Listen to OPEN CEO David Shapiro discuss the importance of having institutional partners like ICE when designing and managing an index for late-stage VC. Thanks to SiliconANGLE & theCUBE & John Furrier for hosting! #Unicorns #SiliconValley #VentureCapital
OPEN (OPENVC.COM)
Technology, Information and Internet
New York, NY 430 followers
Investible Unicorn indexes of the most innovative late-stage venture capital companies.
About us
OPEN (www.openvc.com) is a fund management company backed by the New York Stock Exchange. We've built a best-in-class data, indexing, and sourcing platform to enable the launch of index-based investment strategies into some of the sought-after companies in private markets. The first product launched off this platform is the OPEN Unicorn Index Fund. The fund tracks an index of the 50 largest US Unicorns (SpaceX, Stripe, etc.) and will be constructed with direct holdings as opposed to synthetically. Accessing and valuing private companies continues to be complicated and expensive - we look to solve this challenge by offering a diversified, low-fee basket of some of the most innovative private companies to the benefit of its investors.
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- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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- Privately Held
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- 2022
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Employees at OPEN (OPENVC.COM)
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Scott Kelly
CEO of Black Dog Venture Partners and host of VC Fast Pitch. Venture Capital and Business Development
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Erik Peña
Head of Market Development, NYSE
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Sheng Chen
Co-Founder - Strategy, Engineering, Product and Operations @OpenVC | SVP Engineering Manager @GS | Data Science Adjunct Professor @CUNY
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Tom Merrett
Co-Founder & CTO - Indexing late stage Venture Capital @ OPEN - openvc.com
Updates
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Our co-founder and CEO David Shapiro visited the floor of the NYSE to sit down with John Furrier on the SiliconANGLE & theCUBE podcast to discuss indexing in private markets. In particular how the rise of AI has spurred private markets to grow at a faster pace than the S&P500 YoY. Thanks for the great conversation John, podcast dropping soon 📦 #vc #growth #nyse #ai #indexing
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First year at Future Proof ✅ We had a fantastic few days at the Future Proof conference in Huntington Beach in September. Scott Bryant and Will Snape were there meeting with a lot of likeminded RIAs and managers that are developing their alts and VC offerings. Who's going to Future Proof Miami in March?
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🚀 Cerebras Systems is gearing up for its IPO this week, with plans to raise up to $1 billion in a New York listing, which could value the company between $7 billion to $8 billion. This presents a compelling case for secondary investors, who had the chance to invest at a $2.1 billion valuation just six months ago, or at $4.8 billion three months ago. 📈 Here are some numbers based on Launchbay Platform data and provided through the Cautious Optimism newsletter. #IPO #SecondaryMarket #TechInvesting #CerebrasSystems #VentureCapital #PrivateMarkets #InvestmentOpportunity
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Great analysis Javier Avalos - Chime - a constituent in our NYSE OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn Index has appointed advisors for an IPO targeted for 2025. Is this the start of the reopening of the IPO window?
How will Chime's IPO be valued? Bloomberg reported last week that Chime hired Morgan Stanley to lead its 2025 IPO. This is news for a few reasons: 1) Picking banks is a concrete IPO planning milestone. There have been <25 US Tech IPOs since 2022 versus 125+ in 2021, according to FactSet. Signal that the IPO window is opening should make bankers, investors, and the secondary markets happy. 2) Chime was founded in 2012. Founders, employees, and investors have been waiting over a decade for this liquidity event. A positive IPO may influence other mature 'startups' to fast follow (looking at you Stripe, Canva). 3) The company's last venture funding round will have almost no bearing on IPO price expectations. Bankers will have their hands full pricing the stock issuance correctly. Let's dig in on point 3. How might a reasonable investor value Chime's IPO? 🚫 Look at last funding round? No. The company's last round valued it at $25B, but was completed in the peak 2021 fundraising environment so isn't useful for this exercise. 🟡 Look at secondary market trades? Maybe. But this is just a small part of the story. Recent closed secondary trades on Caplight Data implied a valuation between $8.5-9B. These were small lots and could indicate sellers optimizing for liquidity now vs. pinpointing fair market value. 🟡 Private comps? Maybe. Fellow 'neobank' Revolut is not a perfect comp (diversified revenue streams, different core use cases, different bank regulatory frameworks), but just received 20x+ EV/Rev based on 2023 revenue of $2.2B (per the company) & recent secondary sale valuing it at $45B (per Bloomberg). With a multiple like that, I imagine this deal shows up somewhere in Chime's IPO roadshow materials. ✅ Public comps? Definitely. Caplight's public comps analysis is below. Nubank is trading at 12x EV/LTM rev, the ARK Investment Management LLC Fintech ETF trades at 9x currently (when evaluating all fund constituents). Jeff Kauflin at Forbes reported Chime's annualized recurring revenue at $1.5B in May, growing ~30% yoy in 2023. At 9x revenue the company could yield a $13-15B valuation, depending how realized revenue shakes out this year. So what do you think? Where do new consumer-facing Fintechs price on the IPO market? DISCLAIMER: This is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to buy or sell securities. All investments carry risk, and by investing in securities of private companies you may lose some or all of your investment. Consult with your financial advisor or an investment professional before making any investment decisions. #secondaries #preIPO #privatemarkets #IPO #venturecapital #fintech
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Yesterday Reddit, Inc. was removed from the NYSE® OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn® Index. During its time as a constituent Reddit has increased in value by 233% since its addition to the index at its inception in March 2021. Meanwhile the S&P500 is up 46% over this period. Reddit is a strong example of the significant returns available in late stage venture capital and pre-IPO companies. Congratulations to the Reddit team for this phenomenal growth 👏. Reddit was removed from the index due to it being 6 months post its public listing on the NYSE as NYSE: RDDT. The Index tracks private VC backed companies. #Reddit #IPO #NYSE #VentureCapital #UnicornCompanies #LateStageVC #PreIPO #InvestmentReturns #StockMarket #SP500 #PublicListing #TechCompanies #CapitalMarkets #MarketGrowth #Finance #Investing #FinancialMarkets #GrowthInvesting #unicorn
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🚀 Late-stage VC is up 25.65% in the past 12 months! 🚀 Contrary to recent negative market commentary on venture capital, late-stage investments are making a significant rebound. 📈 According to the NYSE® OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn® Index, which tracks the value of the top 50 private VC-backed companies—including SpaceX, Stripe, Databricks, and OpenAI—the asset class is experiencing a significant rebound. What do you think the drivers are? NYSE #VentureCapital #UnicornIndex #InvestmentTrends #MarketInsights
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OPEN CEO David Shapiro was on Yahoo Finance yesterday speaking with Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton about some of the core innovations behind the NYSE OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn Index (https://lnkd.in/deuF6rbG). Thanks for having us! Interested in listening to the full interview? Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dfrBqzdJ
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A big day of updates! OPEN is thrilled to announce its partnership with Zanbato on the NYSE OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn Index! Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eai7DeTW Zanbato will serve as a key data provider for the NYSE OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn Index (NYSEOVC), an innovative new benchmark designed to track the performance of 50 prominent U.S.-based Unicorns. The partnership allows OPEN’s benchmark to leverage Zanbato’s pre-IPO secondary market data. Thanks to Akrati Johari and the entire team at Zanbato for their help in getting this over the line! #preIPO #secondaries #venture #unicorn
Zanbato Partners with OPEN to Power NYSE OPEN Venture Capital Unicorn Index with Secondary Market Data - OPEN
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