EquityBee
Equitybee provides funding for employees to exercise stock options and offers accredited investors access to high-growth startups, with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Services
EquityBee provides funding to employees to exercise their stock options and liquidate their equity before an exit event. Employees can own their shares and access immediate cash without paying out of pocket. Additionally, EquityBee offers accredited investors access to high-growth startups at past valuations. The platform features a service where employees can enjoy a portion of the gains upon a future successful exit event. EquityBee operates as a private placement broker-dealer through its affiliate, EquityBee Securities, LLC.
Offices
EquityBee maintains offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. These locations enable the company to support its diverse client base and manage operations efficiently in key global markets.
Investment Platform
EquityBee's platform features hundreds of leading startups across various industries, including fintech, artificial intelligence, education, healthcare, and cleantech. The platform allows investors to filter companies by industry, VC, and more, customizing their investment portfolios. Visibility into past investments is provided to help investors make informed decisions about potential opportunities in pre-IPO companies.
Investor Benefits
EquityBee offers a significant advantage to investors through its unique investment approach, funding employee stock options at an earlier valuation. The investors have funded employee stock options in over 700 pre-IPO companies, benefiting from 155 unique liquidity events for 122 different companies. The average internal rate of return (IRR) for investments that achieved liquidity was 55.5%.
Venture Portfolio Fund (VPF)
EquityBee's Venture Portfolio Fund (VPF) provides a highly diversified investment portfolio of 100+ later-stage startups. The VPF focuses on startups with stable business models and proven track records at earlier valuations. Investments are made via funding employee stock options priced at a steep discount to the fair market value. The VPF leverages EquityBee's proprietary model, which encompasses data from 24 years of VC return data.