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Looking for an Alternative to Your Cap Table Platform? Here's What Global Companies Are Saying
A single-country cap table platform doesn't solve global compliance. Here's what companies managing equity across borders are actually looking for.
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Key Takeaways
- Pulley announced in September 2026 that it is winding down and referring its customers to Carta.
- In the days that followed, customers from global companies began publicly recommending Slice as an alternative equity management platform, without being asked to.
- Their comments point to a common theme: a single-country platform sending customers to another single-country platform does not solve the problem for companies operating across borders.
- Slice is built specifically for companies managing equity, tax, and compliance across multiple countries.
Pulley, a cap table management platform, announced on September 16, 2026 that it is shutting down and referring its customers to Carta. For the companies affected, this means an unplanned search for a new equity management platform, on a timeline they did not choose.
In the days after the announcement, something notable happened. Finance leaders, legal counsel, and operators from companies across the tech industry began commenting publicly with the same recommendation: Slice.
"We just moved from Carta to Slice. We are thrilled with the change." - Brian Beutler, Founder & CEO, Alianza
"Slice provides what a company needs - equity management but also tax and compliance. For those looking for an alternative, you have to try it." - Shira Azran, Chief Legal Officer, Cyera
These weren't solicited reviews. They were unprompted comments, left by people managing real cap tables at real companies, in response to a competitor's announcement.
Why the Carta Referral Doesn't Solve the Real Problem
For a single-country company, moving from one cap table tool to another may be a reasonable next step. But for companies managing equity, vesting, and compliance across multiple countries, the calculation is different. A platform built primarily for one country's regulatory environment does not become a global solution just because it's the next name on the list.
This is the gap that came up repeatedly in the comments: companies with international teams need tax withholding rules, compliance monitoring, and grant administration that account for jurisdiction, not just a cap table that tracks ownership percentages.
What Global Companies Are Actually Looking For
The customers speaking up, at companies including Wiz, VAST Data, HiBob, and Papaya Global, consistently pointed to the same set of needs:
- Compliance monitoring that adapts to each country's regulations, not a static spreadsheet
- Tax guidance and withholding calculations built into the platform, not handled separately by outside counsel
- A single system for issuing, tracking, and reporting equity across every country where a company has employees
Slice was built around exactly this problem. It combines cap table management, continuous compliance monitoring, and tax optimization in one platform, so global teams aren't stitching together spreadsheets, law firm hours, and manual tracking to stay compliant as they grow.
If You're Evaluating a New Equity Platform
If your company operates in more than one country and you're weighing your options, it's worth asking any platform, including the one you're currently using, a simple question: does it monitor compliance and tax exposure across every country you operate in, or just the one it was originally built for?
If the answer is "just one," it may be worth a closer look at what a genuinely global platform can do.
Book a demo to see how Slice handles equity across borders.
Yalli Canaani is an accomplished marketing leader with more than 15 years of experience across B2B and B2C businesses, specializing in go-to-market strategy, brand building, growth, and consumer marketing. As Head of Marketing at Slice Global Equity, Yalli leads the company’s marketing strategy, brand development, and growth initiatives. Previously, she was VP of Marketing at Waltz, a FinTech company, where she built the marketing function from the ground up and helped scale the company from stealth to launch and international expansion across the US, LATAM, and Canada.
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