secondaries

Airtree Ventures uses the secondary market to slim down its stakes while waiting for its portfolio companies to exit.

While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are actually part of the problem. A lot of standard VC deal terms give investors the a

If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would have said yes. We know because TechCrunch surveyed more than 40 of them in Decembe

If a noticeable chunk of Carta startup and venture customers do leave, it would hurt the company's otherwise impressive revenue figures, but that seems unlikely to happen.

Is Carta a bad business without a secondary-market trading arm? Can it scale on its other revenue sources to the size it needs to take its large private-market valuation live?

A recent secondary stock sale shows that investors are starting to value Stripe above its most recent, slashed, valuation.

While valuations have fallen quite a bit, some sectors are still too inflated for secondaries investors to find attractive.

Now is a great time to brush up your pitch decks, practice your pitch, and get ready for when things kick off again next year.

Secondary activity is expected to return to normal in 2024. Five investors tells us where they are interested and where they are not.

Secondary activity was inconsistent this year, but if the IPO window opens back up in 2024, secondaries should return with it.

Tiger Global sold its Flipkart stake at a valuation 7% below the startup's last primary round. This outcome isn't likely to happen again.

Buyers and sellers are coming to a consensus on startup valuations which is the first step to jump starting the late-stage market.

A new fleet of startups is providing access to secondary deal data, which tells us how companies are doing in an otherwise quiet market.

Tracking secondary deals gives us insight into how investors are thinking about a company's valuation and exit timeline.

The venture secondaries market has been on the same roller-coaster ride as the broader VC market over the past few years, but it looks poised to break away in 2023. Like venture capital as a whole, th

If you’re trying to get a pulse on what’s happening in the venture market right now, you could do worse than talk with Hans Swildens, founder of the 22-year-old investment firm Industry Ventures.

137 Ventures, a 10-year-old, San Francisco-based firm that offers loans to founders, executives, early employees and other large shareholders of private, high-growth tech companies in exchange for the

Sohail Prasad and Samvit Ramadurgam are co-founders who met during Y Combinator’s 2012 summer batch and went on to co-found Forge, which helps accredited investors and institutions buy and sell

Even the most sanguine industry observer has to be stunned at times by the pace of dealmaking right now. Not quite halfway through 2021, startups are routinely closing new rounds just months apart and

Founders Circle Capital, a nine-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm that strikes agreements with private, venture-backed companies to buy some of the vested stock options of their founders a