Plan your Pinecone NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOPinecone 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 6, 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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Pinecone is a privately held Data company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $1.71 per share (as of 2026-06-06). Your own 409A may differ.
Vector database.
Equity grants at Pinecone typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Edo Liberty, who directed the Amazon AI Labs research group at AWS, founded Pinecone in 2019 to build a vector database engineered for machine learning workloads from the ground up. Pinecone stores embeddings alongside metadata and provides millisecond-latency approximate nearest-neighbor search, the infrastructure layer for semantic search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation. The company raised $138 million in total, including a $100 million Series B at a $750 million valuation. In September 2025 Ash Ashutosh became CEO, with Liberty moving to Chief Scientist.
Sources: pinecone.io · prnewswire.com
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Pinecone 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 Pinecone's last reported price of $1.71, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $1 strike creates a $3,550 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $959 and $1,598 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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Pinecone equity questions
- How is a Pinecone 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 Pinecone grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does Pinecone grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Pinecone 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 Pinecone 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 Pinecone shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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