Carta — Carta for Startups
Cap table and equity management at a discount, with implementation fees commonly waived through partner routes. It may be the least exciting perk on this list, and the one founders most often wish they had set up before their first priced round rather than during it.
What you need to qualify
- Incorporated company issuing equity
- Discount usually via partner catalog
Before you submit
- Company domain email, not a personal address
- Live public website that describes a product, not a coming-soon page
- Company profile findable on LinkedIn, X or GitHub
- Incorporation documents and funding evidence to hand
- Confirm the company has not claimed credits from this program before, under any entity
Other programs in this category
Incorporating through Atlas unlocks a bundle of partner offers alongside the company formation itself — cloud credits, SaaS discounts and tooling from a rotating partner list. Most valuable at the very start: if you have not incorporated yet, routing the formation through Atlas is one of the cheapest ways to trigger several partner perks at once.
Opening a business account unlocks a bundle of partner credits at once — cloud, AI API and SaaS offers that would each need a separate application otherwise. This is the highest-leverage single action for a pre-seed team: one onboarding, dozens of downstream perks, including AI API credit that has no self-serve path elsewhere.
It works in the same way as Brex: the banking relationship is the key that opens a partner perk catalog. Worth comparing the two catalogs against your actual stack before choosing, since the overlap is partial and each has offers the other does not.