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Kelly Rodriques
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Forge's private AI index shows rapid enterprise revenue and valuation scaling, highlighting immense secondary investor interest.
The historic deal allows Schwab's millions of clients and trillions in assets to participate cleanly in private markets.
Private secondary market trading has surged past its 2021 peak, with transactions competing with IPOs as the primary liquidity mechanism. Employee-backed secondaries reached 31% of all primary venture activity in 2025.
Staying private shield CEOs from hard questions, creating an echo chamber of sycophantic private boards. Public markets provide clean, brutal truth and pressure testing that ultimately makes companies stronger.
The alliance between Forge and Charles Schwab will democratize access to legendary private assets like SpaceX. This integration represents a major structural shift toward retail-accessible late-stage private equity.
Many venture capitalists focus exclusively on buying, forgetting that returning liquidity to LPs is the goal. Taking chips off the table during high-priced private secondary rounds is a fiduciary duty.
Mutual funds like Fidelity are capped at 15% private asset ownership, but voluntarily restrict exposure further. When private giants finally IPO, a massive wave of public market dry powder will flood back.
Sierra is building native agents for customer service and sales, redefining software. Although they face platform risk from base models, their sophisticated agentic layers make them highly attractive.
Revolut operates with a next-generation software stack, systematically unbundling traditional banks across Europe and the US. Their robust margins and massive scale make them a prime secondary target.
As chips disaggregate into specialized prefill and decode tasks, AI data centers must reinvent networking. ARIA and DriveNets represent the highly specialized infrastructure layer that will capture massive spend.
Neurorobotics is a German industrial robotics company capturing huge logistics revenues out of the limelight of Silicon Valley. They represent exceptional execution with over 100 million in revenue.
Zipline bypassed regulatory hurdles in US airspace by proving its autonomous drone tech delivering critical medicine in Africa. In doing so, they dropped maternal mortality rates by up to 95% in key regions.
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