2021 Secondary market activity (Carta)

From the Carta 2021 Liquidity Report: Carta completed 129 secondary liquidity transactions for private companies in 2021—more than 4x the total conducted in 2020. Dollars transacted rose from $2.2 billion in 2020 to $7.4 billion in 2021. Liquidity momentum also diversified across geographies: Companies outside California initiated 47% of secondaries on Carta in 2021, compared … Read more

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We are excited to release this companion website for our paper “Private or Public Equity?The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape”. We aim to make this site the “living document” of the paper with updated statistics, figures and datasets for interested researchers.