# Carta Ventures

> Carta Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://carta.com/carta-ventures-funds

Carta Ventures is a VC fund focused on Software and Financial Services. Carta wants to accelerate (and even instigate, as we’ll see) companies that add to its own platform, making investing and participating in the private markets a bit more limpid and simple — two things that the world of private capital and its constituent bets have never had in abundance.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$3M |
| Series A | $2.9M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 38% |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Legal | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Japan | 2 | 25% |
| Bahamas | 1 | 13% |
| South Korea | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Henry Ward | Founder and CEO | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-ward |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PostCoffee | PostCoffee is an online coffee platform that provides coffee subscription and delivery services. | $2.9M | Series A | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Sumutasu | sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties. | $8.2M | Series B | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Raise | Raise provides digital solutions to make fundraising easier and smoother for startups, founders, investors, and law firms. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 21, 2021 |  |
| Quota Lab | Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem. | $5M | Series A | Aug 25, 2021 |  |
| Quota Lab | Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem. | $5M |  | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| Firstbase.io | Launch, manage, and grow your startup. All in one place. | $3M | Seed | May 23, 2021 |  |
| Panther | Panther is a contractor management tool designed to build remote teams. Panther takes care of your remote team’s global payroll, benefits, taxes, compliance, and more. The complete network of global HR services helps you hire, onboard, and pay employees and contractors, compliantly. | $2.5M | Seed | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Alto Solutions | Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, realestate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. | $17M | Series A | Apr 20, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Draper Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-associates-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elefund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elefund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Carta Ventures invest in?

Carta Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Carta Ventures's check size?

Carta Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$3M at Seed and $2.9M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Carta Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Carta Ventures?

Public channels for Carta Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Carta Ventures?

The team at Carta Ventures includes Henry Ward (Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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