Our second annual Ownership Trends in Private Equity report provides a status update on the progress private equity has made toward the commitment to expand employee ownership.

The average startup salary still stretches a lot further in up-and-coming industry hubs like Austin, Nashville, San Diego, and Denver than it does in San Francisco. But not quite as far as it used to.

Startups were the target in 158 M&A transactions logged on Carta in Q2, the highest quarterly total in the past two years.

Join Carta's Head of Insights, Peter Walker, as he breaks down the data that's fueling today's most fascinating trends in startups, VC, and the private market ecosystem.

New fund vintages rarely perform well in their first years of existence. But funds from 2021 and 2022 are trailing behind other recent vintages at the same point.

Pre-seed investing continues to evolve. Carta's Q2 2024 report on pre-seed investing examines trends in financings at the earliest stage of the startup lifecycle.