AST Private Company Solutions™ (AST PCS) introduced a new strategic partnership with Liquid Stock, the venture capital-like investment fund providing bespoke liquidity solutions to pre-IPO companies, their investors and employees. Shareholders and CFOs using PCS’s new Astrella™ capitalization (cap) table and ownership data management platform will now be able to seamlessly access Liquid Stock to more efficiently facilitate liquidity financing that is non-recourse, tax-efficient and does not require the sale of shares.
“Liquid Stock was born of financial innovation reaching back over two decades serving companies and employees in Silicon Valley”
AST PCS, the Silicon Valley-based unit of ownership data management leader AST, recently launched Astrella as a transformative technology in private company shareholder management. The new cloud-based software-as-a-service platform brings together private blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics, and was built with an API-based ecosystem to quickly integrate with innovative new providers in the private markets, such as Liquid Stock—a fund backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Coller Capital and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP).
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The agreement is the latest among a group of partners that AST PCS has recently announced, including 409A valuation leaders Economics Partners and Derivatas and digital documentation and storage giant Box. These strategic relationships deliver on a diverse array of private shareholder requirements, with common objectives including rapid data access and availability, efficient reporting workflow for private company ownership, and the best possible end-to-end user experience. With the Liquid Stock tie-up, these benefits now extend to the market for unrealized equity compensation and secondaries trading, which is estimated to be worth billions of dollars and is growing quickly under today’s uncertain economic conditions.
“Liquid Stock was born of financial innovation reaching back over two decades serving companies and employees in Silicon Valley,” says Robert Pitti, cofounder at Liquid Stock. “This market has evolved tremendously over time and today it demands far more technological and data management sophistication, as options are exercised and shares bought and sold more frequently and in ways they have never before. We respect the leadership team has built Astrella greatly, and felt this connection lent an excellent opportunity to avail our fund to a much larger array of startups and companies. We are extremely pleased to partner with them.”
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