Carta

Getting a term sheet shouldn't mean months of stress.

Carta Law Venture Financing gives founders one legal team, a fixed fee, and a clear timeline from term sheet to close, backed by data from 55,000+ VC transactions: z.carta.com/4z8ZW4Q

Anthropic launched a plugins marketplace for Claude last week. We shipped our plugin suite in April.

MCP is the outlet. A plugin is the appliance that actually gets the job done.

Our CPO breaks down why we went deep instead of wide: carta.com/blog/plugin-vs…

Every tender offer raises the same question: who qualifies to sell, and how much?

Our CFO Charly Kevers now builds the whole eligibility artifact with one prompt to the Carta Cap Table plugin for Claude.

If you're emailing portcos for numbers and getting back PDFs to retype by hand, we see you.

Carta's Plugins for Claude: bulk requests, auto-extract KPIs, get a dashboard view with cap table and valuation history. Live demo Sept. 24, 10am PT/1pm ET: carta.com/events/skill-u…

Fund AI has arrived. Carta Plugins put your fund's numbers directly into Claude or Codex. No CSV export, no rebuilding formulas from scratch.

So, ask your fund anything.

📍 Find us in Vanderbilt Hall until 7pm.

New Carta x @Vestwell data found an interesting link between employee equity and retirement plans: employees with a 401(k) exercise options at 26.1%, vs. 22.8% for those without one.

At a 500-person company, that gap = ~15 more employees exercising their options. Equity gets you upside. A 401(k) gets you the confidence to actually take it. Full report: z.carta.com/4yvzlim

Magic 8 ball, is Fund AI finally real? 'It is certain.'

Ask your fund anything. Grand Central, September 16.

One week to go.

AI companies didn't come out of nowhere. Track every company classified as AI today back through their raises: in 2018, they were already pulling 37 cents of every startup dollar.

They crossed the majority line in 2024, and by H1 2026 it's 59 cents.

"AI native" makes it sound like this group was born in the current wave. It was raising serious capital years before the name existed.

Every audit cycle, investors' auditors send share count confirmation requests. One per investor.

Carta CFO Charly Kevers now hands that request to Claude.

Delta-v's COO used to spend weeks pulling compliance data by hand.

Now: "One prompt pulls every data point." (Kyle Rogers, Delta-v Capital)

Refresh cycle used to mean digging through vesting reports one employee at a time. Carta CFO Charly Kevers now just asks Claude.

One prompt → every equity type, vesting by year, and what it's worth. Straight from Carta's live data.

Fund of Funds truth nobody tells you upfront: your close is gated by someone else's audit, and your taxes wait for K-1s that arrive whenever they arrive.

Tax + audit pros from @sensiba join Carta to walk through what to build first: carta.com/events/fund-of…

Founders, you’re not imagining it. Fewer companies are raising, and the ones that do are raising more.

In Q2 2026, Carta’s data insights team saw capital raised climb at nearly every stage while round counts held flat or fell. The money is pooling, and the effect compounds as you move up the stack:

Seed — capital +37%, rounds -20%

Series A — capital +16%, rounds -12%

Series C — capital +26%, rounds -19%

Series D — capital +61%, rounds +9%

Series E+ — capital +142%, rounds +14%

Series B is the exception: capital down 30% on a slight rise in rounds. Everywhere else, the pattern holds.

What that means in practice: the bar to get funded is higher, but the round you get is bigger. Investors are writing fewer checks and concentrating them. If you’re in market, you’re not competing for a slice of a growing pool of deals. You’re competing to be one of the few that gets funded, and the reward for winning is a larger round than you’d have raised a year ago.

The home of startup data: carta.com/data

Setting up a trust for private shares used to mean a lawyer, a separate valuation firm, and a bill north of $50K before you'd funded anything.

Ridiculous.

So we teamed up with @getdynasty_com: one digital workflow, start to finish 👇
z.carta.com/4g0WP7n

This is the one we've been waiting to ship. Carta's Plugins for Claude are live: Investors, Cap Table, CRM, for every Carta customer. Carta, the connected ERP for private capital, now brings deep equity and private capital expertise directly into @claudeai.

Kapor Capital's entire finance team is one guy.

He just built a benchmarking tool, an audit-readiness bot, and a quarterly letter generator on Carta + @claudeai in his spare cycles.

"Jet fuel for what you're already doing." —Landry Nicks, @KaporCapital

The Carta plugins and @claudeai are up to something 🤔👇

The IPO window keeps opening and closing. Considerations for getting ready for an IPO have changed.

Join us July 22 @ 10am PT/1pm ET to hear from Carta CFO Charly Kevers, @MorganStanley's Lisa Shalett & Rohan Mehra on what "IPO ready" means now: carta.com/events/ipo-rea…

.@Ajenstat on the "AI is coming for analyst jobs" fear: hogwash.

Coding tools didn't shrink the developer pool, they gave everyone superpowers. Data's next — 10x, 100x more productive analysts, plus a wave of newbies who'd never touched data.

New Data Minute episode out now 🎙️

$226B in secondary volume last year. Double 2023.
The buy-side data problem scaled right along with it.
Click below for a new piece on how investors are keeping pace. z.carta.com/448cEU3