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title: 'Powered by Ashby at Hiive'
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# Powered by Ashby at Hiive

- **Company:** Hiive
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://www.ashbyhq.com/

## About Hiive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hiive is a centralized marketplace for buying and selling pre-IPO stock, enabling private companies and their shareholders to unlock liquidity through transparent, compliant secondary transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A / Venture Round; total funding $8.4M)
- **Headquarters**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial Services – secondary market trading of private company stock.
- Target customers: B2B – VC-backed companies (issuers), their shareholders (sellers), and qualified institutional/individual investors (buyers).
- Mission statement: “To unlock the value of the private market” – empowering participants to discover liquidity, create wealth, and maintain control over their investments.

## Products & Services
- **Hiive Platform**: A SaaS-based marketplace where qualified participants can buy and sell pre-IPO shares. Companies can pre-approve buyers/sellers, set trading ranges and windows, and automate transactions. The platform provides real-time price discovery, fixed and competitive fees, and anonymity until a deal is struck. It also offers market pricing data across thousands of pre-IPO companies, updated hourly.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$8.4M** across two rounds (Series A led by Uncorrelated Ventures in October 2023, and a venture round in June 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Uncorrelated Ventures (lead investor); also works with **>60% of tier-1 venture capital firms** and **>95% of US decacorns** have at least one trade on Hiive.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Monthly transaction volume of **$250M+** (6-month rolling average).
  - **$2B+** in live securities orders.
  - Headcount grew **52.5% year-over-year** to **195 employees** (as of mid-2026).
  - Active job postings: **42** (up 55.6% year-over-year, though down 14.3% month-over-month).
  - Expanding into institutional sales, API platform, and product design roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Centralized marketplace**: Direct access to a deep pool of verified buyers and sellers, eliminating the need for multiple brokers.
- **Automation & compliance**: Companies can automate transactions, set price/volume parameters, and approve all counterparties, all within a regulated venue.
- **Real-time pricing data**: Free, hourly-updated market pricing for thousands of pre-IPO companies – a key differentiator in an otherwise opaque market.
- **Scale & trust**: Already used by the majority of US decacorns and tier-1 VCs, providing network effects and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the platform**: Growing transaction volumes and expanding into new geographies (remote-friendly roles across Canada and the US).
- **Product development**: Building an API platform for seamless integration, enhancing data analytics, and improving the user experience for issuers, buyers, and sellers.
- **Institutional expansion**: Hiring a VP of Investments, Director of Institutional Sales, and corporate development roles to deepen relationships with large investors and funds.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Entrepreneurial, agile, and innovative environment with a small, collaborative team. Core values include excellence, customer-centricity, curiosity, urgency, and intensity.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly. Vancouver HQ is the primary hub, but many roles are open to remote candidates across Canada and the US. Commuter benefit ($20/day) for in-office days.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, plus a health spending account.
  - Competitive salary and stock options (employee stock option plan).
  - Relocation and immigration support for moves to Vancouver.
  - Bi-weekly catered lunches, Friday bar, beach days, team workouts, annual summer/holiday parties, and two all-team retreats per year.
  - Professional growth opportunities: advancement into management/leadership, cross-disciplinary exposure.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on building the world’s leading private market platform; roles include Engineering Lead, Principal Product Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and Security Engineer.

## Sources
1. [hiive.com](https://www.hiive.com/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiive](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiive)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/hiive)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiive)

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