Not anymore! We run the process. You own the decision.
Over the past decade, individual investors, founders, and family offices gained access to some of the world's best private equity and venture capital funds. The returns have been real. The problem comes when you want to exit.
The exit infrastructure was built for large institutions with $30M+ positions. Below that threshold, your options have historically been limited to one: find a buyer yourself, accept whatever they offer, and hope the price is fair.
It usually isn't.
Without a structured process, you have no independent view of what your stake is worth. You have no competitive tension between buyers. You have no professional managing the operational complexity of the transfer.
ClearingStakes was built specifically for this gap — bringing the same institutional process that large advisors apply to $100M mandates, now accessible for stakes from $1M.
Traditional secondary advisors require mandates of $10M or above. If your stake is smaller, you have been invisible to them.
A single approach produces a single data point. That is not a market price. It is one buyer's return requirement applied to your asset.
Secondary market pricing is not public. Without an independent assessment, you cannot know whether any offer you receive is fair, low, or deeply discounted.
GP consents. Transfer restrictions. Right of first refusal. NDA management. Legal documentation. For a first-time seller, the operational complexity alone is enough to kill a transaction.
That is where we start. No cost. No commitment at this stage.
ClearingStakes delivers one thing: a binding offer from a real buyer, at the best price the market will pay for your position.
You describe your stake. We handle everything else — independent assessment, buyer outreach, competitive process, negotiation. You receive an offer and decide whether to accept.
Fund type, vintage, approximate NAV, objectives. Five minutes. We respond within 48 hours with an honest view on whether your position qualifies.
We review your fund documentation and form an independent view of current market value. You receive a clear picture of where your position sits relative to reported NAV.
AI-powered matching identifies which buyers in our network have current appetite for your specific asset type, geography, and vintage. They compete. You benefit.
Not an estimate. Not an indication. A real offer from a qualified buyer at the best price competitive tension has produced. You review it. You decide.
If you proceed, we manage legal documentation, GP consents, and the closing process end to end. You receive the proceeds.
How we work together.
Three ways to engage — from an initial assessment to a full competitive process. All enquiries start the same way.
Assessment
For sellers who want to know what their stake is worth before deciding whether to proceed.
Full Process
For sellers ready to receive a binding offer and complete a transaction.
Bespoke
For portfolio sales, GP-led processes, and structured liquidity solutions requiring tailored design.
Fees are discussed during the eligibility assessment and set out in the formal engagement agreement. There is no cost at the enquiry stage.
The secondary market has existed for institutional investors since the early 2000s. The processes, the models, the buyer relationships — they were built for mandates starting at $30M.
Our team spent decades inside that infrastructure — at the private capital advisory divisions of leading global investment banks and alternative asset managers, advising on over $1.5B in secondary transactions across LP-led and GP-led structures globally.
ClearingStakes packages that experience into an AI-assisted process that makes the economics work for positions from $1M. The same analytical rigour. The same buyer network. The same outcome — a competitive, binding offer. Now available to the stakeholders the large advisors have always turned away.
At a time when the secondary market for fund interests barely existed, we completed our first transaction — establishing the practice that is now mainstream.
Pioneered NAV-based financing structures to provide liquidity without requiring an outright sale — a structure now widely used across the industry.
Advised on one of the earliest GP-led secondary transactions in Europe — a structure that now dominates secondary market activity.
Structured one of the first continuation vehicles in the European market — giving LPs a liquidity option and GPs a path to extend high-performing assets.
The same institutional process, made accessible to LP stakeholders from $1M — for the first time.
I had been sitting on a €800K position in a 2017 fund for two years. I had no idea what it was worth or who to call. ClearingStakes came back within a week with an independent assessment that surprised me. We closed four months later.
Closed in 4 monthsThe process was completely hands-off for me. I submitted my documents, received updates at each stage, and eventually had a choice of two offers. I did not know that was even possible at my ticket size.
Multiple competing offersI had one conversation with a buyer who offered me 60 cents on the dollar and told me that was the market. ClearingStakes ran a process and we closed at 81 cents. I did not know the difference until I had a benchmark.
35% pricing improvementSubmit an initial enquiry. We respond within 48 hours — at no cost and with no commitment on either side.
Describe your position
Fund type, vintage, approximate NAV. Five minutes.
We assess and respond
Within 48 hours. Honest view on eligibility, no charge.
Engagement agreement
If you qualify and wish to proceed, we formalise the engagement before starting.
Join our network to access curated deal flow before it reaches the wider market.
You have probably never done this before. Here is exactly how it works.
Speak to the teamSubmit an initial enquiry using the form on this page. We review every submission and respond within 48 hours with an honest assessment of your position and whether it meets our selection criteria. There is no cost at this stage and no commitment required.
We work with LP stakes from $1M in NAV. Below this threshold, the economics of a structured advisory process become difficult to justify for all parties. If your stake is below $1M, we are happy to provide an informal assessment and point you towards appropriate alternatives.
We work with single LP fund interests, portfolios of LP interests, co-investment positions, and preferred equity structures. Asset classes include venture capital, private equity, growth equity, and real assets. Complex and structured situations are a core part of our practice.
Getting to a first price indication takes days. A binding offer from a qualified buyer takes weeks. Completing the transaction typically takes 3 to 5 months in total, depending on complexity. We set a defined timetable at the outset and manage to it.
One buyer produces one price — theirs. Thirty buyers competing for your position produces a market price. The difference between a bilateral approach and a structured competitive process is typically significant. That difference is the value ClearingStakes delivers.
We manage confidentiality carefully throughout. Your identity is not disclosed to prospective buyers until a confidentiality agreement is in place. Where GP consent or right of first refusal notice is required, we advise on timing and approach to minimise market signal.
Yes. We work with GPs running LP tender processes, continuation vehicles, and structured liquidity events. Contact us directly to discuss.
Fees are discussed during the initial eligibility assessment and set out in the formal engagement agreement. There is no cost at the enquiry stage and no commitment required. We work on a success fee basis — nothing is payable unless a transaction completes.
Getting to a first price indication takes days. A binding offer from a qualified buyer takes weeks. Completing the transaction typically takes 3 to 5 months in total, depending on complexity. We set a defined timetable at the outset and manage to it.
We manage confidentiality carefully throughout. Your identity is not disclosed to prospective buyers until a confidentiality agreement is in place. Where GP consent or right of first refusal notice is required, we advise on timing and approach to minimise market signal. We have managed sensitive secondary processes across emerging markets, continuation vehicles, and complex fund structures where discretion was paramount. Confidentiality is structural, not incidental.
Secondary market pricing has always favoured buyers — they hold proprietary data on hundreds of comparable transactions. Sellers rarely do. ClearingStakes uses AI to close that gap: analysing fund characteristics, comparable transactions, and current buyer appetite to produce an independent assessment before any buyer sees your position. Better information means better pricing.
Yes. We work with GPs running LP tender processes, continuation vehicles, and structured liquidity events. Contact us directly to discuss.