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July 6, 2022

June performance in Private Stocks Rivals Public Markets

New York, NY, July 6, 2022 — ApeVue reports extended declines to end the second quarter. With a sizeable sellers market, along with an underweighting of bids and trades by historical measures, ApeVue’s composites fell across all major sectors through June; declines were apparent in unicorn stocks spanning entertainment, data/analytics, finance, and private food companies.

June 28, 2022

The great Silicon Valley shake-out

ApeVue, a data provider, offers a hint of what is happening by tracking share prices in the secondary markets, where shares of private firms can be bought and sold. An equally weighted index of the 50 most-traded startups has declined by 17% since its peak in January. Using ApeVue’s data, The Economist estimates that a basket of 12 big startups worth $1trn at the start of this year is now worth about $750bn.

June 3, 2022

Key Private Equity Names Continue Visible Decline through May

New York, NY, June 3, 2022 — ApeVue, the first independent provider of daily time series pricing and benchmarking for private markets, continues to report declines in the second quarter. By utilizing both objective primary and secondary market activity, ApeVue data show equity price fluctuations between funding rounds and regular financial reporting periods.

May 5, 2022

Private Markets Dampen with Further Declines in April

May 5, 2022 — ApeVue, the first independent pricing data service for private stocks, continues to show weakness inferred from the private equity secondaries market this year. From January 1 to the end of April, the average stock price in the ApeVue Active 50 (a basket representing the most active companies observed in the institutional secondary market) declined 9.64%. Private stocks (including ByteDance, Epic Games, Klarna, and OpenSea) led the charge lower through April, while still maintaining stronger relative performance to key public benchmarks; shown below as the comparison between...

April 6, 2022

Private Company Stock Prices End Q1 with 6.27% Decline

April 6, 2022 — Unicorn companies’ stocks largely continued their 2022 declines through March, according to ApeVue, the first daily, independent pricing data service for late stage private stocks. From January 1 to the end of March, the average stock price in the ApeVue Active 50 (a basket representing the most active companies observed in the institutional secondary market) declined 6.27%. Despite a stronger performance over the last year, private company stocks have seen their year to date returns in the realm of their publicly-traded peers. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down 4.95% and 9.10

February 9, 2022

Private Company Stocks Outperform Public Equities by 107% in 2021

Stocks of private companies far outpaced public equities last year, according to ApeVue, the first independent, daily pricing data service for pre-IPO stocks. Amid a strong year in public markets, the 50 most active private companies in the institutional market, including well known unicorns like SpaceX, Impossible Foods and Epic Games, and less visible, but significant companies like Stripe, Chime and Discord, returned 133.91% for investors in 2021.

January 13, 2022

First Daily Pricing Data Service for Pre-IPO Stocks Launched by ApeVue

The first independent, daily pricing data service for pre-IPO stocks launched today by ApeVue. The service provides daily prices for around 100 non-public companies, including well known unicorns like SpaceX, Impossible Foods and Epic Games, as well as less visible, but significant companies like Addepar, Chime and Discord.

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