CapQuest raises $1 million pre-Seed to expand equity platform
Oraseya Capital and AMKM Family Office led the round, which will fund product development and commercial expansion for the Dubai-based equity management platform.
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CapQuest, a Dubai-based equity management platform, has raised $1 million in a pre-Seed funding round led by Oraseya Capital and AMKM Family Office.
The company was founded in 2023 by Antoine Bruna, Marco Banfi and Anvita Varshney. Bruna is chief executive. Its software holds a company's ownership structures and capitalization tables in one place, alongside employee stock ownership plans and vesting schedules, fundraising transactions and shareholder communications.
That places it against the spreadsheets and manual record-keeping that many growing companies still rely on. CapQuest says its centralized approach simplifies equity operations, improves transparency and keeps ownership records current. It sells to startups, scaleups and established businesses, and counts Holo, Erad, Avenia and Teylor among its clients.
The platform is used by companies in 11 countries. Commercially, the company concentrates on the Middle East, Europe and emerging markets.
Where the money goes
The pre-Seed proceeds will fund product development and international expansion, including more automation and advanced equity management tools, as well as commercial expansion. CapQuest says it intends to grow its international customer base and establish itself as a leading equity and investment management platform, connecting companies, shareholders and investors in a single ecosystem.
Equity management remains unnecessarily complex for many companies, especially as they scale internationally.
Bruna described the round as a milestone that validated the company's vision. He said CapQuest is building infrastructure to make equity management more accessible, transparent and efficient.
Why cap tables get harder
Equity records tend to strain at exactly the moment a company is growing fastest. Each new raise adds shareholders and instruments; each international hire adds a vesting schedule under a different set of expectations. Once a cap table drifts out of date, it stops being an administrative chore and becomes a legal and reporting exposure during diligence.
CapQuest argues that demand for modern equity management infrastructure is rising among high-growth businesses, and that effective equity governance matters more as companies work through fundraising and complicated shareholder structures. The bet behind the round is that those companies will pay for dedicated software rather than keep stretching spreadsheets, and that the tooling question arrives earlier in a company's life than it used to.
For now, the company's reach extends across 11 markets with a client list that includes Holo, Erad, Avenia and Teylor. The next stage is turning a $1 million pre-Seed into product depth and customers outside its current footprint.
