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Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>Sacra estimates AlphaSense hit $700M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in June 2026, up from ~$540M at the end of 2025, with 7,000+ enterprise customers.</li><li>AlphaSense was most recently valued at $7.5 billion in a $350M funding round closed June 3, 2026, led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with D.E. Shaw Ventures and Pinegrove Opportunity Partners also joining.</li><li>AlphaSense has also moved into financial modeling and structured data.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates AlphaSense hit $700M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in June 2026, up from ~$540M at the end of 2025, with 7,000+ enterprise customers.AlphaSense was most recently valued at $7.5 billion in a $350M funding round closed June 3, 2026, led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with D.E. Shaw Ventures and Pinegrove Opportunity Partners also joining.AlphaSense has also moved into financial modeling and structured data.

<ul><li>Monark raised $8.1 million in a strategic financing round in February 2026, led by F-Prime with participation from The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings, bringing total funding to $11.7 million across three rounds since 2022.</li><li>Monark's integrations with major fintech platforms including Apex Fintech Solutions, Altruist Financial, and BBAE give it access to over 30 million retail investors with $450 billion in captive assets.</li><li>The business benefits from network effects as additional brokerages join the platform, increasing liquidity pools for secondary trading and expanding distribution reach for issuers.</li></ul>

Monark raised $8.1 million in a strategic financing round in February 2026, led by F-Prime with participation from The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings, bringing total funding to $11.7 million across three rounds since 2022.Monark's integrations with major fintech platforms including Apex Fintech Solutions, Altruist Financial, and BBAE give it access to over 30 million retail investors with $450 billion in captive assets.The business benefits from network effects as additional brokerages join the platform, increasing liquidity pools for secondary trading and expanding distribution reach for issuers.

<ul><li>Juniper Square closed a $130 million Series D in June 2025 at a $1.1 billion post-money valuation.</li><li>The company also secured a strategic investment from Nasdaq Ventures in September 2025 to develop data and liquidity products for private markets.</li><li>The launch of JunieAI in 2025 transforms Juniper Square from a static database into an intelligent co-pilot that automates LP communications, document term extraction, and accounting exception flagging.</li></ul>

Juniper Square closed a $130 million Series D in June 2025 at a $1.1 billion post-money valuation.The company also secured a strategic investment from Nasdaq Ventures in September 2025 to develop data and liquidity products for private markets.The launch of JunieAI in 2025 transforms Juniper Square from a static database into an intelligent co-pilot that automates LP communications, document term extraction, and accounting exception flagging.

<ul><li>iCapital solves the administrative burden of feeder fund management for wealth managers and RIAs, while providing GPs with simplified distribution to the wealth channel.</li><li>Post-trade activities represent the most painful operational burden for wealth managers, requiring complex data management across NAVs, tax documents, and investor reporting that iCapital's platform automates through structured data and validation workflows.</li><li>As the alternatives space evolves, the industry faces a tension between bespoke products and standardized technology, with DLT offering a vision of a single-integration utility that could transform the ecosystem while threatening traditional intermediaries.</li></ul>

iCapital solves the administrative burden of feeder fund management for wealth managers and RIAs, while providing GPs with simplified distribution to the wealth channel.Post-trade activities represent the most painful operational burden for wealth managers, requiring complex data management across NAVs, tax documents, and investor reporting that iCapital's platform automates through structured data and validation workflows.As the alternatives space evolves, the industry faces a tension between bespoke products and standardized technology, with DLT offering a vision of a single-integration utility that could transform the ecosystem while threatening traditional intermediaries.

VP Of Product At iCapital On Streamlining Alternative Investment Administration

<ul><li>Wirehouses (UBS, Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Wells) drive $7-8B in annual feeder fund flows plus another $6-8B in direct subscription workflows, but registered products like interval funds are gaining traction as they reach more investors without the feeder fund expense layer.</li><li>The alternative investment tech stack remains fragmented across multiple systems—with no DTCC-like central clearing—creating operational friction where third-party administrators use different databases, banks maintain separate processes, and platforms like iCapital struggle to replicate bank workflows rather than providing modular self-service tools.</li><li>While traditional feeder funds will persist, growth is shifting toward registered products, corporate structures that allow more than 1,999 investors, and potentially tokenization—with fee compression pushing platforms to evolve from basis-point models toward transaction-based enterprise contracts and technology services.</li></ul>

Wirehouses (UBS, Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Wells) drive $7-8B in annual feeder fund flows plus another $6-8B in direct subscription workflows, but registered products like interval funds are gaining traction as they reach more investors without the feeder fund expense layer.The alternative investment tech stack remains fragmented across multiple systems—with no DTCC-like central clearing—creating operational friction where third-party administrators use different databases, banks maintain separate processes, and platforms like iCapital struggle to replicate bank workflows rather than providing modular self-service tools.While traditional feeder funds will persist, growth is shifting toward registered products, corporate structures that allow more than 1,999 investors, and potentially tokenization—with fee compression pushing platforms to evolve from basis-point models toward transaction-based enterprise contracts and technology services.

Managing Director At iCapital On Wirehouse Distribution Challenges And Tech Evolution

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Software platform for wealth managers to access and manage alternative investment products

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Managing Director At iCapital On Wirehouse Distribution Challenges And Tech Evolution

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