DRW

At DRW, they identify and capture trading and investment opportunities globally. What sets them apart is their diversified approach—trading across many asset classes and instruments, in markets around the world, with horizons from seconds to years. Their approach is to combine the disciplines of risk management, research and technology to create optimal trading and investment strategies within the regulatory framework. DRW is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Austin, Houston, London, Montreal, New York, Greenwich, and Singapore.

Kimberly Trautmann

Head of DRW Venture Capital

36 past transactions

Instavest

Seed Round in 2015
Investors can list their trades on Instavest, including the company, share amount and rationale behind the investment. Other users can invest alongside the people willing to share their own purchases and sales. Instavest encourages you to block out a portion of your profits — in the neighborhood of 5 percent — that might arise from the transaction for the original listing entity.

Shiftgig

Series C in 2017
Shiftgig is a technology company that helps staffing agencies transform the way people work. Our flagship digital staffing software, Deploy, helps staffing firms empower their workforce to browse and claim work that fit their skills and schedules. We also give agencies deep insights into their clients and workers, allowing you to focus on strategic growth and coaching by eliminating repetitive tasks of running day-to-day operations. To learn more, visit shiftgig.com.

ErisX

Series B in 2019
ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Pico Quantitative Trading

Funding Round in 2017
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.
Droit was founded in 2012 by a team of veteran derivative traders, quants, ecommerce specialists and technologists with front-line experience and expertise with products, markets, regulations and systems.

RGM Advisors

Acquisition in 2017
RGM Advisors is a quantitative trading firm that applies scientific methods and computing power to trading in equities and futures. Based in Austin, Texas, we trade on a proprietary basis, taking short-term positions in thousands of instruments.

Final

Seed Round in 2015
Final, Inc. provides a physical credit card and a mobile application that protects the users account from fraud, theft, breaches, and card cancellation. Its application allows users to give a credit card number to various merchants or a disposable one-time use number for one-off purchases. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. As of January 31, 2018, Final, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Digital Asset Services Limited, trading as Coincover, offers cryptocurrency security and assurance solution to individual investors, fund managers, professional traders, and corporate customers. It offers deposit protection, crypto key storage and recovery, lost key protection, cryptocurrency wills, buy and sell crypto, theft insurance, and accumulation plans. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cardiff, United Kingdom.

OpenFin Inc.

Series B in 2017
OpenFin Inc. provides runtime technology solutions for financial desktops. Its solution enables web applications to pop-up windows, generate real-time desktop notifications, and communicate with other applications. The company serves financial services industries and banks in the United States and Europe. OpenFin Inc. was formerly known as Appoji Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom

SpiderOak

Series A in 2015
SpiderOak develops a technology that eliminates entire categories of cyberattacks. It addresses the compliance, security, and usability needs of today’s environments to enable teams to complete their mission without having to make compromises. The company's products leverage a unique combination of Zero-Trust encryption and private Blockchain, delivering solutions with a level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability unavailable until today. SpiderOak's use of blockchain provides complete attribution and nonrepudiation of all data transactions. Every modification made to the ledger is timestamped and signed, digitally ensuring traceability and complete integrity. The combination of Zero-Trust No-Knowledge Encryption and Distributed Ledger allows clients to operationalize previously unavailable datasets whose sensitivity made their use in virtual collaborative environments far too risky.

BitGo

Series B in 2017
BitGo is the world's largest processor of on-chain Bitcoin transactions, processing 15% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and $15 billion per month across all cryptocurrencies. BitGo supports over 200 coins and tokens, and has over $2 billion in assets in wallet. Our customer base includes the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, we introduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. In 2019, we began providing clearing and settlement. Ben Davenport, Michael Belshe, and Will O'Brien founded BitGo in 2013. It has its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.

Mapme

Seed Round in 2015
Mapme is the first platform that empowers any organization or leader to leverage crowdsourcing to visualize all the interconnected layers of a community. The outcome is a unique user experience that drives engagement and promotes the community. The company was founded at the end of 2014 by Ben Lang, Amir Zucker and Philippe Lang.

Cuebiq

Series B in 2018
Cuebiq Inc. develops and operates a location and data intelligence platform, AudienceQ that provides the advertisers with the facility of offline location analytics of geo-behavioral audiences for cross-platform advertisement targeting, and footfall attribution analysis by observing and analyzing time spent by users at points of interest across the globe. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

Chopper Trading LLC

Acquisition in 2015
Chopper Trading LLC, a technology-based trading company, trades on exchanges worldwide. It trades on exchanges, such as CME, CBOT, Eurex, and NYSE-Liffe; and NYSE Arca, BATS, Direct Edge, ICE, and NASDAQ. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with offices in New York, New York; London, United Kingdom; and Washington, District of Columbia. As of January 2015, Chopper Trading LLC operates as a subsidiary of DRW Holdings, LLC.

OpenFin Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
OpenFin Inc. provides runtime technology solutions for financial desktops. Its solution enables web applications to pop-up windows, generate real-time desktop notifications, and communicate with other applications. The company serves financial services industries and banks in the United States and Europe. OpenFin Inc. was formerly known as Appoji Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom

Bitcoin Bravado

Series A in 2021
Stacked develops an automated cryptocurrency investment platform. It enables everyone to invest in crypto indices, access trading bots, and automate portfolio management. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Eventus Systems, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Eventus Systems provides software solutions that enable intelligent decision making for compliance, trade surveillance, and risk management. They develop software that is designed to use big data and low-latency technologies. They have retained that focus and responsiveness in building high-performance regulatory technology solutions for a broad range of clients with trade surveillance, compliance, and market risk needs across multiple asset classes, including global equities, equity options, futures, fixed income, FX, and cryptocurrencies.

Ninja Trader

Private Equity Round in 2020
NinjaTrader, LLC develops trading software. The company’s NinjaTrader software provides analytics, multiple order entry options, trade management, and various brokerage options for active traders; end to end platform, development environment, TradeStation and eSignal integration, back testing, automation, various brokerage options for system development and automated trading; and market analytics, trading system development, simulator for TradeStation, market data feed choice for simulated trading. The company’s NinjaTrader software also provides trade simulator, daily product training for students, instills disciplined trading management, incorporating proprietary indicators, various data feed and brokerage options for trading educators; platform, C# based development, live presentation opportunities, and NinjaTrader Website presence for 3rd party indicator and trading system providers; and end to end trading platform, priority service for clients and their customers, joint marketing, customer acquisition, and customer lifespan and retention for brokers. Its NinjaTrader software is an end to end trading platform serving discretionary and automated traders of futures, equities, and forex markets. The company’s software also features charting with order entry, real-time market scanning, trade performance analysis, simulation and market replay, broad brokerage and data feed support, 3rd party add-ons, and additional analytics. Its NinjaTrader is available at the United States and international brokerages. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Denver, Colorado with locations in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Bamberg, Germany.

ErisX

Series B in 2018
ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Final

Venture Round in 2015
Final, Inc. provides a physical credit card and a mobile application that protects the users account from fraud, theft, breaches, and card cancellation. Its application allows users to give a credit card number to various merchants or a disposable one-time use number for one-off purchases. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. As of January 31, 2018, Final, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Fireblocks

Series D in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. develops a blockchain-based security service platform. The company provides security system for managing and streamline digital assets operations. Its platform allows moving funds between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. It caters to financial institutions. Fireblocks Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York. It has additional locations in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Shiftgig

Series A in 2014
Shiftgig is a technology company that helps staffing agencies transform the way people work. Our flagship digital staffing software, Deploy, helps staffing firms empower their workforce to browse and claim work that fit their skills and schedules. We also give agencies deep insights into their clients and workers, allowing you to focus on strategic growth and coaching by eliminating repetitive tasks of running day-to-day operations. To learn more, visit shiftgig.com.

TradingView

Series B in 2018
TradingView is the world’s most popular network of traders and investors – powered by real-time data and market-leading analysis software. It’s a word-of-mouth success story: from TechStars in Chicago in 2013, to over 15 million monthly active site users and over 40,000 publishers, brokerages, and fintechs utilizing its investing tools. TradingView is a global team of over 200+, founded by Stan Bokov, Denis Globa and Constantin Ivanov. In 2018 TradingView completed a $37 million Series B round led by Insight Partners, and in 2019 they acquired TradeIT in order to accelerate the company’s existing vision.

RedSeal

Series C in 2015
RedSeal develops security risk management (SRM) software and solutions and helps companies eliminate cyber threats. RedSeal was founded in 2004, helps Global 2000 organizations defend their critical digital assets. RedSeal gets ahead of cyber criminals by calculating every possible internal and external “attack path” to the most valuable network assets – before they do. Customers get a prioritized list of the most vulnerable paths to their most valuable assets. More than 200 corporations and government agencies worldwide have RedSealed their networks, including five of the top 50 financial institutions, all of the major security vendors, fifteen of the Fortune 100 retail companies, and a number of US government organizations including the US Army, US Navy, US Postal Service and the FAA. Key commercial customers include Nationwide, Oracle, Cisco and First Data. RedSeal partners with all of the top suppliers of network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Arista, Aruba, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, F5). Its software integrates with all industry leading security solutions (McAfee, Symantec, Qualys, HP ArcSight, Rapid7, Splunk,Tripwire, MaxPatrol, nMap) as well as with major workflow vendors (ServiceNow, Remedy), providing the most comprehensive validation of network security. RedSeal is backed by prominent venture investors including Venrock, Leapfrog Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, Olympic Venture Partners and In-Q-Tel.

Simplex

Series A in 2016
Fully regulated as a financial institution, Simplex processes credit card payments with a 100% fraud protection guarantee – in case of a fraud chargeback, the merchant gets paid by Simplex. Utilizing its cutting-edge fraud prevention solution and AI technology, Simplex blocks fraudulent users and allows legitimate users to complete payments, thereby, increasing conversion rates and enabling merchants to focus on their business growth. In today's banking echo-system Crypto-related businesses are underserved. Simplex enables personal individuals and businesses to get an EU IBAN account for their banking activity having all the necessary payment account functions

SquareFoot

Series B in 2019
SquareFoot serves companies that are looking for their next office and care deeply about finding the right next home. Growing companies require flexible lease options, a stress-free process, and transparency throughout the leasing journey. SquareFoot provides a seamless experience supported by easy-to-use technology and a highly responsive team of real estate professionals working to match specific client needs with a strong knowledge of what the market has to offer at any given moment.

TheSquareFoot

Series B in 2019
SquareFoot is a New York-based commercial real estate technology company that provides online real estate search and concierge services. The company has raised more than $13 million in funding, most recently a $7 million Series A led by Rosecliff Ventures.
Premise is a data and analytics platform that empowers decision-makers with real-time, actionable intelligence. By combining the power of a global network of on-the-ground contributors with industry-leading data science and machine learning Premise is ‘The Source of Ground Truth.’ A $66M Series C venture capital organization, we are backed by Valor Equity Partners, Social Capital, Google Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, among others. Premise is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Portland.

Simplex

Seed Round in 2014
Fully regulated as a financial institution, Simplex processes credit card payments with a 100% fraud protection guarantee – in case of a fraud chargeback, the merchant gets paid by Simplex. Utilizing its cutting-edge fraud prevention solution and AI technology, Simplex blocks fraudulent users and allows legitimate users to complete payments, thereby, increasing conversion rates and enabling merchants to focus on their business growth. In today's banking echo-system Crypto-related businesses are underserved. Simplex enables personal individuals and businesses to get an EU IBAN account for their banking activity having all the necessary payment account functions

Visibly, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Visibly, Inc., a healthcare technology company, provides online eye examination services to patients in the United States. It provides a refractive eye exam that measures a person’s prescription for glasses or contact lenses. The company was formerly known as Opternative, Inc. and changed its name to Visibly, Inc. in November 2018. Visibly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Apervita

Series A in 2015
Apervita is the trusted collaboration platform for value-based healthcare. We empower payers and providers and other stakeholders to more efficiently and effectively measure clinical and financial performance, improve clinical quality and administer value-based contracts. By providing an independent, secure, trusted platform to perform shared analyses, Apervita uniquely allows stakeholders to gain mutual, continuous clinical and financial insights and integrate those insights in various systems and workflows simultaneously and at scale. Serving more than one in five hospitals in the United States and several nationally recognized health plans, Apervita conducts more than 10 billion value-based computations and insights for our clients every year. The company maintains office locations in Chicago and Boston.

Bolstr Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Bolstr Inc. operates an online lending platform that connects small and medium business owners with investors. Its platform helps businesses to raise short-term and long-term loans from a network of investors who are focused on investing in companies that are raising capital for growth projects, such as new locations, product launches, renovations, machinery, improved online or e-commerce presence, and other similar initiatives. The company’s platform primarily serves manufacturing, retail, and food and beverage companies. Bolstr Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of June 20, 2018, Bolstr Inc. operates as a subsidiary of KeyCorp.

Pivit, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Founded in January 2011 by a group of financial and media industry veterans, Binary Event Network (“BEN”) combines a global financial trading platform with proprietary real-time pricing content to create a new category of consumer facing applications for the web and mobile devices. BEN's live app, Pivit, is the first live moment-to-moment gaming platform for sports fans. Play during live games, compete to call in-game swings, beat your friends and outscore the crowd. Install for free: http://bit.ly/1anbEvk

Bitfury Group

Series C in 2015
Bitfury is the leading full service Blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitfury develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the blockchain.

Pico Quantitative Trading

Series C in 2020
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.