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"Augment is the Robinhood for the private markets." - Noel Moldvai
Takeaways
- Augment aims to simplify access to pre-IPO investments.
- Investors should be aware of the liquidity challenges in private markets.
- AI and defense sectors are currently the most promising for investment.
- The trading volume in private markets has significant growth potential.
- Investing in prediction markets could be a lucrative opportunity.
Noel Moldvai is co‑Founder and CEO at Augment, a pre‑IPO investing platform making private markets liquid, transparent, and accessible. Under Noel’s leadership, Augment scaled from launch to an 8-figure run rate in 18 months profitably, raised $17M, and surpassed $750M+ in AUM. Prior to Augment, Noel was an engineer at Google and an engineering leader at Rubrik, where he helped bring Rubrik’s on‑prem technology to the cloud and experienced the challenge of employee liquidity firsthand. Noel has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, grew up in Eastern Europe and the Bay Area, and is now settled in Austin.
