The tax incentive monitoring platform designed for fund CFOs.
CapGains helps VCs, angels, other shareholders and the companies they support maximize tax incentives by avoiding tripwires and unearthing opportunities.
How we're helping our customers avoid the tripwires and uncover hidden opportunities
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QSBS Tripwire
Disqualifying Transfer
It is common for new fund managers to transfer investments that had been made personally to the fund after launching the fund, however we didn’t realize that such transfers would result in the stock losing QSBS status in the new partner’s hands until CapGains took a look under the hood.”
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QSBS Requirement
Gross Asset Level
CapGains identified that the balance sheet reflected certain items which when adjusted for their tax basis put the level below the $50M threshold!
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QSBS Opportunity
1045 Rollover
CapGains identified that we actually made a qualifying rollover investment but hadn’t claimed it, making for an immediate 500% payback to our signing up for the platform!
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QSBS Tripwire
Related Party Redemptions
We don’t want to get burned by a QSBS tripwire again! A portfolio repurchased some of our stock and it caused all of our other shares of stock in the company to no longer qualify as QSBS!
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QSBS Requirement
Qualified Trade or Business Health
We didn’t think that certain companies in our portfolio could qualify for QSBS, however CapGains helped us better understand how the Qualified Trade criteria is evaluated in particular for Health Services businesses, and it turns out more of our portfolio could be QSBS eligible than we thought.
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QSBS Tripwire
Offsetting Short Position
We thought trading in derivatives would help protect our gains, however CapGains’ showed us how this caused us to taint our QSBS eligibility.
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QOZB Tripwire
Business Location
We thought the office location we selected was within an Opportunity Zone, but CapGains showed us that we were using the wrong map, and were across the street from the OZ!
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QSBS Opportunity
1045 Rollover
CapGains flagged an opportunity that our tax advisors missed, which allowed us to show our limited partners that there are extra benefits to participating in our additional fund! Namely, that an investment made by our newest fund can be treated as a qualifying 1045 reinvestment for eligible partners who participated in our first fund due to a liquidity event from the first fund.
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Section 1244 Opportunity
Loss Deduction
Many of the companies we help close up shop are relieved to be able to offer some of their investors the ability to deduct losses, and CapGains’ provides a great complement to our services in this regard.
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QSBS Tripwire
Treatment of Partners in Pass-Thru Entities
In our pilot with CapGains we learned that the way we structured our investments was shooting ourselves in the foot with QSBS as we were admitting partners to the fund after we made the investment!
CapGains is your trusted partner for getting tax incentives right.
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Upcoming Events
May 14, 2025, 12:00 PM
QSBS Roundtable Lunch for Venture Fund CFOS and Tax Directors
Network with peers while discussing QSBS and other top of mind topics.
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Miami, FL (Exact Location TBD)
Apr 16, 2025, 12:00 PM
QSBS Roundtable Lunch for Venture Fund CFOS and Tax Directors
Network with peers while discussing QSBS and other top of mind topics.
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Park City, UT (Exact Location TBD)