#EQUITYZEN STOCK SERIES#
Pathways to a Just Digital Future Watch this tech inequality series featuring scholars, practitioners, & activists įor a handful of reasons, the transactions that EZ facilitates would be much more difficult to execute outside of the platform (if at all practicable). Second it simplifies control matters by only granting economic value rights to its underlying shareholders allowing the Company to keep voting and information rights. First, it cleans up the cap table by aggregating the shares held by disparate holders into one owner. įor the Companies whose shares are being traded, EZ offers two key benefits. The illustration below lays out how the platform works for both potential buyers and sellers. Stepping into that void, EZ’s private market investment platform seeks to bridge some of the structural issues preventing private company equity from being traded.
And for private Companies, these trends have reduced the value employees ascribe to the equity compensation component of their pay packages. For interested potential investors in the companies in question, these trends have reduced the avenues through which they can get stakes in some of the most sought-after investment opportunities in the economy. For employees holding private company stock, these trends have served to significantly reduce their ability to draw upon a significant share of their personal wealth. The twin trends in question are the increased proliferation of equity compensation as a key component of employee benefit packages the decision by many private businesses to delay going public for years longer than was previously the case. Prompted by the problematic confluence of two key trends in the corporate landscape, EquityZen’s (“EZ”) investing platform seeks to create benefits through value-added intermediation for both sellers and buyers of non-listed equities.
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