🦄 Pre-IPO Secondary Market Prices — Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI, Databricks, Anthropic

Institutional-grade pre-IPO secondary market data feed. Tracks ~50 of the most-traded private unicorns and decacorns with last-known valuations, secondary-market price-per-share estimates, premium/discount vs the last priced round, IPO filing status, and full funding history. Designed for family offices, LP allocators, secondary-market funds, IPO arbitrage desks, and pre-IPO employees evaluating tender offers.

The Pre-IPO secondary market is a $130B+ annual transaction volume — and it's the single most opaque corner of finance. Forge, Hiive, EquityZen, and Yardstiq each see slivers of the market and gate everything behind a login and a $25K-$150K/year subscription. This actor consolidates the public-news price signal (TechCrunch tender disclosures, The Information secondary reports, WSJ/FT/Bloomberg round announcements, SEC Form D filings) into a single normalized dataset — pay only for the companies you actually need.

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💎 Why this actor exists

Every pre-IPO data product on the market has the same problem: the data is real, but the access is gated. A family-office allocator wanting a snapshot of where Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI, Databricks, and Anthropic are trading on the secondary today has three options:

1. Pay $25K–$150K/year for a Forge Premium / Hiive Pro / EquityZen Premium / PitchBook / Bloomberg seat — wildly overpriced if you only need it monthly.
2. Cold-call 15 secondary brokers and hope one of them has axe on the name you're tracking.
3. Read TechCrunch / The Information / Bloomberg every day and manually maintain a spreadsheet — what 90% of family offices actually do today.

This actor is the fourth option: pay $0.50 per company per refresh, get the normalized record, move on. No subscription, no minimum, no broker. Run it monthly for your 12 watchlist names → $6 per refresh, $72 per year, vs $25,000–$150,000 for an institutional seat.

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📊 What you get per company

Field	Type	Example (OpenAI, May 2026 snapshot)
company_name	string	OpenAI
slug	string	openai
last_known_valuation_usd	int	300,000,000,000
last_round_type	string	Series F (Secondary Tender)
last_round_date	ISO date	2025-03-31
secondary_market_price_per_share_low_usd	float	175.00
secondary_market_price_per_share_high_usd	float	240.00
secondary_market_price_per_share_mid_usd	float	207.50
secondary_premium_pct	float | null	(null when trading at par)
secondary_discount_pct	float | null	(e.g. 35.0 for Reddit at -35%)
total_funding_raised_usd	int	64,000,000,000
last_funding_lead_investor	string	SoftBank
sector	string	AI / ML
headquarters	string	San Francisco, California, USA
employees_estimate	int	3,500
is_unicorn	bool	true
is_decacorn	bool	true
is_hectocorn	bool	true
ipo_status	enum	None / Confidentially Filed / S-1 Filed / Postponed
crunchbase_url	string	https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai
data_source	string	news_curated (or news_curated+hiive+forge if scraped)

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🎯 Curated universe

Built around the names that actually trade — confirmed by NYSE/Nasdaq IPO calendars, Hiive's public listing surface, and the past 24 months of TechCrunch tender coverage. The Tier-1 names (always present in every refresh):

• Hectocorns ($100B+): Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI, ByteDance
• Decacorns ($10B+): Databricks, Anthropic, xAI, Anduril, Canva, Figma, Notion, Scale AI, Discord, Klarna, Chime, Brex, Ramp, Revolut, Epic Games, Fanatics, Rippling, Deel, Miro, Airtable, Carta, Shein, Kraken, Wiz
• Unicorns ($1B+): Mistral AI, Perplexity, Cohere, Glean, Hugging Face, Character.AI, Runway, Suno, Plaid, Mercury, Gusto, Relativity Space, Sierra Space, Shield AI, Helsing, Cribl, Vanta, Clay, Turo, Circle Internet, Groq, Cerebras, Waymo, Aurora Innovation, Tempus AI, Reddit (legacy pre-IPO record)

Each entry carries the most recent news-derived valuation and secondary-market estimate. When a tender, secondary, or priced round closes that we haven't yet captured, the data is refreshed via the public-news layer.

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🔬 Why curated > scraped (for this use case)

Forge, Hiive, EquityZen, and PreIPO aggressively protect their pricing data — Cloudflare, signed requests, login walls, IP rotation. We probe each source on every run, but the economic value of this data is the normalization and the schema, not the raw scrape. Goldman's Pre-IPO desk doesn't quote Stripe at $27.50–$30.00/share because they scraped Hiive — they quote it because they read the same tender-offer disclosures we do. We just put the disclosures into a table.

The actor self-heals: if Hiive returns 403, the curated record still ships. If all four primaries return 403, the entire universe still ships — that's the deterministic guarantee. The output field data_source always tells you whether the record was confirmed by a live scrape (news_curated+hiive+forge) or by news alone (news_curated).

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💰 Pricing — $0.50 per company

Item	Price
Actor start	$0.01 (charged once per run)
Per company record	$0.50 (primary event — only charged after push)

Pull the full universe of ~50 names: $25.01 per refresh. Pull only Stripe + SpaceX + OpenAI: $1.51. Pull the entire OpenAI/Anthropic/xAI/Mistral/Cohere AI bracket: $2.51. No minimums, no monthly fees, no enterprise contract.

For comparison: A single Bloomberg PE seat is $24,000/year. PitchBook Plus is $30,000/year. Forge Premium is $50,000/year. Hiive Pro and EquityZen Premium are quote-on-request — typically $25K–$60K. This actor breaks even against a Bloomberg PE seat after ~48,000 records.

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🥊 Comparison table

Feature	This actor	Forge Premium	Hiive Pro	EquityZen Premium	Bloomberg PE	PitchBook
Annual cost (50 names monthly)	$300	$50K	$25K-$60K	$25K-$60K	$24K/seat	$30K/seat
Pay-per-use	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Secondary price-per-share	✅	✅	✅	✅	partial	❌
Last priced round	✅	✅	partial	✅	✅	✅
Premium / discount vs last round	✅	✅	✅	partial	❌	❌
IPO status (S-1, DRS, Postponed)	✅	partial	❌	❌	✅	✅
Employee count + HQ	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
Lead investor in last round	✅	partial	❌	partial	✅	✅
Crunchbase cross-link	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
API access (JSON)	✅	enterprise tier	enterprise tier	❌	✅	✅
Webhook + scheduling	✅ (Apify)	❌	❌	❌	partial	❌
Login required	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅ (terminal)	✅
Accredited-investor gate	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌

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🎬 Sample use cases

1) Secondary-market funds (Lexington, Industry Ventures, Pantheon, StepStone) Refresh your monthly secondary-quote sheet across 30 watchlist names — $15 per refresh — to feed into your committee deck. Replaces a junior associate's Friday morning spreadsheet.

2) Family offices Quarterly snapshot of your direct pre-IPO holdings (Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anduril, etc.) for your year-end valuation report. Pull only the 6-12 names you actually hold — $3-$6 per refresh. No Forge seat required.

3) Pre-IPO employees evaluating a tender You got a tender offer at $28/share from your company. Pull the secondary universe, filter to your sector, see where comparable names are trading. Pull 1 record (your company) for $0.51 vs $1500/yr for a Hiive personal account.

4) IPO arbitrage desks Track the gap between secondary-market price and S-1 filing range. Pull the ipo_status=S-1 Filed slice ($3-$5 per refresh) every weekday morning. Flag any name where secondary is trading more than 25% off the filed range.

5) Bloomberg PE alternative for LP allocators Replace a $24K Bloomberg PE seat with $300/year of pay-per-use secondary data. Saves $23,700/year per allocator seat.

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🛠️ Sister actors in the NexGenData fleet

Combine this actor with the rest of the NexGenData private-market and capital-markets fleet:

• ipo-tracker — Recent + upcoming IPOs on NYSE/Nasdaq with pricing, lockup expirations, and post-IPO performance. Pair with this actor to track the secondary-to-IPO bridge for names like Klarna, Chime, and Figma.
• startup-funding-tracker — All Crunchbase-tracked priced rounds (Seed → Series K). Use it to hydrate the last-priced-round data for any private-company name not in our curated universe.
• yc-companies-directory-scraper — Full Y Combinator portfolio with company stage, batch, and current status. Pre-IPO leaders Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Faire, Brex, Rippling all trace back to YC. Feed YC unicorns into this actor for valuation lookup.
• sec-form-13f-holdings-tracker — Quarterly 13F holdings for every institutional investor. Use it to see which crossover funds (Coatue, Tiger Global, T. Rowe, Fidelity) are sitting on your pre-IPO names.
• analyst-price-targets — Sell-side consensus targets for already-public stocks. Useful for post-IPO performance of names that recently exited the pre-IPO universe (Reddit, Klaviyo, Birkenstock).
• finance-mcp-server — Unified MCP gateway aggregating every NexGenData finance actor into a single Claude / ChatGPT tool. Drop in this Pre-IPO Secondary Prices actor and ask an LLM, "What's Stripe's secondary trading at vs the last round?"

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⚙️ Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
companies	string[]	[]	Optional list of company names to look up. Empty = full universe.
min_valuation_usd	int	0	Floor on last-known valuation. Use 1e9 for unicorns, 1e10 for decacorns, 1e11 for hectocorns.
sector	enum	all	AI / ML, SaaS / Software, Fintech / Payments, Consumer Internet, Marketplaces, Defense Tech, Space / Aerospace, Biotech / Healthcare, Crypto / Web3, Hardware / Semiconductors, Mobility / Autonomous
ipo_status	enum	all	None, Confidentially Filed, S-1 Filed, Postponed
limit	int	50	Max records to emit (and be charged for). 0 = no limit.

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🚨 Important caveats

1. Secondary-market prices are estimates derived from public news, not live broker quotes. Treat them as directional. Actual transaction prices depend on share class (common vs preferred), seller motivation, minimum block size, and ROFR provisions.
2. The curated universe is the floor. When upstream sources block (Forge / Hiive / EquityZen / PreIPO have aggressive anti-bot), you still get the full record — just without the live scrape confirmation. data_source tells you which path was used.
3. Not legal investment advice. Secondary transactions in private companies are restricted to accredited investors and subject to ROFR. Consult counsel before transacting.
4. Data freshness is monthly. This actor is the directional snapshot. For live tender offers and weekly broker IOIs, you still need a Forge / Hiive seat or a broker relationship.

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📬 Custom universes & feature requests

Need a private unicorn not in our universe? Need real-time tender-offer alerts? Need a deal-flow webhook? Email contact@nexgendata.com — we add ~5 names per quarter based on subscriber demand.

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