Vrushali Paunikar

Chief Product Officer

Vrushali Paunikar is the Chief Product Officer at Carta where she leads the team responsible for developing new products, advancing existing solutions, and driving Carta's AI strategy. Vrushali and her team are building AI-powered tools for fund managers, GPs, and portfolio companies — making Carta's platform smarter and more automated across every stage of the private capital lifecycle. Her team delivers value to Carta's more than 55,000 customers in the venture and startup ecosystem, and generates growth for the overall business.

Before becoming CPO, Vrushali scaled Carta's valuation business to software margins, grew the Venture Capital business from zero to over $80M in ARR, and envisioned Carta's fund admin platform, known as Event Based Accounting, which today supports over $250B in assets under administration.

Before joining Carta, Vrushali served as a product leader at Applied Predictive Technologies, Dynamic Signal, and Rocket Lawyer. She has a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.