Founders’ guides to equity, valuations, and company growth.
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Eqvista mobile app, the first app built for Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation®. The launch represents another step toward making company valuation more accessible, dynamic, and available wherever business decisions are made. For decades, company valuations have been delivered as static reports created at a specific point …
Hundreds of OpenAI employees recently cashed out their equity holdings through a company-run tender offer, with many becoming millionaires overnight. The headlines were astonishing. But behind the spectacle is a structural shift that every founder, HR leader, and startup employee needs to understand. When I saw the headlines, I wasn’t surprised it happened. What struck …
The most important part of the SpaceX IPO story is not where the company priced. It’s the sequence of events around it and what that sequence says about how we value companies before they ever reach the public market. On Thursday afternoon, June 11, 2026, before SpaceX began public trading, I noted on LinkedIn that …
Secondary fund managers are expected to make fast, high-stakes decisions in a market that still relies on slow, outdated valuation reports. That mismatch is becoming harder to ignore as portfolio companies move, markets shift, and LP expectations keep rising. Secondary market funds sit in a unique part of private equity. They buy existing equity stakes …
A few years ago, I kept coming back to one frustrating thought: Why do private company founders, employees, and shareholders have to wait an entire year, sometimes longer, just to get a PDF telling them what their equity is worth? That felt broken to me. So we decided to fix it. When we started building …
When SpaceX went public, I wasn’t surprised by what happened. I was, however, struck by how clearly it validated everything we’ve been building at Eqvista. What I find most telling about this moment is the sequence of events. On June 11, 2026, before SpaceX began public trading, our Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation® model had already …
For private companies, the 409A valuation has long served as the standard compliance benchmark. It is the formal, legally recognized valuation used to determine the fair market value of common stock for stock option grants, and it remains a critical part of any sound equity compensation strategy. But a 409A is still a snapshot. It …
At Eqvista, we’ve built one of the largest private company valuation engines in the market, with more than 25,000 companies on the platform representing nearly $4 trillion in company value. Built on deep private market data, our real-time valuation model gives founders a faster, smarter, and more dynamic way to understand the value they are …
Despite their scale and importance, private markets still operate with fragmented pricing visibility and valuation systems built around periodic reporting cycles rather than continuously updated market intelligence. That gap has always bothered me. And it’s becoming harder for anyone to justify. Public equities benefit from continuous pricing signals generated through trading activity, analyst coverage, and …
We woke up this morning realizing that what we had been building toward for more than a year is now real: Eqvista has built one of the largest valuation engines in the market. What began with manual 409A valuations became the foundation for something far bigger. Today, Eqvista has valued 9,935 private companies representing $2.06 …
At the Montgomery Summit, I had the opportunity to present Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation® and share a broader perspective on where private markets are heading. The discussion was not just about our company, but about a structural shift taking place across the entire market: private companies are staying private longer, reaching far greater scale, and creating …
Disclaimer: Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation® is an AI-driven estimate for informational purposes only; it is not a certified 409A valuation or a substitute for legal, tax, or investment advice. The Illusion of the Peak In 2021, consumer banking app Step rode the fintech boom to a massive $1 Billion valuation. Fast forward to February 2026, …
Disclaimer: Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation® is an AI-driven estimate for informational purposes only; it is not a certified 409A valuation or a substitute for legal, tax, or investment advice. The Challenge How do you accurately track the value of a private company operating at the massive scale of SpaceX? For the world’s most valuable private …
In 2026, the secondary stock market, particularly for private company shares, finds itself at a critical crossroads. While the market is celebrating record-breaking transaction volumes, it continues to grapple with a fundamental structural flaw: a total lack of past price transparency. Unlike public exchanges, where every tick and trade history is a matter of public …
Companies’ equity is the most powerful tool at any stage, from early angel rounds, through all the alphabet rounds, IPO, being publicly traded, or even being delisted. Every stage involves equity movement. Some companies choose to remain privately owned with a small number of employees holding ownership stakes. Great entrepreneurs’ equity ownership is fascinating. A …
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