Equity management and cap-table software for startups, employees, and investors
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.
Fintech📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2012
Current Valuation
$7.4B
as of 2024-Q1
UNICORN
QL Price
$3.3B
-56% vs last round
QuantLogix's current estimate for Carta, published 2026-10-07 — below the last disclosed round of $7.4B (2024-Q1).
Confidence
medium
Basis
secondary led
What backs this price
Last disclosed round
$7.4B
2024-Q1
weight 0.17
Secondary market print
$1.9B
2026-06-27
weight 0.54
How this price has held up
No round has priced for Carta since QuantLogix began publishing a price for it, so there is nothing to grade yet. The claim above is on the record from 2026-10-07 and will be graded against the next priced round. See the full accuracy record →
Which publicly-traded funds already hold it, what $10,000 buys, and whether any route is open to you.
Cite this price as QuantLogix QL Price, Carta, 2026-10-07 (7ed75735c1a1caf5).
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Model estimate for research — not a quote, target price, or investment advice.
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.
Carta has raised $965M in total, most recently a Tender offer of $150M in Jan 2024.
Is Carta publicly traded — can you buy Carta stock?
No. Carta is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Carta on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
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.
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
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Tender offer
$150M
Jan 2024
Existing investors
—
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▲ Hiring uptrend
+10% vs 2026-08
Open roles
64
via greenhouse
Product-build share
6%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
go-to-market push — Only 6% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (20 of 64 open roles are other).
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Counted from Carta's live job board as of 2026-09-15; 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
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.