What's new?

We launched our revamped Financial Reporting tool. The tool will now allow Carta users to apply cancellation treatments without having to upload an excel sheet.

What’s important or valuable about this change?

We made significant UI and UX improvements. Users can select, drag, and drop to apply cancellation treatments to multiple awards at once. Additionally,  users can apply cancellation treatments to all canceled awards, regardless of the reporting period run.

You will still be able to access the same information, including:

• Award ID
• Award type
• Stakeholder name
• Cancellation date
• Cancellation treatment
• Amendment type
• Cancellation behavior
• Cancellation treatment (editable directly on Carta)
• Amendment type (editable directly on Carta)

What do I need to do?

You can access Financial Reporting directly from your Carta account. Simply go to the Compliance tab and select Financial Reporting. You can apply cancellation treatments after you’ve run a report.

How do I learn more or get help?

You can read more about cancellation treatments here or contact our support team. 

Audit Support Document Dashboard Update

What's new?

Today we’re launching our internal audit support tracker. The Carta Fund Administration team can track which documents are missing for audit purposes. This helps our team provide a smoother end-of-year experience.

What’s important or valuable about this change? 

This will streamline how you engage with your fund admin team, especially as the end of year approaches. 

Currently we are able to track documents including:

• Formations documents (i.e., Certificate of Entity, EIN Confirmation, LPA)
• Subscription agreements
• W-8 / W-9
• Commitment change documents, including transfers

• Investment documents

  • New investment events for preferred equity, convertible debt, and SAFEs
• Bank statements
• Legal invoices

Your fund administration team can also track partner documents, alerting you to anything that is missing when appropriate.

What do I need to do?

Continue to submit documents throughout the year. Our fund administration team will alert you if anything is missing, using this new feature.

What’s new?

Carta will now provide total cash compensation benchmarks for the Sales job area. Total cash compensation is defined as base salary plus target variable compensation. 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile data are accessible on the Bands page. In developing total cash compensation benchmarks we made minor adjustments to base salary benchmarks for the Sales job area. No other benchmarks have changed in this update.

How do I see total cash compensation benchmarks for the Sales job area?

You can view Total Cash Compensation benchmarks for the Sales job area by:

1. Visiting the Bands page and selecting “Sales” under Area. 
2. Select “Total Cash” for compensation type.
   
   
3. This will allow you to view total cash compensation bands for levels 1 - 11 for the Sales job area.  
   
   

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.

1. 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.

What’s next?

We will be updating the company and employee scorecards to reflect the addition of total cash compensation benchmarks

What's new?

Employees of public companies supported by Carta can now sell their fully vested common shares issued pursuant to their stock equity plans from anywhere via the Carta mobile app. This release is supported for both iOS and Android mobile phones.

How does this work?

Carta now brings the ability to sell public common shares on mobile. Public employees can now easily:

• View their holdings and determine which and how many of them can be sold
• See the current market price* per share
• Sell eligible shares while setting order and allocation instructions

Employees can now manage and sell their public company shares from anywhere via the Carta mobile app

This mobile release helps employees:

• Easily view which of their shares are eligible for sale and how many
• Create sell orders and set instructions via an intuitive interface when they believe the timing is right.

How do I learn more or get help?

For detailed instructions on how to place sell orders via the mobile app, please refer to these support articles for iOS and Android devices.

Notes:
* Market data quotes are delayed (not real time) and should be used for indicative purposes and not necessarily for trading.

Brokerage services provided by Carta Securities, LLC, a member of FINRA and SIPC, and subsidiary of Carta.

What's new?

Variable Compensation Programs

We’re excited to share that Variable Compensation Programs is now available to all users.

Bring your bonus programs into your Total Compensation workflow

Eliminate your manual bonus processes, create better alignment amongst your sales organization, and ensure compliance by entering your commission and bonus programs into your compensation plan within Carta Total Comp.

Maintain your bottom line with a well-organized variable comp program

Variable Compensation Programs adds to our compensation management capabilities. With VCP you can:

• Create variable compensation programs for your organization.
• Enter variable compensation programs based on a  flat rate or percentage of base.
• Assign the relevant variable program(s) to an employee.
• Automatically calculate an employee’s variable compensation based on the parameters of their assigned VCP(s).

How do I create a Variable Compensation Program?

You can get started with VCP in seconds by:

1. Navigate to the Plan page.
   
   
2. Variable Compensation Programs can be found on the bottom half of the page.
3. Click Create variable compensation program  to be guided through the process of creating your first variable compensation program.
   
   

How do I learn more or get help?

Visit the resource center for more details

Variable Compensation Programs (VCPs)

Have additional questions about VCP? Reach out to your Account Manager or contact our Support Team.

What's new?
You can now fund the next global deal from anywhere in the world. 

We are introducing Luxembourg SPVs by Vauban from Carta—the easiest and most cost-effective way to launch an SPV in Europe. Following the release the first fully digital Luxembourg venture fund product, we’ve expanded our offering to service SPVs.

Our end-to-end platform handles everything from SPV formation and banking to LP onboarding and administration.

How it works?

Login to the Vauban Platform to your universe to create a new deal.

Click on + New Deal in the top right-hand corner. 

Step 2: 

Choose Luxembourg as your SPV Jurisdiction!

Step 3:

Set up your SPVs by providing the necessary information. We take care of the legal generation, banking, investor onboarding, and closing.

Raise internationally
Luxembourg SPVs are built for international investors. Fund global deals and onboard LPs across 72 countries and 135 currencies.

Reduce costs
Luxembourg is home to venture capital and private equity in Europe, but the costs of setting up an SPV can be as high as $300,000. With Vauban from Carta, you can spin up an SPV for a fraction of the cost.

Save time
Our end-to-end platform allows you to skip the time-consuming regulatory and legal demands of raising in Europe. This will enable you to focus on finding unicorns and building your investor base.

What do I need to do?

To learn more about Luxembourg SPVs, click here.

If you’re interested in setting up a Luxembourg SPV, please reach out to hello@vauban.io. 

What's new

Employees who have access to Carta Tax Advisory through their employer may now choose from up to four different tax advisory session types. This aims to provide transparency and flexibility so you can have the conversation that's right for you. 

Who this affects

US-based employees subscribed to Carta Tax Advisory through their employer

How it works

Scheduling a session

Log in to your  Carta employee account, navigate to the Tax advice tab.

From there, click on "Book a free session" to browse different session types. 

Once you're on the session type selection page, you'll see a brief outline on how to schedule and a selection of three to four different session types. 

Select the session type that's right for you and click "Schedule free session" to book a time with a tax advisor. 

If you're not quite sure where to start, we recommend starting with the "Understand equity basics" session type to learn about your equity and taxes at a high level.

Note: The "Discuss tender offer participation" session type only appears if your company is currently undergoing a tender offer. 

Preparing for a session

Session types: Discuss tender offer participation | Create tax scenarios

Once you've scheduled a time to speak with a tax advisor, you'll be prompted to upload a few documents. Tax advisors will create personalized tax scenarios using this information so you can have the most accurate tax picture. 

If you don't have these documents on hand now, you can skip this step for later. However, you must upload documents at least 24 hours before your session so advisors have enough time to prepare. 

You'll receive a calendar invite with a zoom link to attend your session at your scheduled time. You can also see this information in your tax advice tab in Carta, with the option to reschedule or cancel using the "View details" button. 

Session types: Ask a quick question | Understand equity basics

Once you've scheduled a time to speak with a tax advisor, there's nothing else you need to prepare ahead of your session.

You'll receive a calendar invite with a zoom link to attend your session at your scheduled time. You can also see this information in your tax advice tab in Carta, with the option to reschedule or cancel using the "View details" button. 

What’s new?

Fund managers using Carta Closings can now easily increase their LP’s commitments directly in the Carta platform. 

We made closings even easier for you and your investors 

Save time by using our new, standard template that allows you to quickly execute a commitment increase for an LP who has subscribed to your Fund or SPV. Simply enter the details of the commitment change, sign, and share with you LP. 

How does it work?

1. On the Partners tab, select the LP whose commitment or contribution you would like to increase.

2. Enter the information required on our template:

• Manager name: The name of the managing entity for the Fund or SPV
• LP signatory: The LP, or the contact who will be signing on behalf of the LP
• New commitment amount: The additional commitment amount the LP will be agreeing to
• Effective date: You have the option of designating an effective date or making the effective date the date the LP signs the document 

Then, review and sign the document that reflects the adjustment to the commitment amount. 

3. Last, your LP will receive an email notification that the document is ready for their review and signature. They can easily e-sign the document using their LP Portal.

After the LP signs, the commitment increase is automatically booked in the Carta platform. Plus, Carta will share the countersigned documents with all parties. 

Carta makes this standard template available to all fund administration and SPV customers. You must first check with your counsel to ensure this template is suitable for your needs, and that you understand the legal and regulatory implications of increasing an LPs commitment amount prior to using this feature. 

How do I learn more?

To learn more about this feature, please reach out to your account manager.

Have additional questions about Carta Closings? Check out our fund manager resource and LP support article, or request a demo.
 

What’s new?

We have redesigned the way you review and accept your 409A valuation on Carta. This new design presents you first with a quick summary of the analysis along with a note from your analyst letting you know the next steps in finalizing your fair market value (FMV). Once you have reviewed the report, if you have any questions you can contact our team of valuation experts through the support module in the valuation review portal. Lastly, receive board approval from within or outside of Carta to finalize the current FMV on your account. 

How it Works

Once you receive an email notifying you that your valuation is ready for review, you can follow the link within that email to access the 409A ledger where you are able to review and download your valuation. Alternatively, you can navigate to the page within Carta at Compliance > 409A Valuation.

Review your valuation

From the 409A Ledger, once you select ‘Review 409A report’ you will be directed to the valuation review portal. Here you will find an overview of the analysis performed and the concluded FMV along with a note from your valuation analyst informing you of next steps and noting any details within the report that warrant extra attention. Once you have reviewed the analyst’s note and valuation summary, you can download the full report or access the support module from the valuation review portal to access support articles or get in touch with our team of valuation experts. 

Get board approval

Now that you have reviewed the valuation, the next step is to send it to your board for review. You can do so using the board consent feature within your Carta account to easily track acceptance from each board member within the Carta platform. Once all board members have submitted their board approval through the platform, your valuation will automatically be accepted on Carta. If you got approval outside of Carta, that’s great too, simply select ‘My board has approved’ to accept the valuation to finalize the current FMV in your account. Once finalized, the new FMV will be visible to your option holders on Carta.

What's new?

Offer Letter is now available in BETA

Carta Offer Letter is a fully interactive offer statement that communicates the full picture of a job offer—from salary to equity, benefits, and work culture. Everything a candidate needs to evaluate their next career move.

Communicate the potential value of your equity to candidates 

Carta Offer Letter will showcase your company's brand and culture, accurately reflecting each relevant job detail while concisely educating the full value of your candidate's total compensation package.

With Offer Letter, you can:

Make it easy for candidates to picture the future

Allow candidates to explore their potential total compensation over time with powerful, interactive scenario modeling tools.

Fast track your job offer process

Quickly write, extend, approve, and send your offer process with a complete administrative workflow.

Share your company's unique vision

Make winning offers using a customized letter elevating your brand, ensuring compliance, and driving higher acceptance rates.

What do I need to do?

Activate Offer Letters with a few clicks

In Carta Total Comp, navigate to the Offer Letters page, then click Start to begin sending offers.

How do I learn more or get help?

Visit the below support center articles for more details:

Setup Offer Letters

Create an Offer Letter

Candidate experience

Have more questions about Offer Letter? Reach out to your Account Manager or contact our Support Staff for further details.