Carta x Stripe x Aspire: Financial Horrors Night - A Halloween Special for CFOs and Finance Leaders
You've got a payment setup that mostly works. Your spend data is always a week behind. And your cap table has errors you'll only find when a new investor asks to see it.
That's fine. Until your due diligence kicks off and the skeletons start crawling out.
Financial Horrors is an evening for CFOs and finance leaders who'd rather hear the nightmare stories now than live them later. Join Stripe, Aspire, and Carta for a night of real talk: the rogue spend quietly bleeding your runway dry, the cap table missteps that surface at the worst possible moment, and the revenue leakage hiding inside a payment stack you thought was working.
What's on:
🔥 Fireside Chat Gather round. One investor shares what they're actually looking for when they meet a founder, and the financial red flags that kill deals before they start.
🪑 Roundtables: Walk through three financial horrors, one table at a time. Each host has seen things, bring your questions.
💳 Aspire: The invisible spend bleeding your runway dry
📋 Carta: Cap table horrors and 409A hauntings
💸 Stripe: Revenue leakage and reconciliation nightmares
🍷 Drinks, networking, and open floor
Space is limited. RSVP to reserve your spot.
Agenda:
16:30 - 17:00: Registration and Networking
17:00 - 17:05: Welcome and Opening
17:05 - 17:30: Fireside Chat
17:30 - 19:00: Roundtable Horrors
19:05 - 20:00: Networking
About Our Hosts
Stripe is building programmable financial services for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments online and in person, embed financial services, power custom revenue models, and build a more profitable business. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, Stripe processes over $1.4 trillion of payments annually, equivalent to 1.3% of global GDP. Stripe works with 45% of the FTSE 100, 80% of the Forbes Cloud 100 and 78% of the Forbes AI 50.
Aspire is on a mission to reinvent centuries-old corporate banking rules for modern businesses. We’re building a unified financial operating system that brings together regulated payments infrastructure and enterprise software, helping companies manage finance with greater control and confidence as they scale globally.
Carta is the connected platform and AI-native ecosystem for private capital. Built to replace fragmented tools with a single system of record, Carta brings together the software, services, and legal infrastructure that founders use to manage equity, fund managers use to run administration and reporting, and legal teams use to close transactions. Trusted by 55,000 companies and 1.8M+ equity holders in 160+ countries, and 10,000 funds and SPVs representing $250B in assets under management, Carta is transforming how private capital operates. Recognised by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work.
By registering, you consent to being photographed or filmed at the event for use across the organisers' media channels. Personal data collected at registration will be used for event administration and post-event communications by Carta, Stripe, Aspire, and event partners, and will not be shared with third parties.