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Burn rate measures your company’s cash runway, based on cash flow and revenue. Learn how to manage and calculate cash burn rate for startups.

A term sheet outlines the key terms of a startup investor’s offer. Learn how to read an investor term sheet before your next fundraising round.

Non-qualified stock options (NSOs) are a type of equity compensation that does not qualify for favorable tax treatment. Learn about NSOs and how they work.

Share dilution is the reduction in an existing shareholder’s ownership percentage after a fundraising round. Learn how to prepare your startup for dilution.

The Series A funding round is typically the first priced round your company raises. Here’s what you need to know about raising your Series A.

We’re scaling Carta’s actionable compensation intelligence even more broadly across the private capital markets, bringing our best-in-class platform to even more founders, operators, and teams.

Long and patient policy engagement pays off, as tax benefits open up for more investors and companies and R&D expensing turns more favorable for private capital markets as part of new budget bill.

Raising capital as a new mom isn’t business as usual—and that’s the point. The founder of Canopie shares how she closed a funding round while caring for a newborn.

In 2024, companies in the AI space stunned the market by raising huge rounds at lofty valuations from some of the most prestigious investors. Some headline-grabbing rounds were raised mere weeks after launch.

Learn about tender offers, the tendering process, and how tenders work for private companies. Get all the answers to your tender offer questions.

Learn how salary benchmarking helps startups attract and retain talent, and how to benchmark compensation for your employees. Discover best practices and data-driven compensation tools.