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- Colorado is bucking the trend of slumping startup investment | Carta
- The venture market shifted in the first half of the year
- The shift to SAFEs varies by sector | Carta
- Typical Time Between VC Rounds is Shrinking in SaaS, Rising in Fintech
- Seed activity slowed in Q4 | Carta
- Series A liftoff
- Dive into option pools
- Preseed Founders Should Think in Dilution Not Valuation Caps
- US Startup Fundraising Benchmarks for the First Half of 2025
- State of Startups 2025 | Carta Data Insights
- December 15 Is the Best Single Week to Sign a VC Round
- How Every Sector Stacked Up in Series A Funding 2025
- VC-Backed Founders Are Signing Up for a Decade or More
- Startup Pivots Are Bad and the Initial Idea Matters More
- Series A liftoff
- Seed Round Sizes Differ by Location But Medians Are Consistent
- SAFEs Have Definitively Won the Early Funding Format War
- Startup Equity Is Not Cash and AI Bubble Makes It Worse
- Down rounds still high in Q2 2023 | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed 90 Percent of Founders Raise on SAFEs
- Did Windsurf Employees Get Screwed by the Google Deal
- The venture market shifted in the first half of the year
- Latest Fundraising Benchmarks From Preseed to Series C
- IRR Is Meaningless for Early-Stage VC Fund Comparison
- Raising Series A Is Still Immensely Difficult in 2025
- State of pre-seed: Q2 2024 | Carta
- Silicon Valley Leads But You Can Start Up Anywhere Now
- Paul Graham Says Pre-Seed Advisors Are a Red Flag
- You Can Raise VC in the Summer Despite the Myth
- Pre-seed advisor equity
- Fewer VC Rounds Are Happening Despite All the Headlines
- US Startup Leaderboard for 2024 by City
- Life Is Unfair Bay Area Founders Raise at Higher Valuations
- OpenAI Eliminates the 1-Year Vesting Cliff for Employees
- Seed Round 30 Percent Dilution Is Not Market Standard
- When Along the Startup Curve Is the Right Time to Raise VC
- Is Your State an Early Established or Mature Startup Ecosystem
- 200 Startups on Carta Were Acquired in Q3 2025
- Startups Can Be Both Healthy and Bubbly at the Same Time
- Repeat Founders Now Get Majority of Early-Stage Capital
- The Dreaded Startup Down Round Is Beginning to Fade
- Planning to Raise VC Every 18 Months Is Planning to Fail
- Startup Dilution Per Round Is Not Rising Despite VC Claims
- Annual Equity Report 2019 by Carta
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- State of Private Markets: Q1 2022
- Bridge rounds remain high in Q1 2024 | Carta
- The growing Southern startup scene | Carta
- State of Private Markets Q3 2025
- Carta’s Private Markets Report - Q2 2020 | Carta
- 2025 Startup Equity & Workforce Report: APAC & ME
- What was it like to raise VC funding in 2023?
- Record-setting early-stage valuations
- Carta's Private Markets Report - Q4 2020 | Carta
- Venture megadeals declined across 2022 | Carta
- Annual Equity Report: Who owns equity in 2021? | Carta
- Early-stage VC deals declined Q4 2022 | Carta
- Healthtech shows signs of resilience amid venture downturn | Carta
- The 2021 Carta liquidity report | Carta
- Analyzing the Gender Equity Gap | Carta
- Average salary ranges in NYC: Engineering, product, customer success | Carta
- 2023 Enterprise Tech 30 List: How Does The ET30 Universe Compare?
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2023 | Carta
- State of startup compensation, H1 2023 | Carta
- Early-stage VC valuations were at or near new highs in Q3
- State of Private Markets: Los Angeles | Carta
- Startup M&A seeks path amid Q2 chill | Carta
- VC round sizes rebound after a year of declines | Carta
- First Cut – State of Private Markets: Q1 2023 | Carta
- Series B Valuations Ticked Up 10% in Q1, the Largest Leap Since 2021
- As VC deals shrink, convertible fundraisings are on the rise | Carta
- Annual Equity Report 2021 by Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q4 2021 and year in review | Carta
- State of Private Markets, Q3 2022 - Carta
- State of startup compensation, H2 2022 | Carta
- Why is dilution declining? | Carta
- Emerging VCs Adjust to a New Fundraising Reality | Carta
- Why startup headcounts are getting smaller
- State of Startup Compensation: H2 2024
- Down rounds still high in Q2 2023 | Carta
- The current state of employee exercise 2020 | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: Q3 2024
- Shrinking Valuations & Layoffs Are Reshaping the Tech Job Market
- VCs and startups are adapting to a new valuation landscape | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: Q2 2025
- At pre-seed and seed, the dominance of SAFEs continues to grow
- Bridge Rounds Rise as VC Market Slows | Carta
- VC Fund Performance: 2024
- State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2025
- Structure remains persistent in VC rounds in ‘24 | Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q4 2023 | Carta
- Employment Tenure Statistics for Startup Companies | Carta
- Carta liquidity report: Q2 2023 | Carta
- Ownership trends in private equity | Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2024 | Carta
- IPOs stayed scarce in Q1 2024 | Carta
- How VC secondaries became ‘release valve’ for startup liquidity pressures
- Amid M&A Pullback, The Market for Selling Your Startup is Shifting
- Late-stage VC market shows signs of thawing | Carta
- In recent vintages, $1M-$10M VC funds tend to outperform $100M+ funds
- Will falling interest rates spark another VC boom?
- SPV Spotlight: Q3 2024
- Venture fundraising slows for early-stage startups | Carta
- Tariffs bring uncertainty—and opportunities—for PE and M&A
- Dry powder is piling up in VC | Carta
- Late-Stage Startups’ Median Valuations Fell Deeper in Q1 | Carta
- How PE-Backed Companies Use Performance to Align Employee Incentives
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2023 | Carta
- Less Cash, Longer Runways Force Startups to Stretch VC Dollars
- Founder Ownership Report 2026 | Full Report from Carta
- Startup salaries are on the rise in 2025—especially for AI engineers
- Should investors be concerned about 2021 venture funds?
- Fund I report: 2021 year in review | Carta
- Why M&A activity could rebound in 2024 | Carta
- IPO Activity Has Increased Two Years in a Row. Will 2025 Make it Three?
- State of Private Markets: Q3 2024
- Founder Ownership Report 2026 | Carta
- SPV Spotlight: Private Equity Edition 2024
- equity-report-2022
- State of Private Markets: Q4 and 2024 in review
- Tender offers are helping fill the gap left by venture capital’s IPO lull
- Startup shutdowns are accelerating | Carta
- Startups are renewing their embrace of tender offers in 2024
- Bridge Rounds Got a Boost in Q2
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- Startup salaries vs. cost of living | Carta
- Startup M&A in 2023 | Carta
- California Rises, Florida Falls: How VC Funding Shifted in 2024
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2024 | Carta
- New attitudes toward equity are changing the compensation equation | Carta
- Startup step-up multiples | Carta
- State of Startup Compensation, H1 2024 | Carta
- The state of private company financing in 2018 | Carta
- Recent VC Vintages Struggle With TVPI Dip & Investment Valuations
- The Carta liquidity report: Q3 2022 | Carta
- How do co-founders actually split equity? | Carta
- First Cut - State of Private Markets: Q4 2022 | Carta
- How VCs are navigating the SaaS slump | Carta
- First Cut—State of Private Markets: Q3 2024
- Five Ways the Seed Market Shifted for Startups in Q3
- You asked for MOIC. Here is Carta's latest data.
- State of pre-seed fundraising: Q2 2023 | Carta
- At AI startups, a bigger salary doesn't mean bigger equity
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2025
- The Australian Startup Outlook 2026 | Free Data Report
- What are the most common structures for portfolio company equity in PE?
- How the SaaS fundraising scene is shifting in the age of AI
- Carta’s Private Markets Report – Q3 2020 | Carta
- State of Private Markets: 2025 in Review | Carta
- State of Startup Compensation: H2 2025 | Carta
- Solo Founders Report 2025
- State of Pre-Seed: 2025 in Review
- The Carta liquidity report: Q2 2022 | Carta
- Seed-Stage Valuations in 2022 | Carta
- Tender offer volume is skyrocketing
- The elusivity of DPI: our Q1 Fund Performance Report
- New metro rankings, per capita!
- What the biggest tech IPOs tell us about the economy
- State of Pre-Seed Q3 2025
- State of Startup Compensation: H1 2025
- VC Fund Performance Q1 2025
- Five charts showing how AI is dominating the venture fundraising market
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2025
- New VC funds are relying more than ever on their anchor investors
- For venture fund LPs, DPI is ‘the metric that rules them all’
- GPs are raising more small VC funds than ever
- Fund Economics Report 2025 Full Report
- Fund Economics: Small Funds vs. Large Funds
- New regulations are spurring VC dealmaking in crypto
- Inside the late-stage lull | Carta
- Annual Equity Report 2023 by Carta
- Annual Equity Report 2024
- State of startup compensation, H2 2023
- PE Executive Equity Report
- Compensation report: The state of startup compensation, H1 2022
- 2022 Employee Stock Options Report | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: 2024 in review
- Ownership Trends in Private Equity: 2024
- HR leaders grapple with the startup equity gap | Carta
- VC Fund Performance: Q1 2024
- VC Startup Fundraising Benchmarks From 1000 Rounds
- Top Seed Valuations Hit Record Highs in Q2 2026
- Rising Valuations but Fewer Startup Rounds in 2026
- What Revenue Do You Actually Need for Series A
- 2025 PE Executive Equity Report
- Trends in 409A valuations | Carta
- Power Laws Are Everywhere Not Just in Venture Capital
- Q3 2025 VC Fund Performance
- VC Fund Performance: Q2 2025
- Deal terms grew less investor-friendly in Q3 | Carta
- Dynamic Duos: Equity Math for Two-Founder Teams | Carta
- Search | Data Desk by Carta
- Founder Ownership Report 2025 | Carta
- How PE’s exit math is changing | Carta
- Why it could be a good time for emerging managers | Carta
- How buy-side dynamics are shifting in secondaries | Carta
- Executive Equity Grant Sizes: PE vs. VC | Carta
- How PE is investing in AI | Carta
- VC Fund Performance: Q1 2026 | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2026 | Carta
- The Round Benchmarking Tool: Interact with Carta Data
- About Our Data | Carta
- Why PE Firms Are Buying Up Secondary Investment Firms | Carta
- The Data Minute Podcast by Carta
- Data Desk Reports by Carta
- How AI is changing the compensation game for VC-backed startups
- Round Benchmarking Tool by Carta
- The Carta liquidity report: Q1 2022 | Carta
- 2026 PE Executive Equity Report
- Shifts in California, Texas show the geography of VC is changing
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2026 | Carta
- Data Desk by Carta: Private Market Insights
- Fund Economics Report 2025
- 6 shifts in seed funding | Carta
- Q4 2025 VC Fund Performance
- Startup salaries vs. cost of living: Q3 2023 | Carta
- Dilution is on the decline
- Energy sector funding fell sharply in 2022 | Carta
- First Cut—State of Private Markets: Q2 2024 | Carta
- Bridge rounds remain high in Q1 2024 | Carta
- The current state of employee exercise 2020 | Carta
- Fintech funding: Why It’s dropped & what comes next | Carta
- VC round sizes rebound after a year of declines | Carta
- Annual Equity Report 2021 by Carta
- 5 geographic trends in U.S. venture funding | Carta
- State of startup compensation, H1 2023 | Carta
- VC Dollars Grow More Concentrated Amid Fewer Deals and New Funds
- 2023 Enterprise Tech 30 List: How Does The ET30 Universe Compare?
- Recent VC fund performance | Carta
- Late-stage VC market shows signs of thawing | Carta
- The shift to SAFEs varies by sector | Carta
- Healthtech shows signs of resilience amid venture downturn | Carta
- State of Private Markets Q3 2025
- As VC deals shrink, convertible fundraisings are on the rise | Carta
- Colorado is bucking the trend of slumping startup investment | Carta
- 2025 Startup Equity & Workforce Report: APAC & ME
- Trends in 409A valuations | Carta
- Why startup headcounts are getting smaller
- Annual Equity Report 2024
- Why is dilution declining? | Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2023 | Carta
- Typical Time Between VC Rounds is Shrinking in SaaS, Rising in Fintech
- State of Private Markets: Los Angeles | Carta
- VCs and startups are adapting to a new valuation landscape | Carta
- The 2021 Carta liquidity report | Carta
- Average salary ranges in NYC: Engineering, product, customer success | Carta
- Shrinking Valuations & Layoffs Are Reshaping the Tech Job Market
- Analyzing the Gender Equity Gap | Carta
- First Cut – State of Private Markets: Q1 2023 | Carta
- Series B Valuations Ticked Up 10% in Q1, the Largest Leap Since 2021
- How the SaaS fundraising scene is shifting in the age of AI
- How do co-founders actually split equity? | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: 2025 in Review
- The growing Southern startup scene | Carta
- Emerging VCs Adjust to a New Fundraising Reality | Carta
- The state of private company financing in 2018 | Carta
- Startup salaries are on the rise in 2025—especially for AI engineers
- Founder Ownership Report 2026 | Full Report from Carta
- Less Cash, Longer Runways Force Startups to Stretch VC Dollars
- Venture megadeals declined across 2022 | Carta
- Early-stage VC deals declined Q4 2022 | Carta
- Seed activity slowed in Q4 | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: Q2 2025
- The Carta liquidity report: 2022 in review | Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q4 and 2022 in review
- Will falling interest rates spark another VC boom?
- New attitudes toward equity are changing the compensation equation | Carta
- Annual Equity Report 2023 by Carta
- Five Ways the Seed Market Shifted for Startups in Q3
- Top Seed Valuations Hit Record Highs in Q2 2026
- What Revenue Do You Actually Need for Series A
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2022 | Carta
- State of Private Markets, Q3 2022 - Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2022
- Startup salaries vs. cost of living | Carta
- Early-stage VC valuations were at or near new highs in Q3
- Should investors be concerned about 2021 venture funds?
- Should I Exercise My Vested Stock Options? The Math May Have Changed
- Bridge Rounds Got a Boost in Q2
- Structure remains persistent in VC rounds in ‘24 | Carta
- California Rises, Florida Falls: How VC Funding Shifted in 2024
- State of Private Markets: Q4 2021 and year in review | Carta
- Annual Equity Report 2019 by Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: Q3 2024
- Bridge Rounds Rise as VC Market Slows | Carta
- Startup M&A seeks path amid Q2 chill | Carta
- Tariffs bring uncertainty—and opportunities—for PE and M&A
- Startup M&A in 2023 | Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2023 | Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q3 2024
- State of startup compensation, H2 2022 | Carta
- Why M&A activity could rebound in 2024 | Carta
- How VCs are navigating the SaaS slump | Carta
- IPO Activity Has Increased Two Years in a Row. Will 2025 Make it Three?
- What was it like to raise VC funding in 2023?
- Late-Stage Startups’ Median Valuations Fell Deeper in Q1 | Carta
- New regulations are spurring VC dealmaking in crypto
- Inside the late-stage lull | Carta
- Startup step-up multiples | Carta
- At pre-seed and seed, the dominance of SAFEs continues to grow
- State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2025
- Tender offer volume is skyrocketing
- What the biggest tech IPOs tell us about the economy
- New metro rankings, per capita!
- The elusivity of DPI: our Q1 Fund Performance Report
- The Australian Startup Outlook 2026 | Free Data Report
- Solo Founders Report 2025
- State of Startup Compensation: H2 2025 | Carta
- How AI is changing the compensation game for VC-backed startups
- First Cut—State of Private Markets: Q3 2024
- You asked for MOIC. Here is Carta's latest data.
- At AI startups, a bigger salary doesn't mean bigger equity
- HR leaders grapple with the startup equity gap | Carta
- The Carta liquidity report: Q3 2022 | Carta
- The Carta liquidity report: Q2 2022 | Carta
- Seed-Stage Valuations in 2022 | Carta
- VC Fund Performance: Q2 2025
- Fund Economics Report 2025
- Compensation report: The state of startup compensation, H1 2022
- How VC secondaries became ‘release valve’ for startup liquidity pressures
- State of startup compensation, H2 2023
- Amid M&A Pullback, The Market for Selling Your Startup is Shifting
- IPOs stayed scarce in Q1 2024 | Carta
- Deal terms grew less investor-friendly in Q3 | Carta
- How healthcare AI led a 'paradigm shift' in a $23B year for startups
- State of Private Markets: Q4 and 2024 in review
- 2026 PE Executive Equity Report
- Tender offers are helping fill the gap left by venture capital’s IPO lull
- Startups are renewing their embrace of tender offers in 2024
- What are the most common structures for portfolio company equity in PE?
- State of Private Markets, Q3 2023 | Carta
- PE Executive Equity Report
- Fund Economics Report 2025 Full Report
- Ownership Trends in Private Equity: 2024
- First Cut - State of Private Markets: Q4 2022 | Carta
- Fund Economics: Small Funds vs. Large Funds
- Dry powder is piling up in VC | Carta
- 2022 Employee Stock Options Report | Carta
- Q3 2025 VC Fund Performance
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2025
- Ownership trends in private equity | Carta
- State of Startup Compensation, H1 2024 | Carta
- Carta’s Private Markets Report - Q2 2020 | Carta
- VC Fund Performance: 2024
- Employment Tenure Statistics for Startup Companies | Carta
- Carta's Private Markets Report - Q4 2020 | Carta
- Carta’s Private Markets Report – Q3 2020 | Carta
- Annual Equity Report: Who owns equity in 2021? | Carta
- fund-i-report-2021-year-in-review
- GPs are raising more small VC funds than ever
- Recent VC Vintages Struggle With TVPI Dip & Investment Valuations
- Venture fundraising slows for early-stage startups | Carta
- Carta liquidity report: Q2 2023 | Carta
- New VC funds are relying more than ever on their anchor investors
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2025
- SPV Spotlight: Q3 2024
- SPV Spotlight: Private Equity Edition 2024
- How PE-Backed Companies Use Performance to Align Employee Incentives
- VCs eye early-stage deals | Carta
- VC Fund Performance Q1 2025
- For venture fund LPs, DPI is ‘the metric that rules them all’
- Search | Data Desk by Carta
- Dynamic Duos: Equity Math for Two-Founder Teams | Carta
- How buy-side dynamics are shifting in secondaries | Carta
- How PE is investing in AI | Carta
- Why it could be a good time for emerging managers | Carta
- Executive Equity Grant Sizes: PE vs. VC | Carta
- Data Desk Reports by Carta
- Why PE Firms Are Buying Up Secondary Investment Firms | Carta
- About Our Data | Carta
- The Data Minute Podcast by Carta
- State of Startup Compensation: H2 2024
- State of Pre-Seed: 2024 in review
- State of Private Markets: Q4 2023 | Carta
- Rising Valuations but Fewer Startup Rounds in 2026
- Founder Ownership Report 2025 | Carta
- VC Startup Fundraising Benchmarks From 1000 Rounds
- The Round Benchmarking Tool: Interact with Carta Data
- Round Benchmarking Tool by Carta
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2024 | Carta
- Record-setting early-stage valuations
- VC Fund Performance: Q1 2026 | Carta
- 2025 PE Executive Equity Report
- In recent vintages, $1M-$10M VC funds tend to outperform $100M+ funds
- VC Fund Performance: Q1 2024
- State of Startup Compensation: H1 2025
- Five charts showing how AI is dominating the venture fundraising market
- State of Private Markets: Q2 2024 | Carta
- What a difference 6 months makes
- Startup shutdowns are accelerating | Carta
- State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2026 | Carta
- Q4 2025 VC Fund Performance
- State of Pre-Seed Q3 2025
- Only 0.2 Percent of Pitch Decks Lead to Funding
- Pre-seed startup fundraising
- State of Private Markets: 2025 in Review | Carta
- Data - Carta
- Power Laws Are Everywhere Not Just in Venture Capital
- Data Desk by Carta: Private Market Insights
- Founder Ownership Report 2026 | Carta
- US Startup Ecosystem Tiers Bay Area vs Every Other City
- Data - Carta
- State of pre-seed fundraising: Q2 2023 | Carta
- AI-Generated LinkedIn Comments Are Ruining the Platform
- State of Private Markets: Q1 2026 | Carta
- Graduation rate from seed to Series A
- State of Startup Compensation
- Pre-seed funding in 2024
- Pre-AI Startups Face an Existential Portfolio Reckoning
- Down rounds in 2023
- Hardware and Deep Tech Startups Are Making a Comeback
- Why 2021 May Be the Worst VC Vintage in Decades
- Does Your VC Fund Size Still Make Sense Today
- How much do founders own?
- What's a SAFE valuation cap?
- Data - Carta