Carta Investors

The Carta Investors plugin gives LLMs access to your fund's data and allows you to generate tear sheets, budgets, and financial statements. Access NAV, fund performance, partner data, journal entries, portfolio company financials, build Excel budgets and consolidating P&L / balance sheets, and generate professional PDFs for investor reporting — all with natural language.

What You Can Do

With the Carta Investors plugin, ask questions like:

Fund Performance
- "What's the current NAV and TVPI for Fund I?"
- "Show me NAV trends for the past 3 years"
- "How does Fund II compare to Carta benchmarks?"
- "What's the gross IRR vs. net IRR for Fund I as of Q4?"
- "What's the average MOIC by vintage year?"
Partner & Investor Data
- "Show me contributions and distributions by LP type"
- "What's the largest LP's capital account balance?"
- "List all unfunded commitments"
- "How much has each LP contributed to date?"
Portfolio Company Financials & Tearsheets
- "Show me revenue and EBITDA for [company] over time"
- "What's the current equity value for each portfolio company?"
- "Generate a tear sheet for [company]"
- "Compare portfolio companies by revenue growth"
Custom Data Analysis & Reporting
- "What's the total invested capital by portfolio company over the past 5 years?"
- "Show me NAV waterfall: cash, investments, other assets, and liabilities for Q4 2024"
- "Pull our Form ADV Schedule D data for 2025"
- "Generate fundraising materials based on our latest fund and portfolio performance"
- "What's the AUM rollup by entity type?"
Budgeting & Financial Statements (Excel)
- "Build a 2026 budget for Delta-v Capital from last year's actuals"
- "Refresh the actuals on this budget and flag where we're pacing off-plan"
- "Model a 10% headcount trim scenario on our ManCo budget"
- "Generate a consolidating P&L for Krakatoa Ventures for March"
- "Generate a consolidating balance sheet across all our entities for Q4"

How It Works

Beyond the core skills, Claude can query all your fund and company data. See the data dictionary for the complete list of tables and fields available.

The plugin gives Claude access to:

Fund metrics — NAV, TVPI, DPI, IRR, and performance data
Partner data — Contributions, distributions, capital accounts, and investor information
Portfolio financials — Company-level revenue, EBITDA, valuations, and multiples
Tearsheet generation — Automatic PDF creation for portfolio company profiles
Regulatory data — Form ADV Part 1A / Schedule D, AUM rollups, and audit support
Budgeting & financial statements — Excel budgets, budget-vs-actuals pacing, what-if scenarios, and consolidating P&L / balance sheets across entities

All data queries are read-only — Claude can query and analyze your data but cannot create, modify, or delete records. The budgeting and financial-statement skills produce Excel workbooks locally (or in the open Claude for Excel workbook); they do not write back to Carta.

Available Skills

The plugin includes the following skills that Claude uses to answer your questions:

Reporting & data

Skill	What It Does
explore-data	Query and explore unlimited fund admin data via custom SQL. Claude can browse all available tables, write SELECT queries, and build reports—NAV, partners, investments, journal entries, portfolio financials, and more. Perfect for custom analysis, KPI tracking, and ad-hoc questions.
form-adv	Fetch Form ADV Part 1A filing data and generate an interactive HTML filing guide plus an Excel filing reference (Items 5.D/F/H, Schedule D §7.B.(1), beneficial owners, asset composition, capital activity).
performance-benchmarks	Compare fund performance against peer benchmark cohorts. Shows TVPI, IRR, DPI and percentile rankings vs. comparable funds.
download-tearsheet	Download tear sheets for one or more portfolio companies and funds. Single PDF preview or bulk ZIP download.

Budgeting & financial statements (Excel)

These skills produce accountant-ready Excel workbooks. In Claude for Excel the output lands in the open workbook; in Claude Code it lands in a local .xlsx file.

Skill	What It Does
create-budget	Build a new fund or ManCo budget workbook from Carta prior-year actuals (from prior actuals, a template, a recommendation, or sliced by tag).
fetch-budget	Pull a ManCo budget already stored in Carta and write it to an Excel workbook with monthly amounts and subtotals.
budget-actuals	Refresh actuals on an existing budget workbook — interleave Budget/Actual/Variance, separate Actuals tab, refresh in place, or extend by a period.
budget-vs-actuals	Compare YTD actuals against a budget and analyze pacing — % consumed, run-rate projection, and off-plan flags. Supports chat-only output.
budget-scenarios	Model what-if scenarios on an existing budget — trim (headcount, revenue shocks, cost rebalance) and growth (new raises, expansion hires).
consolidating-pnl	Generate a firm-wide consolidating P&L across all entities for a month — detailed tab plus a one-page executive Summary P&L; optional tag-view by department/cost center/project.
consolidating-balance-sheet	Generate a consolidating Balance Sheet across all entities for a month — side-by-side layout with Assets / Liabilities / Equity sections.

Form ADV

Fetches Form ADV Schedule D regulatory data and a firm-level rollup for annual filing prep. Works for any firm with Carta fund admin data.

How to Trigger

Ask Claude anything like:

"Pull our Form ADV data for 2025"
"What's our regulatory AUM as of December 2024?"
"Show me Schedule D data for last year's filing"
"What do I need for Form PF Section 1?"
"What's our total AUM across all funds?"

What You Need to Provide

Just one thing: a reporting date (e.g. 2025-12-31). The skill will ask if you don't include it.

What It Returns

An interactive HTML filing guide and an Excel filing reference. Data is returned per fund/SPV, plus a firm-level rollup across all entities.

Schedule D §7.B.(1) — Per Fund

Field	Description
Fair Market Value	Investment portfolio (cost + unrealized G/L)
Cash	Bank accounts and contra-cash clearing
Other Assets	Receivables, prepaids, due-from accounts
Total Gross Assets	FMV + Cash + Other Assets
LOC / Borrowings Outstanding	Lines of credit (negated from liabilities)
Unfunded Commitments	Committed capital not yet called
Regulatory AUM	Total Gross Assets + Unfunded Commitments

Capital Activity — Per Fund

Field	Description
Annual Subscriptions	Contributions received in the reporting year
Annual Distributions	Distributions paid in the reporting year
Total Distributions (Inception)	Cumulative distributions since fund inception
Total Committed Capital	Total LP + GP commitments

Investor & Portfolio Counts — Per Fund

Field	Description
LP Investor Count	Number of limited partners (current)
GP Investor Count	Number of general partners (current)
Active Portfolio Companies	Distinct companies with active investments

Performance Metrics — Per Fund

Field	Description
NAV	Net Asset Value (from monthly NAV calculations)
LP NAV	LP portion of NAV
GP NAV	GP portion of NAV
Net AUM (Form PF)	NAV + Unfunded Commitments
DPI	Distributions to paid-in capital
TVPI	Total value to paid-in capital
MOIC	Multiple on invested capital

Item 5.D. — Firm Rollup

All fields above summed across every Fund and SPV in the firm.

Limitations

Point-in-time only — no historical comparison across periods
Covers Fund and SPV entities only (excludes GP/management company entities)

Authentication

On first use, Claude will open a browser window asking you to log in with your Carta credentials. This is a one-time OAuth authorization:

You log in with your Carta username and password
Carta issues a secure access token
Claude uses that token for all subsequent queries
Your credentials are not stored by Claude — only the access token is used

If you log out or the token expires, Claude will prompt you to re-authenticate.

Permissions & Data Access

Claude can access fund admin data that your Carta user account has permission to view. This typically includes:

Your firm's funds and entities
Fund financial records and NAV
Partner and investor data for your funds
Portfolio company information
Journal entries and accounting records

Data is scoped to your firm — you cannot access other firms' data.

If you can't access a fund or data, contact your Carta admin to request access.

Example Queries

Fund Performance

Show me NAV and TVPI for all my funds as of the most recent quarter.

Claude will return a summary table with current metrics for each fund.

What's the 5-year NAV trend for Fund I?

Claude will query historical NAV records and show how the fund's value has changed.

Partner Data

List all LPs in Fund II and their total contributions to date.

Claude will show each LP, shares/units held, capital account balance, and total contributions.

What are the unfunded commitments for Fund III?

Claude will calculate remaining unfunded amounts for each LP.

Portfolio Analysis

What's the portfolio composition by stage? Show count and total invested capital.

Claude will group portfolio companies by current financing stage and show investments.

Compare portfolio company revenue growth: which are growing fastest?

Claude will analyze financial metrics and show growth trends.

What's the total invested capital by portfolio company over the past 5 years?

Claude will compile historical investment data to analyze trends.

Show me NAV waterfall: cash, investments, other assets, and liabilities for Q4 2024

Claude will construct a detailed NAV breakdown by asset category.

Tearsheet Generation

Generate a tearsheet for Acme Inc

Claude will create a PDF with company profile, financial metrics, ownership, and valuations.

Generate tearsheets for all portfolio companies and download as ZIP

Claude will create a batch job. You can check status and download when ready.

Regulatory Reporting & Performance Benchmarking

Pull our Form ADV Schedule D data for 2025

Claude will fetch AUM by fund and entity type, firm rollup for regulatory reporting, asset composition data, and portfolio company classifications — all ready for Form ADV and Form PF filings.

How does Fund II compare to mid-market funds in our vintage year?

Claude will show TVPI, DPI, IRR vs. peer cohort, your percentile ranking, distribution of peer performance, and recommendations based on peer comparison.

Limitations & Considerations

Read-only access — Claude cannot create, modify, or delete records or tables
Data freshness — Investors data is as current as your Carta records; data is typically refreshed daily or in real-time
Query performance — Large queries (e.g., 10 years of daily data for 100+ companies) may take longer
Bulk tearsheets — PDF generation for 50+ companies may take several minutes; you'll get a status link to check progress

Support & Next Steps

Install the plugin: See the Getting Started guide for installation steps
Data questions: Contact Carta Support for help with data access or fund setup
Feedback: Let us know how we can improve the plugin

For questions about fund accounting, NAV calculations, or financial metrics, ask Claude directly — it's trained to explain these concepts and help interpret your fund's data.