DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm based in Chicago, with additional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company utilizes a combination of technology, research, and risk management to identify and seize trading and investment opportunities across various asset classes, including fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, and energy. Operating with its own capital, DRW emphasizes autonomy and adaptability, allowing it to pivot quickly in response to market changes. In addition to traditional trading, DRW has expanded its focus to include non-traditional strategies such as real estate, venture capital, and crypto-assets, leveraging its expertise and technology to enhance its investment approach. The firm fosters a culture of innovation, integrity, and high expectations, encouraging its employees to engage thoughtfully and challenge conventional wisdom.

Don Wilson

Founder and CEO

51 past transactions

Silicon Data

Seed Round in 2025
Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

BVNK

Series B in 2024
BVNK offers a modern payment infrastructure that integrates traditional banking and blockchain technology on a single platform. The company enables businesses to send and receive stablecoin payments, convert between different currencies, and incorporate cryptocurrency payments into their checkout processes. BVNK's flexible platform is supported by extensive global licensing and compliance expertise, allowing innovators to swiftly and effectively launch new payment products. Additionally, BVNK provides a customizable banking system that combines a shared core with unique modules tailored to each client's needs, helping them reduce costs, enhance flexibility, and modernize their banking operations.

Notabene

Series B in 2024
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a software as a service (SaaS) platform focused on crypto compliance for the financial industry. Established in 2020, Notabene provides businesses with tools to meet emerging global regulations for cryptocurrency transactions, particularly the Travel Rule. Its platform features a unified API and a comprehensive dashboard designed to assist compliance officers in managing risks associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By simplifying compliance processes, Notabene enables financial companies to engage with a broader range of crypto businesses, enhancing transaction confidence and supporting growth in their operations.

Skyfire Systems

Seed Round in 2024
Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

Nasdaq Private Market

Series B in 2024
Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) is a secondary market trading platform designed for private companies, their employees, and investors seeking liquidity in private company stock. Since its inception, NPM has facilitated over $44 billion in transactions and managed more than 600 company-sponsored liquidity programs, enabling over 160,000 market participants to access liquidity. The platform provides a range of solutions for private companies and investors, including tender offers, auctions, company marketplaces, and block trades. In 2021, NPM became an independent entity after spinning off from Nasdaq, with strategic investments from several major financial institutions. As more companies choose to remain private for extended periods, NPM aims to enhance the liquidity landscape, leveraging its expertise to support the evolving needs of the market.

DelSiTech

Venture Round in 2024
DelSiTech, Ltd. is a technology specialist based in Turku, Finland, focused on developing and licensing long-term controlled drug delivery systems. Established in 2001, the company specializes in biodegradable silica-based implants and injectable formulations for the controlled release of small molecular drugs, biopharmaceuticals, and viral vectors. DelSiTech's innovative technology embeds active ingredients within a silica matrix, facilitating parenteral and local administration through injectable depot, implant, and eye drop dosage forms. By providing expertise in controlled release products, DelSiTech aims to address various drug-related challenges and support clients in the development of supergeneric solutions.

OpenFin

Series D in 2023
OpenFin Inc. specializes in providing runtime technology solutions tailored for financial desktops, enabling web applications to function outside traditional browser environments. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, with an additional office in London, the company serves clients in the financial services sector, including banks in the United States and Europe. OpenFin's platform facilitates real-time application generation, desktop notifications, and seamless communication between applications while adhering to stringent security and compliance standards required by financial institutions. This approach allows users to avoid costly packaging and deployment cycles, promoting rapid and secure application deployment.

Kijiji Hub

Series A in 2023
Kijiji Hub is a multi-disciplined design studio that works on designing, development and launching the next generation of companies. Kijiji Hub helps some of the world’s largest organizations conceptualize, plan, design, develop and launch products. Our work includes data visualizations and fonts, UI and UX, websites and digital experiences, advertising and communications, graphics and identity, strategy and positioning, products and packaging. Our organization is special. We are the only significant design firm where the business owners both create the work and act as the client's first point of contact. This is evidenced by a portfolio that spans for over a decade, numerous industries, and clients of all sizes, which underscores our view that great design cannot happen without passion, intelligence, and — above all — personal devotion.

TRM Labs

Series B in 2022
TRM Labs Inc. is a blockchain intelligence company that provides a token relationship management platform designed to assist financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and government agencies in identifying and investigating financial crime and fraud related to digital assets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company leverages machine learning to facilitate on-chain anti-money laundering compliance, incorporating solutions for customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and relationship management. TRM Labs aims to enhance compliance within the cryptocurrency industry by developing tools that automatically detect suspicious activities, such as money laundering and market manipulation. The company has garnered significant investment from major financial institutions and is supported by a team of experts with backgrounds in law enforcement and top technology firms. TRM Labs operates as a remote-first organization with additional hubs in Washington, DC, and London.

InterPrice

Series A in 2022
InterPrice Technologies is a fintech platform that provides transparent financing solutions for corporate treasuries. Founded by Olga Chin, it is the first secure and user-friendly platform designed to enhance interactions between corporate issuers and financial institutions. InterPrice's innovative technology streamlines the pricing of bonds, commercial paper, and loans, automating manual processes and offering valuable insights for corporate treasury teams. Since its launch in 2020, InterPrice has successfully onboarded several global banks and Fortune 500 companies, including HP Inc., McCormick & Company, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The platform equips organizations with analytics to identify optimal financing strategies and improve record-keeping, thereby helping corporate finance teams achieve better performance and financial outcomes.

Supermojo

Seed Round in 2022
Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.

CoinLedger

Venture Round in 2022
CoinLedger is a financial services company focused on tax reporting and investment management within the cryptocurrency sector. It offers specialized software that assists users in calculating capital gains taxes related to digital assets. The platform is designed to simplify the process of managing crypto taxes by automatically calculating trading gains and preparing comprehensive tax reports. This functionality helps traders and investors navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency transactions, ultimately reducing the challenges associated with tax compliance in the digital asset space.

Path

Series A in 2021
Path is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor that allows anyone to access automated crypto portfolios. After completing a suitability assessment, Path builds your portfolio and manages it for you. You can also buy, hold, and swap cryptos directly from the app. Regulated, safe, trusted. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Blockchain Kijiji Hub

Seed Round in 2021
Blockchain Kijiji Hub is a Cryptoassets Data Aggregator. We aim to create one of the most popular price-tracking resource in the fast expanding cryptocurrency market. It's goal is to equip retail consumers with unbiased, reliable, and accurate information so they can make their own educated decisions. This will help make cryptocurrency efficient and accessible to everyone around the world. When comparing thousands of crypto-assets, individuals, institutions, and the media may turn to our platform, which was founded by Kijiji Hub in 2022. Blockchain Kijiji Hub was created by (Kijiji Hub, LLC) in 2022. Through the creation and deployment, Blockchain by Kijiji Hub, hopes to make use of the vast resources of its parent firm in order to gather more detailed information about projects, lessen information asymmetry in the cryptocurrency market, and provide its hundreds of millions of users with higher-quality data. Blockchain Kijiji Hub firmly supports fast, accurate, and impartial information.

Eventus Systems

Series B in 2021
Eventus Systems, Inc. is a software provider that specializes in solutions for compliance, trade surveillance, and risk management within capital markets. The company’s flagship platform, Validus, offers a comprehensive suite of tools for monitoring alerts, generating reports, and analyzing key trading functions across various asset classes, including equities, options, futures, foreign exchange, fixed income, and digital assets. Validus is designed for ease of deployment and customization, enabling users to effectively manage trading operations, compliance, and market risk. Eventus Systems serves a diverse clientele, including futures commission merchants, equities agency brokers, market centers, regulators, banks, proprietary trading firms, and corporate and buyside customers. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company has formed strategic partnerships with several technology firms to enhance its service offerings.

Fireblocks

Series D in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a blockchain-based security service platform that provides a secure solution for managing digital asset operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Fireblocks specializes in protecting the transmission of digital assets between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. The platform is designed for financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, exchanges, liquidity providers, over-the-counter brokers, and hedge funds, allowing them to securely manage their digital assets. Fireblocks employs advanced technologies such as patent-pending chip isolation security and multi-party computation (MPC) to ensure the safe transfer and availability of assets across various environments.

CoinCover

Series A in 2021
Coincover is a provider of insurance-backed technology aimed at safeguarding digital assets, particularly cryptocurrencies. The company offers a range of services designed to protect end-users against the loss or theft of their crypto holdings due to hacks, human error, or fraudulent transactions. Key features include Cryptocurrency Theft cover, which shields users from phishing, hacking, and criminal extortion, ensuring that if theft occurs, the full value of the assets is recovered without any deductible. Additionally, Coincover provides a Deposit Protection Guarantee that secures user access to their cryptocurrency, even in cases of password loss, device failure, or business insolvency. The company also employs a Transaction Checker that monitors transactions in real-time to identify and flag suspicious activities, further enhancing the security of users' digital assets. Overall, Coincover aims to deliver peace of mind to its customers by ensuring that their digital currencies are both safe and accessible.

Premise Data

Series E in 2021
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.

OpenFin

Venture Round in 2020
OpenFin Inc. specializes in providing runtime technology solutions tailored for financial desktops, enabling web applications to function outside traditional browser environments. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, with an additional office in London, the company serves clients in the financial services sector, including banks in the United States and Europe. OpenFin's platform facilitates real-time application generation, desktop notifications, and seamless communication between applications while adhering to stringent security and compliance standards required by financial institutions. This approach allows users to avoid costly packaging and deployment cycles, promoting rapid and secure application deployment.

NinjaTrader

Private Equity Round in 2020
NinjaTrader, LLC is a company that develops and sells trading software and market data services for traders involved in stocks, futures, and forex. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with additional offices in Germany and the Netherlands, NinjaTrader offers a comprehensive platform that includes advanced charting, market analytics, and automated trading solutions. Its software enables users to execute trades, access market data, and develop custom trading strategies through an API. In addition to its software offerings, NinjaTrader provides brokerage services, including order execution and market connectivity, catering to both individual traders and professionals in the financial markets. The company operates as a subsidiary of Long Ridge Equity Partners LLC.

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. They provide access to available inventory via its online listings platform alongside technology and tools that make the space leasing process easy, enjoyable, and efficient.

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.

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.

TradingView

Series B in 2018
TradingView, Inc. operates an online platform designed for traders and investors, blending advanced charting tools with a vibrant community for user interaction. Founded in 2011 and based in Westerville, Ohio, the company provides a range of services including real-time market data, web-based analytics, and trading software. Users can publish ideas, access intermarket analysis, and utilize brokerage integration services. TradingView also features tools for cryptocurrency signal finding, advanced chart widgets, and screening capabilities. With over 15 million monthly active users and a network that includes more than 40,000 publishers and brokerages, the platform fosters collaboration and learning among traders. The company has experienced significant growth and investment, enhancing its mission to empower individual investors with comprehensive resources and insights.

Cuebiq

Series B in 2018
Cuebiq Inc. is a data intelligence company based in New York that specializes in location analytics and consumer behavior insights. Founded in 2011, it operates the AudienceQ platform, which enables advertisers to access offline location analytics and geo-behavioral data for effective cross-platform advertising and footfall attribution analysis. By examining the time users spend at various points of interest, Cuebiq provides businesses with valuable insights into real-world consumer behaviors and trends. The company's offerings include audience targeting, campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights for marketing, retail, and publishing sectors. Additionally, Cuebiq supports retailers with footfall analysis and site selection, while providing publishers with audience segmentation and data monetization services.

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.

OpenFin

Series B in 2017
OpenFin Inc. specializes in providing runtime technology solutions tailored for financial desktops, enabling web applications to function outside traditional browser environments. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, with an additional office in London, the company serves clients in the financial services sector, including banks in the United States and Europe. OpenFin's platform facilitates real-time application generation, desktop notifications, and seamless communication between applications while adhering to stringent security and compliance standards required by financial institutions. This approach allows users to avoid costly packaging and deployment cycles, promoting rapid and secure application deployment.

Droit

Series A in 2016
Droit is a company that specializes in developing solutions aimed at enhancing global regulatory compliance and real-time controls in the financial sector. Its flagship product, Droit Adept, is a patented platform designed to facilitate intelligent decision-making in a complex regulatory environment. This platform is utilized by financial institutions to manage pre-trade and post-trade controls, assess transaction permissibility, and ensure compliant regulatory reporting. Founded by a diverse team of experts including veteran derivative traders, quantitative analysts, e-commerce specialists, and technologists, Droit combines deep industry knowledge with innovative technology to address the challenges of trading derivatives across various asset classes and regulatory frameworks.

Selerity

Series C in 2016
Selerity is a financial technology company that provides real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry. They deliver high-quality, personalized content that is engaging and actionable optimized for business professionals in specific verticals such as finance. Using Selerity, enterprise messaging platforms, publishers, research & banking portals, and e-brokers can rapidly incorporate high-quality 3rd party and proprietary content personalized to their users’ workflow and interests. The result is higher engagement, traffic, and customer satisfaction. Selerity's clients range from sophisticated asset management firms and banks on Wall Street to innovative media and technology companies serving retail investors. The company's flagship product, Selerity Context, offers contextual search solutions for the capital markets and digital wealth industries, while the Company's Private Context Engine (PCE) analyzes digital communications to power workflow automation for finance professionals.

Visibly

Series A in 2016
Visibly, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in providing online eye examination services to patients across the United States. Formerly known as Opternative, Inc., the company rebranded in November 2018. Visibly offers digital vision care solutions, including refractive eye exams that determine prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses. The company's services cater to a diverse clientele, including e-commerce employers, eye care providers, insurance companies, online healthcare platforms, and optical retailers. By offering a virtual vision testing platform, Visibly enables patients to conveniently renew their prescriptions from anywhere, ensuring accessibility to eye care services.

Pivit

Venture Round in 2015
Pivit, Inc. operates an online real-time social gaming platform that connects users with media properties and news content. Founded in 2011 by veterans from the financial and media sectors, the platform allows sports fans to engage during live games by predicting in-game events and competing against friends and other users. Through its innovative approach, Pivit combines public opinion, news, and historical data to generate live odds on various global events, continuously updating probabilities to enhance user experience. The platform aims to create a dynamic environment that fosters interaction between individuals, brands, and significant occurrences, providing a unique avenue for entertainment and engagement. Based in New York, Pivit represents a new category of consumer-facing applications that merge gaming with real-time information.

Instavest

Seed Round in 2015
Instavest operates a money management platform that facilitates investment transparency and collaboration among users. Investors can list their trades, detailing the company involved, share amounts, and the rationale behind their investment decisions. This allows other users to invest alongside those who share their trading activities. The platform also employs algorithmic trading strategies, enabling users to utilize complex options without incurring management fees in the event of a loss. Instavest encourages users to allocate a portion of their profits, typically around 5 percent, to support the original listing entity. This approach aims to empower users to make informed investment decisions while navigating both upward and downward market trends.

Final

Venture Round in 2015
Final, Inc. is a startup based in Oakland, California, founded in 2014, that focuses on enhancing consumer security in financial transactions. The company offers a physical credit card and a mobile application designed to protect users from fraud, theft, and account breaches. Its application enables users to generate multiple credit card numbers, which can be assigned to specific merchants or used as disposable one-time numbers for single purchases. This flexibility allows users to monitor their spending habits while minimizing the risk of financial fraud and the complications of card cancellations. Final is recognized for its innovative approach to payment services and has gained backing from investors, having participated in Y Combinator in 2015. As of early 2018, Final operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Mapme

Seed Round in 2015
Mapme is an innovative platform that enables organizations and leaders to create interactive maps, allowing them to visualize the interconnected layers of their communities. Founded in 2014 by Ben Lang, Amir Zucker, and Philippe Lang, the platform leverages crowdsourcing to enhance user engagement and facilitate the sharing of geographic information. By assisting companies in crafting maps tailored to specific interests and topics, Mapme fosters an engaging user experience and promotes community involvement. The platform simplifies the process of map creation, enabling organizations to narrate visual stories effectively and connect with their audiences.

SpiderOak

Series A in 2015
SpiderOak, Inc. is a cybersecurity firm that specializes in technologies designed to prevent various categories of cyberattacks while ensuring the protection of authority, confidentiality, and integrity for its clients. The company offers several products, including SpiderOak CrossClave, which enables secure file exchange and synchronization through no knowledge encryption, and The SpiderOak, a solution for secure group messaging and file sharing that mitigates risks associated with conventional collaboration tools. Additionally, it provides SpiderOak One Backup, a desktop application for data backup across multiple operating systems, and SpiderOak Enterprise Backup, which offers ransomware protection and disaster recovery services. Serving sectors such as defense, intelligence, civilian government, and enterprise software, SpiderOak was founded in 2007 and has its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois.

Bolstr

Seed Round in 2015
Bolstr is a marketplace where the emerging consumer, retail, and manufacturing businesses can raise funding for expansion from real investors. They use a unique revenue share investment structure, designed to help businesses raise growth funding from investors, while maintaining equity, and making monthly payments that are proportional to gross sales volume. This means that businesses never get squeezed during seasonal sales cycles. They believe that too often emerging businesses are overlooked. Overlooked for capital, overlooked for guidance, and overlooked for success. They created The Vault to impart actionable advice, experiences, and lessons learned from real experts who have built and scaled consumer, retail, and manufacturing businesses. The Vault is the first publication for established business owners who refuse to accept the status quo and strive to take their operations to a new level. For this group of innovators and game-changers, The Vault provides access to a wealth of valuable insights on growth from experts who matter.

Final

Seed Round in 2015
Final, Inc. is a startup based in Oakland, California, founded in 2014, that focuses on enhancing consumer security in financial transactions. The company offers a physical credit card and a mobile application designed to protect users from fraud, theft, and account breaches. Its application enables users to generate multiple credit card numbers, which can be assigned to specific merchants or used as disposable one-time numbers for single purchases. This flexibility allows users to monitor their spending habits while minimizing the risk of financial fraud and the complications of card cancellations. Final is recognized for its innovative approach to payment services and has gained backing from investors, having participated in Y Combinator in 2015. As of early 2018, Final operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Chopper Trading

Acquisition in 2015
Chopper Trading is a technology-based proprietary trading firm without any clients, customers, or shareholders; they trade the firm’s capital for the benefit of the firm. This provides a freedom and agility to adapt quickly to the ever-changing market. It also enables us to create a casual and comfortable work environment. They trade on virtually every major domestic exchange including CME, CBOT, and NYSE, plus many major international exchanges including LSE and ICE. Chopper believes in responsible market participation with fair and evenly applied standards that increase transparency, stability, and efficiency in the market.

Apervita

Series A in 2015
With wasteful healthcare spending in the U.S. estimated at $935 billion, we take our role as a healthcare innovator very seriously. Simply put, we’re on a mission to transform quality measurement and care delivery. To drive toward a Learning Health System—a framework that drives better outcomes and cost efficiencies across the health ecosystem—the industry has to commit to real change. Apervita is that change. Through our solutions and trusted collaboration platform, we’re committed to making the Learning Health System a reality, making healthcare smarter and ultimately improving patient care. As we move into our next phase of growth, we’re looking for passionate and fearless professionals to help us pursue our mission. We’ve earned the trust of our investors, including Optum Ventures, Baird Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Math Venture Partners, to further grow and scale our business. We’ve also been recognized as an industry leader by Gartner, CIOReview, Healthcare Tech Outlook, and Healthcare Informatics. Always in search of the next “first,” Apervita was named the first company to certify electronic clinical quality measures from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) using our proprietary clinical quality language (CQL) ingestion engine. And, we were recently awarded by Healthcare Innovation for our innovative work with The Joint Commission, one of the nation’s largest regulatory organizations. We believe we’re making a difference every day to drive improvements in quality care that lead to better patient outcomes with a lower cost of care. We’re honored to be on this incredibly important journey to build a better healthcare system.
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