Forge Global Holdings, Inc.

Forge operates a technology-driven platform that connects buyers and sellers of private shares with investment opportunities, aiming to democratize access to private markets. The platform provides data, insights, and tools for institutions and individuals to navigate the private market. Forge focuses on building a market structure based on accessibility, liquidity, and transparency. Its platform features a broad order book and serves three categories of market participants: investors, shareholders, and companies. Forge has invested in complementary solutions to offer clients tools for participating in the private market ecosystem through an integrated platform that supports various investment opportunities from beginning to end. The company's flagship product is the Forge marketplace, designed to efficiently connect buyers seeking to invest in private companies with sellers of company shares and related products. The marketplace includes features to simplify private market transactions, such as actionable data, insights, order submission and management, active negotiation and matching, and facilitating closing. These features are integrated into a centralized user interface, allowing clients to register for free, add holdings, explore private company data and insights, discover trade opportunities, express trade interest, and enter into transactions.