CME Group
CME Group Inc. is a prominent global marketplace headquartered in Chicago that specializes in the trading of futures and options on futures contracts across a variety of asset classes, including interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, and metals. Established in 1898, the company operates multiple exchanges, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, and has expanded through significant mergers and acquisitions, such as the acquisition of NYMEX Holdings in 2008. CME Group provides a comprehensive range of services, including clearing for exchange-traded contracts, settlement services, and transaction lifecycle management, which encompasses trade and portfolio management, regulatory reporting, and trade processing. The company also offers extensive market data services to a diverse clientele that includes professional traders, financial institutions, corporations, and governmental entities. CME Group's strategic partnerships further enhance its offerings, notably in developing risk management products for various market participants.
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Derek Sammann
Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Commodities, Options and International Markets
29 past transactions
Grão Direto
Series B in 2025
Grão Direto operates a Brazilian digital marketplace that connects grain buyers and producers for agricultural commodity trading. The platform supports spot, futures, and barter transactions and provides real-time price intelligence, contract automation, and document processing to help farmers and buyers optimize deals and streamline logistics. It serves cooperatives, traders, brokers, feed factories, and warehouses, and enhances market intelligence and decision-making while supporting related processes such as logistics and financial products.
Kemiex
Venture Round in 2023
Kemiex is a Zurich-based online B2B trading platform that connects buyers and sellers of pharmaceutical ingredients and nutrition raw materials, providing market information, purchasing and sales services for active pharmaceutical ingredients, additives and excipients as well as raw materials used in human and animal nutrition and health. The platform serves pharmaceutical, veterinary, food and feed industries, facilitates global trading by linking buyers, sellers and traders, and aims to reduce transaction lead times while maintaining client control over trading activities.
Revelate
Series A in 2022
Revelate is a developer of a data fulfillment platform that offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities for data sharing and commercialization. The platform is designed to alleviate the challenges faced by data teams in distributing data according to consumer needs, both within and outside their organizations. By seamlessly integrating into existing data ecosystems, Revelate empowers companies to prepare, package, and distribute data efficiently and effectively from any source to any recipient. This innovative approach helps organizations fully realize the value of their data assets.
Blockfills
Series A in 2022
Blockfills is an institutional digital asset liquidity provider and developer of an electronic liquidity platform that offers a trading ecosystem. The platform performs order matching, execution, routing, and sources liquidity from large non-bank trading institutions, connecting clients to the best available price and enabling electronic digital asset liquidity across multiple time zones and geographies.
Blockfills
Seed Round in 2021
Blockfills is an institutional digital asset liquidity provider and developer of an electronic liquidity platform that offers a trading ecosystem. The platform performs order matching, execution, routing, and sources liquidity from large non-bank trading institutions, connecting clients to the best available price and enabling electronic digital asset liquidity across multiple time zones and geographies.
OpenGamma
Series E in 2019
OpenGamma Limited, established in 2009, is a London-based technology company that specializes in real-time market risk management solutions for financial institutions. It offers a comprehensive platform that delivers cross-asset risk and trading analytics, enabling front-office and risk users to make informed decisions. The platform caters to a wide range of clients, including buy-side and sell-side firms, clearing institutions, exchanges, and other segments of the over-the-counter (OTC) market. OpenGamma's solutions also extend to optimizing performance in OTC markets, with tools for multi-central counterparty (CCP) margin calculations. The company provides support, consulting, and training services to ensure clients maximize the benefits of its platform.
NEX Group
Acquisition in 2018
NEX Group is a technology-driven services company focused on enhancing global financial markets. It provides innovative solutions for trade execution and risk management, covering the entire trade lifecycle from pre-execution to post-execution. NEX offers a comprehensive portfolio of electronic trading platforms and lifecycle management services, which are designed to help clients optimize their portfolios, control risk, and reduce costs. By partnering with emerging technology firms, NEX aims to improve efficiency and deliver valuable analytics, pricing, and regulatory reporting solutions to a diverse client base. These offerings enable clients to make informed trading decisions and effectively navigate the complexities of today's financial landscape.
SparkCognition
Series B in 2018
Founded in 2013, SparkCognition develops AI systems for various industries. It offers solutions like SparkPredict for predictive maintenance, DeepArmor for cybersecurity, DeepNLP for document analysis, Darwin for automated data science, and serves sectors such as oil & gas, aviation, defense, and finance.
1QBit
Series B in 2017
1QBit is a quantum computing software company that develops a computational optimization platform using quantum-inspired computing to address industrial challenges. The platform is hardware-agnostic and supports routing and scheduling, portfolio management, molecular similarity analysis, and risk assessment, enabling organizations across industries to tackle complex decision-making and improve operational efficiency.
Iguazio
Series B in 2017
Iguazio provides a data science platform enabling businesses to develop, deploy, and manage AI applications at scale. It facilitates real-time AI model execution, deployment across multi-cloud, on-premises, or edge environments, empowering enterprises to execute ambitious data-driven strategies.
Privitar
Series A in 2017
Privitar Ltd. is an enterprise software company specializing in privacy-preserving data mining and advanced data anonymization solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the company serves a diverse global client base across North America, Europe, and Asia. Privitar's product suite includes Privitar Publisher, which allows organizations to securely manage and audit data access, and Privitar Lens, which facilitates the creation of privacy-preserving APIs for reporting and analytics. Additionally, its SecureLink system focuses on data de-identification, while the Privitar Data Privacy Platform enhances data utilization while safeguarding sensitive information. The company's technologies enable clients to analyze potentially sensitive data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CPRA, and HIPAA, thereby fostering data-driven innovation and maintaining customer privacy across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and marketing.
Orbital Insight
Series C in 2017
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The firm develops a cloud-based platform that employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data, including satellite imagery, mobile location signals, and other Internet of Things data. This technology enables organizations, including businesses, governments, and NGOs, to gain insights into societal and economic trends that may not be visible to the naked eye. Orbital Insight's products, such as Orbital Insight GO, GO Consumer, and GO Energy, provide users with actionable intelligence regarding infrastructure, supply chain dynamics, and energy resources. By transforming billions of data points into clear, usable information, the company supports data-driven decision-making in various sectors.
Filament
Series A in 2017
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT.
Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.
Layer
Series B in 2017
Layer, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in the development of an open communications layer platform for the Internet. Founded in 2011, Layer enables developers to integrate rich messaging, voice, and video capabilities into their applications. The company's offerings include Atlas, a customizable UI kit designed for enhancing messaging features, as well as software development kits (SDKs) for both iOS and Android platforms. Additionally, Layer provides a Client API that allows browser-based applications to incorporate chat and communication services, along with a Platform API that facilitates the automation, extension, and integration of these services with other applications. Through its innovative tools, Layer aims to enhance customer interaction for businesses by improving communication between companies and their clients.
Fortscale Security
Series B in 2017
Fortscale Security, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing security software focused on user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA). The company has created an innovative platform that employs machine learning and predictive analytics to detect malicious user behavior and insider threats in real time. By embedding its behavioral analytics engine within existing security infrastructures, Fortscale enhances the ability of organizations to identify high-risk activities and improve decision-making processes. This integration allows for the automatic modeling of behaviors and the swift identification of anomalies, enabling enterprises to strengthen their security posture while reducing the workload on security analysts. Fortscale's solutions provide critical visibility and insights needed to uncover subtle attacks and enhance overall security effectiveness.
CrossLend
Venture Round in 2017
CrossLend GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2014 that operates an online lending platform specializing in digital credit mediation and financing. The company facilitates cross-border credit mediation by partnering with a bank, enabling investments across Europe through a single platform. CrossLend's platform connects private and institutional investors from low-interest rate countries with borrowers from high-interest rate countries, effectively intermediating loans and securitizing them into bonds for investment. This model allows investors to achieve favorable risk-return profiles while providing borrowers with competitive interest rates. Additionally, CrossLend offers a range of financing options, including consumer loans, development loans, invoices, mortgages, SME loans, and bridging loans, supported by its digital infrastructure and commitment to standardization in the lending process.
Ripple Labs
Series B in 2016
Ripple Labs operates a global payments network using blockchain technology. It offers RippleNet, connecting banks, payment providers, digital asset exchanges, and corporates for cross-border payments. Key solutions include XRP (a digital asset for payments), xCurrent (for banks), xRapid (for payment providers), and xVia (for corporates). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices globally.
Orbital Insight
Series B in 2016
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The firm develops a cloud-based platform that employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data, including satellite imagery, mobile location signals, and other Internet of Things data. This technology enables organizations, including businesses, governments, and NGOs, to gain insights into societal and economic trends that may not be visible to the naked eye. Orbital Insight's products, such as Orbital Insight GO, GO Consumer, and GO Energy, provide users with actionable intelligence regarding infrastructure, supply chain dynamics, and energy resources. By transforming billions of data points into clear, usable information, the company supports data-driven decision-making in various sectors.
SparkCognition
Series A in 2016
Founded in 2013, SparkCognition develops AI systems for various industries. It offers solutions like SparkPredict for predictive maintenance, DeepArmor for cybersecurity, DeepNLP for document analysis, Darwin for automated data science, and serves sectors such as oil & gas, aviation, defense, and finance.
Fortscale Security
Series B in 2015
Fortscale Security, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing security software focused on user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA). The company has created an innovative platform that employs machine learning and predictive analytics to detect malicious user behavior and insider threats in real time. By embedding its behavioral analytics engine within existing security infrastructures, Fortscale enhances the ability of organizations to identify high-risk activities and improve decision-making processes. This integration allows for the automatic modeling of behaviors and the swift identification of anomalies, enabling enterprises to strengthen their security posture while reducing the workload on security analysts. Fortscale's solutions provide critical visibility and insights needed to uncover subtle attacks and enhance overall security effectiveness.
Ripple Labs
Series A in 2015
Ripple Labs operates a global payments network using blockchain technology. It offers RippleNet, connecting banks, payment providers, digital asset exchanges, and corporates for cross-border payments. Key solutions include XRP (a digital asset for payments), xCurrent (for banks), xRapid (for payment providers), and xVia (for corporates). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices globally.
Nervana
Series A in 2015
Nervana is a technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Diego, California. It specializes in machine learning and artificial intelligence, offering a software-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to develop custom deep learning applications. The company's flagship product, Nervana Cloud, provides a comprehensive software solution that utilizes deep learning techniques to facilitate the creation of intelligent applications. Founded by experts in various fields, including machine learning, neuroscience, and chip design, Nervana aims to simplify and scale the use of brain-inspired algorithms in technology development.
Ripple Labs
Series A in 2015
Ripple Labs operates a global payments network using blockchain technology. It offers RippleNet, connecting banks, payment providers, digital asset exchanges, and corporates for cross-border payments. Key solutions include XRP (a digital asset for payments), xCurrent (for banks), xRapid (for payment providers), and xVia (for corporates). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices globally.
Dwolla
Series D in 2014
Founded in 2010, Dwolla is a leading provider of account-to-account payment solutions. It offers a modern API that simplifies bank transfers, customer management, and bank account verification for businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Powerlytics
Venture Round in 2014
Powerlytics is a market intelligence platform that provides granular, consumer and business financial data. The platform analyzes anonymized financial information from publicly available U.S. government sources and reconstructs it into understandable financial statements covering households and businesses. It enables clients to assess risk and compliance, size markets, benchmark performance, and support corporate strategy and target marketing. The company's data supports benchmarking, market research, and audience insights for sectors including financial services, professional services, insurance, and wealth management. Founded in 2011 and based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Powerlytics helps organizations identify potential markets, evaluate competitors, and drive data-driven decision making.
1QBit
Series A in 2014
1QBit is a quantum computing software company that develops a computational optimization platform using quantum-inspired computing to address industrial challenges. The platform is hardware-agnostic and supports routing and scheduling, portfolio management, molecular similarity analysis, and risk assessment, enabling organizations across industries to tackle complex decision-making and improve operational efficiency.
Wickr
Series B in 2014
Wickr Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in mobile communication applications, offering military-grade encryption for text, images, audio, and video messages. Founded in 2011, Wickr provides users with secure communication channels through its platforms, including Wickr Me, which caters to individuals, small teams, and large enterprises. The application is designed to facilitate private messaging without leaving a trace, ensuring that only the intended recipient can decrypt the messages. Wickr's technology, which employs standard encryption algorithms, supports ephemeral messaging and media, making it suitable for a diverse clientele that includes journalists, government officials, medical professionals, and everyday users. With hundreds of thousands of downloads across over 113 countries, Wickr emphasizes user privacy and security, enabling anonymous communication while supporting the principles of free expression.
Pivot Incorporated
Acquisition in 2012
Pivot Incorporated is a developer of enterprise collaboration and messaging services tailored for the capital and over-the-counter markets. The company has established the Pivot Point Network, which serves as a central hub for members to engage in conversation, share data, and exchange content. By enhancing electronic trading capabilities, Pivot enables real-time dialogue among traders and their networks, facilitating streamlined communication within trading-related workflows. The Pivot Network transforms conversations into actionable ideas and transactions by integrating vital information, relationships, and transactions into a unified platform, ultimately empowering customers to make informed decisions in the capital markets arena.
Credit Market Analysis
Acquisition in 2008
Credit Market Analysis is an independent provider of market insights and data services, specializing in the over-the-counter markets. The company focuses on delivering fixed income pricing information, analytics, and connectivity solutions, along with a comprehensive suite of proprietary market data and tools. These resources span various asset classes, including fixed income, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and options. By equipping traders with essential information and analytical capabilities, Credit Market Analysis enables them to effectively manage risk and make informed decisions tailored to their specific market environments.
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