Founded in 2004, New York-based SecondMarket, Inc. (Member FINRA | MSRB | SIPC) is the largest centralized marketplace for illiquid assets, such as auction-rate securities, bankruptcy claims, collateralized debt obligations, limited partnership interests, mortgage-backed securities, private company stock, restricted securities and blocks in small capitalization companies, and whole loans. SecondMarket’s online trading platform has 3,000 participants, including global financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, corporations, and other institutional and accredited investors that collectively manage $1 trillion in assets available for investment.

Millennium is a pioneer and innovator in the direct secondary market for venture capital assets. The New York-based firm manages private equity funds that focus on providing liquidity solutions to holders of illiquid private company securities. Millennium has made more than 200 direct secondary investments in 35 portfolio companies since 2001, including such success stories as Tellme Networks (sold to Microsoft), Wayport (sold to AT&T), ArcSight (2008 IPO), Airvana (2007 IPO), Agility (sold to JDSU), Requisite (now part of Illinois Toolworks), Aventail (sold to SonicWALL) and numerous others. Led by Managing Partners Sam Schwerin and Dan Burstein, the Millennium funds invest in best-of-breed companies, working closely with strong management teams and partnering with world class venture and private equity funds to achieve outstanding results.

VC Experts serves the needs of the private equity and venture capital communities with its anchor product, The Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital by combining substantive commentary on the private equity and venture capital industries with online learning courses. The VC Experts website includes current industry news, weekly commentary, and the online University and 6,000 page Encyclopedia of Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Every week, Private Equity Insider reports on developments you're not supposed to know about -- behind-the-scenes squabbles, hush-hush plans of investors and inside moves of buyout and venture capital funds.

Every week, Hedge Fund Alert delivers the early intelligence you need to anticipate new risks and opportunities facing fund-management firms, their investors and service providers. Be first to identify new capital-raising tactics, investor strategies and competition among industry vendors.

dealReporter offers proprietary intelligence and analysis on live deals, expected deals, special situations, and convertible bonds across the European, pan-American, Asia-Pacific and now EEMEA (Emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa) markets. dealReporter is tailored to hedge funds, proprietary equity and credit trading desks, security lending and institutional fund managers.

AltAssets web site is an online news and information service. It is the only private equity site targeted specifically at institutional investors, although it is also visited by thousands of private equity firms and service providers. It contains up-to-the minute news coverage of the industry, plus opinions and analysis of the trends apparent in today’s private equity market - all written by our team of in-house journalists and researchers. AltAssets also provides an online library of private information in the form of hundreds of articles and reports aggregated and specially commissioned from expert sources.