CARTA BLOG
Whether you’re getting your first option grant or managing a fund, our blog is the best place to learn about ownership, equity, and the Carta product.
If employees exercised incentive stock options (ISOs) last tax year, your company needs to file IRS Form 3921. Companies must file one form per employee, and if they miss the deadline or ignore IRS reminders and fail to file, they could end up paying expensive fines.
ASC 718 is the standard way companies expense employee stock-based compensation on an income statement. Equity awards are part of compensation and have a specific set of accounting rules, stated in ASC 718, that companies should follow.
Aaron Jacobs, an ASC 820 expert, hosts a webinar explaining what ASC 820 is and what’s changing with the new guidance. Carta offers both self and full-service ASC 820 services to ensure your fund is ready for audit.
When you are referring clients to a 409A valuation provider, you’re considering four main factors: speed, price, accurate FMV, and audit-readiness. Read more about the Carta 409A valuation guarantee.
Tracking the marketwide performance of US private companies and startups is difficult. Private companies are not required to disclose performance or valuation information to the public.
Carta hires valuations industry veterans Sushil Chacko, Bob Chung, and Candice Bassell to lead the Carta Valuations group.
If employees exercised incentive stock options (ISOs) last tax year, your company needs to file IRS Form 3921. Companies must file one form per employee, and if they miss the deadline or ignore IRS reminders and fail to file, they could end up paying expensive fines.
ASC 718 is the standard way companies expense employee stock-based compensation on an income statement. Equity awards are part of compensation and have a specific set of accounting rules, stated in ASC 718, that companies should follow.
Aaron Jacobs, an ASC 820 expert, hosts a webinar explaining what ASC 820 is and what’s changing with the new guidance. Carta offers both self and full-service ASC 820 services to ensure your fund is ready for audit.
Today, Carta is at a scale where we can offer liquidity every 12–18 months. All employees with vested shares are eligible.
Cap tables are a necessary evil for every startup founder, CEO or CFO. Excel spreadsheets are usually riddled with mistakes. Carta is changing that.
As we move beyond the cap table market, we’ve changed our name to Carta. Carta is about creating more owners by mapping and expanding the ownership graph.
Carta’s culture is built on a single principle: always be helpful.
We recently travelled to all of our offices to capture what it’s like to work at Carta. Get a closer look at our company culture.
Today, Carta is at a scale where we can offer liquidity every 12–18 months. All employees with vested shares are eligible.
In 2017, over forty Carta clients exited through a merger or an acquisition. Learn how we helped.
1stdibs, the world’s largest online luxury marketplace for one-of-a-kind high-end items, utilized Carta for their recent tender offer.
Sunaina Seelam, the VP of finance at Scoot Networks, talked to Carta about shifting to a rental business after working in the automotive industry.
As your cap table grows, managing equity can get increasingly complicated and time consuming. Managing equity can become a full-time job depending on your company’s size and equity plan.
Tracking key metrics for just one company can be difficult, and comparing performance across your portfolio is nearly impossible—especially when each company’s data is in a different format.
Watch our recent webinar covering common questions like “what is a 409A valuation?” and “how should common stock value compare with preferred stock value?”
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