Corporation

A corporation.

OCF Equivalent

Carta's Corporation is the legal-entity parent of one or more issuers. OCF has no separate corporation concept — in OCF the legal entity is the Issuer.

• Issuer — object. OCF collapses corporation and issuer into a single Issuer object.

Endpoints

• GET /v1alpha1/corporations — list

Shape at a glance

Quick comparison of field names, types, and required-ness. See the full Carta properties below, or follow the OCF link for full OCF field documentation.

Carta — v1alpha1Corporation

A corporation.

Property	Type	Req
id	string
legalName	string
doingBusinessAsName	string
website	string

OCF — Issuer

Object describing the issuer of the cap table (the company whose cap table this is)

Property	Type	Required
id	STRING	REQUIRED
comments	[STRING]	-
object_type	Constant: ISSUER Defined in schema/enums/ObjectType	REQUIRED
legal_name	STRING	REQUIRED
dba	STRING	-
formation_date	schema/types/Date	REQUIRED
country_of_formation	schema/types/CountryCode	REQUIRED
country_subdivision_of_formation	schema/types/CountrySubdivisionCode	-
country_subdivision_name_of_formation	STRING	-
tax_ids	[ schema/types/TaxID ]	-
email	schema/types/Email	-
phone	schema/types/Phone	-
address	schema/types/Address	-
initial_shares_authorized	ONE OF the Following Types/Objs: • Enum - Authorized Shares Types Description: Enumeration of authorized shares types ONE OF: • NOT APPLICABLE • UNLIMITED • schema/types/Numeric	-

Properties

Property	Type	Required	Description
id	string		The identifier of the corporation.
legalName	string		The legal name of the corporation.
doingBusinessAsName	string		The operating, or doing business as (DBA), name of the corporation.
website	string		The URL of the corporation’s website.

Referenced by

(not embedded in other domain objects)

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Underlying schema: v1alpha1Corporation

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