Marquez: Venture-backed startups will face PE-style rollups for liquidity
Kristian Marquez · Bridging Investment and Operations: AJ Dye on Scaling Tech with Vertex Innovations and Unifi Ventures · Jun 25, 2025 · at 24:07
Christian Marquez, host of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, discusses potential market mechanisms to resolve the venture capital liquidity logjam.
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“I would sooner say we're going to see more PE-like consolidations either because someone agrees that, hey, we can get to an IPO faster and get our investors liquidity, or just because it's going to be a bigger and bigger roll-up, and that in itself will act like liquidity.”
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