• Types of Private Market Auctions

    Auctions can also be customized to match the dynamics of a transaction. Simple auctions typically take four different forms: English, Dutch, First Price, and Second Price auctions.

  • An Introduction to Secondary Auctions for Private Companies

    Nasdaq Private Market has the domain expertise to run several different types of auctions for private company shares. We leverage our legal and operational experience to successfully execute these innovative program structures for our private market clients.

  • Private Company Valuations Show Signs of Recovery

    Tom Callahan, Chief Executive Officer of Nasdaq Private Market, was featured in Institutional Investor‘s recent article “Private Company Valuations Show Signs of Recovery“, where he discusses the strength of our secondary platform as well as how pricing and volumes of private company trades have been on the rise. Read the full article here. And institutional investors have…

  • Nasdaq Private Market: Creating Order Amidst Chaos

    The Future of Fintech Report: How Nasdaq Private Market is building trading tools and sourcing data to make access to liquidity more efficient and transparent.

  • Nasdaq Private Market Launches Premier Private Company Stock Transfer and Settlement Solution

    Nasdaq Private Market announced today that it has launched a new, open access service to efficiently settle private company transactions regardless of trading venue. Transfer and Settlement Solution (T&S) is built for private companies, broker-dealers, and investors. T&S outsources the complex, distracting, and non-core administrative activities associated with the transfer and settlement of private company…

  • Dry Powder Soars to $300B for Private Market Opportunities

    Investors have more capital waiting on the sidelines just as concerns about rising interest rates, liquidity and inflation ease. This confluence of factors will offer significant tailwinds to private market deals in 2023.

  • 2022 State of the Private Market

    State of the Private Market Last year, hostile macro forces drove an abrupt and violent revaluation of risk across all asset classes, perhaps felt nowhere more acutely than in the market for private, pre-IPO companies. This meant, for significant periods of 2022, that the private markets were, for all intents and purposes, closed. Liquidity virtually…

  • Nasdaq Private Market Acquires Premier Private Company Data Products

    NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO January 18, 2023 Nasdaq Private Market, an enterprise software provider and marketplace for the efficient trading of private company stock for executives, employees, shareholders, and investors announced today that the company has acquired VC Experts’ private company data products.

  • Tech Tuesday: Bringing Data, Technology, and Trust to Private Markets

    Today, trading shares in private companies is probably where public markets were 50 to 75 years ago in terms of the amount of manual processes, speed, and opacity.

  • How Nasdaq Private Market Helps Unlock Secondary Liquidity

    Nasdaq Private Market (NPM), an independent entity with investments from a consortium of global banks and Nasdaq, Inc., discusses its franchise which provides secondary liquidity for private companies, employees, other shareholders, and investors. NPM is creating a marketplace for owners and investors in private companies to discover price, and find liquidity in pre-IPO companies in…