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How management due diligence works in practice

Effective management due diligence (MDD) can give private fund investors the much-needed edge in winning a must-have asset. Learn what MDD covers, how the process works, and how to prepare for evaluation.

The importance of entity management in private funds

Entity management keeps your fund entities compliant, audit-ready, and organized across every jurisdiction. This guide provides everything fund managers need to know.

Not all boats rise with the AI IPO tide

Plus, the SEC goes digital, and the Senate loses a giant.

One-to-many reporting in Data Collection

Portfolio companies submit data once per reporting period—and Data Collection pre-fills all matching requests automatically.

The Change Agents Briefing

Carta's AI release briefing: Rearchitecting private capital operations. Discover new LLM Plugins and AI tools for data automation.

Series A liftoff

Series A valuations hit a record in Q2 2026, with the top 5% of rounds exceeding $500M post-money — a dramatic spike as mega-funds chase AI-era founders.