agreement
We organize contributions, shares, commitment, vesting, exit, intellectual property, and decision-making before growth makes them costly to fix.
Product, software, or brand with undefined ownership
We review assignments, development contracts, licenses, domains, repositories, content, data, and intangible assets.
First investment or due diligence
We prepare the cap table, minutes, bylaws, contracts, intellectual property, employees, data, taxes, and investor folders.
Corporate clients or expansion
We adjust contracts, terms, privacy, liability, support, service levels, and compliance evidence to sell with less friction.
When it becomes critical
Signs that the matter needs a finer reading.
Investors and corporate clients review ownership, contracts, data, team, taxes, and governance. If those pieces fail, the negotiation becomes more expensive or trust is lost.
There is an idea, product, customers, or team, but rules on contributions, vesting, and intellectual property are missing.
An investor asks for the cap table, documents, contracts, rights, and corporate order.
The company hires, licenses software, uses data, signs clients, or needs to put its risks in order.
What we review
Four questions before acting.
The review must prioritize what enables operating and growing: company, founders, intellectual property, investment, contracts, data, team, and legal file.
Does the company structure support growth?+
We review the SAS company, bylaws, shares, cap table, books, powers of attorney, management, economic rights, and restrictions.
Do the founders have clear rules?+
Contributions, commitment, vesting, exit, intellectual property, buyback, non-compete, confidentiality, and deadlock must be documented.
Does the technology belong to the company?+
Development contracts, assignments, repositories, brand, domains, design, content, licenses, and contributors can define the startup's value.
Would the legal file withstand due diligence?+
Minutes, contracts, data, employees, contractors, taxes, terms, privacy, and clients must be in order before a funding round or sale.
Work map
How we turn the problem into a decision-making route.
SAS, bylaws, cap table, shares, powers of attorney, rights, and restrictions.
Vesting, commitment, exit, intellectual property, non-compete, and deadlock.
Clients, suppliers, software development, data, confidentiality, and investment.
Legal file, minutes, books, contracts, trademarks, software, taxes, and labor matters.
Connected legal routes
The value lies in fitting the right pieces together.
A startup's legal design should not slow down speed. It must prioritize the documents that reduce friction with investors, clients, founders, and future buyers.
SAS incorporation and structure
Bylaws, shares, powers of attorney, management, books, Chamber of Commerce, and initial rules.
Founders' agreement and vesting
Commitment, tenure, exit, buyback, economic rights, information, and deadlock resolution.
Propiedad intelectual
Assignment of economic rights, software, brand, design, content, know-how, licenses, and confidentiality.
Contracts to grow
Clients, suppliers, SaaS, development, confidentiality, data processing, employees, and contractors.
Investment documents
Term sheet, notes, agreements, information rights, preferences, restrictions, and closing.
Concrete results
The review must yield a decision, not just a conversation.
The review must leave clear priorities: which document to sign now, which risk to fix before investing, and which can wait for the next stage.
- 01Startup legal checklist
- 02Founders' agreement
- 03Investment documents
- 04Intellectual property matrix
- 05Due diligence folder
Applied legal analysis
Investment lands better when the house is in order.
Investors and corporate clients review ownership, contracts, data, team, taxes, and governance. If those pieces fail, the negotiation becomes more expensive or trust is lost.
Founders' agreement and vesting
Initial enthusiasm is no substitute for rules on tenure, exit, dedication and buyback. Vesting protects the company if a founder leaves before creating the promised value.
Intellectual property as a core asset
Software, brand, design, content, databases and know-how must be properly assigned or licensed. Without clear ownership, the startup cannot sell its value with certainty.
Contracts to sell without friction
Terms of service, privacy, data processing, SaaS, support, service levels and contractual liability help close large clients without renegotiating every risk from scratch.
Staged due diligence
Not everything gets done on day one. We prioritize what is critical to operate, raise capital and hire, and leave a progressive path to mature governance, labor, tax and compliance.
Full legal support
Startups with corporate and contractual structure.
When growth calls for a company, investment, contracts, intellectual property or data, Cafore integrates startup legal design with corporate and commercial law.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to decide better.
When should a startup formalize its legal structure?+
When there are already founders, a product, clients, investment, collaborators or intellectual property that could generate value or disputes.
What is most urgent among founders?+
Defining contributions, shares, vesting, dedication, exit, intellectual property, confidentiality and decision-making.
Does intellectual property automatically belong to the company?+
Not always. It must be reviewed whether there are assignments, development contracts, licenses, registrations, repositories, and agreements with collaborators.
What do investors usually ask for?+
Cap table, bylaws, minutes, key contracts, intellectual property, employees or contractors, taxes, data, and the absence of conflicts among founders.
Do you also review SaaS contracts and data?+
Yes. Terms of service, privacy, data processing, support, liability, licenses and service levels are part of growth.
Can the work be done in stages?+
Yes. The path should prioritize what poses the most risk today and leave a reasonable sequence for the rest.
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