Carta Launch open beta
Carta Launch is a free cap table management plan for early-stage companies, available exclusively through our law firm partners.
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Owner’s Manual
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.
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What to do before you raise a round
Founders and CFOs: here’s what you need to do before raising your next round and how Carta can help.
What are employee stock options?
Stock options aren’t actual shares—they’re the opportunity to exercise (purchase) a certain amount of company shares at an agreed-upon price. Learn more.
How to create a cap table (free cap table template)
There’s no standard cap table format, and there are multiple ways to create one. We’ll walk you through a few ways to get started and include a free cap table template you can download.
Announcements
Carta Launch open beta
Carta Launch is a free cap table management plan for early-stage companies, available exclusively through our law firm partners.
Improving the Carta experience for law firms
Learn more about our recent product improvements we made on Carta for our law firm partners.
Meet Carta for Venture Capital
You’ve used Carta to accept securities and access cap tables. Now we’re building fund admin tools that will change the way you run your back office.
Data & research
The state of private company financing in 2018
With increased access to capital, companies find staying private longer increasingly attractive. We decided to take a look behind these headlines and dig into the data.
The Gap Table: Analyzing the gender gap in equity
Much has been said about the gender pay gap, but most publicly available research focuses on only one part of compensation: salary. But in startups, wealth is created through equity ownership on the cap table.
The Carta 100 Index
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.
Equity education
What to do before you raise a round
Founders and CFOs: here’s what you need to do before raising your next round and how Carta can help.
What are employee stock options?
Stock options aren’t actual shares—they’re the opportunity to exercise (purchase) a certain amount of company shares at an agreed-upon price. Learn more.
How to create a cap table (free cap table template)
There’s no standard cap table format, and there are multiple ways to create one. We’ll walk you through a few ways to get started and include a free cap table template you can download.
Product education
How to create a cap table (free cap table template)
There’s no standard cap table format, and there are multiple ways to create one. We’ll walk you through a few ways to get started and include a free cap table template you can download.
Exercising options made simpler on Carta
Learn about the improvements we’ve made to the Carta employee exercising flow, including educational content, estimated tax breakdowns, and more.
What to look for in a 409A report (free sample report)
Download our sample 409A report to see what a complete 409A report looks like and help guide your evaluation of 409A providers.
From our CEO
Fund admin is broken
With Carta, VCs can see real-time IRR instead of waiting for quarterly updates, work with our experienced team, and run capital calls and share documents with LPs.
Twenty Minute VC featuring Henry
Two years ago, Harry Stebbings invited our founder and CEO, Henry Ward, on The Twenty Minute VC podcast. We’ve grown a lot since then, and Henry recently joined Harry again to chat about a range of topics.
Work @ Carta, get liquidity
Today, Carta is at a scale where we can offer liquidity every 12–18 months. All employees with vested shares are eligible.
How we work
Closing the gender gap in equity: How to fix historical errors in equity distribution
We want to help other companies address their historical equity imbalances. Here’s how we reviewed our own equity guidelines, and how we approached extending fix-it grants to employees.
A better job offer letter
At Carta, we spend a lot of time figuring out how to better educate employees about startup equity. We realized that the job offer letter itself was a good place to do this, so in 2016, we decided to reinvent the offer letter. Check ours out and download it to use as a template.
Introducing Execute, a podcast about Carta from a former employee
Execute is a podcast documentary about the history of Carta and a blueprint for anyone who wants to build a startup. It covers the ups and downs of fundraising, the cultural challenges that result from scaling headcount, and the overall transition from a small, focused team into a legit, revenue-producing company.
Partner stories
How to add unique value as a small VC fund: Lessons from Sinai Ventures
Focus on your differentiator Leverage your network Partner (don’t compete) with bigger firms Be bold Find efficiencies wherever you can
Tilray’s (regulated) road to IPO: Lessons from one of the first publicly-traded cannabis companies
Tilray is the first Canadian cannabis company to file for an initial public offering on a U.S. stock exchange, raising $153 million at $17 per share. We chatted with Tom about Tilray’s road to IPO, and their decision to choose Carta as a partner on this path.
1stdibs Tender Offer: “Carta did everything”
1stdibs, the world’s largest online luxury marketplace for one-of-a-kind high-end items, utilized Carta for their recent tender offer.
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