Looking to sell Wiz stock or options?
Wiz is the developer of a cloud security platform designed to help businesses secure their infrastructure at scale. The company's platform offers cloud visibility services for enterprise security by providing an overview of security risks across clouds, containers, and workloads without the need for agents or sidecars. This enables businesses to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, network exposure, manage identities and privileges, and discover exposed secrets.
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Wiz is currently a private company. This means that the company is not listed on any public exchange and so there is no public market for its stock. However, there may still be ways to monetize Wiz stock. Depending on Wiz’s policies, you may be able to: (1) find a private buyer in the secondary market to purchase your stock, (2) borrow against your stock, or (3) exchange Wiz stock into the Collective Exchange Fund for a limited partnership interest and then borrow non-recourse against your interest to generate immediate cash. This last alternative can be much quicker and net you more after-tax cash than your other options. An exchange into our fund also reduces your risk by diversifying your holdings out of an over-concentrated position.
Collective Liquidity can provide liquidity to shareholders of Wiz stock in two ways. First, Wiz employees can exchange shares into the Collective Exchange Fund and then borrow non-recourse to generate immediate cash. This can net you more after-tax cash than a stock sale. It also reduces your risk by diversifying your holdings out of an over-concentrated position. In some cases, Collective may also be able to purchase your Wiz stock. Note that all transactions in Wiz shares are subject to the company’s policies regarding secondary transactions. Schedule a call with a Collective Liquidity representative to learn more about your private market liquidity alternatives.
Wiz stock is not listed on any public exchange and so there is no public market for its shares. Therefore, there is no single, centralized price for Wiz stock. Typically, shares of private companies like Wiz are set with buyers in one off negotiations. Collective Liquidity, however, uses a proprietary algorithm to determine its bids so we almost always have an immediately actionable price for you.
On May 2024, Wiz is reported to have closed an equity financing in which the investors valued the company at $12.0B. This valuation is typically calculated by multiplying the per share price of the preferred stock sold in the financing by the number of Wiz shares outstanding assuming the conversion of all stock options, warrants, etc.
Tickers are used to identify company’s shares on public markets like the NYSE or Nasdaq. Because Wiz is not currently publicly traded, it does not have a ticker symbol.
Wiz has not yet conducted an initial public offering (“IPO”) and so remains a private company. Though Wiz is a well-known, successful company, there can be no assurance that it will ever go public or be sold. Because of the risk this imposes on Wiz shareholders, many investors elect to gain liquidity for at least some of their shares before the IPO. Schedule a call with a Collective Liquidity representative to discuss your private market liquidity alternatives.
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