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Carta

🌎 carta.com

Carta is an ownership and equity management platform trusted by thousands of founders, investors, and employees. They provide solutions for cap table management, equity management, valuations, and equity plans. Trusted by over 40,000 companies and 2 million users globally, Carta aims to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people.

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Updates as of Sep 16, 2024

• Carta launched new equity plan benchmarks to help companies evaluate their equity usage versus peers.
• Carta has added option pool size and equity burn rate benchmarks to Carta Total Compensation, using data from their extensive equity dataset.
• The Exchange Club Fair has sued Carta over its decision to condemn 6 acres of the fairgrounds for a park-and-ride station.
• Carta released its second annual Ownership Trends in Private Equity report, providing a status update on the progress private equity has made toward expanding employee ownership.
• Saad Shahzad has left Carta as Director Pricing Strategy in the United States to join ServiceTitan as Senior Director Pricing Strategy.

• Jeff Perry, Chief Revenue Officer at Carta, participated in an AMA session at SaaStr annual week.
• Carta released the second edition of European Data Insights, revealing that median seed financing in H1 2024 was £3.3m, over £800k above peak pandemic levels, with Series B round sizes growing by 40% year-over-year.
• Carta is on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance for 2024.
• As of Q2 2024, over 382,000 stakeholders across Carta’s 2,700-plus PE-backed businesses had received ownership interests, effectively doubling since Q2 2020.
• Carta's 2024 PE Ownership Report shows a 172% increase in employee stakeholders since 2019, with over 382,000 stakeholders across 2,700 PE-backed businesses as of Q2 2024.
• Jeff Perry, CRO of Carta, recommended 'The Essays of Warren Buffett' as required reading at the SaaStr Annual AMA.

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