What’s new?

Soon, you will be able to access 8 new reporting templates under Capitalization > Reporting, which provide you with access to critical data points about your equity pool, company, securities, and stakeholders. You will be able to see exactly how your key option pool values are derived, view equity awards joined with Grant Reason and Employee ID, and even export a detailed list of stakeholders and their properties.

Why is this important?

We’ve been listening to every piece of feedback from you, and have heard the challenges that you face. The new reports address these challenges, providing visibility into how key pool values are derived, and giving you reporting access to over 60 key fields that were spread across multiple places, and in some cases, previously un-reportable.

Those 8 template reports are:

• Equity pool transaction ledger: A detailed view of shares available to issue from your equity pool. This new report includes a double-entry activity log for every transaction so you can see, line-by-line, exactly how available shares and other plan values  were derived.
• Common securities ledger: A ledger of all Common shares in Carta.
• Equity awards outstanding: A detailed view of all outstanding equity awards across all plans on Carta. 
• Equity plan granted: A ledger of all securities granted from the equity plan. 
• Options outstanding: A detailed view of all outstanding options across all plans on Carta. 
• Securities ledger: A ledger of all securities tracked on Carta. 
• Share registry:  Used by companies in many countries to create a share/equity register or register of holders.
• Stakeholder details: Full list of stakeholders and their properties.

What do I need to do?

You should be on the lookout for an email from your CSM letting you know that these reports are now available for you. Once you get that email, you can go to Capitalization > Reporting, and you will see the following view, where the newly added reports will have a ‘New’ bubble next to them:

From there, you just need to export the report as usual!

Where can I learn more?

For more information on exporting reports, visit our support site. We will be adding additional information to the support site as reports are updated and improved.

What's new?

GPs can now click on a specific investor's name within their Capital Activity Notice PDF to quickly view the details of that investor's notice.  

What’s valuable about this change?

Get the information you need, faster.

Save time by no longer having to scroll through pages of notices until you find the right LP. Easily search and select the LP to be automatically directed to that LPs notice.

What do I need to do?

1. Log into your Carta account and navigate to the Activity tab
2. Click into the details of an active capital call in your task list
3. Scroll down to Notification to Investors and select the Document Outline icon
4. Then, select the LP to review their capital call notice

What's new?

What’s valuable about this change?

Distributions made smoother. Request, view, and approve your distributions in the same place you manage your fund.

What do I need to do?

1. Login to your Carta account, select the entity, and navigate to the Capital activity tab
2. Click “Request distribution” and enter the amount of capital to be distributed
3. Enter distribution details including distribution notice, money transfer dates, and source of proceeds
4. Select “Continue”, review the distribution details, and Submit

Note: For same day processing, the request must be made before 3:00pm EST.

How do I learn more or get help?

Visit this support article for a more detailed view into distributions.

What’s new? 

This release improves the workflow for matching employees with stakeholders on Carta. Employees with the same name and email as the stakeholder will automatically match, saving their employee ID and thereby linking the stakeholder with the employee record. The improved workflow guides you through reviewing all other employee matches. 

How does it work? 

For the reviewed matches, you can now ignore, to be reminded next time, or to choose a different stakeholder. These decisions will be saved and will not need to be rematched when running the employee matching workflow. You can now review all matches and update the decisions later. 

What do I need to do? 

To get started, you will need to connect your external data to Carta either through connecting your HRIS system, uploading a spreadsheet, or pasting the information into Carta directly.

With your external data connected, Carta will attempt to automatically match your employees. From there you review suggested matches, deciding to approve the suggestion, ignore it, remind me later, or manually choosing a different person.

If there are any employees from external data that don’t match at all to Carta stakeholders, you can choose to ignore them or manually choose a person to match.

The workflow is then completed and all matches can be reviewed.

How do I learn more?

For more information on Employee Matching, please read our support article.

What's new?

GPs can now include a detailed breakdown of capital in their capital call and distribution notices to maintain transparency with their investors.

What’s important or valuable about this change?

Institutional investors prefer to see a breakdown of capital versus a lump sum for internal reporting purposes. We make it easy to provide inventors that information:

Capital calls: Specify what dollar amount or percentage of the amount called is going towards investments, expenses, management fees, and more.

Distributions: Break down the return by dollar amount or percentage into capital, realized gains, or income.

What do I need to do?

On the Overview tab of your portal, select the entity, then navigate to the Capital Activity tab. Click Request Capital Call and follow the steps. Specify the breakdown of capital in the Notes for your Fund Administrator section.  

For distributions, click Request Distribution and complete the steps above. 

Once submitted, it will appear on the capital call or distribution notice for your review and approval.

Have additional questions about Carta’s capital activity? Reach out to your account manager or request a demo today. 

What's new?

A smoother audit season.

Auditors can now bulk download all fund documents from Carta in a single click.

We’ve bundled all fund audit documents in one place so auditors no longer have to spend time downloading multiple documents from multiple places. 

What do I need to do?

Navigate to the Reports & Documents tab of your portal, then select Audit. Documents are bundled into two packages per entity:

Package 1: Formation documents, bank statements, investment documents, invoices & calculations, and partner commitment changes and transfers  

Package 2: Partner subscription agreements and side letters, capital call notices, and distribution notices

Select the package and click Download. 

How do I learn more or get help?

Have additional questions about how Carta can support you during your fund audit? Reach out to your account manager or talk to one of our representatives today. 

What's new?

GPs can now easily submit valuation updates where positions on an investment have different values or prices per share.

What’s important or valuable about this change?

We’ve improved our in-app valuation updates to be able to handle advanced scenarios, including submitting an update where each asset has a different price per share. This is common for GPs who have invested in the same investment across multiple rounds. 

What do I need to do?

Navigate to the Activity tab of your portal and select Valuation Update. Then select the company whose valuation you want to update. 

Select Spreadsheet View and enter the date for when the valuation took place. Enter the new value per share to see the gain or loss across all positions.

Then review your valuation update and submit.

How do I learn more or get help?

Have additional questions about Carta’s valuation updates? Reach out to your account manager or talk to one of our representatives today. 

What’s new?

The Share Class Manager page will be updated this coming Monday, February 6th to make it easier to navigate, and provide a consistent experience when you are updating AOI terms.

We no longer display a "Link AOI" button at the top of the page. The new flow is designed to be simple and intuitive, with the "Manage Share Class" button giving you access to update existing share classes, add new share classes, and link Articles of Incorporation.

What do I need to do?

Navigate to Capitalization > Manage share classes. Under Manage share classes, there will be three options:

• Create new share class
• Edit existing share classes
• Add historical AOIs

Where can I learn more?

Visit the Share Class Manager support article or contact us via the In-App Help Center.

What's new?

We’re introducing a new way for Carta GPs to have greater visibility into their relationship with their fund administrator.

What’s important or valuable about this change?

GPs can now submit, view, and track the progress of their fund admins tasks, like sending capital calls or preparing financials. Fund managers will receive a notification for any outstanding tasks or if there’s an action required.

GPs can use the Activity tab to stay up to date on critical fund events, like reviewing financials or management fees. 

What do I need to do?

On the Overview tab of your portal, navigate to the Activity tab.

You can view and complete tasks assigned to you by your fund administrator. Click Details to view additional information about the task like the date it was created, progress, and status.

Scroll down to see what your fund admins are working on. Click Details to view additional information about their task like which fund admin is working on the task and the progress. 

Easily request a capital call or submit a valuation update. Once submitted, it will appear in the fund admin section for you to track to completion. 

Select Task History to view an archive of all past tasks completed by you and your fund administrator. 

This feature currently services capital calls, valuation updates, SPV formations, and reviewing and approving management fees, SOIs, and financials. 

We will be making further improvements to the Activity tab over the coming weeks including the ability to request a wire, submit an expense, and message with your fund admin.

How do I learn more or get help?

Have additional questions about the Activity tab? Reach out to your account manager or request a demo today. 

What's new?

Carta now helps private company administrators coordinate the settlement of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The end-to-end offering allows an Issuer to:

• configure and schedule a RSU Settlement;
• provide RSU holders with an election period to identify how they want to pay the tax withholding obligation associated with the upcoming settlement;
• collect any cash payments from RSU holders; and
• automatically update the cap table at settlement.

During the election period, RSU holders are invited to access a workflow to view their vested RSUs along with the tax withholding amounts due at settlement. They have the flexibility to meet their tax obligation by electing to net-settle, pay the full amount in cash, or use a combination of surrendered shares and cash. 

This offering helps facilitate the RSU settlement process from setup to share delivery for private Issuers that award RSUs under their equity compensation plans.

How does it work?

Issuers

Private company administrators can go through a four-step process to configure an upcoming RSU Settlement with Carta Liquidity. Issuers can:

• set the parameters of the settlement (e.g., FMV, election timing, settlement date); 
• view and confirm the RSUs that will be included based on the vesting end date (i.e., record date); and 
• view and confirm tax withholding amounts associated with the settlement. 

Issuers can set rates to use when calculating tax withholdings owed based on each RSU holder’s tax jurisdiction(s). Carta Liquidity’s integration with Carta’s equity management platform and tax engine eliminates the need for the administrator to pull and sort cap table information manually or calculate tax withholdings for each RSU holder. Alternatively, Issuer’s can provide tax withholding amounts calculated by their HRIS provider for use in the settlement.

RSU holders

When the administrators invite RSU holders to submit their elections, RSU holders will be able to view which of their RSUs will be settled and the tax withholding amount due per security. In addition, individuals will identify how they would like to satisfy the tax withholding amount owed through a self-service election workflow. 

The three tax withholding payment options include:  

• Share withholding (i.e., net settlement) - The entire tax withholding amount is paid by surrendering a portion of shares from the vested RSUs released for settlement. The net amount of shares after withholding will be delivered to a RSU holder at settlement. This is the default option.
• Cash payment - The entire tax withholding amount is paid by a RSU holder in cash (only USD is accepted). RSU holders are required to fund their brokerage account in order to make this election.
• Share and cash payment - Each RSU holder identifies the mix of cash and shares that will be used to pay the taxes due at settlement, providing them more flexibility. RSU holders are required to fund their brokerage account in order to make this election.

For any cash elections, RSU holders are instructed to transfer the necessary cash to their Carta Liquidity brokerage account*. RSU holders are able to modify their election until the end of the election period. 

At settlement, Carta Liquidity’s integration with Carta’s equity management platform automatically updates an Issuer’s cap table to reflect the shares of stock delivered to RSU holders, and any cash payments received to cover applicable tax obligations will be transferred automatically to the Issuer’s brokerage account. RSU holders will then receive their resulting equity from the Issuer in their Carta accounts. In addition, Carta Liquidity will provide a record of the RSU settlement to both the Issuer and RSU holders. 

Run regular RSU settlement processes with automatic cap table updates and tax withholding calculations, saving your team time and resources 

The RSU Settlement offering will:

• Reduce the manual administrative work required to set up a regular cadence of RSU settlement through equity management and tax engine integrations
• Provide RSU holders flexibility to choose how they would like to meet their tax withholding obligations through a self-service election workflow
• Provide optionality to RSU holders to pay out of pocket for the amount they feel comfortable paying.

Start managing RSU Settlements on Carta!

Reach out to company_coverage@cartacapitalmarkets.com to speak with your relationship manager to turn on this feature. 

*Note: Brokerage accounts and other brokerage services are offered through Carta Capital Markets, LLC (Member: FINRA/SIPC)