Case Study: Artkive achieves major time savings and a single source of truth for its cap table with Carta

How Carta helped Artkive save valuable time and grow their business

ArtKive is a seed-stage company that helps busy parents preserve their children’s artwork. As the company grew, cofounder Jeff Lipp had been managing the cap table across dozens of spreadsheets—more than 100 versions—creating confusion about ownership and making it hard to issue securities and maintain compliance. ArtKive adopted Carta to centralize cap table management and support 409A valuations and securities issuance.

Carta automated time‑intensive tasks like updating the cap table and managing compliance, giving ArtKive a single source of truth and easier employee equity issuance. The result: ArtKive now manages over 100 security holders on Carta, expects to save “tens of thousands of dollars” in time and costs, and can reinvest that capacity into growing the business.

ArtKive

Jeff Lipp

Chief Operating Officer