Carta offers 409A valuations. It maintains UK statutory registers synced to Companies House, supports US GAAP (ASC 718) and IFRS scenarios for stock-compensation reporting, and prepares Schedule K-1s as part of its Fund Tax Preparation service. For QSBS it sells a paid attestation add-on: companies buy QSBS attestation letters and can share them with their shareholders, and investors can request access to them from their portfolio companies. That is service work sold alongside the software, and we do not sell attestations. DeelSignal runs the Section 1202 eligibility worksheet in software, per holder and per share lot, and re-runs it when the cap table changes, but no one signs that worksheet: your tax adviser still does. If your bottleneck is a 409A, an audit-ready register or a QSBS attestation letter, this comparison is not close and you should stay on Carta for that piece.
Carta is the equity
record. Keep it.
Keep Carta for the equity record. DeelSignal runs the fund that holds the shares: deals, portfolio monitoring, capital accounts and LP reporting. Two different jobs, each with its own scope and price.
Where Carta wins.
If your bottleneck is a 409A, an audit-ready register or a QSBS attestation letter, this comparison is not close and you should stay on Carta for that piece.
Carta is where the shares live. We are where the fund runs. Most funds will keep both — and drop the CRM, the reporting tool and the spreadsheet instead.
You keep the 409A. You still move everything above it.
Most funds that stay on Carta for the regulated layer move the deal CRM, portfolio monitoring, capital accounts and LP reporting here — and our professional-services team does that move for you. We connect the two systems, migrate the history and build your LP report templates to the shape your investors already expect. You keep the signature you need for the regulated layer, and you stop paying four vendors for everything above it.
Price it against a quote.
Ask Carta for a quote for your fund. Ours is published below.
Get a quote from Carta for your fund.
DeelSignal Pro — under $50M AUM, billed annually per fund.
We are not going to guess their number. Ours is on the pricing page because a GP should be able to size the decision without booking a call first.
Where the line actually falls.
| Capability | DeelSignal | Carta |
|---|---|---|
| Cap table & share register | Holders, share classes, convertibles, round modelling; Delaware stock ledger and Cayman register of members | UK statutory registers synced to Companies House |
| 409A valuations | Not offered — buy it from someone who signs it | 409A valuations, paid add-on |
| ASC 718 / IFRS | ASC 718 expense in software (Black-Scholes, lattice and Monte Carlo fair value, vesting, forfeitures, modifications, GL entries); IFRS not offered | US GAAP (ASC 718) and IFRS scenarios |
| QSBS (Section 1202) | Per-holder, per-lot Section 1202 worksheet with Section 1045 rollovers, a support letter built from issuer confirmations and a per-LP K-1 schedule; not a signed attestation | Paid QSBS attestation add-on: company letters shareholders and investors can access |
| Deal pipeline & sourcing | 12-factor scoring, IC workflow, warm-intro paths | Carta CRM — company records and pipelines |
| Fund accounting | Capital accounts, calls, distributions, carry waterfall | Separate Carta product, separately priced |
| Founder portal | Applications, structured MIS reporting, milestones | Stakeholder portal for equity holders only |
| DSignal Reports | Live-data reports, DSignal Portfolio on every paid plan | Cap table and 409A reporting only |
Most migration pages promise a weekend. Ours takes six weeks for a fund with real history — import by import, and nobody stops working. The people doing it build the product.
Before you take either call.
What does Carta cost next to DeelSignal?
Ask Carta for a quote for your fund. Ours is published below. Get a quote from Carta for your fund. DeelSignal Pro is $7,500 a year for a fund in the $25M–$50M AUM band, billed annually per fund, and adding people does not change the number.
When is Carta the better buy?
If your bottleneck is a 409A, an audit-ready register or a QSBS attestation letter, this comparison is not close and you should stay on Carta for that piece. Carta is where the shares live. We are where the fund runs. Most of our customers keep both — and cancel the CRM, the reporting tool and the spreadsheet instead.
Will you move us over, and do we have to pay for that?
Most funds that stay on Carta for the regulated layer move the deal CRM, portfolio monitoring, capital accounts and LP reporting here — and our professional-services team does that move for you. We connect the two systems, migrate the history and build your LP report templates to the shape your investors already expect. You keep the signature you need for the regulated layer, and you stop paying four vendors for everything above it. Optional, never a precondition — scoped and quoted per engagement. The switching guide lays out the six-week sequence.
Where do these figures come from?
Figures reflect Carta's publicly available pricing and product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change. Carta is a trademark of eShares, Inc. dba Carta, Inc.; references here are nominative fair use for comparison purposes only and do not imply endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship. Every source is linked below; verify current details on the vendor’s own site before relying on a specific number.
Figures reflect Carta's publicly available pricing and product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change. Carta is a trademark of eShares, Inc. dba Carta, Inc.; references here are nominative fair use for comparison purposes only and do not imply endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship. Trademark notice →
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