Carta Release Notes - Product Updates - INVESTORS (CORPORATIONS)

New: Share company financial statements via Investor Updates on Carta

Easily and securely share financial statements as part of your investor updates. Connect directly to your accounting system, select the desired time frame, and include a one-time snapshot of your financials in your next investor update – all within Carta’s investor updates tool.

Why is it Valuable

Most portfolio companies send investor updates once a quarter. With a one-time setup to connect your accounting system, you can make all future updates faster, easier, and more comprehensive for both you and your investors.

Easily select and review financial statements before sending. Using Carta’s communication center, you can control who sees your data, conveniently import your investor list from the cap table, and allow investors to securely view and reply to your updates—including cap table and financial statements–all in one centralized, trackable location.

How does it work

You can set this up by:

1. Get your Quickbooks or accounting software login information

2. Navigating to your Carta account

3. Go to the Communications Center

4. Click on ‘New Message’

5. Choose any template you want to update your shareholders about

6. Under import financials click Connect to use QuickBooks or See all for the other providers available

7. Once you’ve prepared connecting your accounting system and composed your investor update, you can review your financial statements.

8. In the review screen you view the data from your accounting system, select the period, and add notes you want your investors to see alongside the data.

9. After you submit the investor update message with the imported financials, the financials will appear under Company Financials view.

What recipients will see:

1. After a message is sent, the recipient receives an email notification with a link to view it.

2. New users are prompted to create an account, while existing users are taken directly to their Carta inbox.

3. If financials have been imported, the investor will be able to click View Company Financials link and view the uploaded documents directly in the Financials tab, monthly and quarterly view.

Who is this for?

Authorized company administrators or users with the new Investor Relations permission, can set up the financial integration and send messages to investors through the communications center.

How do I learn more or get help?

Learn more about our Investor Updates and Communication Center here. For feedback about this new feature, communication center, or Carta you can reach out here!

New for Investors: AI powered Cap table builder

This week we rolled out a new feature for Investors: AI powered document extraction in the Cap table builder. Investors can now upload relevant documents about a company in their portfolio (Articles of Incorporations, Stock Purchase Agreements, Convertible note and SAFE agreements) and have those documents automatically populate the fields in the cap table builder.

How it works:

1. Investors can add a new company (or edit an existing company) in their portfolio

2. When adding a new company they can input the company name and upload any of the documents they have about the company's ownership structure

3. The cap table builder will read the documents and begin to build out the structure of the cap table

4. The feature will then guide the user through the cap table builder with any field read from the documents pre-filled. This includes the ownership structure and the funds holdings, provided they were available in the Articles of Incorporation and Stock Purchase Agreements.

5. You can review and edit any field in the builder. Once complete it will guide you to the capitalization page of the new portfolio company.

Benefits of using Cap table builder:

1. The cap table builder allows investors to load in any of their portfolio companies not using Carta to share their cap table with them.
2. By adding a portfolio company's cap table into their portfolio, investors can:
   1. Use the Scenario modeling and waterfall tools
   2. Create and run ASC 820 valuations
   3. Track ownership over time
   4. Have a single source of truth for all their portfolio companies' cap tables.

As part of this release we are now enabling Cap table builder for all funds who pay for any of Carta's fund products!

New: Investments Integration with Carta Fund Forecasting

Carta Fund Forecasting now integrates real-time cap table data into its forecasting and planning platform. The direct connection to Carta streamlines the process of adding investments data in Carta Fund Forecasting, providing fund managers the ability to make data-backed decisions with greater speed and accuracy.

Why is this valuable:

Historically, investment updates have needed to be manually uploaded and maintained in Carta Fund Forecasting. This process is often time-consuming and error-prone, making it difficult to ensure current forecasting for your fund is accurate and up to date.

You can now sync ownership and financing history for all portfolio companies tracked on Carta. Starting from the fund's initial investment, all subsequent financing rounds will get pulled into Carta Fund Forecasting, regardless of whether you participated or not. The new Tasks and Notifications page will also prompt weekly in-app notifications and reviews for cap table updates including new rounds for existing investments, net new investments, and newly granted cap table access.

Overall, the integration accelerates your ability to leverage Carta Fund Forecasting’s powerful modeling tools and insights. With immediate access to real-time cap table data, you can more quickly track how you're following your original fund construction plan across pacing, reserve optimizations, portfolio insights, and more.

Who is this available for:

This integration is available for all Carta Fund Forecasting customers who have an investment firm account in Carta, with accepted securities issued from portfolio companies on Carta. If you need assistance with portfolio consolidation to one main firm account, reach out to our team at fund-forecasting@carta.com.

Basic cap table access or higher is also required to pull in a portfolio company's details—learn more here.

Introducing the 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.

Investor cap table access experience

Cap table access is essential for understanding your investment portfolio, but companies often wait for a request before granting it. Our goal is to equip investors and portfolio companies with the tools to request and grant access securely. With our latest release, investment firms now have robust tools to manage cap table requests, ask for the specific data levels they need, and follow up with companies to secure access.

What’s new?

We’re making it easier for investment firms to request and manage cap table access from their portfolio companies:

• See how many portfolio companies are on Carta, your access status, and any open requests. Sort and filter by access level, company name, date, holdings, and status.
• Send bulk or individual requests and reminders for cap table access in two clicks.
• Export reports with access levels, request details, company status, and contact info for investor questions.

Who is this available for?

All users with “admin” permission in your investment firm.

How do I use it?

To access the page, navigate to your investment firm account, click on "Tools and services" in your sidebar, and select "Cap table access." You may also receive a prompt from the Investments Overview page to request access.

Anything else I need to know?

If you are not sure what levels you will need access to, Advanced is the most common level we see granted for investors. Portfolio companies can always choose to respond with Basic access, if they do not want to grant advanced.

If there are additional enhancements you would like to see here, you can provide feedback via Carta Community.

Refer portfolio companies for QSBS Attestations from Carta

Investors can now refer their portfolio companies to get QSBS Attestations from Carta.

The feature allows investors to do this for individual companies or multiple companies that are likely QSBS eligible. Once you refer your portfolio company, they will receive a notification on Carta encouraging them to get a QSBS Attestation. After a company receives the QSBS Attestation, you will receive an email and copy of a QSBS Attestation letter addressed to your firm highlighting which securities held are QSBS eligible.

What do I need to do?

This feature is available to users who are admins for an investment firm on Carta. Navigate to the 'Investments' page of your firm where you can refer in bulk or individual companies for QSBS reviews from Carta. If you have any questions reach out to your assigned Carta account team or qsbs@carta.com to learn more!

Request access to QSBS Attestation from your portfolio companies

Investors can now request access to their QSBS Attestation letter from portfolio companies using the QSBS product.