What’s new?

Global investors often choose to domicile funds in the Cayman Islands, due to its regulatory framework and popularity among LPs. Carta now better serves GPs and LPs in Cayman-domiciled funds with an enhanced Closings experience. 

What’s important about this?

This release allows GPs of Cayman-domiciled funds to offer a smooth onboarding experience to LPs, while ensuring compliance with Cayman Islands legal requirements. To meet these compliance standards, we have introduced: 

• Witnessed signature collection on subscription documents
• A Cayman-compliant investor questionnaire, guiding LPs through necessary disclosures and regulatory checks required for investors in the Cayman Islands

Who is this available for?

This update is available for funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands. 

How do I use it?

Funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands will automatically benefit from these updates, with no further action required. LPs will be guided through a Closings experience tailored for Cayman-domiciled funds. 

Portfolio Events

Portfolio Events is a real-time dashboard that surfaces key portfolio company events in a centralized location. 

Get timely insights into financial performance and notifications about key events—such as equity issuances and conversions, updated valuations, and new funding rounds. Any changes made by your portfolio companies will be automatically reflected in your event feed, helping you maintain an open channel of communication without manual back-and-forth.

Who is this available for? 

The Portfolio Events feature is available for investment firms.

How do I use it?

Access the Portfolio Events page from the Tools & Services sidebar menu.

Filter by company name, event type, event date, and entity name. 

View details for any event to see more info on your equity holdings, or on the company’s financing activity or valuation. 

Anything else I need to know?

Portfolio Events rollout is rolling out incrementally to all investor firms. Please reach out to your Account Director with any questions.

What’s new?

We’ve enhanced Carta Closings to give General Partners (GPs) greater visibility into their fundraising progress and provide Limited Partners (LPs) with more flexibility in how they complete subscription documents.

With these updates, GPs can now set clear fundraising goals, manage prospective investors across their pipeline, track progress in real time, and upload offline documents for institutional LPs. LPs also gain multiple signing options to make their subscription process more flexible.

Why is this important?

Fundraising can involve countless emails, manual document handling, and a lack of clear tracking. With these improvements, GPs can better manage their fundraise all in one place while offering LPs a smoother, more efficient signing process.

Key benefits:

✅ Flexible LP signing options – LPs can complete online, download and sign manually, or delegate the task.

✅ Clear fundraising tracking – Set and monitor a fundraising goal with real-time updates while simplifying investor management throughout each stage of your fundraise.

✅ Simplified document workflows – GPs can upload countersigned subscription documents directly in Carta, eliminating email follow-ups.

✅ Streamlined investor management – View and take quick actions based on the stage of your prospective investors. You can additionally filter by status, view KYC results, and archive any prospective LPs who aren’t moving forward.

How does it work?

1️⃣ Flexible Investor Signing Options

LPs can now choose how they want to complete subscription documents:

• Complete and sign online
• Download to complete manually, sign, and re-upload
• Delegate to someone else
  
  

2️⃣ Track Your Fundraising Goal

GPs can now set a fundraising target in Carta and track progress across every stage of their fundraise.

3️⃣ Upload Countersigned Subdocs Directly

For LPs who prefer to complete documents offline from the start, GPs can now upload fully executed subdocs directly into Carta.

4️⃣ Manage Your Investor Pipeline 

Easily organize your investor pipeline through status filters, gain real-time visibility into each investor's KYC process, and archive LPs who aren’t moving forward. Archived investors are still accessible via a “Show archived” filter for future reference.

How do I learn more?

To learn more about Closings for your current or future fundraise, check out this support article or reach out to your Account Manager for a demo.

We are continuing to enhance the experience for companies reflecting the fundraises through Carta. 

What’s new?

Our Draft Certificate Experience can extract information from Stock Purchase Agreements (SPA), saving company administrators time when issuing investor shares after fundraising.

Who is this available for? 

All company administrators can upload and extract data from Stock Purchase Agreements to reflect priced rounds.

Main Value Proposition

The Draft Certificate Experience powered by document extraction saves you time, money, and makes sure your cap table data matches the legal documents after certificates are issued from a new round.

How do I use it?

1. Navigate to Securities, then Shares

2. Click "Draft Shares", then select "Create a new draft set"

3. Select Yes to confirm the draft set is related to a new investment round and click "Create new draft set" to proceed. You can change the Draft set name at this point.

4. Drop the Stock Purchase Agreement, select the effective date and click continue.

5. Wait for our AI tool to extract the document's information and populate the draft set.

6. Scroll all the way to the right to find the SPA attached to the certificates.

7. Once the certificates are issued, you can find the SPA under the Documents and Notes tab when clicking to see the certificate.

Anything else I need to know? 

Attaching the Stock Purchase Agreement is not mandatory for issuance. You can choose to remove the document during step 6, while the certificates in draft are being reviewed and updated.

What’s new?

Carta Total Compensation is excited to introduce Custom Paybands, a new feature that allows customers to define, manage, and evaluate compensation using their own salary and equity ranges. Previously, users relied on benchmark-based market bands; however, with Custom Pay Bands, customers can now set their own pay ranges for specific job areas and levels, ensuring alignment with their internal compensation strategy.

How can I access paybands?

1. Navigate to the Paybands page in Carta Total Compensation
2. Review the details of your Compensation Plan
3. Click “Create Paybands”

1. You’ll be shown a list of paybands that have been automatically created for you

How do I edit paybands?

1. From the Paybands screen, click on the payband that you’d like to edit
2. Click edit on the individual payband page
3. You can now enter new minimum, target, and maximum salaries/equity grants for each level. You may also enter notes to document any decisions. You can also rename the band.
4. Click “Save” to return to the individual payband view

How do I create paybands for multiple locations?

1. Under Compensation Plan, navigate to Payband settings
2. Select a location where you would like to create paybands
3. Set an adjustment factor off of top-of-market benchmarks for the new location
4. Click + add location adjustment to add  more locations
5. After editing this section, click on Preview & Save so the system can re-calculate the scorecard

Note: You will need to enter all relevant locations here in order for employee comparisons on the Scorecard to be accurate.

Questions?

If you have any questions or feedback about Custom Paybands, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

Get connected with your portfolio companies directly from your phone: soon, investors will be able to view cap tables from the mobile app, in addition to requesting access to cap tables directly from the company page.

Who is this available for?

This is available in the iOS mobile app for any investor’s personal portfolio, as well as investment firm administrators. If you don’t have the app, just search for “Carta” in your phone’s app store.

For investment firms:

For individual investors:

How do I use it?

If you haven’t downloaded the mobile app, now is a great time to do so. Once you have it installed, you can find this by logging in and selecting a company from your investments list. From there, you will either see the cap table and financing history, indicating you already have access, or a ‘Request cap table access’ button. Clicking that button will send a prompt to the company requesting that they grant access.

Once you’ve submitted your request, you can check updates directly from the same screen:

Description
The interest issuance flow got a major upgrade. Now, users are able to create one or many draft issuance sets and can then work on populating the issuance spreadsheet on their own time. As partial or full data is entered, that can be saved to prevent data loss & rework. Once the issuance set is populated and reviewed it can be issued to the cap table. In addition to saving data, holder data is now entered on the issuance spreadsheet to further streamline this process. To get started head to Cap table > Draft interests.

When selecting a historical date to view their cap table, users can now see the dates of major financing milestones in the selector. This feature simplifies the process of navigating to various financing rounds and viewing the historical cap table at those specific points in time. The feature is now live for all companies and available to investors who have the appropriate level of cap table access for the companies they are viewing.

This month, we released a new tool to our pilot audit partners, designed to help funds and their portfolio companies complete investment confirmations during their audits. Our new tool allows auditors to manage the process directly on Carta, GPs to monitor and approve confirmations sent to portfolio companies, and portfolio companies to easily respond to confirmation requests without the burden of downloading and filling out PDFs.

For Auditors

Once Auditors get added as an auditor to the fund's Carta count they will be able to create, schedule and download investment confirmations.  

For Funds

GPs and Fund CFOs are able to view auditor's selected portfolio companies, review the contact information, approve the confirmations being sent the portfolio companies. 

For Companies

For companies, its never been easier to respond and complete investment confirmations. They will receive an email from the auditor and fund, and then be prompted to go to Carta to complete and sign the form in just a couple clicks. 

If you are a GP or Fund CFO, talk to your auditor about using this new tool to help streamline your audit!

Auditors interest in joining the pilot can submit an request at: https://carta.com/waitlist/audit-confirm/

We are continuing to enhance the experience for QSBS-eligible companies and their shareholders. Recently, we have introduced the following features:

1. View previously sold QSBS eligible shares

Shareholders and admins can now see previously sold shares that were QSBS eligible. Users can view this information on Carta directly, as well as the QSBS PDF statement available for download by shareholders. 

Sold shares appear for investors and individuals in their portfolio:

Shareholders can also view the sold shares information on the QSBS PDF statement:

Shareholders can also view the sold shares information on the QSBS PDF statement:

2. QSBS columns added to the Investment dashboard export

Investors with holdings in QSBS eligible companies can now see the QSBS status, and if applicable, number of QSBS eligible shares the hold in the Investment dashboard export.

3. Financing history now included QSBS Attestation letter's to Company admins

Our QSB Attestation letter to companies now includes a section detailing the financing history of the company. This information impacts the 'aggregate gross assets' test our team preforms during the analysis.  

If you have any questions reach out to your assigned Carta account team or qsbs@carta.com to learn more!