As liquidity challenges remain for the European VC, Forge Global was mentioned as another platform for the private market of investors.
With the surge in investment toward artificial intelligence companies, IPO watchers are still checking stocks on startup pages such as Forge Global.
“One of the big fear-of-missing-out effects is institutional investors afraid the IPO window is going to reopen, and they won’t be in private” companies beforehand, said Forge Global Holdings Inc.Chief Executive Officer Kelly Rodriques. “We’re in that moment now.”
Buyers and sellers are coming to a consensus on startup valuations, which is the first step to jump-starting the late-stage market.
Forge Global CEO Kelly Rodriques joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss growing momentum in the IPO market, secondary markets for investment into private companies, and late-stage private market valuations.
Data from Forge’s November 2022 report indicates that startups that raised earlier in the present downturn wound up collecting fewer down rounds and received better overall pricing than their more reticent brethren.