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The four routes into a private company

Whatever brought you here, the underlying market has only four shapes. Knowing which one applies to you resolves most of the confusion.

Direct secondary purchase. You buy existing shares from an employee or early investor through a marketplace that brokers the transfer. You hold the actual security, subject to company approval.

Pooled SPV or feeder vehicle. A sponsor aggregates capital from many investors and the vehicle buys the position. You own a unit in the vehicle, not the share.

Listed fund holding private companies. You buy the fund like any security. Open to retail investors and genuinely liquid, but exposure to any single company is diluted.

Employee options financing. For people who already hold vested options: a provider funds the exercise cost in exchange for a share of the eventual upside. A separate category serving a specific situation.

Which of these is available to you depends on eligibility and jurisdiction far more than on preference. The fund directory groups every provider we track by these structures.

What you should know first

Before using any part of this site, three things are worth being clear about, because they shape everything else.

We are an information and introduction service, not a financial institution. We do not sell securities, hold money, or advise on suitability.

Private-market investing is genuinely high risk. Positions are illiquid, often for years. Valuations are estimates. Total loss is a real outcome, not a disclaimer.

Eligibility decides most of it. Whether you can access a structure at all is determined by your investor classification and jurisdiction, before price or preference enters the picture.

How the matching works

The form asks four things: which fund or vehicle type interests you, your approximate ticket size, your investor status, and your jurisdiction. Those four constraints eliminate most of the market immediately.

We then filter the providers we track against those constraints and come back with the ones that can legally and practically serve you - usually a shortlist of two or three rather than a long list.

Where the honest result is that nothing fits - because you are not accredited, your ticket is below every available minimum, or no provider serves your jurisdiction - we tell you that instead of pushing you toward a poor match.

What happens to your data

The details you submit go to the specific providers we introduce you to, for the purpose of assessing whether they can serve you. We do not sell your data or add you to unrelated marketing.

You can withdraw consent at any time and ask us to delete what we hold. See the privacy policy for how long we retain enquiries and how to make a request.

Questions worth asking any provider

Whichever route you end up taking, the same questions separate a well-run provider from a poorly-run one. Ask them in writing.

• What exactly do I own - the security itself, or a unit in a vehicle that owns it?
• What is the all-in cost: placement fee, annual management fee, carried interest, administration, and any spread built into the price quoted to me?
• Is there a hurdle before carry starts, or does the sponsor share in gains from the first unit of profit?
• How does the price compare to the company's last primary round, and what explains any premium?
• Who is selling, and why? In a secondary transaction your counterparty is another shareholder.
• Has the company approved the transfer, and could a right of first refusal void it after I commit?
• What happens at an IPO - lock-up length, and does the vehicle distribute shares or cash?
• What happens if the sponsor ceases to operate? Who holds the asset and what is my recourse?
• What reporting will I receive, how often, and on what valuation basis?

A provider that answers all of these in writing is behaving properly. One that deflects on fees or on what instrument you actually receive is telling you something important.

How we are paid

Some providers pay a referral or listing fee when a user we introduce opens an account. That funds the research and keeps the site free to readers.

If you would rather not use a referral link, approach the provider directly. It costs you nothing either way and does not change what we publish.