Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund)

ESO Fund provides funding for employees of venture-backed companies to absorb the financial risk of exercising stock options.

ESO Fund provides current and former employees of venture backed companies with financial help needed to exercise options and cover associated taxes. It develops a due diligence strategy and transaction protocol to evaluate and close transactions. ESO Fund provides a new approach to exercising stock options without financial stress by eliminating the AMT normally associated with exercising stock options. The fund provides Individuals who have already exercised private stock options with partial liquidity on the same terms that allows the owners to recover capital, while still retaining the potential upside from the stock. ESO Fund was formed by Stephen Roberts, Jimmy Lackie, and Scott Chou in 2012.