Technology drives growth.
Invest smarter.
EQUIAM democratizes access to the private technology market via programmatic, data-driven investment strategies.
Fund II has launched. Express interest.
Brex
Checkr
Airtable
Gusto
HashiCorp
Convoy
Asana
Formlabs
Databricks
Plaid
KeepTruckin
Scale AI
Invest in a diversified portfolio of the top U.S. venture-backed private tech companies
Why Invest in Private Technology
Companies are staying private longer, and this trend is continuing.
Multiple While Private vs. Multiple While Public
While 90s tech startups grew 100x post-IPO, that public multiple is now < 10x.
from Series A to IPO
10,000X 1,000X 100X 10X 1X |  |
| IPO Year |
1990
Cisco
1997
Amazon
2002
Netflix
2004
Google
2011
Facebook
2014
Alibaba
|
EQUIAM Provides Attractive Risk-Adjusted Returns via Growth & Late Stage Companies
We use data-driven, programmatic strategies to identify the highest potential growth and late stage companies while mitigating risk.
Angel, Seed, Series A & B
- Concept driven global idea
- Need capital to grow
- Valuations are based on top-level opportunity
- Binary outcomes (70%+ failure rate)
Series C & D
- Proven business models
- Accelerating KPIs
- Valuations based on core financial metrics
- High risk, high returns
Series E+
- Highly recognizable business
- Valuation driven by visbility of near term IPO
- “Winner takes all” phenomenon comes into play
Based on “The Startup Investment Cycle”, by Credo Venture
EQUIAM is led by a veteran team of asset management, venture, and technology professionals with decades of collective experience.
Ziad Makkawi
Founder & CEO
30+ years of experience building and running Asset Management & Private Equity firms and Investment Banks.
John Zic
Head of Business Operations
Former Director of Business Operations at Forge (f.k.a. Equidate), where he facilitated $400M+ in private secondary transactions.
Sohail Prasad
Executive Committee
Co-Founder and President at Forge (f.k.a. Equidate); Founding partner at S2 Capital.
Najam Kidwai
Executive Committee
Entrepreneur, investor and advisor at 23&Me, Boxed, Forge (f.k.a. Equidate), TechSync, and Mio Global.
Strategic Partnership with
EQUIAM has strategically partnered with Forge, the stock market for private companies. Forge has executed $1B+ in transaction volume over the past year and maintains a $2B+ active order book.
Forge gives EQUIAM a competitive edge in execution
Tap into a massive network
Forge has transacted with thousands of individuals and institutions accross the world, in dozens of companies via secondary transactions.
Access more companies
Forge employs flexible transaction structures that enable access to more companies than its competitors.
Execute confidently
Forge has a deep, and ever growing, knowledge base of company specific information that brings transparency and confidence in execution to a previously opaque market.
The EQUIAM Private Tech30 Fund II
Our second fund provides diversified access to 30+ US-based venture-backed companies
The fund deploys 80% of fund capital into the top 30 ranked firms per the Enhanced Private Tech30 Index and 20% in a discretionary manner based on data-driven proprietary assessment metrics.
Backtested Results, Net of Fees & Expenses1
January 2015 through August 2019
41% IRR