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SecondMarket

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SecondMarket is the leading marketplace for alternative investments. It has become the online destination for building your investor network, discovering interesting investment opportunities, and transacting in assets such as private venture-backed companies and private community banks, fixed income products, public equity and bankruptcy claims. SecondMarket simplifies secondary market activity by connecting buyers and sellers and providing world-class market and operations expertise.

Since 2004, SecondMarket has brought together more than 100,000 individuals and institutions and completed billions of dollars in alternative investment transactions. SecondMarket is backed by premier long-term investors, including: FirstMark Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, Li Ka-shing Foundation, Temasek Holdings, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Silicon Valley Bank. SecondMarket is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA, MSRB and SIPC and a registered alternative trading system (ATS) for private company stock. For more information, please visit www.SecondMarket.com.

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Milestones

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  SecondMarket added Brendan O'Connor as Managing Director & Head of Trading.
  Posted 3/12/12 at 5:48am
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  SecondMarket added Chamath Palihapitiya as Board of Directors.
  Posted 11/7/11 at 1:27pm
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  SecondMarket added Michael Lysaght as VP, Engineering. (3/1/09)
  Posted 10/7/10 at 2:54pm
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  SecondMarket added Dominic Preuss as Chief Product Officer. (8/1/10)
  Posted 9/3/10 at 5:35am
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  SecondMarket added Kevin Wang as VP, Business Services.
  Posted 8/27/10 at 5:05am
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  SecondMarket added Adriana Gascoigne as VP, Marketing.
  Posted 5/21/10 at 9:24am
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  SecondMarket added Mark Murphy as Director, Head of Public Affairs.
  Posted 1/20/10 at 8:01am
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  SecondMarket added Jeremy Smith as Chief Strategy Officer.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  SecondMarket added M. Adam Oliveri as Managing Director, Private Company.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  SecondMarket added Christopher Moon as Director, Bankruptcy Claims.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  SecondMarket added Stuart Donovan as Chief Technology Officer.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  SecondMarket added Chris Chakford as Managing Director, Auction-Rate Securities.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  SecondMarket added Barry Silbert as Founder.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  SecondMarket received $15M in Series C funding. (11/1/11)
  Posted 11/1/11 at 8:37pm via techcrunch.com
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  SecondMarket received $3.8M in Series A funding. (1/1/07)
  Posted 4/14/11 at 7:47am via stanford.edu
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  SecondMarket received $15M in Series B funding. (2/1/10)
  Posted 2/23/10 at 6:53am via wsj.com

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Auction-rate Securities Market

Bankruptcy Claims Market

Limited Partnership Interests Market

Private Company Stock Market

Restricted Securities Market

SecondMarket Collateralized Debt Obligations

SecondMarket Mortgage-Backed Securities

SecondMarket Whole Loans

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Sources

1. SecondMarket Buys InsideVenture (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
2. Capital Report Index [edit]
3. Barry Silbert states amounts raised and valuations for every round in this discussion at Stanford Univ. (ecorner.stanford.edu) [edit]
4. Barry Silbert explains in his discussion to Stanford Univ. (ecorner.stanford.edu) [edit]
5. Temasek, Li Ka-shing Foundation Invest in SecondMarket (online.wsj.com) [edit]
6. Former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Invests $15 Million In SecondMarket, Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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