Forge Global Holdings, Inc.
A financial-technology marketplace where investors buy and sell shares of private, pre-IPO companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Stripe before they ever hit a public stock exchange. Founded in San Francisco in 2014 as Equidate, the company rebranded to Forge in 2019 to signal its role in "forging" a transparent market for private shares, and it went public in 2022. It even coined its own "Private Magnificent 7" list of the buzziest private firms on its platform.