We believe in private markets for the public
Since 2013, the EquityZen marketplace has made it easy to buy and sell shares in private companies. EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. With low investment minimums through our funds and with more than 35,000 private placements completed across 400+ companies, EquityZen leads the way in delivering “Private Markets for the Public”.
Leadership
Atish Davda
Atish is at the helm of EquityZen which is making his dream of bringing private markets to the public a reality. Prior to this entrepreneurial adventure, Atish was VP Product at Ampush, ...
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...
Eric Bernstein
Eric joined EquityZen as Chief Operating Officer in 2021 after spending more than 25 years in banking and financial technology. Over the last 20 years, Eric has had roles ...
Jean Brandolini Lamb
Jean joined EquityZen as Head of Marketing in September 2022. Over the last 20+ years, Jean has led marketing teams at global financial services and technology compa...
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...
Brian Griffith
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...
Sudesh Kulkarni
Sudesh, who joined EquityZen in August 2022, is a product leader with extensive experience in new product development, product strategy, delivery and execution. He has led multiple business-transfo...
Samphel Norden
Samphel is VP, Engineering at EquityZen. He is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of experience building, scaling and managing technology teams over a diverse range of startups a...
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...
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
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."
