Benny operates an employee-focused lending platform that allows employees of publicly traded companies to access funds for participating in their employer's stock purchase plans. By providing loans specifically designed for this purpose, Benny enables employees to purchase company stock at discounted prices, enhancing their investment opportunities. This service aims to empower employees to make the most of their earning potential through involvement in stock ownership, thereby fostering a more engaged workforce and promoting long-term financial growth.
Developer of an investment research platform designed to bridge the data gap between individual investors and institutions. The company's platform gives retail investors free access to alternative datasets that are typically reserved for hedge funds and institutional investors and aggregates alternative stock data from across the internet, enabling users to make an informed investment decision and thereby have increased returns.
VRBex, Inc. operates a digital platform that facilitates the transmission and exchange of select fiat currencies for digital currencies. The company focuses on trading digital currencies, security tokens, and utility tokens, while also providing digital wallets and custody services for certain crypto-assets. Additionally, VRBex offers record-keeping for transactions and balances. Based in Houston, Texas, and incorporated in 2018, the company aims to innovate in the financial services sector by integrating technology and cultural shifts associated with digital assets and blockchain. With a vision to disrupt the existing banking and digital asset industries, VRBex is developing a comprehensive plan to establish a full-service U.S. chartered bank that will provide a range of products and services across both traditional and digital financial landscapes.
Developer of a fintech API platform designed to connect ERPs and accounting software with corporate bank accounts. The company's platform offers cloud-based tools such as identifying and access management, permission and approvals of customer requests as well as handles all the security, identity, and other banking operations, enabling banks and financial institutions to perform treasury-related operations efficiently.
Parallel Markets Inc. is an investor identity company that operates an online platform aimed at simplifying the onboarding and verification process for investors. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company provides services that authenticate and verify user credentials, allowing investors to share their qualifications across various platforms with a single click. The platform caters to both individual and institutional investors, offering a suite of identity products designed to enhance the efficiency of partner onboarding processes. Additionally, Parallel Markets tokenizes companies and other real assets, facilitating the verification of accredited investors and enabling the seamless signing of deals. This innovative approach supports the public ownership and trading of typically illiquid assets such as companies, funds, real estate, sports teams, and art.
Bridge is a developer of a banking platform used to help achieve financial freedom. It aims to provide a path towards upward financial mobility for the millions of people left behind by the traditional banking system. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Pontoro operates a digital asset securitization and liquidity platform aimed at addressing the significant shortfall in infrastructure debt financing, estimated at $20 trillion. By leveraging its blockchain-based technology, Pontoro facilitates the flow of infrastructure loans from major bank originators to institutional investors, enhancing access to these typically private market assets. The company has developed an initial infrastructure loan pipeline valued at $500 million through relationships with large banks. In addition to expanding its offerings, Pontoro is in discussions with several prominent financial institutions to explore distribution opportunities for its digital assets, targeting registered investment advisors, family offices, and ultra-high net worth investors. With a team experienced in underwriting and managing over $100 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects worldwide, Pontoro aims to foster broader investor participation and improve liquidity and price transparency in this sector.
BlockFi, Inc. is a financial services company focused on providing wealth management products for cryptocurrency investors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it offers a range of services including the BlockFi Interest Account, which allows clients to earn interest on their holdings of Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar. The company also facilitates secured loans in U.S. dollars, backed by clients' cryptocurrency assets, thereby enhancing liquidity in the blockchain asset market. In addition to lending and interest-earning accounts, BlockFi provides a trading platform for exchanging various cryptocurrency pairs and offers services tailored for institutional clients. By holding clients' digital assets with a registered custodian, BlockFi aims to deliver transparency and efficiency in digital financial markets. The company's mission is to address the evolving needs of both individual and institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space.
Graphite is a technology platform that helps companies accelerate business performance with on-demand experts, consultants, and executives. Leading investment firms, professional services firms and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills, alleviate bandwidth constraints, drive major organizational change, and innovate faster.
Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providers stifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products. Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight. By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data.
Halo Investing, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in a multi-issuer platform for structured notes. Founded in 2015, the company aims to democratize access to structured notes, an investment product that provides predefined outcomes and downside protection, typically available only to ultra-high net worth individuals. Halo Investing offers a range of services, including advisory support for investment management firms, predefined investment strategies, and portfolio diversification solutions for financial advisors. Additionally, the company manages securities and portfolios for individuals, their related entities, and pension and profit-sharing plans. By developing technology that streamlines the analysis, purchase, and management of structured notes, Halo Investing enhances efficiencies for issuing banks while empowering a broader audience of investors.
Graphite is a technology platform that helps companies accelerate business performance with on-demand experts, consultants, and executives. Leading investment firms, professional services firms and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills, alleviate bandwidth constraints, drive major organizational change, and innovate faster.
Market is a business focused on enhancing financial health and fostering partnerships within various industries. Founded in 2019 and based in Santa Monica, California, it provides advisory services that assist direct-to-consumer and app-based companies in gaining insights into their financial performance. By offering analytics and insights, Market empowers businesses to make informed decisions and improve their overall financial health. Additionally, Market facilitates better understanding among companies, helping them identify and connect with potential partners to drive growth.
Ellevest, Inc. is an investment management firm based in New York City, established in 2014, that focuses on providing tailored financial services specifically for women clients. The firm employs fundamental analysis and a top-down approach to manage diverse, client-focused portfolios across various global asset classes. Ellevest has developed a digital investment platform that incorporates a proprietary algorithm, taking into account factors such as women's salary peaks and financial goals to create customized investment plans. This approach aims to empower female investors by offering an engaging user experience and a thoughtful selection of investments, ensuring that their financial aspirations are prioritized and met effectively.
Parallel Markets Inc. is an investor identity company that operates an online platform aimed at simplifying the onboarding and verification process for investors. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company provides services that authenticate and verify user credentials, allowing investors to share their qualifications across various platforms with a single click. The platform caters to both individual and institutional investors, offering a suite of identity products designed to enhance the efficiency of partner onboarding processes. Additionally, Parallel Markets tokenizes companies and other real assets, facilitating the verification of accredited investors and enabling the seamless signing of deals. This innovative approach supports the public ownership and trading of typically illiquid assets such as companies, funds, real estate, sports teams, and art.
On Deck is a platform serving the many strands of identity that unite ambitious people around the globe. Their ever-growing community and action-oriented programming will help the people to get there—fast. On Deck will up-level career, launch, and scale big ideas, or make lifelong friends.
Pico is a leading provider of technology services for the financial markets community. Pico provides a best-in-class portfolio of innovative, transparent, low-latency markets solutions coupled with an agile and expert service delivery model. Instant access to financial markets is provided via PicoNet™, a globally comprehensive network platform instrumented natively with Corvil analytics and telemetry. Clients choose Pico when they want the freedom to move fast and create an operational edge in the fast-paced world of financial markets.
Compound is a global real estate investment marketplace that facilitates the cross-border movement of real estate investment capital between foreign and domestic investors and investment opportunities using an SEC-compliant structure and a network of payment and processing solutions. Compound is a technology-enabled real estate marketplace that is reimagining how the world invests in urban residential real estate. Compound enables diverse groups of people from all around the world to buy and sell small “pieces” of residential real estate in some of the world’s top cities, places like New York City, Miami, Nashville, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and beyond.
Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providers stifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products. Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight. By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data.
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.
OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation and asset manager that uses technology to mainstream customized ethical investing. OpenInvest is a YCombinator and Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup powering the post-fund future. Their team of senior technologists from the hedge fund industry and civil society leaders is first tackling under-served markets in customized ESG asset management. With seed funding, the team has built fully integrated and proprietary direct-indexing construction, management, trading, proxy voting, and UX systems that now serve thousands of customers. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
FIS is a global leader in financial services technology, with a focus on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions. Through the depth and breadth of our solutions portfolio, global capabilities and domain expertise, FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., FIS employs more than 53,000 people worldwide and holds leadership positions in payment processing, financial software and banking solutions. Providing software, services and outsourcing of the technology that empowers the financial world, FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. For more information about FIS, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook (facebook.com/FIStoday) and Twitter (@FISGlobal).
BlockFi, Inc. is a financial services company focused on providing wealth management products for cryptocurrency investors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it offers a range of services including the BlockFi Interest Account, which allows clients to earn interest on their holdings of Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar. The company also facilitates secured loans in U.S. dollars, backed by clients' cryptocurrency assets, thereby enhancing liquidity in the blockchain asset market. In addition to lending and interest-earning accounts, BlockFi provides a trading platform for exchanging various cryptocurrency pairs and offers services tailored for institutional clients. By holding clients' digital assets with a registered custodian, BlockFi aims to deliver transparency and efficiency in digital financial markets. The company's mission is to address the evolving needs of both individual and institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space.
Private Equity Round in 2016
Vestmark, based in Wakefield, MA, has been a prominent provider of technology solutions for wealth management and investment advisory since 2001. The company offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that simplifies investment management processes for broker-dealers, asset managers, bank trusts, and advisors. Its software facilitates account proposals and enrollment, portfolio construction and management, and monitoring of investable assets, all while delivering comprehensive advice across various accounts and channels. Currently, Vestmark supports the management of over 1 million accounts and more than $250 billion in assets, positioning itself as a key player in the wealth management industry.
Circle is a financial technology company that leverages blockchain technology to facilitate the sending, receiving, and investing of cryptocurrency assets globally. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle offers a user-friendly online platform that simplifies money transfers and includes services such as Circle Pay for peer-to-peer payments. In addition, the company provides Circle Invest, allowing users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and Circle Trade, which operates a trading desk with a substantial liquidity pool for digital assets, averaging $2 billion in monthly trading volume. With significant backing from investors, including notable firms such as Goldman Sachs and Accel Partners, Circle has established a presence in major cities, including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong. The company is dedicated to accelerating global crypto innovation and adoption through its various financial services.