UNLOCK PRIVATE MARKETS: INTRODUCING PATAGON

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Patagon Markets is solving the opacity and excessive fees plaguing private company investments, where opportunities like OpenAI remain largely inaccessible to non-institutional investors due to expensive broker chains that charge fees at every intermediary step. The platform targets the significant outperformance of private companies, which have beaten the Nasdaq by more than 3x over the past twenty years, including companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, SpaceX, and others that have collectively raised hundreds of billions while remaining private due to increased venture capital availability and the drawbacks of going public. Current secondary markets like Nasdaq Private Markets, Hiive, and Rainmaker often feature stale pricing or no pricing at all, forcing investors through brokers who lack direct access and add multiple fee layers while being incentivized to prioritize new deals over helping existing investors exit positions. Patagon's solution allows accredited investors to check multiple secondary markets simultaneously, request deal access, and receive portfolio tracking, market value estimates, data aggregation on private companies, and additional services like hedging and loans against private stock positions.