A private venue for acquisitions.
Quay lets founders and acquirers conduct a software company acquihire or acquisition in confidence.
· Pre-launchDisclosure is the cost that is missed
A software company acquisition moves the moment it becomes known. By the time terms are on the table, the disclosure has already done its damage.
Exploration reads as distress — it emboldens competitors, unsettles the team, and resets the price before negotiation begins.
Intent disclosed is leverage surrendered. The other side learns the position before a word is exchanged.
An NDA, a shared data room, a chain of email — conventional channels manage disclosure after the fact, on trust. They do not prevent it.
Originated peer to peer. Never publicly listed.
Every transaction on Quay begins as a direct, private relationship between two counterparties — by direct origination, or by a mandate-matched introduction. There is no public listing, no open marketplace and no browsable board. Software company deals stay invisible until both sides choose otherwise.
Peer to peerHow a software company deal moves through Quay.
Confidentiality is enforced at each stage — not promised at the outset.
A transaction begins peer to peer — direct with a known counterparty, or through a private, mandate-matched introduction. Nothing is listed.
The transaction is described behind a verified pseudonymous handle. Identity and substance are disclosed selectively, by stage and by counterparty.
Counterparties are admitted individually against mandate. Nothing is browsable.
Materials and correspondence pass through a workspace inside a trusted execution environment — unreadable to the operator.
Agreements run on templates drafted for each deal type, so routine cases stay routine.
Consideration settles through a privacy pool. The existence of a deal is provable; the amount and the parties are not.
Operator-blindness, by architecture.
Most platforms ask for trust that they will not look. Quay is built so that it cannot. The operator observes that a transaction exists, and nothing further: not the counterparties, not the documents, not the consideration. This is a property of the system, not a clause in a policy.
Confidentiality that rests on an operator's restraint is not confidentiality.
A single confidential rail.
Quay serves private transactions between two counterparties for software companies. Acquihires are the first supported flow; the remainder follow as the platform matures.
Acquihire
A software team finds a home without broadcasting its position. Founders roll into the acquirer; selected assets transfer.
Acquisition
A software company is acquired for cash or on a paper-to-paper basis — in equity or token — without either side disclosing its hand.
Asset & IP sale
Code, IP, brand and domains transfer with clean title.
Exploratory
Counterparties test a position in confidence before committing to a process.
Built with a small number of software company founders and acquirers.
Each holds a software company transaction better kept private. Access opens to a small first cohort — registering interest is enough; contact follows.
Questions and answers
Quay is a place to acquire or acquihire software companies privately. The platform is built on Starknet, and uses what we call operator-blind architecture. That means nobody in the middle, not even Quay itself, can see who is involved, what is being discussed, or what the terms are.
An advisor will ask you to trust them, and will back that up with an NDA. Quay does not ask for trust. The system is designed so that it physically cannot see your deal. Counterparties, documents, terms, and pricing are all hidden by default. It is a structural guarantee, not a promise.
Right now Quay supports acquihires: a software team is acquired along with selected assets, and the whole process stays private. Full company acquisitions, IP and asset sales, and early-stage exploratory conversations are on the roadmap and will be available as the platform grows.
Start by requesting access on this page. Once you are in, you describe your company behind a verified pseudonymous handle. Interested buyers are matched to your mandate one by one. Nothing gets listed, nothing is browsable, and your identity stays hidden until you choose to reveal it.
It means Quay can see that a transaction exists, but nothing else. It cannot see who the parties are, what documents are shared, what the terms look like, or how much money changes hands. All of that is protected by trusted execution environments and Starknet privacy pools. It is enforced by cryptography, not by policy.