en.Wedoany.com Reported - Caplight Technologies has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round, led by BlackRock and Fin Capital, with UBS Investment Bank participating as a strategic investor. The funding aims to solidify its position in the venture capital secondary data space and drive its expansion into private market data, research, and trading agentic workflows.
According to Caplight data, venture capital has tripled in three years, becoming an asset class exceeding $12 trillion. Caplight integrates private market data and investments on a single platform, encompassing 100,000 company and investor profiles, $4 trillion in funding round data, over $300 billion in proprietary secondary market data, and more than $5 billion in daily real-time transaction flow. Its clients manage over $52 trillion in total assets, accessing Caplight services through the platform, API, and MCP servers.
"Transparency opens the door to private markets for institutional investors," said Javier Avalos, CEO of Caplight. "We provide the world's top investors with the data needed to understand venture markets and the infrastructure to participate in them. In an era where proprietary data is highly valuable, we are proud to be their data source."
BlackRock joins as a strategic investor, supporting the company's goals of enhancing private market transparency, data infrastructure, and secondary market liquidity. This investment establishes a framework for future collaboration with BlackRock's private market and technology ecosystem, including Aladdin and Preqin.
"As private markets account for a growing share of portfolios, investors increasingly need better data, transparency, and efficient secondary market infrastructure," said Kunal Khara, Managing Director and Global Head of Aladdin Products at BlackRock. "We believe Caplight is well-positioned to meet these evolving client needs and are pleased to support the company as it continues to expand its business."
Fin Capital, a venture capital firm focused on fintech, has long supported Caplight and co-led this funding round with BlackRock. New investor LEAP Global Partners served as a co-lead. UBS Investment Bank participated as a strategic investor. Existing investors DB1 Ventures (the corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Börse), Better Tomorrow Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, and Dash Fund increased their investments.
Caplight Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to building data and trading infrastructure for venture capital. Its platform combines proprietary private company data with a marketplace connecting investors and broker-dealers to facilitate secondary market liquidity. The company was founded in 2021 by Javier Avalos and Justin Moore and is headquartered in San Francisco. Securities transactions are provided through Caplight Markets LLC, a member of FINRA and SIPC.
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