https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/once-rivals-secondary-market-player-forge-is-acquiring-sharespost-in-a-160-million-cash-and-stock-deal/

Even amid a pandemic, there’s a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares are traded as freely as public company shares on the Nasdaq .

In one lane is Carta, an eight-year-old maker of cap table management software with big ambitions to create a kind of private company stock market, one that the startup tells the Financial Times could debut this summer.