# Carta and NewView Capital Partner to Expand Startup Employee Share Sales

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-10-24T09:52:53.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-24T09:52:53.000Z
Section: Business

> Their collaboration pairs Carta’s equity platform with NewView Capital’s experience structuring secondary deals. Tender offers at later-stage startups have tripled over three years.

Carta and NewView Capital have teamed up to help private startups arrange employee share sales, giving workers a possible source of liquidity while companies remain private longer.

In a tender offer, a company approves a buyer and sets a price for purchasing some shares from employees and, often, early investors. The partnership combines Carta’s equity platform with NewView Capital’s experience structuring secondary transactions. NewView Capital also invests in venture deals.

Tender offers at Series C and later-stage startups have tripled over the past three years. Still, the transactions remain relatively uncommon: 44 were completed in the first half of 2026. Companies that have held recent offers include Decagon, Wayve and ElevenLabs; ElevenLabs completed two in less than a year.

NewView Capital helped facilitate a tender offer for Hightouch last year, when the marketing customization startup was seven years old and valued at $1.3 billion. The example reflects how these transactions can involve startups beyond the most valuable private companies.

Ravi Viswanathan, NewView Capital’s founder and managing partner, said he hopes the collaboration will make startup leaders more willing to consider tenders. He described them as a way to support employee retention and morale. Viswanathan has also argued that a billion-dollar valuation may no longer be enough to attract talent, as more companies reach that scale.

“The companies are staying private for 12 to 15 years. That’s not changing,” Viswanathan said. He said companies need to offer employees liquidity during that period to help prevent talent from leaving venture-backed firms for public companies.