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Last year began as a promising one for growth in the pre-seed market—so how did it end up? We have all the key trends on SAFEs, convertible notes, dilution, and much more.

How co-founders choose to divide equity has long-term implications for financial outcomes. In the past several years, Carta data show, founding teams of all sizes have been choosing to spread out their equity more equally.

Venture investors and venture-backed founders are two distinct groups, but they’re facing a similar conundrum: Raising capital isn’t as simple as it used to be.

The startup fundraising landscape is undergoing a clear resurgence from the post-pandemic slowdown. Carta has all the data, including trends in round sizes, valuations, dilution, and more, across every stage and every region of the U.S.

Opportunities for shareholders in private companies to generate liquidity through IPOs have grown more frequent. Another year of increased IPO activity may be a realistic expectation.

How do startups divide their equity among co-founders and other key shareholders? This first-of-its-kind data report offers a comprehensive guide.

While the high-level numbers have nosed down, other key metrics—like valuations and round sizes—are trending up at the seed stage. And some of these statistics look very different across different common sectors.

After a historically lackluster 2023, the fintech fundraising market has picked back up—through the first nine months of 2024, fintech startups on Carta combined to raise about $3.8 billion in new VC funding.

Using aggregated and anonymized data from tens of thousands of startups, we examine how opportunities to found companies, raise venture funding, and work at startups are distributed according to race and gender.

The number of new tender offers administered by Carta has now increased in five of the past six quarters. That includes Q3, which saw 26 new tender offers—the highest quarterly total since the boom times of 2022.

The number of special-purpose vehicles has grown in recent years, and the size of SPVs is growing—a sign of their growing appeal among private equity and venture capital firms.