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Forge Global
Private market liquidity platform connecting investors and shareholders
At a glance
- Founded
- 2014
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- Public via SPAC 2022
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Forge Global.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed15 investors entered at this stage
Charlie Cheever- ALAugusta Investments LLC
- AAAdeyemi Ajao
- JKJared Kopf
Marc Bell Capital
Streamlined Ventures
Cyan Banister- IVIgnacio Vilela
StartCaps Ventures- SCStructure Capital
- IVIgnacio Villa
Ben Davenport
Scott Banister
Tim Draper- UIUrizen Ventures I
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Peter Thiel- RCRichard Chen
- TBTikhon Bernstam
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
- OVOyster Ventures
- PPPanorama Point Partners
- LGLUN Partners Group
- OCOperative Capital
- TVTrue Global Ventures
- DGDeutsche Börse Group
- MRMunich Re
Temasek- WCWells Fargo and Company
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Forge Global employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Greg BroggerUnited States
CACaplightEst. 2021
Javier AvalosUnited States
Sohail PrasadUnited States
Philippe LegaultUnited States
Benjamin KiefferUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
8 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Forge Global was the backer or acquirer, 2020–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across Forge Global's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Forge Global deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Forge Global's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Forge Global on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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