Carta Exits Secondary Market Business After Sales Controversy

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Carta Inc., a fintech firm that works with startups, is getting out of the stock sale business following a controversy over its use of customer data.

In a blog post Monday night, Carta Chief Executive Officer Henry Ward said the company will stop its work in secondary share trading, a business it was pushing into alongside its service managing startups’ investor information, or cap tables.