Goodfin Wire - Vol. 04

You made this year count.

New deals sourced. Conviction sharpened. Networks deepened. This community doesn't just talk about building wealth—it moves.

So before the holiday noise kicks in: thank you. For showing up. For sharing signal. For making Goodfin what it is.

Now, a holiday gift worth passing on. You can now use Stablecoins to buy Goodfin Gift Cards. Access is the gift that compounds.

Let's close the year strong 🚀

→ Our expert panel breaks down how to navigate the secondaries market
→ Caplight integration brings institutional-grade pricing to your dashboard
→ Goodfin x The Supper Club: Holiday masquerade dinner in NYC
→ Goodfin is heading to Art Basel Miami. Want to meet our CEO? Reply to connect

$103B in secondary transactions in 2025. Traditional exit routes remain selective, yet capital is moving faster than ever through channels most investors never see.

This isn't surface-level. We are bringing together three experts who operate at different layers of the secondaries stack: data infrastructure, marketplace execution, and legal structuring, to break down how sophisticated investors are navigating this market.

The panel: Javier Avalos (CEO, Caplight) builds the real-time pricing infrastructure institutions use to value pre-IPO positions. Sohill Madan (Senior Director, Forge Global) sees deal flow across 27,000+ transactions. Mordechai Hartman (Principal, Hartman Venture Advisors) has closed tens of millions in direct secondaries.

An intimate gathering where meaningful conversation meets exceptional cuisine. We're partnering with The Supper Club for a curated multi-course dinner designed to bring thoughtful individuals around a shared table.

This is part of our ongoing series exploring how we build community in modern life. Strangers become friends over a great meal. Space is limited.

December calls for reflection and good company. No slides. No pitches. Just conversations that go beyond portfolios.

This edition: The 2 A.M. Idea (that wild idea you still think could work), 10 Years from Now (what you hope you'll have figured out), and the content that actually changed how you think.

Bring your favorite drink. 45 minutes to connect before the year ends.

Nearly 200 founders, operators and Goodfin members gathered in San Francisco for a women and wealth networking event co-hosted by Goodfin, SHACK15, and Women Tech Meetup. We brought together women who are building, investing, and leading in the Bay Area, and those who understand conviction, signals, and taking risks. Community is everything. And at Goodfin, this is whom we build for, how we build, and who we build for.

Goodfin Gatherings: Edition 1 brought members together for our first casual virtual hangout. No slides. No agendas. Just good company and one prompt that got everyone talking: If you had $1M to deploy right now, where would it go? The answers revealed how ambitiously this community thinks about risk, conviction, and timing. Edition 2 is coming on December 18th. The conversations only get better from here.

Coffee Chats went live and dozens of members got matched 1:1 based on shared interests, investment focus, and what they're building. Real conversations with people who get it. Want to meet fellow members? Sign up now.

Goodfin CTO Shilpi Nayak was part of The Financial Club's official delegation at Money20/20. Three days of panels, hallway conversations, and ideas that stretched late into the night—but what stood out most was the connections. From morning breakfasts with the right people to evenings where conversations turned into collaborations, every moment felt purposeful.

At Goodfin, we're building toward the same idea: helping people who haven't always been in the room get access to the right opportunities, partners, and pathways. Wealth creation should depend on access that's fair, intentional, and informed.

Real-time pricing and valuation insights—directly within deals, dashboards, and the AI Concierge. Caplight built the pricing infrastructure that institutional investors rely on. Now Goodfin members have it too.

The partnership also unlocks institutional private market opportunities from Caplight's marketplace—deals typically unavailable to individual investors.

From conversation to conviction in a single platform.

Looking to potentially exit a position before a traditional exit event?

Now you can express interest in selling your private market holdings with Goodfin directly from your dashboard. Express intent in a few clicks, and our team will endeavor to match you with qualified buyers on the platform. You can also bring your own buyer. We handle coordination. You could get liquidity.

Now available on select deals. Look for the "Express Interest to Sell" button in your dashboard.

We've been building. The biggest Goodfin product update yet drops in two weeks. Stay tuned.

The signal that matters surfaced for you. Here's what our AI pulled from the noise this week:

→ xAI closing $15B at $230B valuation. Elon Musk's AI play is now valued higher than most public tech companies. Read more

→ Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic lock in a $30B partnership. Anthropic commits $30B on Azure compute. Nvidia invests $10B. Microsoft adds $5B. Claude becomes the only frontier model on all three major clouds. Read more

→ SpaceX valuation nears $500B. Forge now prices shares at $263, implying a ~$498B valuation. Starlink profitability and 170 planned launches in 2025 are driving the number. Read more

→ Sam Altman and Jony Ive reveal plans for an AI device. A pocket-sized gadget with deep contextual awareness. Prototype expected in under two years. Read more

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Until next time,

Sharath Kuruganty
Founding Community Lead
Goodfin

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