Creating more owners.
Carta provides a platform for private companies, public companies, and investors to manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans. In details, it helps private companies to streamline how to manage equity from founding to IPO, public companies to track employee and non-employee equity in one place, and investors to modernize how they manage their portfolio and back office.
Carta notes that the venture capital fundraising market "remained slow in Q1 2024, but valuations held steady or climbed at almost every stage."
Carta notes in the research report that fundraising for pre-seed companies stayed robust in Q1 2024, dominated by SAFEs and convertible notes.
Carta, a software development firm focused on equity management software, has recently released the State of Private Markets snapshot.