Henry Ward
CEO & Co-Founder @ Carta
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Henry Ward is a seed investor at Carta in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and FinTech. Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta (formerly eShares), With a background in finance and technology. Prior to eShares, Henry was the Founder and CEO of Secondsight, a portfolio optimization platform for retail investors. Mr. Ward received a BGS in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Michigan and an MSC in MarketFinance at EDHEC Business School.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Henry Ward invests in
Stages Henry Ward invests in
Countries Henry Ward invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$12M
- Series A
- $11M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (50%)
- FinTech 5 (23%)
- Internet 4 (18%)
- Financial Services 4 (18%)
- Information Technology 4 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (50%)
- Series A 7 (32%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Wispr Flow
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Think it, speak it, send it. Effortless voice dictation for Mac and now Windows! | $30M / Series A / Jun 24, 2025 | |
Hamilton AI
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Hamilton AI is an end-to-end productivity suite for brokers and operators, streamlining charter sourcing, trips, payments, and tracking. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 11, 2024 | |
Column
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Column is a public benefit corporation building technology to help media, governments and legal services work together to notify the public. | $30M / Series A / Aug 06, 2022 | |
Pogo
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At Pogo, our goal is to make you more money by unlocking the power of your data. | $12.3M / Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | |
Pogo
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Pogo enables people to earn money and save on shopping, finances, and more by unlocking the power of their data. Pogo allows users to take control of their data and how they monetize it, as well as to be compensated when their data is used for market research and personalized advertising. It pushes recommendations based on the data users choose tolink with the app, which users can act on in a few clicks. | $12.3M / Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | |
withco
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withco is a provider of real estate and technology services for small businesses. withco was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. | $28M / Series A / Feb 01, 2022 | |
Arch
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Arch manages private investment operations for leading investors and investment advisors, reinventing private portfolio management through a digital solution that replaces traditionally paper based processes. | $5.5M / Seed / Dec 08, 2021 | |
Molten Cloud
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MOLTEN CLOUD simplifies essential operations of media and entertainment businesses. As media consumption progressively moves online, content production, distribution and licensing operations are growing in complexity and fragmentation. With MOLTEN, you can transform these operations so that you're not just keeping pace with the digitalage—you're leading it. | $7M / Seed / Oct 21, 2021 | |
Relyance AI
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AI-native protection that makes every data journey visible, controlled, and compliant. From the first line of code to the final AI output - autonomously predict threats, enforce policies, and always be audit-ready, eliminating 80% of manual oversight. | $25M / Series A / Sep 15, 2021 | |
Kalepa
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Kalepa is the Professional Grade AI for insurance trusted by top-tier insurers to accelerate profitable growth. We automate what slows teams down and amplify what makes them exceptional - delivering measurable impact to quote rates, bind rates, and portfolio performance.Kalepa's platform covers the full insurance workflow - from automatedintake and intelligent triage through to risk evaluation, decision support, and real-time portfolio steering - all in one interface purpose-built for insurance. Teams move faster, select better risks, and grow profitably. Leaders get complete visibility into portfolio performance and the tools to act on it.Trusted in production by Berkley, Munich Re, Bowhead, Canopius, Paragon, and Secura. Results include a 40% reduction in quote turnaround, 5–15% improvement in bind rates, and 960+ basis points of combined ratio improvement.Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services. | $14M / Series A / Sep 03, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Carta
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at astartup.Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital.It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.
Carta Contacts
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Alex Legault
Group Product Manager
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Charly Kevers
CFO
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Henry Ward
CEO & Co-Founder
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Keyvan Firouzi
Product Director
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Robert Balousek
Director of Engineering
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FAQ
What does Henry Ward invest in?
Henry Ward invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 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 Henry Ward's check size?
Henry Ward typically joins rounds of $3M–$12M at Seed and $11M–$30M 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 Henry Ward participates in.
When did Henry Ward last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Henry Ward closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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