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Employee Trading: Sell Stock

Helping executives, employees + shareholders sell private company stock to accredited institutional investors.

This Product Helps:

  • Employees + Shareholders
  • Private Companies
  • Investors
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Sell Your Shares + Discover the Value of Your Equity

5-Minute Step-by-Step Process

Step 1 Add Holdings

Initiate a Sale to Fund a Life Event.

Add your holdings, determine what your equity is worth and choose the best path for you.

Private companies are staying private longer, but your needs don’t wait until tomorrow. Sell your shares to buy a new home, fund education, or pay for other expenses.

Form to input asset type, class, and quantity for holdings with listed options ready for sale, including Common Class A shares
Step 2 Access Market

Find Buyers For Your Company Shares.

Our broad network of investor buyers can help employee shareholders to access liquidity when they decide to sell their shares. See the live buy and sell orders in the market and determine the best price for you.

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Step 3 Sell Order

Negotiate Your Orders.

The SecondMarket™ trading platform provides sellers with visibility throughout the transaction process and allows you to directly accept or negotiate with live bids or start your own sell order.

Bids and offers listing with highest bid at $42 per share for 50,000 shares, and transaction summary for a $2,100,000 opportunity
Step 4 Match + Settle

Settle Shares + Transfer Funds. All On One Platform.

Our Transfer and Settlement technology helps to manage your share transfer activity throughout match to settlement streamlining transfer of funds alongside company equity administration teams.

Get Paid page with $514,800 net proceeds and detailed transaction steps
Life Happens. Opportunities Await.

Today, Private Companies are Staying Private Longer, but Your Needs Don't Wait Until Tomorrow.

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Sell Your Equity

Employees and shareholders often need to sell shares, regardless of their strong belief in a company.

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Fund Life Events

Sell shares to buy new homes, fund education, or pay for other expenses.

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Paths to Liquidity

In an uncertain environment, we identify buyers for shares when you need it most.

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Manage Risk

Selling stock can play a role in achieving a diversified portfolio.

Matching Buyers + Sellers.

Finding Active Institutional Investors for Your Shares

Our broad investor network of buyers helps shareholders access liquidity when selling shares. Our platform provides sellers with visibility throughout the transaction process.

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Why Nasdaq Private Market.

Multiple Opportunities. One Partner.

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Investor + Employee Liquidity

Secondary share sales provide liquidity for founders, executives, and early angel or seed-stage investors.

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Competitive Bid Process

Shareholders may receive offers for their shares from our network of investors.

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Active Buyer Network Access

Our institutional buyer network consists of carefully vetted institutions actively seeking secondary investment opportunities.

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Easy-to-Use Platform

Our technology provides simple onboarding, order entry, match, and settlement processes.

Step-by-Step 5-Minute Process

4 Simple Steps to Put Your Shares to Work

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Add Holdings

Add your holdings and evaluate what your equity is worth.

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Access Market

Find current buyers and learn what others like you are selling in the market.

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Sell Order

Submit your own sell order or respond to an existing buy order.

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Match + Settle

Match a transaction, settle your shares, and transfer funds to get paid.

Client Testimonials.
Docker for Testimonial - Scott Baumgartner
Thanks to Nasdaq Private Market we were able to offer eligible Docker employees valuable liquidity for their equity grants. Their commitment to client success continues to deliver powerful results for our team, shareholders, and investors.

Scott Baumgartner

Chief Financial Officer, Docker

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We had the pleasure of using the NPM platform and had a fantastic overall experience. Nasdaq Private Market’s knowledgeable and efficient team enabled us to successfully launch in a tight time frame.

June Ko

Legal, CircleCI

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NPM has been a key partner in Hopper's program to create multiple opportunities for partial employee liquidity. We appreciate NPM's creativity in adapting to Hopper's unique transaction structures.

Brian Carroll

VP Corporate Development and General Counsel, Hopper

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NPM serves as an incredible partner for us. We’ve leveraged their secondary solutions multiple times to provide liquidity for employees. They deliver a professional and seamless experience for our team.

Matthew Rinegar

Senior Corporate Counsel, Icertis

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Working with NPM, especially their tireless and service-oriented operations team, made our transaction a smooth one. NPM's support enabled us to keep our attention on the athletes we serve & employees who obsess over them.

Annie Frye

Legal, Strava

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Thank you to Nasdaq Private market for being a great partner throughout the tender offer process!

Scott Buxton

VP of Finance, DataDog