extended-exercise-windows

Startups with Extended Exercise Windows A list of startups that have employee-friendly terms for exercising your options past the (current) norm of 90 days. For more information, read this post. Companies Name Exercise Window Additional details AcuityMD 10 years Ada 5 years After 2 years of employment Aerotime 10 years After 2 years of employment Alan 7 years Alloy 10 years Alto 2 years After 2 years of employment AngelList 10 years Atlan 10 years (https://handbook.atlan.com/team-handbook/doing-the-best-for-yourself/compensation) AtoB 10 years After 2 years of employment BaseDash 10 years Begin 2-5 years After 2 years of employment, with each year of employment adding another year to the window BillionToOne 10 years After 2 years of employment Blissfully 5 years Bobsled 10 years Bonsai 10 years Braid 5 years Brex 7 years After 2 years of employment Buffer 10 years Buildkite 15 years BuildZoom 10 years Carmera 10 years After 2 years of employment Carta 1 year for each year of vesting Castle 10 year Chameleon 7 years After 2 years of employment Checkr 10 years After 2 years of employment Cinder 10 years Circle Medical 5 years Clearbit 10 years Clippings 10 years CodeCombat 10 years Codility 10 years CoinTracker 10 years Column Tax 10 years Cyscale Security 3 years After 3 years of employment DataCamp 1 year for each year of vesting Desmos 7 years Earthly 10 years After 3 years of employment Eve 7 years Even 5 years After 2 years of employment Expensify 2 years After 3 years of employment Experiment 7 years Feedly 10 years Felt 10 years Flexport 10 years Fireworks AI 10 years After 2 years of employment Foxglove 10 years After 2 years of employment Freshpaint 10 years Ginkgo Bioworks 5 years GiveCampus 10 years Glitch 10 years GoCardless 10 years Gusto 10 years After 3 years of employment Heap 10 years Her 3 years Hightouch 10 years Honeycomb 1-7 years 2 months per month of vesting after 1 year of employment Hykso 3 years Infracost 10 years After 2 years of employment Intellimize 2 years IONA Logistics Ltd. 10 years After employment Ironclad 3 years Kayako 10 years Kickback 7 years Kickstarter 10 years Kite 10 years After 3 years of employment Ladder 7 years After 2 years of employment Lattice 3 years Lawn Love 7 years Lightstep 1 year Linear 10 years After 2 years of employment Lingokids 7 years After 2 years of employment Loom 10 years After 2 years of employment MarsX 10 years Mashgin 10 years MagicBell 10 years After 2 years of employment Major League Hacking 5 Years Meadow 10 years Mercury 7 years Mixpanel 5 years After 2 years of employment Mojo 10 years After 2 years of employment Monzo 10 years Exercise price of $0.01 Mux 10 years After 2.5 years of employment Neighborly 10 years Netlify 7 years After 2 years of employment Niantic 10 years Notion 10 years Ockam 5 years After 2 years of employment Omada Health 5 years After 3 years of employment OneSignal 10 years After 2 years of employment Open Listings 3 years OpsLevel 10 years Origin 5 years After 2 years of employment Otter 7 years After 2 years of employment Outlier AI 10 years After 2 years of employment Outschool 10 years Oxide 7 years Pachyderm 3 years Patreon 7 years After 2 years of employment Persista 1 year Pex 10 years PhotoRoom 10 years After 2 years of employment Pilot 10 years PostHog 10 years Read about it in the open source company handbook Postman 10 years Postscript 8 years After 2 years of employment Prisma 10 years Puppet 1 year After 2 years of employment Quora 10 years Razorpay 7 years ReadMe 10 years Render 5 to 10 years 5 years after 2 years of employment; 10 years after 4 years of employment Replicate 10 years RevenueCat 10 years Revolut 10 years Rewatch 7 years RunwayML 3 years After 3 years of employment Saleswhale 10 years Scale 5 years After 2 years of employment Science Exchange 7 years Scoop 3 years After 3 years of employment Seed 5 years Secfi 5 years Showtime 10 years After 2 years of employment SigOpt 7 years Skyflow 10 years Smallstep 10 years Snapdocs 10 years Sourcegraph 10 years Strava 5 years After 2 years of employment Streak 10 years Supabase 10 years Swing Education 5 years Taiki 10 years Teachers Pay Teachers Practically forever Makes taxes slightly more complicated, but we offer a tax prep reimbursement benefit Temporal 10 years Tettra 5 years Thread 10 years Tines 5 years After 2 years of employment Toplyne 10 years TransferWise 10 years Treasury Prime 7 years After 2 years of employment Trim 7 years Triplebyte 10 years Unflow 10 years After 2 years of employment Upstream 10 years Vested 10 years Immediately Wave 10 years Wefunder 3 years WizeHire 10 years After 2 years of employment WorkOn 10 years WorkOS 10 years Immediately Zefir 10 years Double Trigger Zenysis 10 years Previously-extended windows There are some companies that started out with an extended exercise window, but reached some sort of endpoint (IPO, acquisition, etc) where an exercise window isn't relevant these days. It's still great to see these companies start from solid beginnings, though, so we'd still like to continue to acknowledge them here, especially since they likely have chosen other fair policies that still are important today. Name Exercise Window Additional details Affirm 7 years After 2 years of employment Alien Labs 10 years After 2 years of employment Amplitude 10 years Asana 10 years Clef 7 years Coinbase 7 years After 2 years of employment Cymmetria 3 years Instacart 7 years Opendoor 3 years After 3 years of employment Pinterest 7 years After 2 years of employment Se