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Barry Silbert

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Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest secondary market dedicated to creating liquidity for alternative investments, including private company stock, bankruptcy claims, fixed income, public equity and private community bank stock. SecondMarket has over 85,000 registered market participants on its online platform and has conducted billions of dollars in transactions across all of its asset classes.

In 2011, SecondMarket was honored by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, recognized by Fast Company as one of the “Ten Most Innovative Companies in Finance” and named as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 companies. Barry was also invited to join Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Council on Technology and Innovation, and was named to Fortune’s prestigious “40 Under 40” list. In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In addition, SecondMarket was recently named as one of “America’s Most Promising Companies” by Forbes. Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004, Barry was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey, where he focused on financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate financing transactions. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Barry worked at Bear Stearns, Smith Barney and Rydex Funds. Barry graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.

Barry is a frequent speaker at conferences and has appeared in many leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, USA Today and Forbes. Barry has been featured on CNBC, CNN Money, Bloomberg News and Fox Business News.

Barry is also an active angel investor with investments in a number of exciting start-ups, including Art.sy, IvyDate, Murfie, Peek, RealDirect, Send the Trend, Slated, SponsorHub and Tapad.

Recent Milestones

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  Barry Silbert invested in Coinsetter. (4/9/13)
  Posted 4/10/13 at 4:10am via techcrunch.com
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  Barry Silbert invested in BitPay. (1/7/13)
  Posted 1/7/13 at 6:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Barry Silbert invested in Lua Technologies. (8/1/12)
  Posted 3/23/12 at 7:34am via techcrunch.com
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  Barry Silbert invested in IvyDate. (6/1/12)
  Posted 6/4/12 at 3:18am via prweb.com
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  Barry Silbert invested in SponsorHub. (12/8/11)
  Posted 12/8/11 at 5:26am via sponsorhub.com
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  Barry Silbert invested in Tapad. (3/3/11)
  Posted 3/18/11 at 7:12am via adexchanger.com
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at Tapad. (3/3/11)
  Posted 3/18/11 at 7:05am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Founder at SecondMarket.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 9:35am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at Artsy.
  Posted 2/27/12 at 10:26am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at Artsy.
  Posted 2/27/12 at 10:28am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at Murfie.
  Posted 2/27/12 at 10:28am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at RealDirect.
  Posted 2/27/12 at 10:28am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at sendthetrend.
  Posted 2/27/12 at 10:28am
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  Barry Silbert added a position as Investor at SponsorHub.
  Posted 2/27/12 at 10:28am

Investments

Videos

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1. Coinsetter Lands $500K From SecondMarket Founder & Others To Help Bring Leverage, Shorting To Bitcoin Trade (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. BitPay Banks $510K In Investment To Become PayPal for Bitcoin, Already Has 2,100 Businesses On Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Lua Goes From A Manhattan Basement To $2.5M In Seed Funding From IA Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. IvyDate Raises $1.45 Million in Series A Funding (prweb.com) [edit]
5. SPONSORHUB ANNOUNCES INVESTORS IN FIRST ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR EVENT SPONSORSHIP INDUSTRY (sponsorhub.com) [edit]
6. Tapad Announces Investors in First Real-time Advertising Platform for Smart Devices (adexchanger.com) [edit]