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Women on Cap Tables
In February, Jana Messerschmidt, Jessica Verrilli, Katie Stanton, Vijaya Gadde, April Underwood, and Chloe Sladden, also known as the #Angels, wrote an excellent piece called The Gap Table. Their thesis was that the salary gap — women are paid $0.80 on the dollar to men — is a rounding error…
Work @ Carta, Get Liquidity
~2% of venture-backed companies IPO. Very few startup employees will ever receive liquidity for their equity. The lucky few who do wait years, sometimes a decade, to get it. Worse, many employees forfeit their equity when leaving the company because they can’t afford to buy their…
Carta for Public Companies
In 2017 we started supporting public companies. This is a risky bet for Carta. The cap table market for private companies is an easy market to enter. The incumbent is Excel and the competition is paper. In addition, the market itself is growing quickly with new companies being…