Both sides of this platform are tradeable. A listed share and a private unit are equally capable of changing hands here — what differs is the machinery underneath, and pretending otherwise is the single most common way retail investors get hurt in this asset class.
A listed company has an exchange behind it: a continuous auction, a clearing house, a filing calendar. A private company has none of those. It has a register, a set of agreements, and events that occur irregularly. Access to it is granted by treaty — a standing arrangement between the company, the custodian holding the shares, and this platform — and that treaty permits units to transfer while expressly restricting what may be published about their value.
So you will not find a price for a private name anywhere on this page. Not because the figure is unknown to us, but because a price published outside an exchange is an assertion no one can settle against. Inside your account, against a signed arrangement, a mark is a contractual fact. On a public marketing page it is decoration, and decoration on a number is how people end up wiring money to strangers.
ListedPrivate
What sets the priceA continuous auction. Thousands of participants, every second the market is open.A dated mark, struck when something real happens — a round closes, a block clears, a 409A is issued.
How often it movesContinuously, and visibly, including when nothing has changed.When an event moves it, and not otherwise. A mark can stand for quarters.
What you holdThe security itself, in your name, with the rights attached to it.Units in a single-asset vehicle that holds the shares. You are not on the cap table.
How it settlesExchange clearing, on the exchange's timetable.Transfer of units on the register, at the prevailing mark, under the treaty.
Getting outSell into the book. Size permitting, immediately.Matched against standing interest. There may be none for a while, and you should plan on that.
What you are toldWhatever the issuer files publicly, on the filing calendar.Whatever the treaty obliges the issuer to pass through. Usually less, always later.