Augment Markets

About

What is Augment? Augment enables investors to buy and sell shares in private companies for as little as $5k (or as much as $100M)… think SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI. We are Robinhood for the private markets. We’re bringing technology to a $150B market that hasn’t seen innovation since the 90’s. Companies stay private for 12 years on average. Employees, founders, and early investors increasingly require liquidity before a public event but doing so is an expensive and painful process. Augment centralizes this market by bringing together buyers, sellers, and brokers to pleasantly facilitate transactions online. We have 3 products, all built to make the private markets accessible and transparent. We prioritize liquidity, user experience, and education. Block Market. Augment exposes a centralized order book of who’s buying what, at what price, at what size. Our tech matches buyers and sellers, then guides the execution of these trades on our financial rails. Collective. Augment aggregates buyers together into vehicles called SPVs to buy shares in bulk. All of the complexity is taken out of the trade for a buyer… simply sign docs and fund your investment. We handle execution, contracts, and taxes. It’s like Amazon — for each offering, we reduce a buyer’s decision to a simple yes/no, “do I invest in CompanyX at price $Y.yy?” AugmentX. Talk to us 😉 Traction Augment is approaching 1,000 executed trades with nearly $300M in trade volume. Founded in 2022, we launched our first product with 5 employees in Fall of 2023 as a registered broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System. Team Founders Noel Moldvai and Adam Crawley are a a perfect founder-market fit duo. Noel was an engineer for 10 years prior and Adam in private capital markets for 15. The team has since grown to 20+, with a healthy engineering and capital markets team. Culture Augment is a distributed company with an HQ in Austin, TX and offices in San Francisco and NYC. We are a small, dynamic, and adaptable group. We believe in minimal process and maximal communication. We are "intense but chill"… a group of laid back people with high expectations of each other driving towards a common goal. Every quarter, we'll fly you out to Austin to jam with the team. Twice yearly, we'll do a week-long offsite with the whole team.