VENTURE CAPITAL INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Data Desk

Key insights on how private companies grow

Our research aims to help founders, investors, and startup employees navigate the complex world of venture capital with more clarity. All of our insights originate from the aggregated, anonymized data of Carta’s 40,000+ companies and 1.5 million stakeholders*.

 

VC DATA BY INDUSTRY
VC DATA BY STAGE
FUNDRAISING DILUTION






Venture capital overall

  • State of Private Markets Q2 2022

    Data & Research

    The state of private markets: Q2 2022
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  • State of Private Markets Q1 2022

    Data & Research

    The state of private markets: Q1 2022
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Founder insights

  • Co-founder Equity

    Featured

    How co-founders can think about an equity split
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  • How SAFEs and convertible notes work

    Founder education

    How SAFEs and convertible notes work
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  • The impacts of dilutions

    Founder education

    How to manage equity dilution as an early-stage startup
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Carta data in the news

Wall Street Journal Equity Rewards for BLack and Latino workers

The Wall Street Journal

For Black and Latino Workers, equity rewards are elusive
We found a typical client’s costs are 2.5x higher if they include their counsel at the end of a Carta onboarding, rather than the beginning.
axios - final numbers

Axios

Final numbers
Venture capital activity continues to break records in 2021, and here’s another data point courtesy of Carta, the startup that manages employee equity for other startups.
business insider - spacs

Business Insider

Savvy investors are buying stock in hot startups before they go public through an ‘addicting’ method called special purpose vehicles. Here’s how they work.

Methodology

The Carta Data Desk sits on an unmatched foundation of private company data, drawing from over 40,000 cap table customers and 1.5 million equity stakeholders on the Carta platform. These companies represent over a trillion dollars in aggregate post-money valuation.

 

Carta customers who have chosen to withhold their data from this aggregated analysis are not included in any research reports or interactive data explorations.

 

 

 

 

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