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Forge
Kelly Rodriques leads Forge, the secondary marketplace pricing over 60 pre-IPO companies including SpaceX and Databricks for institutional investors.
Forge
FORGE is a US-based nonprofit organization that works with displaced communities in Africa. FORGE builds upon the capacity of African refugees to cultivate empowered communities and to create the conditions for peace and prosperity in their countries.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
San Francisco
Corporate office
San Francisco, CA, United States
Principals
Kelly Rodriques
Chief Executive Officer
James Nevin
Chief Financial Officer
Cathy Dondzila
Chief Accounting Officer
Vidya Eashwer
Chief Technology Officer
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Forge?
Forge does not deploy proprietary capital; it operates a technology platform that facilitates secondary transactions between shareholders and investors. The executive team, led by CEO Kelly Rodriques, oversees the platform's operations and strategic direction. The matching of buy and sell orders is driven by the marketplace's order book rather than by an internal investment committee.
How does Forge source the pre-IPO shares listed on its platform?
Supply comes from employees, former employees, and early investors of late-stage private companies who want liquidity before an IPO or tender offer. Forge performs know-your-customer and eligibility checks on sellers, then lists the shares for bids from its network of institutional and accredited buyers. The firm does not hold the shares as inventory; it matches counterparties and facilitates settlement.
Is Forge structured as a family office or does it operate more like a venture firm?
Forge is structured as a technology company running a regulated alternative trading system for private securities. It is neither a venture-capital firm deploying fund capital into startups nor a family office managing a single fortune — it functions as a broker-dealer and data vendor for the pre-IPO secondary market.
What investment stages does Forge typically target?
The platform focuses on late-stage, venture-backed, US-headquartered companies — typically those valued at $1 billion or more — that have not yet gone public. The majority of trading activity concentrates on a tracked basket of roughly 60 companies, and the firm's proprietary Forge Price index was built specifically to benchmark this maturity band of startup equity.
Does Forge maintain any proprietary investment funds or vehicles?
Forge does not publicly disclose operating any pooled investment vehicles. The firm earns revenue through transaction fees on secondary trades and through data-licensing subscriptions that provide institutional clients with access to its pre-IPO pricing indices and market intelligence. It acts as an intermediary, not as a principal investor.
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