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Executive Summary

  • ZX Equal-Weighted Index increased 4.5% MoM
  • ZX average bid-ask spread was 12% (unchanged from the last 12-month average)
  • Bids represented 42% of submitted tickets in October, 7% lower than the last 12-month average
  • ZX Index Values ended the month on average at a 18.3% premium to the last round price per share average
  • OpenAI,Stripe, and Databricks were the three most active companies on ZX in October

ZX Equal-Weighted Index Performance

ZX Average Bid/Ask Spread Chart

ZX Bid/Ask Ratio Chart

Most Active Companies1

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OpenAI
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Stripe
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Databricks
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Isomorphic Labs
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Anthropic
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Shield AI
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Polymarket
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Figure AI
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Anduril
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Perplexity AI

1 Companies that received the most ticket and profile view activity over the last 30 days

Comparison of ZX Index Value vs. Last Round Pricing

CompaniesRobustness Score2Chg vs. LR3Last Round Date
VAST Data 3 +132.1% Nov-23
Shield AI 3 +105.9% Feb-25
Tensordyne 5 +94.2% Jan-24
Anduril 7 +69.4% Apr-26
Ripple 3 +65.1% Dec-19
Lambda Labs 3 +55.6% Nov-25
Anthropic 7 +46.0% May-26
OpenAI 6 +19.8% Mar-26
Hadrian 5 +11.9% Jul-26
Replit 5 +5.2% Feb-26
Lightmatter 5 +3.6% Oct-24
Databricks 3 +0.0% Jul-26
Reflection AI 3 -0.0% Apr-26
Project Prometheus 5 -0.0% Apr-26
Rippling 5 -2.9% May-25
Perplexity AI 5 -4.2% Jan-26
Ramp 5 -4.9% Oct-26
Harvey AI 3 -5.9% Aug-26
Figure AI 5 -7.7% Aug-25
Tenstorrent 7 -14.6% Nov-25
Medable 3 -16.9% Sep-21
Crusoe Energy 4 -27.0% Aug-26
Polymarket 3 -27.1% Oct-26
Kalshi 3 -58.6% Aug-26

2 ZXData Robustness Score is an internally developed metric to assign confidence levels to the underlying data used in constructing ZXData output metrics. The ZXData Robustness Score is calculated on a scale of 1 to 10 for each company, based on the number of executed trades, number of buy and sell orders submitted to ZX and skewness of the order book.
3 ZX Index Value is an internally developed metric that reflects secondary values for private companies using an algorithmic approach based on the values sourced from ZX and ZXData partners. The algorithm used to calculate ZX Index Values incorporates both executed transaction values and bid and ask pricing.

Commentary

Zanbato’s Equal-Weighted Index, which tracks secondary market performance of ZX’s most actively traded companies, increased 4.5% in October. Among the most active sectors, Data & Analytics is up 1.9% YTD; E-Commerce is down 2.6% YTD; Cybersecurity is up 44.1% YTD; SaaS is down 7.6% YTD; FinTech is up 13.8% YTD; Crypto & Blockchain is down 15.2% YTD; Aerospace & Defense is up 55.4% YTD; AI & Machine Learning is up 51.0% YTD

Overall, ZX’s average bid-ask spread was 12% in October, unchanged from the last 12-month average.

Bids represented 42% of submitted tickets in October, 7% lower than the last 12-month average of 49%.

OpenAI,Stripe, and Databricks were the three most active companies on ZX in October.

On average, the ZX Index Values for October were at a 18.3% premium to the last round price per share.

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