founder @techdollarhq
London, England
Joined February 2025
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Private equity. Public yield.
Shareholders in Kalshi, Perplexity, Revolut, Stripe, Ramp and other pre-IPO companies don't want to sell. Selling means tax and giving up the upside.
So they pledge their equity to Techdollar and borrow against it. 40% LTV, 15% coupon, IPO upside kept. October borrow demand alone: $133m
Now you can fund those loans. Mint USDte, the dollar receipt, today. Stake it as eUSDte when the pool opens and earn what those shareholders pay.
Audited and pledged collateral in the world's leading private companies.
Mint today.
Techdollar's USDte is now live.
Mint directly at: app.techdollar.com/earn/mint
Supply caps will be raised in the coming days.
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USDte minting is live, with frxUSD as a mint asset.
@techdollarhq lends against pre-IPO equity in frontier tech: AI, aerospace, chips, and energy. Every loan settles in USDte.
Mint with frxUSD before initial caps fill and earn points.
Get started: app.techdollar.com/earn/mint
Techdollar's USDte is now live.
Mint directly at: app.techdollar.com/earn/mint
Supply caps will be raised in the coming days.
david retweeted
Techdollar's USDte is now live.
Mint directly at: app.techdollar.com/earn/mint
Supply caps will be raised in the coming days.
mid teens yield, backed by equity in the best private companies in the world, in a dollar you can move on @CurveFinance
that's USDte and this is Techdollar
We're heading to @CurveFinance
Techdollar is proposing to add the USDte/USDT pool on Ethereum to the Gauge Controller, which would give USDte a deep, public on-chain market next to mint and redemption.
Read it and weigh in: gov.curve.finance/t/proposal…
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Today, in partnership with @flutterwave, we’re proud to announce the launch of our first equity-backed liquidity program in Africa, available as an employee benefit to their entire workforce.
markets.businessinsider.com/…
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Oh? First company to embed @techdollarhq across its entire workforce you say?
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Borrowing against private shares is about to go mainstream and here’s why:
There is now $5.3 trillion of value sitting in private companies that cannot or will not list.
The median company goes public at 14 years old.
By Series C, employees collectively own more of the company than the founders. And for private startup employees, stock can be as much as 86% of net worth.
Thank you @PranavKiranBV for the article
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Sources: Ramp raised about $1.85B led by Dragoneer and Thrive Capital at a $60B pre-money valuation, up from $44B in June, when it raised $750M (@rebeccatorrenc5 / Bloomberg)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Providing equity is a company's best employee retention tool that's never spendable.
"Make that wealth not something that only exists on Carta," urges @terrry
"Make them rich, or at least richer. Not with more salary, not with more equity, but with liquidity."
The conventional way to turn that equity into cash is selling it on the secondary market. Inefficient and public.
"It comes with bad signaling, big discount, tax bills and strangers on your cap table."
Founder of @techdollarhq on the live show yesterday.
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"The guys shifting blocks are f*ing up the cap table. You have founders that don't know who owns what"
@terrry founder of @techdollarhq exposes the messy truth behind pre-IPO secondaries:
"The problem with these guys walking around bragging, shifting blocks, they're restructuring the hell out of the cap table."
"Founders don't know who owns what. You saw the Anthropic news ages ago, everyone's rolling everything into an SPV."
"That's happening because you have employees staring at 7 or 8 figures of wealth, and a bunch of guys who want to move blocks."
"There's always a willing buyer and a willing seller, whether the founders and boards like it or not."
We’ve been working hard to add more companies to Techdollar and now we have 300+ listed.
If you hold vested equity in a private company, you can likely unlock liquidity today.
Link in comments
Your equity is more liquid than you think
300+ companies are now accepted for credit unlocks on Techdollar
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Terrence breaking it down at the NYSE for @FINTECHTVglobal
@terrry 👏 👏 👏
The average time to IPO has stretched from 5 to 6 years to around 11, leaving employees "paper rich" but unable to afford things like a down payment or tuition.
@terrry of @techdollarhq tells @JD_Durkin he's building the credit layer for private markets, since "no one's built the plumbing" for employees to borrow against equity that's "hardening as collateral" across frontier AI, robotics, and chip companies.
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Revolut confirms $115B valuation in secondary sale, increasing from $45B just two years ago.
In 2016, 433 everyday investors put £1M into Revolut on Crowdcube at a £42M valuation. That stake is worth roughly $2B today, over 1,000x for those who held.
Congratulations to the early employees and investors who saw the opportunity, helped build the company, and had the conviction to keep holding. They’re now sitting on significant paper wealth.
This is exactly what @techdollarhq is built for.
Equity in motion.
