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# Women’s Rights at Carta: A Pattern of Discrimination

## Settlements and Allegations

Cap table management firm Carta made headlines in 2020 when its former marketing VP, Emily Kramer, filed a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination and retaliation. The case was settled in 2023, but since then, Carta has settled two other lawsuits filed by women who worked at the firm, alleging sexual harassment and discrimination.

## Recent Settlements

On January 9, 2025, Carta settled a 2023 lawsuit from former sales manager Alexandra Rogers, who alleged that Carta’s CRO, Jeff Perry, had groped her thigh and her leg on two separate occasions. Rogers was fired less than two months after reporting the alleged sexual harassment to HR. Carta and Perry have strongly denied any wrongdoing. Perry filed a defamation counter-complaint in October 2023 against Rogers, but the case is now fully dismissed following the settlement. Carta confirmed that the matter has been confidentially resolved without any admission of liability.

## Additional Settlement

The Rogers case marks the third time Carta has settled a lawsuit from a former female employee in San Francisco’s Superior court. Carta also settled a complaint from a former account executive named Amanda Sheets in November 2023, according to another legal filing.

## Sheer’s Complaint

In her complaint, Sheets claimed she was fired for trying to work remotely despite suffering from chronic migraines, while some of her male colleagues had been allowed to work from home without any issues. Sheets alleged she was denied accommodations for her disability and was the subject of sex discrimination. Sheets’ complaint named Perry personally, based on him allegedly working on her remote request and asking her to fill out a new form. Carta, which denies Sheets’ claims, strongly disputes Perry’s inclusion in the suit and filed a motion to have Perry dismissed from the case. However, before a ruling on that motion was made, all parties agreed to settle.

## Past Allegations

Carta has previously come under scrutiny for how women and others are treated at the company. In 2020, current and former employees told The New York Times that they had been sidelined, demoted, or given pay cuts after voicing concerns about the way the company is run. In 2023, Business Insider reported that Carta had hired someone in 2020 to clean up a “toxic, boys club” culture at the firm. However, the company’s CEO, Henry Ward, responded in a blog post by implying that he had been targeted by ambitious reporters who want to build up their careers by exposing “bad behavior” at companies. His post was criticized for inadvertently alerting people to bad press about Carta.


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