When Kapor Capital was preparing to raise its third fund in 2021, Landry Nicks had a clear vision for the firm’s new fund administration solution. Limited partners needed a modern, real-time window into fund performance, a sticking point with its prior provider, Aduro. Carta solved the pains Aduro presented, and Kapor Capital made the switch to Fund Administration, now part of Fund ERP.
Since then, Landry has become Kapor’s director of finance, a role he claimed in early 2025 when the firm moved its finance function in-house. As the sole finance team member at a mission-driven firm, he is always looking for ways to reduce manual lift. The Carta Investors Plugin for Claude has become central to that effort.
Kapor Capital replaced Aduro with Carta for better insights
While Kapor Capital used Aduro to manage its first two funds, the platform fell short as the firm prepared to raise a $125 million Fund III from institutional limited partners. Landry, who was an investment accounting manager at the time, felt the legacy platform lacked sophisticated data metrics and had a difficult user experience.
Aduro’s shortcomings threatened Kapor Capital’s mission: The firm is the venture capital arm of the Kapor family of organizations and backs underrepresented tech founders, operating under a strict, research-backed investment thesis. Having detailed historical performance data to prove its prior success to incoming LPs was critical.
Landry was familiar with Carta from using it to manage investments for the Kapor Family Trust and Kapor Foundation, so he spearheaded the transition for Kapor Capital. Carta provided access to advanced fund metrics, allowing Kapor’s GPs to demonstrate the impact of the firm’s thesis, and replaced Aduro’s clunky navigation with an intuitive interface the whole firm appreciates.
The Carta Investors Plugin for Claude enables Kapor Capital to build new AI tools
In 2026, Landry is still innovating for Kapor Capital and has watched the evolution of AI closely. He wanted to integrate AI tools at the firm, so when Carta launched its Investors Plugin for Claude, Landry saw the opportunity to reduce taskwork and reallocate energy to Kapor’s mission.
“I can point to our repeatable processes and train our skills on historical context, so moving forward, we can trigger the skill and save hours of time across the firm,” says Landry.
Shortly after implementing the plugin, Landry built a benchmarking tool that uses real-time fund data from Carta, an audit-readiness Slack bot to check that all quarterly transactions are in the firm's Google Drive, and a quarterly letter bot that pulls Carta data to generate drafts.
“Carta Plugins for Claude are jet fuel for what you already are doing. We can unlock more time and improve efficiency to focus on the more strategic aspects of the business,” says Landry.
Carta cuts reconciliation from weeks to days
Carta Plugins for Claude are part of a growing partnership for Kapor Capital. Since joining Carta, the firm has moved its management company accounting to Carta, consolidating what had previously been a split between Carta for fund accounting and another provider for the ManCo.
“The quarterly process of identifying and allocating fund-level expenses used to take weeks,” says Landry. “It’s now done in real time and available within a couple of days at the end of the quarter.”
Kapor Capital also replaced a batch-based expense management tool with Ramp, a third-party tool that integrates with Carta. Kapor’s old process required the team to manually collect receipts, encode them, and sort them by month. Ramp uses AI-assisted coding to handle expenses by transaction and feed results directly into Carta. As a result, Landry can work with the Carta team on an ongoing basis to maintain readiness and eliminate the rush to close each quarter.
“Working with Carta gives us room to breathe,” Landry says. “I lean on Carta as a partner instead of just a software vendor.”
Simple financial reporting supports Kapor Capital’s mission
Landry views strong technology and clean, accurate financial information as a key precursor to investment diligence. At scale, Carta helps Kapor Capital remove operational noise, so that Landry can provide the clarity the firm needs to focus on its core thesis.
“The mission here is always bigger than the team,” Landry says, “and Carta helps us stay focused on going back to the communities that we care about to find that next generation of company founders.”
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