Who This Affects

Users without a verified secondary email address

What’s New

Additional emails are required to assist users with providing a secondary login credential in case access to their primary email address is lost. As part of our efforts to improve our clients' account security, we are updating the process of adding and verifying your additional email address. 

As part of this release, we will be notifying all users without a verified additional email address to add or verify the email they have listed. This subset of users will be receiving an email notification, as well as an outstanding task in their Carta account’s task manager. 

Timing

• This update is available to 25% of randomly selected Carta users
• General availability for all users by the end of Q2

What's new?

Benchmarks version 2022-05-26

What changes can I expect from these benchmarks?

Geographic adjustments have been updated to reflect current cost-of-labor data across the US. There have been no changes to the underlying benchmarks that were released on April 13, 2022, details of which can be found here.

Given the current sample size of Carta Total Compensation we are now able to rely on data from Total Compensation customers, representing the broad tech industry, to determine cost-of-labor differentials in 33 cities (previously 17 cities). For all other US metropolitan areas we continue to rely on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) which is based on a wider set of industries and type of employee.

What were the largest areas of movement from these benchmarks?

For most of the largest markets in Carta Total Compensation we’ve observed an increase in pay relative to the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the changes to key markets include the following (SF Bay Area = 100%):

* Data source for Miami has changed from BLS to Carta Total Compensation due to our increased sample size.

Outside of our largest markets we observe a mix of increases and decreases relative to Bay Area compensation levels, but on average there has been a slight increase.

How do I update my plan to use the new benchmarks version?

You can update your compensation plan to use the latest benchmark versions either by:

1. Visiting the Plan page and clicking on the "Update available" link in the Active Plan window.
   
   
2. Navigating to the Bands page and clicking on the "Update" bubble in the top left.
   
   

You will have the opportunity to preview the new plan with the updated benchmarks version and assess their impact on your scorecard before accepting the new plan.

Improvements to MSA borders

Carta Total Compensation currently defaults employees who are not in a supported Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) to a geographic adjustment factor equal to your plan’s threshold value. With this update, Carta Total Compensation will now use the adjustment factor for the nearest supported MSA.

What’s next?

Additional functionality that will allow users to apply a level-based approach to geographic adjustments.

General partners now have the ability to view and track capital calls from the Carta Android app. Investment firms can now track the progress of on-going and completed calls along with investor details, on the go, straight from the Carta mobile app.

Who this affects

• Fund administration clients

Supported platforms

• Android (Previously available on iOS)

What's new

Fund Administration clients can now access their capital call details and investor information from the Carta Android app.

• The home screen now provides a summary of active capital calls with the ability to view individual call details.
• Navigating to a capital call allows you to view further call and investor details along with a full investor list which can be filtered by Paid and Unpaid calls.
• The Fund Details page now also provides a capital summary and the ability to view a list of Active, Drafted, and Completed calls.

Carta users will now be able to perform a Cashless Hold Exercise and Cashless Sell Exercise on the mobile app. 

Who this affects

• Public Markets Users

Supported Platforms

• iOS and Android

What’s new

Users with holdings in public companies on Carta will now be able to exercise and sell their shares via a Cashless Hold or Cashless Sell transaction while on-the-go through the Carta mobile app. These features were previously available to users via desktop, and this launch closes the previously existing gap in functionality between the Carta web experience and the Carta mobile app. 

Carta mobile app users will now be able to login using a web-browser on iOS and Android. Web-login gives us the benefits of browser-based authentication, and better security, without disrupting the user experience.

Who this affects

Employees and Investors

Supported Platforms

iOS & Android

What’s New

In an effort to bring login and authentication together across all Carta platforms, we are launching browser-based login on mobile. The web-login experience will use Safari on iOS and a default browser on Android.

What's New?

Carta fund admin users can instantly be notified about share price updates for portfolio companies with their cap tables on Carta. As Carta companies publish new share classes or file updated Articles of Incorporation (AOI), funds with basic or higher cap table access may receive notifications about these updates. In addition, users will have the option to apply these updates to their Schedule of Investments (SOI) immediately.

When a Carta company raises a new round and publishes it on their cap table, firms with appropriate access can be notified, and Carta will automatically mark their share value to the latest price on the AOI.

How it Works

When a company has their cap table on Carta and raises funding through an equity round, they update their Articles of Incorporation, create Stock Purchase Agreements, and update their cap table data to reflect the new breakdown of ownership and share price. 

The Fund Administration team reviews these updates when a new share class is authorized, or a new incorporation document is filed on Carta. Fund admin users who a Carta company has granted basic, advanced, or detailed access to the cap table will be notified of updates through email. The email will contain a link to information such as share class, share price, and impact on fund metrics. 

Who This Affects

Firms who have requested and been granted basic, advanced or full detail level access to the cap tables and financing history for their Carta portfolio companies will be notified of new filings.

Why This is Awesome

Carta serves a powerful network of equity and ownership data, which provides a single source of truth for companies and VC firms. This enables accurate data to be leveraged in multiple places, reducing discrepancies, confusion, and manual updates of investment valuations.

Employees registering their account on Carta for the first time can now provide their personal information as part of the onboarding process to complete their user profile. 

With an objective to provide insightful experiences, we’ve revamped the employee onboarding process to allow users to complete their user profile. Every employee registering with Carta for the first time to accept their first RSU or ISO/NSO option grant will now have the ability to provide the following information:

• Personal details such as name, date of birth and country of citizenship 
• Tax ID 
• Address

Capturing these details upfront allows employees to be transaction ready for events such as exercising.

 

After successfully completing their user profile details, users will be directed to the Tasks page where they can accept their security.  

Timing

• Available now to 20% of randomly selected Carta customers 
• General availability for all Carta customers coming by the end of Q2

What’s new

Private companies can now report the complete list of all ISO dispositions and see exactly which dispositions qualify for tax incentives and which ones do not, along with Ordinary Income value and other information.

How it works

Under Capitalization > Reports, find the Disqualifying Disposition Report (ISO):

Select the reporting date range, acknowledge the report’s use of in-platform securities and transactions, and then export the report to Excel:

When the report finishes generating, it will be available in the Downloads menu:

The report shows info on Disposition Type, Ordinary Income, FMV and more. In order to be completely transparent, Excel formulas are used for Disposition Type, Ordinary income, First Qualifying Disposition Date, and Disqualifying Reason fields to show how they are calculated:

Who this affects

Private companies with tender offers or secondary ISO transactions captured in Carta.

Timing

Available now for all Private market customers (the Public market Disqualifying Disposition Report is available at request as part of the Early Access release).

Additional resources

For more information around the Disqualifying Disposition Report and underlying data, please refer to this support article.

What’s new?

Carta now supports integrations with 150+ HRIS and payroll providers. Customers that integrate their HRIS with Carta will have access to Pending Stakeholder Terminations, Pending Updates to Stakeholders, and Carta Total Compensation (with an active subscription). 

What are the benefits of integrating my HR system with Carta?

Your organization can unlock a new level of automation that helps you become more efficient and make better-informed decisions about your equity program with Carta’s HRIS integration. More specifically, HR integrations will help your organization in the following three ways:

1. Quickly update employee records

Reduce double entry, win time back, and gain a single source of truth for critical employee information like terminations and employee addresses.

2. Keep employee data synced across systems

With HRIS and equity data synced, you can trust that your information is always ready to take action on. If there is ever a discrepancy, Carta will flag it and make it easy for you to reconcile.

3. Calculate and understand tax impact

Employees’ tax impact has never been easier to understand with salary, location, and equity information complete in one place. Carta can help inform employee tax liability for taxable equity events.

What are the steps to integrate my HR system with Carta?

There are two steps that need to be taken to properly integrate your HR system:

1. Connect your HRIS

There are a few variations for connecting each HRIS system depending on the system’s API configuration. However, this should take no more than two minutes to complete for any provider. Here are specifics for each provider Carta integrates with:

• Rippling
• Bamboo
• Namely
• Finch - Carta uses a product called Finch to integrate with 100+ HRIS and payroll providers, including Gusto, Trinet,  and Justworks. 

Note: Only those with Company Editor, Company Administrator, or Legal Administrator permissions can perform the HRIS integration on Carta. Most HR systems also require the individual authenticating the integration to have the highest permission level too.

2. Match employee records from your HR/payroll system to stakeholder records on Carta

Carta will match the list of employees in your HRIS to the stakeholder ledger in Carta by looking at First Name, Last Name, and Email, then ask you to review them for accuracy. Please see here for how to perform the Employee ID matching process. 

Note: This is a necessary step for you to take to be able to take advantage of integrations.

How do I take advantage of the integrations once I have completed the initial integration?

There are two specific modules that will allow your organization to make use of your HR system integration with Carta: Pending Terminations and Pending Updates to Stakeholders. 

Please see below for how to use these modules to help you manage data coming from your HR system on Carta: 

• Rippling
• Bamboo
• Namely
• Finch 

SPV Formations: Fund of Funds and Audit

What’s new

Carta has been able to perform fund administration for SPVs that are audited and/or fund of funds but now we can form these SPVs as well. 

How it works

In our engagement letter form select the package that works best for you.

Note: if you have a more complex SPV use the link at the bottom of the engagement letter form to get in touch with an account manager. 

After engaging with Carta to form your SPV, we will invite you to complete our setup guide.  Within the setup guide we will generate an Operating Agreement or Limited Partnership Agreement that allows for your SPV to be audited and/or invest in funds.  You and your LPs will be able to sign the document within Carta.

What’s next 

We will continue to expand our SPV Formations offering allowing customers to form SPVs with quarterly reporting, multiple capital calls, premium carry and annual management fees.