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Forge Global

Fintech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2014 · Public via SPAC 2022

Private market liquidity platform connecting investors and shareholders

Valuation $576M
Revenue $93M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors

27 investors on Forge Global's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 15 investors entered at this stage
Charlie Cheever
Augusta Investments LLC
Adeyemi Ajao
Jared Kopf
Marc Bell Capital
Streamlined Ventures
Cyan Banister
Ignacio Vilela
StartCaps Ventures
Structure Capital
Ignacio Villa
Ben Davenport
Scott Banister
Tim Draper
Urizen Ventures I
Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Peter Thiel
Richard Chen
Tikhon Bernstam
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
Oyster Ventures
Panorama Point Partners
LUN Partners Group
Operative Capital
True Global Ventures
Deutsche Börse Group
Munich Re
Temasek
Wells Fargo and Company

Forge Global mafia

Startups founded by Forge Global alumni

Former Forge Global employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Collective LiquidityEst. 2021
Greg BroggerUnited States
Signal score92
CaplightEst. 2021
Javier AvalosUnited States
Signal score84
Destiny XYZEst. 2020
Sohail PrasadUnited States
Signal score84
NiveloEst. 2020
Philippe LegaultUnited States
Signal score80
SemperEst. 2021
Benjamin KiefferUnited Kingdom
Signal score60

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Global footprint

Where Forge Global has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
11 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States87.6%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3%
🇨🇴 Colombia2.5%
🇦🇷 Argentina2.3%
🇩🇪 Germany1.5%
Top 5 of 11 shown
Web traffic by country
620K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States49%
🇸🇮 Slovenia4.1%
🇮🇳 India3.9%
🇸🇬 Singapore3.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Forge Global's talent

Dealroom maps Forge Global's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

9 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
3 AI specialistsincl. 2 core researchers
392 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$4M patent portfolio · 8 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$4M
0.73% of market cap · 13.1× larger than top peer iCapital ($320k)
8 active patent families
Where Forge Global innovates Data scienceFinancial transactionOperations researchServerBusiness enterprise

Where Forge Global concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Forge Global and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Forge Global's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Forge Global appeared as a 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.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across Forge Global's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Forge Global

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Forge Global on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        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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