Invnex Creating Liquidity in Private Markets

One of the biggest challenges with investing in private markets has always been illiquidity. Whether it's private equity or real estate, most private market investments require investors to lock up their capital for years with no clear exit path until the end of the investment term.
Invnex is addressing this challenge by introducing an integrated secondary market that gives investors the ability to buy and sell positions directly on the platform. Our innovative approach brings new flexibility to a historically inflexible asset class.
The Historical Problem: Locked-In Capital
Private market investments are typically structured as closed-end vehicles. Once capital is committed, it cannot be withdrawn until the investment matures or is exited by the fund manager, a process that often takes 5–10 years.
This long duration has created two key issues for investors:
- Limited liquidity; difficult to adjust a portfolio or respond to life events
- Restricted access; many investors avoid private markets altogether due to the long commitment
While private markets have historically delivered strong returns, the inability to access capital early has been a barrier to broader participation.
Invnex’s Solution: An Integrated Secondary Market
To solve this, Invnex has built an in-platform secondary market that enables trading of eligible private market holdings.
Here’s how it works:
- Investors can list their existing positions for sale
- Other users on the platform can browse and purchase these offerings
- Transactions are facilitated securely within Invnex’s infrastructure
- Transfers are settled instantaneously
This creates a functioning secondary market where private investments become more liquid.
Example: An investor holding a private credit note with a 5-year term can sell after 3 months. If a buyer is found, they can exit early, potentially recovering capital without waiting for maturity.
Read more about how investing on Invnex works.
Why This Matters
Early Access to Capital
Investors gain a potential pathway to liquidity, enabling them to rebalance or respond to personal needs.
Portfolio Flexibility
With a functioning secondary market, portfolios become more dynamic, allowing users to fine-tune exposures rather than being locked into static positions.
Expanded Participation
Liquidity lowers the psychological and practical barriers to private markets, making them more accessible to a broader set of investors.
Built on Security and Transparency
Trading on Invnex’s secondary market is structured to protect all participants:
- All assets are held via bankruptcy-remote SPVs
- Trades are executed through token transfers
- Pricing mechanisms are provided where applicable to assist in matching buyers and sellers
- Invnex ensures secure transaction processing and ownership updates
The result is a platform that preserves the strengths of private markets while reducing one of their greatest weaknesses.
Liquidity has long been the missing piece in private market investing. With our secondary market, Invnex offers investors a smarter way to engage with these assets, one that provides more control and access to capital.
The Invnex secondary market is helping reshape how private markets operate and who can participate in them.