Navigating Private Markets: Opportunistic Investing in Tech, AI, and Tokenized Assets | Uwe Paßmann, Henning Stein

Private market access is shifting from an institutional privilege to an investable product category as regulated structures, tokenized securities, and secondary market mechanics lower barriers for affluent and high net worth investors. Uwe Paßmann of COMETUM and Dr. Henning Stein of 1BusinessWorld examine how late-stage growth equity differs from venture capital and private equity, how secondary transactions in companies like SpaceX and OpenAI are sourced and structured, and how the EU's MICA framework is enabling asset-backed tokenization at scale. The session covers sector demand across AI infrastructure, defense technology, and prediction markets, addresses the pricing transparency challenge in non-listed equity, and outlines a ten-year outlook in which private market allocations reach 10 to 20 percent of professionally managed portfolios.