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Welcome to this edition of Design Voices, where we invite industry leaders and experts at Carta to share their insights and experiences on the world of design. Our second guest is Benjamin Farrow, Design Director of the Ink design system team at Carta. Benjamin has led teams at tech powerhouses…

As a financial software company, Carta’s customers are often using our platform to work on complex tasks. We have customers who range widely on the equity IQ scale–from brand new to the subject matter to highly proficient. This means that our copy needs to be both helpful, succinct, and clear…

Welcome to our first edition of Design Voices, where we invite industry leaders and experts at Carta to share their insights and experiences on the world of design. Our first guest is Nicole Kahn, the VP of Design at Carta. Nicole is a highly skilled and seasoned design leader that…

Hello hello! My name is Chloe. I’m a product designer based out of San Francisco, working for Carta’s Venture Capital team since January 2021. My team makes it easy to automate running a venture capital fund by building fund administration tools. Beyond the inner workings of my team’s responsibilities, I…

Co-authored with Dan Fike Carta provides two career paths for engineers: management and technical leadership for individual contributors. If you’ve read Engineering levels at Carta, you know our senior software engineer II level (an individual contributor role) can be terminal — but it still features a lot of room to…

Memories and people worth celebrating. If only I were a better writer… — It’s hard to step away from something that’s been a large part of your life. Memories and smiles come flooding back. This blog is a celebration of some of the memories I’ve been thinking about from my last 5.5 years at Carta. …

Creating things is fun. And I’ve had a ton of fun creating things with Carta. — I was Carta’s first product management hire in June 2016. And for the last 5.5+ years, I’ve joyously solved problems with incredible teammates across every part of our business. Today is my last full working day with this special company. While it’s sad to be walking away from one life…

Source: Carta Published: September 2021 How much equity do startups sell in Series A? The amount of equity a company needs to relinquish while raising a Series A round varies considerably by industry. Startups require different amounts of capital to get started and some sectors hold more value for investors than others, both of which can influence the percent of equity a company needs to sell to get started.

Co-authored with Mara Pritchard Technology risk is often seen by security teams as something that should be eliminated completely, not managed. We know how critical it is to avoid the financial losses caused by breaches and disruptions. We also know that avoidance drives top-down pronouncements about which risk can be…