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Carta

Equity management and cap-table software for startups, employees, and investors
Fintech 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2012
Current Valuation
$7.4B
as of 2024-Q1
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Carta going public?
No. Carta has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Carta's valuation in 2026?
Carta is valued at $7.4B as of 2024-Q1, set by its Tender offer ($150M, Jan 2024). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Carta filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Carta.
Who are Carta's investors?
Carta's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Tribe Capital, Spark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital, Goldman Sachs.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Carta is the dominant equity management platform, serving 40,000+ private companies and 1.5M shareholders. Manages cap tables, 409A valuations, employee equity, and fund admin for VCs. Faced controversy in 2024 over its secondary trading desk allegedly using customer data, leading to an exit from that business.

Company Profile

CEO
Henry Ward
Founded
2012
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~1500
Total Raised
$965M
Last Round
Tender offer — $150M (Jan 2024) · Lead: Existing investors
IPO Status
no imminent plans

Fundraising Status

Tender offer · $150M · 2y 7mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $965M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$10.48
Last round price / share
$40.3
vs last round
-74.0%
Open interest
4
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$40.30Last round$10.48Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month-20.0%6-month-7.3%1-year-44.6%All-time-76.7%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Tender offer$150MJan 2024Existing investors—

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
28% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
58
via greenhouse
Product-build share
7%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 7% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (19 of 58 open roles are other).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month58Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionOther19Sales & GTM14Legal & Policy11Finance & Strategy7Engineering3Marketing2Ops & People1Product1
■ product-building   ■ go-to-market / G&A
Lead Product ManagerSenior Site Reliability EngineerSenior Software Engineer IISenior Software Engineer II, Developer ExperienceAccount Executive, Legal ServicesAccount Executive, Legal Services
Counted from Carta's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Henry WardManu Kumar

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz · Tribe Capital · Spark Capital · Lightspeed Venture Partners · Meritech Capital · Goldman Sachs

Products

  • Cap Table
  • 409A Valuations
  • Liquidity (Carta Liquidity)
  • Fund Admin
  • Equity Plans

Competitors

Pulley · AngelList · Shareworks (Morgan Stanley) · EquityZen
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.