ClearingStakes provides an institutional-grade secondary market platform for selling private fund stakes, making the exit process accessible to individual investors, founders, and family offices with positions starting from $1M. The company runs a competitive auction process, leveraging AI-powered matching to approach 500+ qualified buyers, ensuring sellers receive binding offers based on market tension rather than a single buyer's terms.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Individual investors, founders, and family offices who gained access to top private equity and venture capital funds over the past decade face a broken exit infrastructure designed for large institutions with $30M+ positions. Below that threshold, sellers are left to find a buyer themselves, often receiving a single, lowball offer without any independent valuation or competitive tension, while the operational complexity of transfers further complicates the process.
Solution
ClearingStakes brings the institutional secondary market process to stakes as small as $1M. The company conducts an independent assessment of the asset, then simultaneously approaches its network of 500+ qualified buyers using AI-powered matching to identify those with current appetite for the specific asset type, geography, and vintage. Buyers compete, generating a binding offer at the best price competitive tension can produce, which the seller reviews and decides whether to accept. ClearingStakes manages all operational complexity, including GP consents, transfer restrictions, NDA management, and legal documentation, from submission to closing.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individual investors, founders, and family offices holding private equity or venture capital fund stakes between $1M and $30M who lack access to traditional secondary market advisors.
Features
- Independent valuation of the stake to establish a market reference before buyer outreach
- AI-powered buyer matching across 500+ qualified global buyers based on asset type, geography, and vintage
- Competitive bidding process that generates binding offers rather than indications or estimates
- Full-service management of GP consents, transfer restrictions, right of first refusal, and legal documentation
- Institutional-grade process applied to mandates from $1M, below the $10M minimums of traditional advisors