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Warming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares

The combination of seller pessimism and modest buyer optimism has seemingly done the trick to boost secondary market activity.

It’s foie gras season in unicorn land

EquityZen shared insights on secondary stock sales and a few IPO predictions that gave us food for thought.

This secondary markets expert says we haven’t hit bottom yet

Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the co-founder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen, a 10-year-old, New York-based secondary marketplace that connects accredited buyers with private

A niche facet of startup employee pay, explained

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single to

Gusto raises an extension round, following Faire as unicorns react to a changing market

Gusto, an HR technology unicorn worth nearly $10 billion, has raised an extension to its 2021-era Series E funding round. That funding event included $175 million in primary capital, a tranche of seco

EquityZen’s Phil Haslett on how startup valuations can regain their moxie

We're closing out Q1 as we speak, which means earnings season is yet again around the corner. That means another raft of chances for prior tech darlings on the public markets to reset the narrative.

Once rivals, secondary market player Forge is acquiring SharesPost in a $160 million cash-and-stock deal

Even amid a pandemic, there’s a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares are traded as freely as public company shares on the Nasdaq. In one lane

Startup valuations drop as exits are delayed and the stock market reprices tech

The public markets are in turmoil as the economic impact of COVID-19 comes into focus; however, it is less clear what the impact of the changing value of public companies today will have on the valuat

Equity podcast: Spotify’s impending debut, Uber’s done deal, and Nasdaq 7,000

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This episode, the first of 2018, saw our own Katie Roof and your hu

The secondary marketplace EquityZen just landed $3 million in funding

The number of public companies in the United States is at a 40-year low; that's good news for EquityZen, a four-year-old, New York-based company that operates a secondary marketplace for company-appro