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Carta and NewView Try to Make Employee Equity Spendable

October 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM EDT · New York time

Carta and NewView have partnered on a program intended to encourage more startups to let employees sell some shares before a public offering. The collaboration combines NewView's secondary transaction experience with Carta's equity platform to make tender offers easier to arrange, TechCrunch reports. The problem is familiar to workers at companies staying private longer. Stock can form a meaningful part of compensation while remaining unavailable for ordinary spending. An impressive equity statement still has limited usefulness at a grocery checkout, where the cashier tends to prefer existing money. Tender offers can allow employees, and often early investors, to sell a portion of their holdings at a predetermined price to an approved buyer. This is a structured transaction with company participation, not an unrestricted public market for every employee's entire stake. The new program aims to lower the difficulty of arranging those transactions. It does not guarantee that a particular startup will authorize one or that every worker will get an immediate exit. The business assessment is straightforward: easier execution could make companies more willing to offer liquidity. For employees, the attraction is simpler still. A compensation package becomes more useful when at least some of it can leave the spreadsheet and participate in the wider economy, where rent remains stubbornly payable in cash.

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