Vauban

Vauban from Carta is a leading alternative investment platform that is used by a thriving global community of VCs, syndicate leads, and investors.


Until now, investors have needed to log into the Vauban web app to browse the exclusive and private opportunities they have been invited to by VCs and syndicate leads.

The Vauban mobile app is here to supercharge the experience for investors, making it even easier, faster and more beautiful to invest in private companies that are changing the way the world works.

Since 2019, almost US$1bn has been raised and deployed using Vauban, into companies such as SpaceX, Revolut, Bolt, Airbnb.

The Vauban app is designed for existing and new investors on Vauban. It allows them to do the following things:

- Browse: look at deals they have been invited to invest in. Read the investment memo, look at the deck, deal documents and the legal terms of the deal in a visually appealing way.

- Invest:
- Confirm how much they are investing,
- Sign their investment documents
- Complete their KYC information
- Pay for their investment using a simple interface powered by open banking integrations.

- Monitor
- Track the performance of all their investments in one place
- Check for valuation changes and updates to their investments.
- Associated paperwork and performance metrics for each deal
- Receive notifications when their are changes to their investments

There are exciting features that are being developed for future iterations, such as news feeds, social interaction layers and more!