Shadowing Practice: Carta: The ERP for Private Capital - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I've got something really exciting happening at Carta that I want to share with you.
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To date, we've mostly been known for just two things, cap table management and fund administration.
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But over the last two years, we've been building a ton of products for startups, VC funds, private equity funds, and LPs.
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Now all of that's coming together into something we call an ERP for private capital.
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Let me explain.
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An ERP is an old word from the 90s that a lot of Some people don't even know,
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but it really means a collection of software that connects everybody in a business to help them run it.
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And that's what Carta is.
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There's enormous companies and huge categories of software for the office of the CFO.
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For example, SAP Financials for Fortune 1000 companies and NetSuite for mid -market companies and even QuickBooks and Xero for small businesses.
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But when you look at CFOs for venture funds and private equity, they use spreadsheets and outsourced service providers.
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Nobody has built software for the office of the fund CFO.
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And that's the white space we're going after.
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It's amazing to me that nobody has looked at them in this category of software
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that should exist to how to run a fund.
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Let me give you a brief history of Carta.
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We started with this really simple solution of fixing cap tables, moving spreadsheets into software.
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That's all we did with cap table management.
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And then we did that with fund administration, where we moved spreadsheets of accounting into software.
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And that's been the north star for Carta, whether we're servicing startups, funds, private equity companies with waterfall modeling and audits.
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Anything that's done in software and documents and private capital, we now have started moving into software.
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So the key to Carta has always been network effect, where we connect the startups to the venture funds to the LPs.
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And these products integrate with one another, and the data is seamless.
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So all along, we've been creating this web of interconnectivity within the private capital network, and that's the strength of what we're building.
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And this is the framework for an ERP.
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So what goes into software for the office of the fund CFO, or an ERP, for private capital.
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Well the first thing that goes into it is cap table management.
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The second is fund accounting and fund administration.
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Through ASEA 20 products we have valuations.
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We also have taxes that are directly integrated into the fund accounting software so no more mistakes on K1s.
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And then we have to report all of those metrics and deliver those tax K1s to the LPs.
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We have LP management.
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LPs can manage capital calls and distributions and receive all their documents
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and now with tactic integrated into the fund financials accounting module
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you can track budget to actuals for fund construction
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and fund forecasting all these products fit into software for the office of the fund cfo for venture
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and private equity funds to run their businesses
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so that's the erp for private capital and we're continuing our legacy of creating new categories of software,
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having started with cap table management and then disrupting fund administration and now building software for the office of the fund CFO.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Carta: The ERP for Private Capital”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: fund, software, private, cfo, capital. This video has 39 sentences and 546 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:23. The speaker talks at a natural 162 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| spreadsheet noun | /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/ | A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form. |
| integrate verb | /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪt/ | To include as a constituent part or functionality. |
| startup noun | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | The act or process of starting a process or machine. |
| financials noun | Financial statements. | |
| actuals noun | Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned. | |
| excite verb | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement. |
| interconnectivity noun | The state or quality of being interconnected | |
| outsource verb | /ˈaʊtˌsɔːs/ | To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider. |
| seamless adjective | Having no seams. | |
| waterfall noun | /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/ | A flow of water over the edge of a cliff. |
| disrupt verb | /dɪsˈɹʌpt/ | To throw into confusion or disorder. |
| tactic noun | /ˈtæktɪk/ | A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end. |
| valuation noun | /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/ | An estimation of something's worth. |
| metric adjective | /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ | Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. |
| module noun | /ˈmɑd͡ʒul/ | A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, we've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: spreadsheet /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/, valuation /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like spreadsheet, integrate, startup.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.