Tuesday, February 8, 2011

SharesPost Raising $3.3M

SharesPost, the online marketplace for private company stock founded by Greg Brogger, has raised $3.3M in a funding round, but appears to also have moved its headquarters to Northern California. In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the company--which had been spawned out of the spawned out of Scott Painter's BrighHouse incubator--said it had raised $3.3M in an equity funding round. No details on that funding have been announced by the company. SharesPost had originally been based in Santa Monica. Scott Painter is the CEO of TrueCar/Zag, and was also previously CEO of CarsDirect, and has been incubating a number of companies out of his Santa Monica-based BrightHouse incubator. SharesPost allows accredited investors to buy private company stock from employees of firms such as Facebook, Zynga, and other private held, venture backed companies. More information »

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