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Carta for Web3: token vesting and DeFi investment management.
Magna is building a platform to turn DeFi investments into financial primitives. Our first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. We’re also building investor infrastructure for institutions to custody investments with on-chain execution and intelligence. Our ultimate goal is to use locked tokens as composable building blocks to power collateralized lending, liquid secondary markets, and other DeFi applications. Launching a token? Let's chat. Are you receiving tokens from your investments? We can also be helpful. What are our companies saying about the problem? > Having it all bundled together would make life easier. We have a million things to do. If you have an off-the-shelf thing, we’d use it. > This wouldn’t be a nice to have, it’d be a have to have. > Terrible process. We’re manually sending out transactions, going to solscan and manually check that they received our token. Takes hours every week. > Everything we do is potentially very dangerous. We have to check it thoroughly. I’ve spent several hours a day on this since launch. I imagine every month, it’ll take us at least 1-2 days. > Manual process every month for the ops team. They likely burn a week.... every month to pay out 150+ addresses.
Magna provides digital asset management focused on token vesting, DeFi investment management, and related grant, custody, and distribution services. It integrates on-chain and off-chain vesting, custody, and automated token distributions for founders, protocols, investors, and teams, powered by Kraken. The platform emphasizes white-glove support, integrations with major custody providers, and customizable claim and grant workflows.
Magna offers on-chain and off-chain vesting management, grant distribution, custody and escrow, staking, and claim portals. Users can manage token unlock schedules, automate vesting and distributions, integrate with HRIS for net-of-withholding distributions, and distribute via customizable claim portals (white-labeled or API-integrated). The product supports custody integration (Fireblocks, Anchorage, Safe, Squads, Magna custody), dynamic custody and staking options, tax withholdings, and modular components (grant management, escrow, custody, staking, claims, and APIs) with a no-code front end and extensive API access for deeper integration.
Who it’s for: startups, protocols, investors, and enterprises in Web3/token projects needing cap table management, vesting automation, grants, custody/escrow, and compliant token distributions
Mentions of acquisition by Kraken, 150+ startups/customers, integration with multiple major providers, and ongoing product development suggest active traction and growth
- PM of Palantir's AI Platform. - Founder of Synapse Technology - AI to automate airport security (Acquired by Palantir in 2020). - Angel and VC investor in over 50 companies.
- Quant trading at Millennium - Early employee at Vise - Published NLP/ML researcher and CS lecturer at UPenn
Formerly “Maple”
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