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
Ada	5 years	After 2 years of employment
Aerotime	10 years	After 2 years of employment
Agora	10 years
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
Bonsai	10 years
Blissfully	5 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
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
Felt	10 years
Flexport	10 years
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
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
Mashgin	10 years
MagicBell	10 years	After 2 years of employment
Meadow	10 years
Mercury	7 years
Mixpanel	5 years	After 2 years of employment
Mojo	10 years	After 2 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
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
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
RevenueCat	10 years
Revolut	10 years
Rewatch	7 years
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
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
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
Vested	10 years	Immediately
Wasmer	7 years	After 2 years of employment
Wave	10 years
Wefunder	3 years
WizeHire	10 years	After 2 years of employment
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
Segment	10 years
Supply	10 years
Upstart	10 years

VCs

It's worth noting that Andreessen Horowitz has come out in strong favor of the 90 day window. If you feel strongly about extended exercise windows, it might be worth considering whether a16z portfolio companies are a good fit for you.