Carta Stock
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Invest in or value your shares in one or many pre-IPO companies through an EquityZen investment vehicle.
About Carta Stock
Carta is an SEC-registered transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. Founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012, eShares is based in Mountain View, California.
Investors
Funding History
October 2012 | $0 |
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August 2013 | $1.8M |
January 2015 | $7.0M |
August 2015 | $17.0M |
October 2017 | $42.0M |
Management
Software Engineer
Jared Hobbs
Software Engineer
Eric Hurkman
Founder & CEO
Henry Ward
Lead Product Manager
Jake Beyer
Press
seenews - Apr, 14 2024
Bulgarian regulator clears Ken Bidco's buy of Kin and Cartacrowdfundinsider - Apr, 9 2024
Median Pre-Money Valuations Ticked Upwards for Most Venture Stages – Carta Private Markets Update for Q4 ’23news - Mar, 26 2024
Secondary Market Seeing Rebound After Slowdownmarketscreener - Mar, 11 2024
Apax Global's Kin & Carta offer lapses as Valtech deal nearscityam - Mar, 11 2024
Apax backs down from Kin and Carta bidding war