Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Karta raised.
Companies Karta acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| David Anderson | Founder | Forbes Australia, Australian FinTech |
| Clare Kinsey | Co-founder and Co-CEO | Australian FinTech (30 Oct 2025), Forbes Australia, Australian FinTech (13 May 2024) |
Stories naming Karta. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
CPI Card Group has bought a minority stake in Australian payments firm Karta and will integrate Karta's SafeToBuy card-security technology across its US prepaid card range, with a stateside launch planned for early 2026.
Karta, an Australian gift-card platform, has struck a US deal with Visa, having earlier raised a pre-seed round above $21 million, most of it from Commonwealth Bank.
Australian gift card startup Karta has signed a multi-year deal with Visa, making it the first non-bank private label issuer able to transact over Visa's US network.