Vancouver fintech Hiive has rebranded as Clarity, reflecting its evolution from a marketplace for secondary transactions into a broader financial services platform for private companies and investors.
The new brand arrives alongside an expanded platform designed to address the fragmented and opaque nature of private markets, where pricing information can be limited and liquidity difficult to access.
“Markets cannot function without clarity,” said founder and CEO Sim Desai. “When participants understand pricing, process, and opportunity, confidence follows. And when confidence grows, capital flows.”
Clarity’s expanded platform introduces a funds marketplace for discovering investment opportunities and reselling existing fund interests. It also provides deeper insights into pricing, supply, demand and company valuations.
Additional capabilities include a redesigned interface that allows institutional investors to anonymously combine smaller listings, tools for streamlining documentation and settlement, and portfolio management for tracking private holdings.
Since its commercial launch in 2022, the company says it has facilitated more than $6 billion in closed transaction volume across shares in more than 400 private companies. Its in-house investment funds business has also generated more than $2 billion in assets under management.
Techcouver first covered the company’s Canadian marketplace launch in 2023, when Hiive began enabling Canadian venture capital firms, family offices, investment funds and accredited investors to trade shares in venture-backed companies.
Later that year, the Vancouver startup raised capital at a $77 million valuation to advance its effort to modernize the venture-capital secondary market.
By October 2024, Hiive had surpassed $1 billion in completed transactions, with the company then closing more than $100 million in monthly transaction volume. It was subsequently named Scale Company of the Year at the 2025 Technology Impact Awards.
Now operating as Clarity, the Vancouver company is positioning itself as infrastructure for both primary and secondary private-market investing as more companies remain private for longer.
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