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A Better Path to Liquidity

The news that one of the top US Unicorns is planning an IPO or secondary liquidity program (aka a “tender offer”) for...

The Secondary Market is on the Rise

The IPO market’s “out of office” message stayed on through the end 2022, closing out one of the quietest years for the...

2023 Private Market Outlook

After a volatile 2022 in the markets, what will 2023 have in store? At EquityZen, we have led access to the private...

The Future is Fusion Energy

Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE) officially announced that experiments at the Lawrence Livermore National...

3 Reasons to Invest in the Private Markets Now

In 2013, when we founded EquityZen, Facebook had its IPO and the private secondary market was in its infancy. Since...

2021 VC-Backed IPO Shortlist

Despite competing factors like decade market volume highs and fears of global recessions, startups and VC investors are...

The State of the Private Markets: 2020

Up for a while, then down, then back up. The pandemic and attendant market volatility have taken public market...

2020 VC-Backed IPO Shortlist

VC-backed companies looking to IPO (or directly list) this year will face increased scrutiny on profitability,...

2019 IPO Outlook — A Bellwether Year for the New Tech Elite?

As the bull market charged into its ninth year in 2018, with the FAANG tech giants (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix...