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Caplight
Institutional derivatives for pre-IPO securities
- 1-20 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Investing
- Financial Services
- Jordan Park, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To enable trading of financial derivatives on private company stock.
25% female employees
Our take
The pace of funding and dealmaking is getting increasingly faster, which can make things difficult for investors. Caplight solves this problem by enabling investors to trade derivatives of private equity.
Caplight's founders have a wealth of experience in investment banking, and the company has benefited greatly from their expertise and real-world investing knowledge. The firm has already accrued well over $400 million in interest from over 30 institutions, including hedge funds, VC funds and insurance firms. This is testament to the value of its platform's solutions.
Caplight's recent $1.7 million funding is further proof of its staying power. However, the company does face stiff competition from the likes of Forge and Apeira Capital. It will need to maintain and scale its customer base in order to remain competitive.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Unlimited time off
- Health, dental, vision insurance
- Since we are still early stage, our benefits package is still in a beta mode. Do tell us what you think is important!
Leadership
Justin Moore
(CTO)Justin has led engineering teams at startups over the past decade. Prior to Caplight, he was an early engineer at a (now-public) startup that built a marketplace for buying & selling pre-IPO stock.
Javier Avalos
(CEO)Prior to Caplight, Javier led the marketplace team at Forge. Previously worked in Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking team.