Articles by Christian Gabriel | Startups Magazine

Christian Gabriel

Christian is an equity visionary and innovator, dedicating his career to helping companies unlock the value of their equity through information and technology. While working as the director for an investment platform, Christian saw that private companies lacked the tools to make their most powerful asset – equity – understandable, transparent and easy to manage. That's when he created Capdesk and unleashed his vision of democratising wealth in the private sector. Earlier this year, Capdesk closed an £8m Series A funding round to fuel its rapid growth and European expansion. It works with hundreds of the UK and Europe’s hottest scale-ups, including Nutmeg, Gousto, TrueLayer, Clearbank and Farewill, and employs 50 people across offices in London and Copenhagen.

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Employee equity is startups’ secret weapon for winning top talent in the Great Resignation

For the past eighteen months, economic uncertainty has frozen a vast proportion of the world’s workforce to the spot. It didn’t matter whether employees were content with their jobs at the onset of the crisis: the prospect of losing rights to redundancy pay, falling foul of the ‘last in, first out’ method, or joining a new company that could have a less certain outlook was enough to delay any major career decisions.