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Reed McBride

Reed McBride started his career in Silicon Valley as a start-up attorney at Orrick, advising over 100 technology companies on billions of dollars of VC and M&A transactions. Prior to joining Carta, he scaled two start-ups over five years, building teams and leading numerous functions including Business Operations, Finance, People Ops, Legal, and Corp Dev. Reed currently runs Business Development at Carta, and is an active early-stage investor. Reed holds a BS with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois College of Engineering and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif and served on the California Law Review.
Introducing the Carta Developer Platform

Carta has worked for the past year with more than 25 beta partners to utilize our growing suite of APIs. Now we're expanding these capabilities.

Advisory shares: What startups should know

Advisory shares are a form of equity that early-stage startups (especially pre-seed, idea-stage ones) can give to their advisors instead of cash compensation.

Use Firstbase to automatically create a cap table on Carta Launch

Today, we’re announcing the integration of Carta Launch with Firstbase so you can focus on building your company instead of your cap table. Once you’ve

SAFEs, now automated on Carta

So we asked, what if we could help founders create and issue a SAFE in 30 seconds? No room for mistakes, no Word docs, no manual entries to their cap table, no sending wire instructions, no extra email volume. And what if we could put founders in control of future dilution before they issue their very first SAFE?

Introducing Carta’s SAFE and convertible note calculator

If you're fundraising, check out our free SAFE and convertible note calculator to understand the potential future impact before they convert in a priced round.

Video: A discussion on VC activity in 2020

I recently joined ​Cameron Stanfil from Pitchbook, Justin Field from NVCA, and ​Katherine Andersen from SVB to discuss fundraising, dealflow, and exit