Caplight is a fintech platform specializing in private market data and trading, offering institutional-quality secondary market pricing (via its proprietary MarketPrice™ tool), a secondary trading platform aggregating deal flow from 200+ brokers, and a derivatives marketplace enabling investors to buy/sell options and synthetic products on pre-IPO, venture-backed companies. It serves broker-dealers, institutional investors, founders, and high-net-worth individuals seeking price discovery and liquidity in private markets.
“Caplight found that 75% of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) carrying carried interest were tied to 5 names: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Anduril.”
Source→“Single-layer SPVs have surpassed direct-to-cap-table trades in secondary deal volume on the trading platform Caplight so far this year.”
Source→“Platform for institutional investors to trade private equity derivatives. Notable for bringing derivatives infrastructure to private markets.”
“$16M raise backed by BlackRock and Fin Capital; platform for institutional investors to trade private equity derivatives.”
“Caplight Technologies...$16M Series A co-led by BlackRock; connects investors to trade venture stakes”
Source→“Caplight Technologies, a VC data and transaction platform, raised $16m in Series A funding. BlackRock and Fin Capital led, joined by UBS.”
Source→“On secondary marketplace Caplight, SpaceX's estimated trading price has risen 22% over the past three months.”
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