What’s new?

We have updated US geographic adjustments for all metro areas as well as international market adjustments and currency conversions. 

US geographic adjustments are generally stable versus 2024. In the largest metro areas where we have employee level data, pay levels have increased at a lower rate than our top labor markets resulting in some lower adjustments vs. last year. For international locations, salary and/or equity adjustments have changed by more than 10% in Poland and South Korea. We observed 5-10% changes in a number of other countries including China, Germany, France, and Japan. These changes are driven by market trends as well as increased sample size in many of these countries.

How do I update my benchmark version?

You can preview the new benchmarks (using updated geographic adjustments) on your Scorecard by navigating to the Benchmarks page and clicking on the "Preview benchmarks" bubble in the top left.

Here 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.

Questions?

If you have any questions about these new benchmarks, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

We’re excited to announce a major refresh of the Tactyc <> Carta investments integration that offers enhanced customization and greater control. With a redesigned integration review flow and an upgraded data sync powered by the Schedule of Investments (SOI), these updates make it easier than ever to build and maintain accurate historical performance cases in Tactyc.

What's New:

1. Enhanced Integration Review Flow: 

• Choose what to keep: Selectively retain investment events already in Tactyc, and decide which financing rounds to sync from Carta.
• Clear visibility: Carta-sourced data includes distinct branding and color-coding, giving you clarity on where your data comes from
• Full control: All synced data remains fully editable in Tactyc after import. You can also 

2. SOI Driven Integration (for Carta Fund Admin <> Tactyc customers):

• Improved accuracy: For any portfolio company with a cap table in Carta, we now anchor investment data directly from the Statement of Investments (SOI).
• Enriched context: SOI data is enhanced with Carta’s complete cap table information to ensure (1) accurate ownership calculations across events and (2) inclusion of non-participating rounds

How do I learn more?

Tactyc <> Carta Support Article 

Anything else I need to know?

Specific user and firm permissions are required for integration setup — learn more here. 

Coming Soon:

Non-Carta investments tracked on the Schedule of Investments will be available in Q4.

What's new?

We've enhanced Carta Closings to support sophisticated investors and streamline the fundraising process with multi-party collaboration. This major update transforms Closings from a single-user experience into a collaborative platform where multiple LP contacts can access and complete the subscription process simultaneously.

With multi-party, GPs can share access to multiple contacts, including themselves, and LPs can invite multiple contacts (e.g. wealth advisors, lawyers, colleagues, additional signatories) to help complete their subscription documents—all while maintaining complete visibility and control.

Why is this important?

For sophisticated investors, completing subscription documents often requires input from multiple parties—financial advisors, legal counsel, authorized signatories, and others. Previously, this coordination happened offline through countless emails and document sharing, creating friction and delays.

While individual investors can easily complete forms themselves, larger institutional investors and more sophisticated LPs typically require multiple collaborators to review, complete, and sign subscription documents.

Key benefits:

For General Partners:

• White-glove service: Pre-fill your LP’s subdocs while also being able to view and edit in-progress investor questionnaires to proactively assist your LPs through the subscription process
• Enhanced investor management: Add multiple contacts per investor and proactively designate signatories when sending invitations
• Broader visibility: Maintain a comprehensive view of all contacts associated with each LP in an updated investor ledger
• Multi-party data room access: All LP contacts can now access your Closings data room when invited

For Limited Partners:

• Flexible collaboration: Add team members, wealth advisors, joint subscribers or other stakeholders to help complete the sections of the questionnaire on your behalf
• Transparent access & permissions: Maintain visibility into who has access to the questionnaire and define account contact permissions for managing the investment in Carta.

How does it work?

1️⃣ GP Access to Assist

GPs can now add themselves as an additional contact to prefill LP information and also edit investor questionnaires while they're in progress, allowing them to provide timely assistance to LPs navigating the subscription process. LPs are notified that the GP has this visibility, ensuring transparency throughout.

2️⃣ Adding Multiple Collaborators

For GPs: When adding a prospective investor, you can now include multiple contacts with their names, email addresses, and signatory roles. You can edit this list before sending invitations and view all contacts in an enhanced investor ledger.

For LPs: From the Closings welcome page, you can add or remove contacts, while specifying who has signing authority. New collaborators will receive email invitations to access the subscription.

3️⃣ Enhanced Data Room Access

Multiple stakeholders from a single LP entity can now access the Closings data room, ensuring everyone involved can securely access your fund’s information.

How do I learn more?

To learn more about multi-party collaboration in Closings, check out our detailed support articles or reach out to your Account Manager for a personalized walkthrough to support your next fundraise.

What’s new?

We are launching a new set of benchmarks to help companies make data-driven decisions for board member and advisor equity grants.

These new benchmarks are based on initial equity grants to board members and advisors that have been issued since January 2024, and are shown based on post-money valuation.

How can I access the new Benchmarks?

1. Navigate to the Benchmarks page in Carta Total Compensation
2. Navigate to the “Board members and Advisors" tab on the Benchmarks page 

The appropriate benchmarks, based on your company’s valuation, will be highlighted on the page.

Questions?

If you have any questions about these new benchmarks, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

What’s new?

We have updated salary, total cash compensation, and equity benchmarks for all job areas and specializations across both valuation and headcount based peer groups. We have also added benchmarks for 5 new specializations:

• Sales Operations
• HR Operations
• Demand Generation
• Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Onboarding & Implementations

These new benchmarks are available for post-money valuation and capital raised peer groups. Benchmarks based on headcount for these roles, as well as notional equity value benchmarks, will be included in a future release

Benchmark Trends

In aggregate, salary and total cash compensation benchmarks are slightly higher than our last release, increasing by about 1%. These increases were consistent across all valuation peer groups and levels. Similar to previous updates, specialization level data continues to change more than the broader sample, as sample sizes for these roles are smaller than job area level data.

Equity benchmarks are increasing in aggregate, showing about a 1.5% increase versus last quarter. Similar to last quarter, increases are fairly tightly correlated with company valuation, with higher valuation benchmarks seeing the largest increases.

What were the largest areas of movement from these benchmarks?

Salary - Salary benchmarks for most job areas and specializations are within 2% of last quarter’s data. Legal and Office Management saw the largest increases versus last quarter

Equity - Equity benchmarks are generally within 5% of last quarter’s benchmarks. UX/Frontend Engineering and Manufacturing increased by more than 5%

How do I update my benchmark version?

You can also preview the new benchmarks on your Scorecard by navigating to the Benchmarks page and clicking on the "Preview benchmarks" bubble in the top left.

Here 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.

Questions?

If you have any questions about these new benchmarks, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

We're introducing GP Carry Tracking to eliminate the complexity and risk of manual carried interest management—creating an entirely new way to automate GP entity accounting and carry administration all in one integrated platform.

What's new?

We've built GP Carry Tracking from the ground up to solve the challenge of managing complex carry allocations and GP entities that are time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to track across funds.

• Two integrated solutions in one platform: Manage both GP Entities and GP Carry on one platform, with automated data flows between fund-level events and individual GP member allocations.
• Real time carry & capital account balances: Fund events that impact the GP entity flow through automatically, enabling interperiod reporting on carry and capital balances for GP members.
• Complete Carry Visibility: Track vested and unvested carry percentages, capital commitments, and accrued carry amounts all in one view.
• Automated PCAP Generation: Generate and share partner capital account statements directly from Carta, giving GPs full transparency into their carried interest with detailed breakdowns powered by the Carta general ledger.
• Streamlined Carry Administration: Issue multiple carry grants to recipients while standardizing vesting plans across your firm. Auto-generate and execute legal documents through templated workflows that eliminate manual document creation.
• Intelligent Rebalancing: When unissued or unvested carry gets allocated to managing members, our system automatically records and accounts for these changes with downstream transactions rebalancing carry accordingly.
• Self-Service GP Portal: Transform complex legal language into an intuitive interface your partners can explore independently. Access PCAPs, K-1s, and financial reporting without back-and-forth emails or spreadsheet requests.
• Deep Financial Insights: Dive into the numbers for any reporting period with views powered by our general ledger that show exactly where each figure originated, with a complete audit trail included.

Curious for more?

If you have any questions or feedback, reach out to your dedicated Account Director to schedule a call.

We’ve improved the way you manage user access on Carta Fund Admin with a new layout for the People page and more intuitive permissions workflows. Only the look and feel of the page has changed—underlying access settings for all your users remain the same.

How it works

It’s now easier to see permissions at a glance on the People page, with access levels listed under Roles for each user and a breakdown by entity shown by hovering over the table.

Creating a new user is more straightforward, too. Each role is clearly defined during the access configuration process, so you know exactly what permissions you’re granting.

We’ve introduced a new flow for adding service providers – such as auditors – to your Carta account, so you can give external users the right level of access.

You’re also able to copy permissions from an existing user, streamlining the setup process and standardizing access across your firm.

Why it matters

With this release, you can manage permissions more efficiently and consistently. It’s now easier for you to ensure firm members and service providers only have access to the data and features necessary for their roles, reducing the risk of unauthorized access. 

Availability

The new People page is available to all Carta Fund Admin customers. Only account admins are able to view and edit permissions for their firm.

Anything else I need to know?

Stay tuned for additional improvements to Carta permissions, including new role-based access levels for firm members.

Learn more

• How to manage users on the People page
• Get in touch

Your Investments Dashboard is getting a major refresh, delivering more interactive controls, clearer visibility into the metrics you care about most, and new customization tools, all integrated into a single unified experience.

What's new?

We’ve started rolling out major upgrades that significantly improve your ability to view and customize investment data at the firm, fund, and portfolio company level. 

• More data: We've introduced new metrics and integrated asset-level data directly into the new experience. Instead of navigating separately to your fund view to the metrics on the SOI, everything now lives here.
• Dynamic Tables: Navigate data easily with sticky headers, infinite scrolling, and dynamic column widths.
• Flexible Grouping: Group by Fund to view roll-ups and performance at different aggregation levels.
• Powerful Tagging: Create, apply, and filter investment-level tags to organize by geography, industry, fund, or custom categories.

Coming Soon

We're rolling out additional enhancements in the coming weeks:

• Filter by fund, fund family, or tags: Easily filter your dashboard view by specific entities, making it faster to find and review exactly what you need.
• Export your view: Export everything displayed on your screen, including new asset-level details and any applied filters.
• Group by fund: Currently, your data is grouped by company. Soon, you'll have the option to group investments by fund entity for greater flexibility and insight.

Curious for more?

If you have any questions or feedback, reach out to your dedicated Account Director to schedule a call. Additional details can be found in this support article.

Now, customers can sync expenses from Ramp cards directly into their Carta Fund Administration.

Stay ahead of your firm’s spend with real-time visibility into your Ramp corporate card expenses. With transactions flowing directly into your general ledger, you get a more connected, accurate view of your firm’s financials.

How this helps:

• Real-time Financial Visibility: See your financial position without delay—down to the transaction level. Now you can easily update your GL by syncing your latest expenses straight from Ramp.
• Accurate and Consistent Reconciliations: Speed up month-end close with built-in categorization rules. Use our pre-built mappings (or create your own) to populate your Carta general ledger accounts based on your Ramp categories.
• A Single Source of Truth: Maintain audit readiness with full transaction-level visibility. Sync expenses as soon as they’re ready or hold them in Ramp’s review queue until approved. Drill into every detail from within your Carta GL.

Why this matters:

Disconnected expense data slows you down. With Carta and Ramp working together, you can confidently manage spend, simplify reporting, and keep your books in order—without switching between tools.

Who this is available for:

This is immediately available for Carta Fund Admin customers who have a management company on Carta.

Don’t have your management company on Carta? Or unsure if you do? Reach out to your Fund Admin team or navigate to “Management Companies” towards the bottom of the left-hand menu in your Carta account.

How to get started:

It’s simple to get set up with Carta's Ramp integration in just a few steps. Start by completing the Ramp task in your Carta dashboard to connect the two platforms.

See additional details for more on enabling the integration and getting started.

What’s new?

We've made general UI/UX improvements to the hiring plan tool that is part of the Manage Employees experience. We've also added the ability to save and delete individual hiring plans that can then be incorporated into the Equity Pool Forecast for your company.

How do I create and save a hiring plan?

1. Navigate to Manage Employees
2. Click on "Launch Hiring Planner"
3. Click "New Hiring Plan", type in a name for your plan, and click "Create New Plan"

Once you've created a hiring plan you can add/delete potential hires, rename the plan, or delete the plan.

How do I incorporate a hiring plan into my equity pool forecast?

When you have added all potential hires to your hiring plan, click on "View Detailed Forecast" in the banner below the hiring plan

On the equity pool forecast page, select the hiring plan that you'd like to include in the forecast

Questions?

If you have any questions or feedback about the hiring planner or equity pool forecast, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.