Eqvista

Eqvista, the leading equity management and valuation platform for private companies, announced the launch of the Eqvista mobile app, the first app built to provide real-time company valuation insights powered by Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation®. Available on iOS and Android, the app extends the Eqvista Real-Time Company Valuation® platform to mobile devices, giving founders, investors, and finance professionals direct access to continuously updated valuation insights wherever business decisions are made. Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/eqvista-launches-first-app-real-124200659.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHz5QaJ0tyDbnrF5bCKA0ANn4ZCImXytZaTYebysEJRVHGcIfNy9NGWrDe4afqy2EJwqpp5TQl_qllIqFuEZW718jsi6Nv6z1P5kv5ZMjNWCbm3588QgOAEN5CXXk4-mTg5JeY_AS4B2Tujs7KYr_puKuF-qIDK6rMwR_YsK2MRX

Silicon Valley has spent decades perfecting the art of creating equity. Figuring out what to do with it before an IPO is proving more complicated. The traditional startup bargain was relatively simple: join early, take equity, help build something valuable, and wait for the exit. Investors played a version of the same game. The IPO, or an acquisition, was the moment years of illiquid ownership finally turned into something tangible. That bargain looks increasingly outdated when successful companies can remain private for 10, 15, or even 20 years. A startup can now become a multibillion-dollar business without ever ringing an opening bell. Employees can accumulate substantial equity. Early investors can sit on major unrealized gains. Founders can build companies operating at a scale once associated primarily with the public markets. The value is being created. Access to it hasn’t kept pace. “An IPO should be a strategic choice, not the price a company has to pay for liquidity,” says Tomas Milar, founder and CEO of equity management and valuation platform Eqvista. “If staying private longer is the new reality, the financial infrastructure around private ownership has to catch up.” And that may be the more interesting story. The problem isn’t simply that private companies need another way to sell shares. It’s that a market built around waiting for an exit is colliding with a world in which the wait itself has fundamentally changed. Read more here: https://gritdaily.com/the-private-market-grew-up-its-liquidity-model-didnt/

In this episode, Ghassen BENHADJSALAH sits down with Tomas Milar, Founder & CEO of Eqvista, for a conversation on how private company valuations could evolve beyond static reports and toward real-time pricing. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFY2yhP-N4

Most business owners have no idea what their company is actually worth, and neither does anyone else. Private companies don't trade on a market. There's no ticker, no graph, no daily price. So when it's time to raise capital, reward early employees, or sell, you're guessing. That guessing costs you real money. If you've been grinding for years, building something real, and you still can't answer "what's my company worth today?" this one is for you. In this episode of Built To Exit, Jason Sisneros sits down with Tomas Milar, founder of Eqvista, a company that issues stocks and provides equity valuations for private companies. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3N1zEn10c

Private-company valuations are moving faster than the processes traditionally used to measure them. The private market has also become increasingly fragmented, with companies across sectors facing very different valuation environments as investor appetite, company performance and market conditions shift. The divergence is exposing a growing challenge for founders and investors: A private company can raise capital at one valuation and look materially different just months later, either because the business has changed or the market around it has. Yet private-company valuation is still largely built around snapshots in time. "In many cases, yes. A lot can change inside a private company in 3-6 months, and the market around it can change even faster," said Tomas Milar, founder and CEO of equity management and valuation platform Eqvista. Read more here: https://www.benzinga.com/partner/general/26/09/61877211/why-annual-valuations-are-losing-relevance-private-markets-evolve