Augment Markets

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?”

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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.