The Carta Mafia

Managing equity shouldn't require spreadsheets and legal gymnastics, yet that's exactly what every startup founder faced in 2012.

Henry Ward, along with co-founders Manu Kumar and K. Kartik Akileswaran, launched Carta (originally eCapital) to fix this broken system. Today, the company powers equity management for over 40,000 companies, from seed-stage startups to pre-IPO giants. Carta digitizes cap tables, valuations, and liquidity events, bringing transparency to a historically opaque corner of finance. The platform has fundamentally changed how founders, investors, and employees track and understand ownership, making equity accessible and actionable for everyone at the table.

Carta has quietly become a founder factory. It's the kind of place where people don't just learn to manage equity but how to build companies from the ground up.

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The Carta Mafia has founded 27 companies and raised $408M.

PS: Are you a Carta Mafia member interested in bringing your community together to invest in innovative ventures (and enjoy potential profits and other perks along the way)? Or perhaps you're part of another dynamic group that could be a fantastic source of startup investments?

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