are cap tables public information 
there are no u s regulations mandating that private companies disclose their cap tables 3 startups may want to limit the visibility of their cap tables and only make them available to serious inquiries from potential investors a list of insiders and institutional shareholders is made available when a company goes public however the bottom linea capitalization or cap table is a spreadsheet or table that shows a company s equity capitalization it s generally an intricate breakdown of a company s shareholders equity capitalization tables are typically used privately by private companies to provide information on a company s investors and market value 