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VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it
Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or at least knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells…
Startups are hiring fewer workers and paying out less in equity comp
Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
What’s the Deel with Remofirst, and why are VCs playing musical chairs?
Welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Today on the pod, Mary Ann…
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! In this edition, I’m going to look at some hits and misses in the real estate fintech space, Carta’s missteps (again), and more!…
If a noticeable chunk of Carta startup and venture customers do leave, it would hurt the company’s otherwise impressive revenue figures, but that seems unlikely to happen.
Carta’s growth story is being overshadowed by its stock trading snafu
Is Carta a bad business without a secondary-market trading arm? Can it scale on its other revenue sources to the size it needs to take its large private-market valuation live?
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Carta exits secondary trading following credibility hit
Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of Carta’s tens of thousands of other customers in the process — Carta is exiting the business that landed it in trouble with the customer. Carta co-founder and…
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and…
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Carta, the cap table management outfit, is accused of unethical tactics by a prominent startup
Carta, an ambitious 14-year-old Silicon Valley outfit, has gone through numerous iterations over time, originally inviting investors, startups and employees to use its software to manage their cap tables and later aspiring to evolve into a “private stock market for companies,” as founder Henry Ward once told TechCrunch. As he…
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Startups are doing fine, but scale-ups and unicorns are in deep water
The trends that we can spy inside the data are an effective argument against the era in which startups were encouraged to stay private as long as possible.
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Carta’s CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press
In an attempt at damage control, the CEO of the equity management startup Carta, Henry Ward, today emailed customers, telling them that if they are concerned about “negative press” tied…
All venture funds use the ‘2 and 20’ fee structure, right? Not really
Typically, a VC fund’s management fee is 2% of AUM, but new data from Carta shows that the 2% figure isn’t as universal as you might think.
The pre-seed market is recovering, but investors increasingly have the upper hand
While funding to pre-seed startups has picked up pace, most of the deals being closed are more in favor of investors than the founders.
Here are the most richly valued startup types in today’s early-stage venture market
Don’t worry, the answer here is not just “build an AI startup.”
Charting the future of the early-stage venture market with Carta’s CEO
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is…
More capital went to AI startups in Q1 2023 than in the sequentially preceding quarter. In contrast, non-AI startups saw their capital inflows constrict over the same timeframe.
As the pendulum of power swings back toward VCs, down rounds have become more common than the venture community has seen in nearly half a decade.
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Have startup valuations fallen enough to feel sane again?
Let’s find out the current premium venture investors are paying for startup shares, and see if we can find anything new compared to 2022 data.
As YC launches new batch, here’s how the early-stage venture market is faring today
Let’s talk median fundraising round sizes and deal values for seed through Series C in the first quarter of 2023.
Ensemble raises $100M debut fund to bet on startup teams — but not in the way you think
The firm uses an in-house data algorithm it hopes will help it find startups that have teams designed to scale — beyond just the founders.
Who markets marketing? This duo started a VC firm to scale what ‘founders are starving for’
Emily Kramer is well known in the marketing world, both for her professional expertise and her voice. The entrepreneur was Carta’s former VP of marketing and made headlines in 2020…
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Dry powder versus wet powder: The numbers have spoken
Data from Carta seems to confirm that VC funds are opting to support portfolio companies over making new investments: The frequency of bridge rounds boomed during the last quarter of 2022.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha…
Carta, an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion, has cut 10% of its staff, confirming earlier rumors that a workforce reduction was going to happen.…
Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO
Carta, the 11-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their portfolios, has sued its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who the company says was…
A wave of late-stage startups quietly marked down their valuations in Q3
More than 150 startups received a lower 409A valuation in Q3, which prompted them to re-price their employee stock grants.
Are tech valuations artificially low, or are we simply returning to reality?
How conservative are today’s valuations when compared to the norms of recent years?
New data from Carta indicates that Series C is the current, and real, bottleneck in Venture Land, which means that this is the new crunch point for startups looking to…
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The power pendulum is swinging back to employers, isn’t it?
We talked with entrepreneur Nolan Church about the layoffs sweeping across the tech workforce — and how to handle them better.
