Comparison
Cura vs Carta
How Cura and Carta compare on portfolio monitoring, fund administration, and where the data comes from.
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Short answer
Carta and Cura solve different problems. Carta is a fund ERP: fund administration, accounting, tax, an LP portal and portfolio data collection from requests and cap tables. Cura is portfolio monitoring: it reads the emails, decks, Slack messages and calls founders already send, and it monitors public signal every day. Many funds use both: Carta for the books, Cura for portfolio intelligence.
Carta started as cap table software and now sells a Fund ERP for private capital. The investor side bundles fund administration with in-house fund accountants, an LP portal, fund tax, valuations and a data collection product. Portfolio data comes from requests the fund sends to its companies, plus cap table data that flows in when a company is on Carta. Cura does one job, portfolio monitoring: it reads what founders send over email, Slack and calls, adds public signal every day, and works alongside any fund administrator.
| Feature | Cura | Carta |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data comes from | Founder emails, decks, Slack, Granola calls and texts, read automaticallyPlus public sources, pulled every day. | Company-submitted data on request, plus Carta cap table data |
| What founders have to do | Nothing newCura reads what founders already send. Requests go out from your own inbox. | Fill a form, upload files or sync QuickBooks or XeroCap table data is automatic when the company is on Carta. |
| Public signal (news, LinkedIn, X, hiring) | Yes, monitored every dayLinkedIn, X, news and open roles across the portfolio. | Not listed on their site |
| Health scores and alerts | Yes, momentum and health scores | Not listed on their site |
| LP reporting | Yes, built from the collected data | Yes, an LP portal with capital account statements, documents and K-1s |
| Fund accounting | No; tracks funds and investments, not the books | Yes, full fund administration with in-house fund accountants |
| Peer benchmarking | No | Cohort benchmarks of fund performance |
| Reachable by your AI agents | REST API and MCP server; agents read and writeRecord a metric, create a task or update a company from Claude or ChatGPT. | Investor API (Advanced plan), MCP connector and Claude plugin |
| SOC 2 | In progressRuns on SOC 2 Type II providers; certification underway. | SOC 2 Type II, SOC 1 Type II and ISO 27001 |
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Where Carta leads today
- Carta runs the full fund back office: general ledger, capital calls, distributions, capital account statements, K-1s and audit support. Cura does not do fund accounting.
- When a portfolio company keeps its cap table on Carta, ownership data reaches the fund with no work from the company.
- The LP portal gives each LP one login across every GP on Carta.
- SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, plus an MCP connector and a Claude plugin over live fund books.
Why funds choose Cura over Carta
- Cura reads the updates founders already send by email, Slack and calls. Carta's data collection runs on forms, uploads and accounting syncs that companies complete on request.
- Cura monitors LinkedIn, X, news and open roles for every company every day.
- Cura scores the momentum and health of every company.
- Cura works with any fund administrator, so you do not move your back office to get portfolio monitoring.
- Cura publishes its price: from $200/month. Carta quotes by plan, fund count and add-ons.
Pricing
The Emerging Manager plan: up to 20 portfolio companies and 3 seats. Larger firms use the Custom plan, and 90% of customers pay $5,000–$15,000 a year.
Standard and Advanced ERP plans, priced by plan, number of funds and add-ons.
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