# Caplight

- Status: Unclaimed: compiled by Nowen from public sources, not reviewed by the company
- Industry: Fintech
- Market category: Company Data Providers (https://nowen.ai/category/company-data-providers)
- Delivery model: software
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Website: https://caplight.com
- Legal name: Caplight Technologies, Inc.
- AI agent profile: https://nowen.ai/agents/caplight-com
- Updated: 2026-11-05
- Directory: one of 173 AI agents in Fintech (https://nowen.ai/industry/fintech); one of 34 AI agents in Company Data Providers (https://nowen.ai/category/company-data-providers)
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> Caplight provides private-market research, data, and trading infrastructure for institutional investors and brokers.

Caplight provides institutional investors, brokers, and other private-market participants with research, market data, pricing insights, trading infrastructure, and tools to discover and track investment opportunities. Its platform combines company and investor intelligence with secondary-market activity to support research, deal sourcing, and transactions in venture-backed private companies.

**Mission:** Our mission is to bring the infrastructure and ease of public markets to the VC-backed asset class.

## Products & Services

### [Caplight secondary marketplace](https://www.caplight.com/products/secondaries)
*Platform*
Discover pre-IPO opportunities, assess private-company pricing, connect with institutional counterparties, and facilitate secondary trades in one marketplace.
Caplight’s secondary marketplace combines institutional-grade pricing data and live order flow for pre-IPO companies. Secondary funds, venture capital firms, shareholders, and brokers can discover opportunities, view and inquire about bids and offers, and connect with institutional buyers and sellers. The marketplace includes deal flow from more than 200 independent brokers, company and investor data, and Caplight Connect, which routes interest anonymously until both parties agree to talk. Instant Connect facilitates full trades on the platform. MarketPrice provides daily price points and estimated valuations for actively traded, venture-backed private companies, using funding-round pricing, trade and order data, and other observable signals. Its methodology filters opportunistic bids, adjusts for SPV fees, and smooths volatile inputs, supporting institutional valuation workflows. Users can filter market coverage, export data to CSV, or access it through an API and other available channels.

- **Secondary trading and deal flow** — Find And Pursue Private-Market Deals
- **Pricing model and input adjustments** — Ground And Refine Pricing Estimates
- **Live bids and offers** — Review Live Market Interest
- **Counterparty discovery and anonymous routing** — Connect With Potential Counterparties
- **Secondary-market transaction data** — Analyze Private-Market Activity
- **Daily private-company price estimates** — Track Daily Private-Company Prices
- **Institutional valuation workflows** — Support Institutional Valuation Workflows
- **On-platform trade execution** — Facilitate Trades On Platform
- **Company and investor research data** — Research Companies And Investors
- **Private-company pricing coverage** — Compare Prices Across Covered Companies
- **Patented pricing methodology** — Use A Patented Pricing Approach
- **Market data access and export** — Access And Export Market Data

### [Caplight Sourcing](https://www.caplight.com/products/sourcing)
*Platform*
Discover promising private companies, monitor meaningful developments, and coordinate timely, context-rich outreach across your investment team.
Caplight Sourcing helps investment teams discover, monitor, and engage with companies across a venture-backed universe of more than 135,000 private companies, from pre-seed through growth. Teams can describe an investment thesis in plain language, find and rank matching companies, review founder and team information, and track company developments through shared watchlists and alerts. Signals cover funding events, talent moves, product activity, commercial wins, regulatory actions, and conference attendance. The platform can also help identify relevant founders, operators, and investors and generate contextual outreach drafts. Teams can query sourcing data through Caplight’s MCP server, REST API, and CSV or Excel exports.

- **Thesis-based company search** — Find Companies That Fit Your Thesis
- **Company signal tracking** — Spot Material Company Developments
- **Company fit and momentum ranking** — Prioritize High-Fit, High-Momentum Companies
- **Watchlists and alerts** — Get Alerts When Companies Change
- **Contextual outreach** — Reach Out With Relevant Context
- **Agent-assisted sourcing** — Automate Company Discovery And Draft Outreach
- **Founder and team data** — Assess Founder And Team Experience
- **Team collaboration** — Coordinate Research Across Your Team
- **Sourcing data integrations and exports** — Connect Sourcing Data To Existing Workflows

### [Caplight API](https://www.caplight.com/products/api)
*Product*
Integrate private-market data into applications and workflows, and display live pricing and market activity within your own platform.
Caplight API provides programmatic access to private-market pricing, company and investor information, funding rounds, secondary-market activity, and other Caplight data. The API supports REST access for applications, data pipelines, and internal tools, with data also available through streaming and MCP. Its datasets include secondary-market order and trade history, MarketPrice estimates, company signals, financial and company information, investor participation, comparable-company data, and indices. The Embed API can display live MarketPrice quotes, fund marks, and order activity within another application, with customizable presentation and Caplight-managed authentication, refresh, and entitlements.

- **REST API access** — Integrate Caplight Data
- **Secondary-market data** — Access Secondary-Market Activity
- **Funding round data** — Retrieve Funding Round Details
- **Company firmographics** — Enrich Company Research
- **Investor data** — Identify Investor Participation
- **Embeddable market data** — Display Live Data In-Platform
- **Comparable-company data and indices** — Benchmark Private-Company Performance
- **Company signals** — Track Company Operating Signals
- **Flexible data delivery** — Connect Data To Existing Tools

### [Caplight MCP Server](https://www.caplight.com/products/mcp)
*Product*
Research private-market pricing, companies, investors, and secondary-market activity through natural-language questions in Claude.
The Caplight MCP Server connects Claude.ai and Claude Desktop to Caplight’s private-market data through an authenticated Caplight account. Users can ask questions in plain English and have Claude retrieve and synthesize information across 15 tools, including MarketPrice quotes and history, secondary-market orders and trades, company profiles, funding rounds, and investor participation. Setup requires no downloads or API keys. Caplight states that it processes only the tool calls requested by the connected AI model.

- **Natural-language research and multi-step analysis** — Research Private Markets In Plain English
- **Private-market pricing and secondary activity data** — Explore Pricing And Secondary-Market Activity
- **Claude connection and account authentication** — Connect Claude To Caplight Without API Keys
- **Company, funding, and investor research data** — Research Companies, Funding, And Investors
- **Broker book and orderbook queries** — Query Your Book And Orderbook In Claude
- **Research record provenance** — Review The Provenance Of Each Record
- **Tool-call privacy** — Limit Processing To Requested Tool Calls

### [Caplight Company Database](https://www.caplight.com/products/companies)
*Product*
Research private companies with company profiles, funding and valuation context, and signals to support deal tracking.
Caplight Company Database is a searchable directory of more than 136,000 private companies, with company profiles, pricing, growth indicators, and funding history. Profiles include details such as sector, stage, valuation, latest and total funding, headcount, momentum, location, website, business model, and customer profile. Users can sort companies by valuation, recent funding, or momentum, and track companies through their deal funnel. The database also provides funding history, cap table insights, and investor data; company pages include comparable-company data.
- Categories: Company Data Providers (https://nowen.ai/category/company-data-providers)

- **Private-company profiles** — Explore A Broad Private-Company Universe
- **Funding and valuation history** — Review Funding And Valuation Context
- **Company growth and market indicators** — Assess Company Growth And Market Signals
- **Deal-funnel company tracking** — Track Companies Through Your Deal Funnel
- **Cap table and investor insights** — Review Cap Table And Investor Data
- **Company sorting** — Sort Companies By Key Criteria
- **Comparable-company data** — Compare Companies And Market Positioning

### [Caplight Investor Database](https://www.caplight.com/products/investors)
*Product*
Find relevant private-market investors and understand their portfolios, investment participation, and activity.
Caplight Investor Database maps institutional investors to private-market activity across more than 52,000 investors, with continuously refreshed coverage. It provides investor profiles and portfolio information to help users track who is deploying capital, where investors concentrate, and how portfolios scale. Profiles include available details such as assets under management, founding date, headquarters, website, and portfolio companies. Users can sort and explore investors by relevance, AUM, portfolio company count, founding date, and recent activity.

- **Investor discovery and activity filters** — Find Active Investors
- **Investor profiles** — Research Investor Firms
- **Portfolio and investment participation data** — Trace Investor Participation
- **Continuously refreshed investor coverage** — Track Updated Investor Data
- **Co-investor network research** — Map Co-Investor Networks

### [Caplight Co-invest](https://www.caplight.com/products/coinvest)
*Product*
Gives LPs curated access to primary-round co-investments and helps GPs place allocations with investors they approve.
Caplight Co-invest connects limited partners with curated allocations in primary rounds led by top-tier funds, while helping general partners place co-invest allocations with selected investors. Approved LPs can access opportunities while rounds are open and invest on the same terms as the lead. GPs choose a small group of investors to receive each allocation; opportunities are not broadly shopped around.

- **Primary-round access** — Access Open Primary-Round Allocations
- **Curated co-invest opportunities** — Discover Curated Co-Invest Opportunities
- **GP-controlled allocation distribution** — Choose Which Investors Receive Allocations
- **Lead-investor terms** — Invest On The Lead's Terms
- **Investor matching** — Match Allocations To Suitable LPs
- **Private opportunity distribution** — Keep Allocations Within An Approved Group

### [Caplight broker workspace](https://www.caplight.com/solutions/brokers)
*Platform*
Organize relationships, surface relevant private-market orders, and manage deal conversations and distribution from one workspace.
A private-market deal workspace for brokers and other intermediaries. Its CRM keeps contacts, firms, holdings, and buy and sell interest together and suggests matches between them. Users can manage orders on the Live Market or in the Darkpool, route inquiries anonymously, distribute matching deals by email, and view MarketPrice estimates alongside related company data. Voice notes can be transcribed into draft contact updates for review. The platform also supports mobile access and connections to Caplight data through MCP and REST API.

- **Private-market CRM** — Organize Contacts And Surface Matches
- **Live market order management** — Control How Orders Reach The Market
- **Anonymous inquiry routing** — Route Inquiries Without Revealing Contacts
- **Deal distribution** — Send Relevant Deals To Contact Lists
- **Market pricing and company data** — Review Pricing And Company Activity
- **Voice note updates** — Draft Contact Updates From Calls
- **MCP and REST API access** — Query Your Book And Connect Data
- **Mobile workspace access** — Manage Orders And Notes On Mobile

### [Caplight Private Market Lists](https://www.caplight.com/lists)
*Product*
Compare private-company valuation, funding, and sector leaders, with live pricing information available to eligible investors.
Caplight Private Market Lists is a research resource featuring curated leaderboards of private companies, built from Caplight pricing and funding data across more than 135,000 names. Explore rankings of the most valuable and most funded companies, along with sector leaderboards. Company rankings include valuation or funding context, and the most valuable list includes funding history and secondary-market context. Live pricing information—including bids, asks, last-matched price, and trade eligibility—is available to verified institutional and accredited investors.

- **Company leaderboards** — Compare Companies By Valuation And Funding
- **Valuation and funding rankings** — Review Valuation And Funding Context
- **Sector leaderboards** — Explore Companies By Sector
- **Live pricing information** — Review Live Pricing And Trade Eligibility

## Market Segments

- **Private secondary market trading** (market size $30.0B, CAGR 15%): Platforms and marketplaces that facilitate discovery, matching, and regulated trading of pre-IPO and other private company shares to provide liquidity and price discovery.
  - Products: Caplight secondary marketplace, Caplight broker workspace
- **Private market intelligence** (market size $3.5B, CAGR 10%): Aggregated, verified private-company data (funding, ownership, executives, locations) used to map markets, run due diligence, and benchmark transactions.
  - Products: Caplight Company Database, Caplight Investor Database, Caplight API, Caplight MCP Server, Caplight secondary marketplace, Caplight Private Market Lists
- **Private investment valuation** (market size $2.0B, CAGR 8%): Private-company price estimates, comparable-company benchmarks, and market observations that support investment pricing, fund marks, valuation reporting, and audit workflows.
  - Products: Caplight secondary marketplace, Caplight API, Caplight MCP Server, Caplight Company Database, Caplight broker workspace
- **Deal sourcing** (market size $1.2B, CAGR 12.5%): Capabilities to discover, surface, and prioritize private companies and founders for investment or corporate development using large-scale coverage and AI search.
  - Products: Caplight Sourcing, Caplight Company Database, Caplight Investor Database, Caplight Co-invest, Caplight API, Caplight MCP Server
- **Financial services CRM** (market size $200M, CAGR 12%): Relationship and deal-pipeline management for private-market brokers, combining contacts, holdings, investor interests, order matching, and targeted deal distribution.
  - Products: Caplight broker workspace

## Sources

- [Caplight](https://caplight.com)
- [Caplight secondary marketplace](https://www.caplight.com/products/secondaries)
- [Caplight Sourcing](https://www.caplight.com/products/sourcing)
- [Caplight API](https://www.caplight.com/products/api)
- [Caplight MCP Server](https://www.caplight.com/products/mcp)
- [Caplight Company Database](https://www.caplight.com/products/companies)
- [Caplight Investor Database](https://www.caplight.com/products/investors)
- [Caplight Co-invest](https://www.caplight.com/products/coinvest)
- [Caplight broker workspace](https://www.caplight.com/solutions/brokers)
- [Caplight Private Market Lists](https://www.caplight.com/lists)
- [Global secondary transaction volume reached a record ~US$160 billion in 2024.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private-equity_secondary_market)
- [private markets grew to 18 times their starting value over the period](https://rpc.cfainstitute.org/sites/default/files/docs/research-reports/fti-macro_growth-of-private-markets_online.pdf)
- [The deal value in the Private Equity market worldwide is projected to reach US$2,322,641,804,690.46 in 2026; CAGR 2026-2027: 7.00%.](https://www.statista.com/outlook/fmo/private-equity/worldwide/)
- [Private market assets under management are expected to reach more than $30 trillion by the end of 2030, up from $10 trillion just ten years ago.](https://wealth.blueowl.com/learnengage/bo-growing-opportunity-private-markets)
- [Revenue ... projected to reach US$103,508,902,327.03 in 2026; CAGR 2026-2031 of 6.16%.](https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/software/enterprise-software/customer-relationship-management-software/worldwide/)
- [SaaS-based CRM Software Market was valued at USD 14.42 billion in 2025 ... growing at a CAGR of 11.2%.](https://www.reanin.com/reports/software-as-a-service-based-customer-relationship-management-software-market)
- [With a projected Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.6%, the report highlights the factors driving growth.](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comprehensive-cloud-based-financial-services-crm-iobne)