Founders want to fundraise. We just made it 10x faster - and threw in thousands of $ in saved legal costs too.
Here's the scenario: you're raising a seed round (or Series A or whatever). You get a term sheet from your favorite VC - well done!
But now you need to figure out what this term sheet actually means for you, your employees, and your current investors if you were to accept it.
Sure, this is your first priced round. But you raised money from friends on a $8m cap SAFE...and from a couple well-known angels on a $12m cap SAFE...and didn't that advisor put in some money at a different cap safe?
And of course you just completed your accelerator and they get a fixed percentage once this money comes in.
Lots of tricky math is required to make sure all investors are allocated the correct number of shares in your funded company - and we haven't even gotten into pro rata, conversion methods, option pools, etc etc etc.
Old world: you send the term sheet to your lawyer and they spend many hours getting this right for you (on your dime).
New world: you input the terms into Carta Pro Forma in minutes and view it in-app or export it to your legal friends. You take the thousands in savings and throw a party.
BONUS You get multiple term sheets - so you build multiple Pro Formas and save them in your app. You can even create multiple versions of the same deal as negotiations continue.
Best part? This is available to all Carta founders right now. Even those using our Carta Launch plan.
Congrats to the founders (and lawyers) who will raise in this new world.
(link in comments for full details, s/0 Sahil Mansuri)
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