Carta's mentors and resources

California-based tech-company Carta was founded in 2012, making its way to the 27th spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. The company helps organizations maintain their capitalization tables and manage their portfolio investments. Carta was dubbed ""the NASDAQ for private companies,"" living out their mission statement. Carta's focus on capitalization inspired a series of wage gap studies based on race, gender, ethnicity, and geography. They aim to diversify the high-tech industry by sharing data related to under-viewed inequalities.