• Facebook Continues To Dominate SecondMarket Transactions: The Q3 Report

    Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Private company stock trading startup SecondMarket just released their Q3 transaction report. The highlight – Facebook continues to dominate with 37% of total transactions, although SecondMarket doesn’t break out the total size of those transactions. Nearly $75 million worth of stock flowed through them in the last three months, though (up from $51 million in Q2):

    The SecondMarket private company stock market had another strong quarter, with approximately $75 million in completed transactions spread across nearly a dozen companies. Facebook continues to attract the most attention with more than one-­third of completed transactions.

    GlobalLogic, which made up 35% of completed transactions, also had a strong quarter, while new names in the private company market emerged, including Acronis and Gamefly. The types of buyers also continued to diversify with venture capital funds leading the way as the most active buyers in the quarter. The total dollar amount of completed private company stock transactions* on SecondMarket in Q3 2010 was $73,547,122.35.

    SecondMarket also tracks buy side interest, which may or may not result in closed transactions. Facebook dominates that category, too, with 34.1% of all buy side interest. Twitter is a distant second with 5.8%. LinkedIn, Zynga, Craigslist, Yelp, Digg, Kayak, Etsy and SecondMarket itself round out the top ten list. See below for image.

    The companies with the fastest growing buy side demand include Groupon (up 63%), Bloom Energy, Pandora, Trulia and Zipcar.

    The full report is available here in pdf.

    Company: SecondMarket
    Website: SecondMarket.com
    Launch Date: 2004
    Funding: $34.2M

    SecondMarket is the leading marketplace for alternative investments. It has become the online destination for building your investor network, discovering interesting investment opportunities, and transacting in assets such as private venture-backed companies and private community banks, fixed income products, public equity and bankruptcy claims. SecondMarket simplifies secondary market activity by connecting buyers and sellers and providing world-class market and operations expertise. Since 2004, SecondMarket has brought together more than 100,000 individuals and institutions and completed billions of dollars in...

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