Caplight’s market data, price discovery tools, and derivatives enable shareholders, institutional investors, and brokers to trade the pre-IPO asset class with more confidence.
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Caplight has earned the trust of major institutional players. Whether they're investors, brokers, or shareholders, our data and price discovery tools have been invaluable resources for navigating the private market.
We've facilitated transactions between clients with AUM's ranging from $1m to $100b.
Caplight helps the world’s leading VCs, LPs, family offices, and hedge funds gain access to the liquidity they need through a range of electronic and brokered marketplaces.
Many of the largest and most active broker-dealers in private markets use Caplight to monitor price movements and market depth for the names that they trade.
Employees and founders can monitor the price of their private company stock and use Caplight's unique derivative products to access liquidity in a tax-efficient manner.
Early stage investors and high-net worth individuals can use Caplight to monitor the private markets and compare across the deal structures that are available to them.
Caplight Data provides insights on the recent trade history of companies, insights on historical price movements in the private market, and real-time alerts for significant price movements.
Caplight's MarketPrice algorithm provides an evaluated price for private companies using a variety of constituent data points.
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Top gainers and losers across late-stage private companies
Monitor a range of private market investments with our platform and comprehensive data reporting powered by MarketPrice.
Track the value of private company stock based on recent market activity, instead of marking everything at book value.
Receive email alerts as soon as price movements are detected for select private issuers or target sectors.
Receive a monthly digest with price movements and observed trades for a pre-selected set of issuers.
Caplight Data gives you insights on the recent trade history of regulated broker-dealers, insights on historical price movements in the private market, and real-time alerts for significant price movements.
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"New data shows that the prices of some of Europe’s most successful private tech scaleups have fallen as much as half in the last 18 months....The data was compiled by Caplight Technologies, a startup that helps institutional investors trade on pre-IPO companies."
"It's likely we'll see a new generation of private market exchanges formed to meet this growing need for liquidity — and that they will begin as software."
"Moreover, because Bahamas-based FTX is private, it wasn’t possible to short the company’s shares[...] but financial engineers are trying to solve that problem[....] Caplight Technologies lets professional investors make bullish or bearish bets on unlisted startups via call and put options."
“Caplight is developing tech to enable institutional investors to take long and short private company positions via synthetic derivatives, so whether or not they own any actual shares in certain startups, they can bet on their rise or fall."
“Caplight is developing tech to enable institutional investors to take long and short private company positions via synthetic derivatives, so whether or not they own any actual shares in certain startups, they can bet on their rise or fall."
"An untapped...underserved opportunity, to enable institutional investors like hedge funds, family offices, endowments, pensions....to use options & derivatives...in the private markets"
"It's incredibly hard to hedge a startup portfolio. Caplight will provide a marketplace of options for investors to hedge portfolio risk... This ultimately should increase risk appetite, funneling more money into the early stages."
Caplight is changing private market investing. The world’s most sophisticated investment managers have already started utilizing our risk management products. Join us and contribute to the evolution of private markets.
