Security at Hiive

Hiive·1d ago

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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