Layoff
Jan 2023Carta confirmed a workforce reduction of approximately 10%, estimated at about 200 employees, amid venture and technology-market pressure.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Overview
Carta (eShares, Inc. dba Carta) is a privately held private-capital software and services company. It began as eShares, digitizing paper stock certificates, and now positions itself as an end-to-end, AI-enabled ERP connecting equity management, fund administration, legal, compliance, CRM, portfolio data, and private-capital workflows. Carta says its platform serves 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries and 9,000+ funds/SPVs.
Primary product
Carta’s unified private-capital platform: cap-table and equity management, 409A valuations, employee equity/compensation, liquidity, fund administration and accounting, LP/portfolio analytics, valuations, CRM, legal/compliance, and related data/API/AI products.
Founded
2010
Headquarters
333 Bush Street, Suite 2300, San Francisco, California 94104, United States
Team size
1,000–2,000; Carta’s About page says 1,900+
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development / Financial Technology
Sub-industry
Private-capital infrastructure; equity management; fund administration; financial operations ERP
Offices
San Francisco, California
New York City, New York
Seattle, Washington
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Work & culture
Carta describes its culture through the traits Helpful, Relentless, Unconventional, and Kind. Its operating principles emphasize ownership, craft, transparency, bias to action, simplicity, accountability, integrity, and mission alignment. Public workplace information indicates hybrid work, typically about three days per week onsite, though requirements can vary by role and location.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Carta offers company equity and performance bonuses. Public job and benefits sources do not establish a single company-wide salary policy. Carta also sells Carta Total Compensation, a benchmarking product based on anonymized private-company equity and compensation data; individual job postings are the appropriate source for role-specific ranges and sponsorship.
Benefits
Company equity
Performance bonuses
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered and stakeholder-based pricing for company equity management: Launch is free for eligible companies with up to 25 stakeholders and up to $1M raised; Build, Grow and Scale add paid features and stakeholder-based pricing. Fund administration, enterprise, legal and other services are generally custom-priced.
Differentiators
- —Integrated company cap-table/equity management and fund administration
- —Large network effect across founders, investors, LPs and portfolio companies
- —In-house 409A valuation, tax, equity and compliance workflows
- —Finance-grade, auditable ledger and reporting outputs
- —Combination of software and experienced fund-accounting/service teams
- —Broad private-capital data set and benchmarking products
- —AI agents, MCP and Claude plugins connected to live Carta records
- —Developer APIs and integrations
Technology
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$150M–$200M based on public company-profile estimates; Carta’s own About page separately states $500M+ ARR in 2025, so public estimates are materially inconsistent and should not be treated as audited revenue.
Signals & risks
Layoff
Jan 2020Carta conducted an earlier workforce reduction during the initial COVID-era slowdown; the 2021 funding coverage described it as roughly comparable in size to the 2023 reduction.
SourceLatest news
Carta · Jul 2026
Carta launched Investors, CRM and Cap Table plugins for Claude, connecting live Carta records and deterministic financial calculations to AI workflows.
Carta · Jun 2026
Carta made private-market compensation and equity benchmarks queryable through its Claude Cap Table Plugin.
Carta · May 2026
Carta acquired Avantia Law and launched Carta Law, combining AI-native legal/compliance services with its private-capital ERP.
BusinessWire · May 2026
Carta acquired Avantia and launched Carta Law, an AI-native legal and compliance solution integrated into its ERP for private capital.
Carta blog · Apr 2026
Carta launched Claude plugins to let customers query cap tables, fund metrics, and portfolio data in natural language.
Open Positions
59 jobs at Carta
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