Clear Street Private Markets Launches Pre-IPO Access
Groundbreaking Platform to Offer Liquidity Inside the Clear Street Ecosystem, Clear Street’s Credit Financing Desk to Provide Capital Efficiency
Private Company Exposure, Research, IOIs, Execution, Leverage and Liquidity All to be Accessible in Clear Street’s Single Platform
NEW YORK – July 31, 2026 – Clear Street (“Clear Street” or “the Company”), a cloud-native financial infrastructure technology firm on a mission to give sophisticated investors access to every asset in every market, today announced the launch of Clear Street Private Markets, a groundbreaking initiative offering investor access, execution, liquidity, capital efficiency and private market research all within the Clear Street ecosystem and single platform. Clear Street Private Markets launches with pre-IPO access to Databricks, the first in a pipeline of anticipated potential investment opportunities Clear Street intends to offer to qualified purchasers and accredited investor clients. Clear Street’s credit financing capabilities are to provide capital efficiency to clients of Clear Street Private Markets.
Uri Cohen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Clear Street, said, “Clear Street Private Markets embodies exactly what we stand for: innovation and access. Investors demand exposure to the most important private companies before they list, and we’ve created a way to do it, and do it better. Our pipeline of potential issuers is exciting. Our clients are particularly excited about our ability to offer margin within this ecosystem. It’s like nothing else available to investors today. We are also building out private company research led by equity analyst Owen Lau, and Clear Street clients will have the Private Markets portal embedded in their Clear Street account.”
Clear Street seeks to offer Private Markets to address concerns investors commonly encounter at traditional entry points to pre-IPO investing, including opaque structures, fragmented documentation and exposure that is merely synthetic.
Participation is restricted to qualified purchasers and accredited investors, and each participant receives an offering memorandum setting out the full terms.
Additional context from secondary reporting (CNBC / industry coverage)
CNBC reported Clear Street plans as many as 30 startups on the platform by year-end, mostly tech firms in the 20 billion valuation range roughly six months to two years from an IPO. Databricks was valued this month at 12 billion and issued a $400 million investment-grade bond offering. Secondary coverage notes exposure may be structured via SPV/fund interests rather than direct Databricks-issued shares, and that Databricks has stated no formal relationship with the Clear Street product.