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A Decade in the Private Markets

This year EquityZen celebrates a decade of building private markets for the public. This is a big milestone, one that...

Innovating Industries: AgTech

How green is your salad? Can it be greener? It can and your investment portfolio can be too.

Calpers' 'Lost Decade': The Power of Private Equity Returns

Just last month California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (Calpers) Managing Investment Director, Anton Orlich,...

Why Democratization Matters to Me

Growing up I was always told America was the “land of opportunity” and from the time I moved here at the age of 12, I...

Innovating Industries: Enterprise SaaS

Like many of you, the first thing I do when I wake up is check my phone. After turning off the alarms, I see...

Will the IPO Market Heat Up This Summer?

While the dust may have settled for many startups directly impacted by SVB’s collapse, the reverberations continue to...

Secondary Funds are Leading the Pack

After a record blazing 2021, fundraising by private market investment managers fell considerably in 2022 and is...

Innovating Industries: Neobanks

In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, account holders largely took their funds in two directions – either to...

How We Price Secondary Deals

One of the most common questions we get asked from both our shareholder and investor clients is how we determine the...