Forge
You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think
Let's take a closer look at how nonprofit FORGE helps founders manufacture on the other side of town instead of the other side of the world.
You can now get startup shares on the cheap
Which is more reflective of the market today: H1 2022 numbers compared to their year-ago comps or the high-impact repricings seen by Instacart, Klarna and others?
It’s a fintech world, and we’re just living in it
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Forge’s SPAC deal is a bet on unicorn illiquidity
The total addressable market that Forge serves is growing by the day, with more and more unicorns being born and a steady drumbeat of unicorn IPOs doing little to clear the decks.
These Forge co-founders just raised $5 million to work on a new, still-stealth investing startup
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
Is buying and selling short positions in pre-IPO stock next? This fintech startup is banking on it
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
What’s up with tiny checks at giant valuations?
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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
Forge acquires IRA Services to expand offering for private company shares
Forge, the marketplace for trading private company shares formerly known as Equidate, announced that it will be acquiring custodial trust company IRA Services for a purchase price of $55 million. IRA
Forge locks down $4.5M Series A to help gamers capture awesomeness
Sometimes entrepreneurship is about starting battles and other times it's about finishing them. Jared Kim has been on a mission to cut the frustration out of sharing gameplay with friends since he was
Forge Looks To Make It Easy To Save Short Clips In Gaming Sessions
Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them in the future. So much so that he decided to take a second
Autodesk Launches 3D Cloud Development Platform And A $100 Million Investment Fund
Autodesk is an old school software company, having launched in 1982 and gone public in 1990, but that doesn’t mean it’s too fixed in its ways to try something new. Today, the company is