Plan your Cribl NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOCribl is pre-IPO. Plan your NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA) at any expected valuation.
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Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 16, 2026
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No bargain element. Current price is at or below the strike — no tax owed at exercise. Wait for the stock to appreciate past the strike before exercising.
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
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Cribl is a privately held Data company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $4.86 per share (as of 2026-06-16). Your own 409A may differ.
Observability data.
Equity grants at Cribl typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Cribl.io is an American company developing a data platform for information technology and security operations teams. Their core function revolves around simplifying and managing the massive amount of data generated by various software systems within an organization. Founded in 2018 by Clint Sharp, Ledion Bitincka, and Dritan Bitincka, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its mascot is a goat named Ian.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Clint Sharp, Ledion Bitincka, and Dritan Bitincka founded Cribl in San Francisco in July 2018, drawing on years of experience at Splunk to solve a problem they had lived: observability data, logs, metrics, traces, is expensive to route, store, and query at scale. Cribl Stream lets engineering teams filter, enrich, mask, and route telemetry in-flight to any downstream destination, breaking vendor lock-in. The company raised $200 million in a Series C in August 2021 and reached $200 million in annual recurring revenue in January 2025, with total funding of approximately $721 million.
Sources: cribl.io · en.wikipedia.org
Equity comp at Cribl
- Recent share-sale events (industry term: tender offers):
- Aug 2024: $3.5B implied valuation, led by GV (Google Ventures) · cribl.io
Researched 2026-05-07.
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Cribl NSO exercise creates ordinary income on the bargain element (federal, state, and FICA) at the price on the day you exercise. The calculator works at any valuation, so you can model your exercise cost at the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or post-IPO scenarios.
Example: at Cribl's last reported price of $4.86, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $1.46 strike creates a $17,000 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $4,590 and $7,650 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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Cribl equity questions
- How is a Cribl NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your Cribl grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does Cribl grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Cribl typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise.
- Are Cribl shares eligible for QSBS?
- They might be. Qualified small business stock (QSBS) under Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 can exclude federal tax on much of the gain when shares were acquired at original issuance from a C-corporation while its gross assets were under $50 million, and held at least five years. Whether your Cribl shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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