We believe in private markets for the public
EquityZen helps shareholders sell their equity for cash, with company approval, even while the company is still private. We believe employees and investors deserve the right to realize the value they have helped create.
Until recently, access to pre-IPO companies has been limited. By leveraging technology and market expertise, our platform provides accredited investors access to pre-IPO, late stage technology investments at reasonable minimums via our investment funds.
Leadership
Atish Davda
Atish was VP Product at Ampush, a big-data advertising technology firm. He launched SF-based Ampush's New York office as first engineer and successfully procured the coveted Facebook Preferred Mark...
Phil Haslett
Phil was a Vice President at Pomelo Capital, a NYC-based hedge fund, focusing on capital structure arbitrage. After helping launch the fund (now $300mm+ AUM), he was responsible for trading, resear...
Chris Giampapa
Chris spent more than 15 years as an attorney at two large NYC law firms, where he represented leading asset managers and broker-dealers, before taking the plunge to join a startup. He now enjoys h...
Deva Kandpal
Deva most recently led product, design and data at Skillshare, an ed tech organization in New York. Before that he was an early employee and product leader at FanDuel, ...
Catherine Klinchuch
Catherine was an Equity Research Analyst covering Real Estate Investment Trusts, most recently at Bank of America. Prior to that, she also held research positions at Morgan Stanley, Evercore and KB...
Linda Paul
EquityZen is Linda's third time as a company's first Human Resources (aka "People Ops") leader in the startup world. Prior to building the HR functions at Schoology and Meetup, she worked for...
Brian Griffith
Advisors
Jim Kaplan
Jim Kaplan is the co-founder of CHASELLA, a private equity firm that specializes in real estate investment and development, and in supporting new products and services across a variety of industrie...
Savneet Singh
Savneet is the President and Co-Founder of GBI, a leading institutional precious metals provider to individual investors and the wealth management industry. Prior to GBI, he was an investment analy...
Nima Elyassi-Rad
Nima is currently an Executive in Residence at Canvas Venture Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund based in Menlo Park, CA. Prior to his current role, he held a variety of positions, including...
Partners
Investors
EquityZen in the News
"EquityZen and others do the same for private companies. The idea of directly marketing shares to customers is old, but the new wave makes it far easier—at the click of a button—and cheaper."
"With private tech companies staying public for longer and the number of unicorns increasing, pre-IPO investment platforms such as EquityZen offer startup employees a means to cash out some of their equity."
"Firms that buy employee shares, like... EquityZen, have proliferated in the past few years."
