Sequoia and Brookfield prep for VC secondaries boom

'There is more than $130bn of supply, and supply keeps building, but the bid prices are averaging 40% to 65% off NAV, and this is holding back any sellers in the market from transacting,' says Industry Ventures founder and CEO Hans Swildens.

Investors in VC funds and shareholders of VC-backed companies are hungry for liquidity, but they have been reluctant to accept the steep discounts on NAV that sellers have been offering. That may be about to change.

At least that’s the hope of Brookfield Asset Management and Sequoia Heritage, Sequoia Capital’s wealth fund, which launched a joint effort called Pinegrove Capital Partners in order to “capitalise on plunging valuations of venture capital-backed companies”, according to a report by the Financial Times.