For SaaS users evaluating Carta, its pricing is influenced by the size of the customer's headcount. For a headcount size of 200, users should expect pricing to range from $12,300 to $18,600 annually. If the headcount is 1,000, the pricing increases to fall between $24,000 and $34,000 on an annual basis.

409A valuations typically cost anywhere from $2500 to $4000. Where you fall in that range will depend on the complexity of your startup's funding stage and the turn-around time required. For early-stage startups that are happy with a turnaround time of 10 days, expect your 409A valuation to cost close to $2500.

As you may know, Carta is a leading platform for cap table management, managing the cap tables of about 40,000 companies, many/most of whom are venture-backed startups.

Carta CEO Henry Ward claimed that an employee had violated internal policies, affecting three companies, including Linear. He also said Carta had launched an investigation and reached out to the impacted founders, and on Monday, that it would be exiting its secondaries business entirely to avoid conflicts of interest.