Lise – Lightning Stock Exchange, the new stock exchange dedicated to small-cap companies in Europe, is pleased to announce its partnership with Valutico, the leading valuation platform for finance professionals. This partnership comes as Lise prepares to welcome its first listed company.
Redefining the Small-Cap Ecosystem through Innovation
As Europe’s first fully tokenized equity exchange, Lise is committed to supporting European SMEs throughout their entire equity lifecycle.
Through this collaboration, Lise will use Valutico’s technology to conduct IPO valuation assessments, ensuring a data-driven approach and providing issuers with an initial benchmark as they prepare for listing.
“At Valutico, technology is at the heart of everything we do. Our platform is designed to make valuation faster, more accurate, and more transparent. By partnering with Lise, we’re proud to apply our technology to a new generation of stock exchanges, supporting their mission to bring efficiency and trust to small-cap markets through innovation.”
Paul Resch, CEO at Valutico
This partnership goes beyond the IPO. It also addresses one of the key challenges for small-cap markets: liquidity. By introducing bi-annual valuation reviews for all companies listed on Lise’s market, the collaboration will provide investors with regular, data-driven insights strengthening market confidence and enhancing liquidity across the ecosystem.
Information Drives Liquidity
This solution directly addresses the critical need for better market information, a prerequisite for efficient trading. These valuation reviews are included in Lise’s listing fees, and each analysis report will be made publicly available, ensuring full transparency for all market participants.
“Liquidity is first and foremost a question of information.By ensuring regular, and data-driven valuations, we help investors and issuers align on fair value. This partnership with Valutico is a first step toward building a more liquid and trusted market for small and mid-cap companies.”
Mark Kepeneghian, CEO of Lise- Lightning Stock Exchange
This partnership represents a new milestone in Lise’s commitment to innovation, which lies at the heart of its fully tokenized market infrastructure. Through strategic collaborations such as this one, Lise aims to address key market challenges and further strengthen the SME market segment across Europe.
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Valutico is the world’s leading AI-powered business valuation platform. Valutico’s all-in-one software allows finance professionals to value a company in minutes, by providing data-driven tools to conduct analyses faster and more accurately. Used by more than 850 financial firms in over 90 countries, Valutico is an emerging force in the world of business valuations. Founded in 2017, and headquartered in Vienna with subsidiaries in the US and UK, Valutico operates worldwide with an ever-growing network of valuation specialists using their platform, consultancy services, and their valuation training.
Lise-Lightning Stock Exchange is a new generation of market infrastructure for SMEs and mid-cap companies. Lise is the first French market infrastructure to combine, within a single platform, the roles of both a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) and a Central Securities Depository (CSD) in a unified framework, leveraging the European DLT Pilot Regime and tokenization of financial instruments. Lise facilitates the issuance, trading, and instant settlement of listed securities while drastically reducing the costs and operational complexities of IPOs. Its mission is to make capital markets more accessible to companies in key sectors such as energy, industry, infrastructure, and defence, while offering investors a continuous secondary market available 24/7. Lise counts among its shareholders CACEIS (a subsidiary of the Crédit Agricole Group), BNP Paribas, and Bpifrance. In October 2025, Lise obtained its investment firm license from the ACPR to operate as a DLT-TSS, and plans to carry out its first IPO as early as 2026.
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