Leaving Starburst? Plan your 90-day ISO window
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOStarburst is pre-IPO. Left with vested ISOs? Model the 90-day exercise-or-forfeit decision and its AMT cost at any valuation: current 409A or an expected exit price.
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Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 11, 2026
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Skip the exercise
At 10%/yr expected growth, the AMT premium outweighs the after-tax gain on every share. Letting the window close avoids the AMT bill.
Net after-tax value vs. shares exercised
Each point is the expected after-tax NPV at your hold horizon if you exercise that many shares now and let the rest expire.
Year-by-year tax breakdown
You pay the higher of Regular tax and Tentative AMT per jurisdiction, then subtract Credit recovered. The result is Net tax. Hover any number for the bracket-by-bracket breakdown.
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Estimates only. Excludes disqualifying dispositions, NSOs, multi-state moves, and AMT preferences other than ISO bargain elements. Long-term capital gains tax assumes a qualifying disposition (ISO held ≥1 yr from exercise and ≥2 yr from grant); state LTCG follows ordinary brackets except where the state grants preferential treatment (HI, ND, SC, WI, AR, NM) or has a dedicated LTCG-only tax (WA). Assumes you are within the $100K ISO limit (any portion of an annual ISO grant whose FMV at grant exceeds $100K is treated as NSO from the start, §422(d)). State AMT figures are 2025 (next-year values published in late 2026). Not financial advice.
QSBS note. If your shares qualify (typically pre-IPO C-corp grants held 5+ years), a federal rule lets you exclude up to $10M of gain on a future sale from federal tax. That single rule shifts exercise-timing math more than AMT does. (This is §1202 “qualified small-business stock”.) Modeled in beta, not here.
You solved the exercise window. The beta plans what comes after it: the new shares, your remaining equity, hedges, and taxes in one multi-year plan.
Request beta access →About Starburst
Starburst is a privately held Data company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Boston, MA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $0.59 per share (as of 2026-06-11). Your own 409A may differ.
Trino-based analytics.
Equity grants at Starburst typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Justin Borgman and engineers including Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Dain Sundstrom, and Martin Traverso, core contributors to Facebook's Presto distributed SQL engine, founded Starburst in 2017 to commercialize that technology. The platform, built on the open-source Trino query engine (formerly PrestoSQL), lets analysts run federated SQL queries across data lakes, warehouses, and operational databases without moving data. Starburst raised a $250 million Series D in February 2022 at a $3.35 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $414 million.
Sources: starburst.io · techtarget.com
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If you are leaving Starburst with vested incentive stock options (ISOs), most stock plans give you 90 days from departure to exercise or forfeit them. The calculator works at any valuation: enter your strike and the current 409A fair market value (FMV) or an expected exit price. It computes your window deadline, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) cost of exercising in full, and the partial-exercise share count that maximizes expected after-tax value.
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Starburst equity questions
- I left Starburst. How long do I have to exercise my ISOs?
- Most stock plans give you 90 days from your departure date to exercise vested incentive stock options (ISOs); unexercised options are forfeited when the window closes. Tax law is slightly wider: ISO treatment requires you to have been an employee within 3 months of exercise (Internal Revenue Code Section 422(a)(2)), so options exercised under an employer-extended window are taxed as non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Check your grant agreement for Starburst's exact terms. The calculator above computes your deadline from your departure date, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) cost of exercising, and the share count that maximizes after-tax value.
- Does Starburst grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Starburst 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 Starburst 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 Starburst shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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