Franklin Templeton

Franklin Templeton is a global investment management organization, established in 1947. It offers conservatively managed mutual funds, specializing in bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand. The company serves individual investors, corporations, and financial institutions worldwide.

Jennifer Ball

Chief Marketing Officer

Ben Batory

Senior Vice President and Head, Equity Group Trading

Kelsey Biggers

Senior Vice President and Head of Performance Analysis and Investment Risk

Ryan Biggs

Managing Director

Drew Carrington

Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional

Robert Christian Jr.

Senior Managing Director

Matt Cioppa

Vice President, Research Analyst / Portfolio Manager

Jean-Francois Crousillat

Managing Director, Alternative Strategies

Jonathan Curtis

VP, research analyst and portfolio manager

Massimo D'Amo

Senior Investment Manager

Kevin Farrelly

Digital Assets

Jenny Johnson

President and CEO

Margaret King

Franklin Templeton Strategic Ventures

Mohieddine Kronfol

CIO Global Sukuk and MENA Fixed Income

Howard Margolis

Global COO, Alternative Investments

Roger Paradiso

Global Head of Product Solutions

Richard Piliero

Senior Vice President, Senior Executive Director

Greg Scanlon

Managing Partner

Dina Ting

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Index Portfolio Management

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Cap Labs

Seed Round in 2025
CAP Labs is a technology company specializing in the development of stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value. The company's platform enables the creation of various denominations of redeemable stablecoins, which are backed by reserves to ensure their value remains stable. CAP Labs also offers a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that generates high and sustainable yields through these stablecoins, providing users with access to profitable yield options not typically available in traditional finance.

Plaid

Venture Round in 2025
Plaid is a technology platform that provides APIs and developer tools to connect consumer bank accounts and financial data with applications. It enables developers to build modern financial services by offering infrastructure and intelligence tools that allow access to transactions, authentication for bank accounts, identity verification, real-time balances, asset verification, and income data. Its products include Transactions, Auth, Identity, Balance, Assets, and Income, supporting personal finance, consumer payments, lending, banking and brokerage, and business finance solutions. Plaid serves developers from startups to large financial institutions, helping democratize financial services with a developer-friendly experience. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Capital Markets Gateway

Series C in 2025
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.

Walrus

Funding Round in 2025
Walrus is a decentralized storage network that stores and delivers raw data and media files—like videos, images, and PDFs—without sacrificing performance or accessibility.

Walrus

Initial Coin Offering in 2025
Walrus is a neobank in India focused on providing banking services specifically for teenagers. Recognizing the lack of suitable banking and payment solutions for this tech-savvy demographic, Walrus aims to serve around 100 million teenagers by offering a modern digital banking experience. The platform includes features such as digital bank accounts and a smart debit card, which come with curated rewards for every transaction. This approach not only facilitates financial management but also encourages users to develop good money habits and understand the complexities of financial responsibility. Through its innovative offerings, Walrus seeks to empower young individuals with financial freedom and education.

Crossmint

Venture Round in 2025
Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade developer platform to build onchain. Crossmint's suite of products includes wallets, tokenization, payments, and more; and powers 40,000+ companies and developers, including Fortune 500 companies and major brands like Mastercard, Adidas, Red Bull, Coinbase, Phantom, and more.

Ligero

Seed Round in 2025
Founded in 2018, Ligero specializes in designing and implementing a platform for secure, decentralized collaboration both on and off blockchain. Their offerings include confidential transactions, private smart contracts, distributed threshold cryptography, secure auctions for decentralized exchanges, and private verifiable machine learning.

Ethena

Funding Round in 2025
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Bitlayer

Series A in 2024
Bitlayer is a pioneering developer of a second-layer network for Bitcoin, built on BitVM technology. It focuses on delivering ultra-scalability while maintaining the security equivalent to the Bitcoin mainnet (L1). The company aims to serve as Bitcoin's computing layer.

Apro Oracle

Seed Round in 2024
APRO Oracle specializes in providing comprehensive data support for the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is renowned for being the most widely integrated oracle within this environment. The company's core service involves accurately calculating prices by aggregating data from leading institutional-grade suppliers and exchanges, utilizing the Time-Weighted Average Price (TVWAP) method. APRO Oracle ensures data security through a decentralized network of submitter nodes and partnerships with top-tier security audit firms, allowing clients to verify multiple data points off-chain, minimizing on-chain transactions, and reducing gas costs.

SatLayer

Pre Seed Round in 2024
SatLayer is a stealth-mode startup developing a modular security platform specifically designed for Bitcoin. Its core offering, Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), aims to bolster the security of decentralized applications (dApps) and protocols within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Jade Biosciences

Series A in 2024
Jade Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative therapies for unmet needs in autoimmune diseases. Its lead asset, JADE-001, targets the APRIL pathway for treating IgA nephropathy, with initial clinical trials planned. Additionally, Jade has two preclinical antibody discovery programs, JADE-002 and JADE-003. The company was founded upon assets licensed from Paragon Therapeutics.

Pitti Engineering

Post in 2024
Founded in 1983, Pitti Engineering is a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of electrical steel laminations, motor cores, sub-assemblies, die-cast rotors, and machined components. Its products serve diverse industries such as industrial motors, power generation, medical equipment, aerospace, and railways, with both domestic and international sales.

Keyper

Debt Financing in 2024
Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners.

Lycia Therapeutics

Series C in 2024
Lycia Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing first-in-class therapeutics using its proprietary Lysosomal Targeting Chimeras (LYTACs) platform. This platform enables the degradation of extracellular and membrane-bound proteins associated with challenging-to-treat diseases like cancer and autoimmune disorders, aiming to provide effective treatments for patients.

Blaize

Series D in 2024
Blaize is a semiconductor and software technology company that provides a proprietary, purpose-built full-stack hardware architecture and low-code/no-code software platform for edge AI processing at the network edge. The platform enables low-latency, power- and thermal-efficient AI inference across industries such as automotive, mobility, retail, security, industrial automation, and medical devices. The company focuses on delivering edge computing solutions that avoid retrofitting data-center-centric AI, enabling efficient on-device processing. Headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California, Blaize operates with teams in San Jose, North Carolina, and subsidiaries in India and the United Kingdom, employing around 200 people globally.

Lodha Group

Post in 2024
Lodha Group, established in 1980, is a leading Indian real estate developer with a significant presence in both India and the United Kingdom. Recognized as one of the most profitable real estate companies in India, it has maintained its position as the largest by sales for three consecutive years. The group is currently developing approximately 43 million square feet of prime real estate and has a vast land bank of over 6,200 acres, translating to an estimated saleable area of around 553 million square feet. With 28 ongoing projects in major cities such as London, Mumbai, Pune, and Hyderabad, Lodha Group aims to deliver over 11.8 million square feet in the coming fiscal year. The company's notable developments include World One, the world's tallest residential tower, and Palava City, India’s first Greenfield smart city. Lodha has collaborated with renowned global names like Armani/Casa and Trump for its projects and has made significant land acquisitions in Mumbai, including the New Cuffe Parade development, which is poised to become a new city center.

Blockhead

Seed Round in 2024
Blockhead is a community-driven media platform that answers questions that specializes in Web3 and Why Does it Matter?. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Singapore, Singapore.

Transparently.AI

Seed Round in 2024
Transparently.AI is an AI software company that uses machine learning to detect accounting manipulations and fraud in company reporting before they are publicly discovered. It provides probabilities of manipulation in listed companies and predicts the likelihood of corporate failure due to such activities, enabling clients like pension plans, investment managers, and regulators to improve their corporate monitoring processes.

Ethena

Seed Round in 2024
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

EthosX

Venture Round in 2023
EthosX is a blockchain-based decentralized finance platform focused on creating end-to-end financial derivatives. The platform allows users to hold derivatives as tokens in their wallets, facilitating the sale and transfer of these assets without the need for centralized exchanges, clearinghouses, or other intermediaries. By enabling crypto traders to leverage market volatility, EthosX aims to enhance profit potential in the trading of financial derivatives. Its innovative approach empowers individuals to engage in the derivatives market with greater flexibility and autonomy.

Alto Neuroscience

Series C in 2023
Alto Neuroscience is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on redefining psychiatry through the integration of patient neurobiology into the drug development process. Utilizing an AI-enabled biomarker platform, the company combines diverse information about patients' brain activity and behavior to create personalized and effective treatment options. Alto Neuroscience is developing several clinical assets, including ALTO-100, ALTO-202, ALTO-101, and ALTO-300, primarily targeting depressive disorders and schizophrenia, identified through independent brain-based biomarkers. By moving away from traditional trial-and-error methods, the company aims to align its innovative therapies with the specific needs of patients, ultimately improving the management of mental health conditions.

Baton Media

Seed Round in 2023
Baton Media is a developer of a blockchain-enabled web platform and collaboration protocol aimed at enhancing the creative exchange for artists. The company focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem of tools that promote transparency in collaborative projects, ensuring that artists receive proper credit and compensation for their contributions. This approach empowers clients by allowing them to maintain control over their material while fostering a fair environment for creative collaboration.

Neon Media

Series A in 2023
Neon Media LLC is a production company based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in the development and design of games and entertainment software. Incorporated in 2020, the company focuses on transmedia, virtual production, and gaming-as-a-service, offering innovative solutions to the film and television industry. Neon Media is known for producing real-time sets for virtual productions and creating photorealistic, physically-based rendered scenes using its proprietary game engine. This technology allows for seamless collaboration among creators in gaming, film, television, and comics, enabling clients to produce a wide range of content, from television series to big-budget special effects movies and independent animations. As of September 2020, Neon Media operates as a subsidiary of The 4D Factory LLC.

Shrapnel

Series A in 2023
Shrapnel is a moddable extraction shooter game developed by an acclaimed team using Unreal Engine 5. It incorporates blockchain technology, allowing players to earn non-fungible tokens as rewards for in-game achievements, which can then be used to purchase items and participate in a decentralized economy.

Integral Treasury

Venture Round in 2023
Empowering web3 organizations in crypto accounting through: revenue recognition, NFT collection management, cap gain/loss calculations, audit compliant reports and more.

Updater Services

Funding Round in 2023
Updater Services is India's leading facility management company, employing over 35,000 personnel nationwide. It provides comprehensive integrated services for diverse industries including commercial spaces, IT parks, manufacturing units, hospitality and healthcare facilities, residential complexes, retail outlets, and financial institutions.

Ethena

Seed Round in 2023
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Putnam Investments

Acquisition in 2023
Putnam Investments, established in 1937, is a global investment management firm headquartered in London, UK, with approximately $6.57 billion in assets under management. It serves a diverse client base, including pension plans, investment companies, and corporations. The firm offers a range of investment services, focusing on equity and fixed income markets, and employs a risk-conscious, active management approach. Putnam operates as a subsidiary of Putnam International Holdings LLC.

Carmot Therapeutics

Series E in 2023
Carmot Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in San Francisco. Founded in 2008, it focuses on discovering and developing innovative therapies for patients with metabolic diseases, including obesity and diabetes. Utilizing its proprietary Chemotype Evolution technology, Carmot Therapeutics aims to address the underlying causes of these conditions and accelerate the discovery of effective treatments. The company’s portfolio includes several clinical-stage drug candidates, such as CT-388 and CT-996, which are designed as GLP-1 receptor agonists for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes, and CT-868, intended for type 1 diabetes patients who are overweight or obese. Through these efforts, Carmot Therapeutics seeks to create life-changing therapeutics that improve the health outcomes of individuals affected by metabolic diseases.

volScout

Acquisition in 2023
volScout is a provider of managed option strategy services tailored for wealth management and institutional clients. The company specializes in delivering risk-managed strategies and expert advice centered on options for buying or selling. By guiding clients in selecting appropriate strategies, volScout aims to help them achieve consistent returns on their investments.

Betterdata

Seed Round in 2023
Betterdata is a data platform that specializes in creating programmable synthetic data to protect real data while facilitating secure data sharing. By transforming limited real data into unlimited synthetic data that retains the look, feel, and behavior of actual data, Betterdata enables organizations to safely share and access data across teams, enterprises, and international borders. The platform is designed to help businesses unlock their data assets while ensuring consumer privacy, equipping them with advanced tools to generate high-quality synthetic data. This capability not only supports the development of sophisticated artificial intelligence applications but also allows data professionals to access valuable data and create new revenue opportunities.

KresusLabs

Series A in 2023
Kresus allows users to connect to their bank accounts and view their transactions, balances, and budgets.It supports a wide range of banks and financial institutions also allows users to categorize their expenses and view insights into their spending habits and uses end-to-end encryption to protect users

Azra Games

Seed Round in 2023
Azra Games is a blockchain-based game development company founded in 2022 in Sacramento, California, by Sonny Mayugba. The company focuses on creating collectible combat role-playing games (RPGs) specifically tailored for core gamers. By leveraging blockchain technology, Azra Games enables players to engage in a new paradigm of gaming, allowing them to create, play, collect, trade, and socialize around unique characters within their games. The company's innovative approach aims to redefine the gaming experience through unique online strategy game platforms that emphasize collectible and combat elements.

Our Next Energy

Series B in 2023
Our Next Energy is a developer and manufacturer of advanced energy storage technology, established in 2020 and headquartered in Novi, Michigan. The company specializes in innovative battery chemistries that prioritize safety and utilize sustainable raw materials, aiming to create a reliable and cost-effective supply chain. By employing a dual-chemistry design, Our Next Energy enhances energy density and safety, catering to mobility and grid storage applications. This approach enables original equipment manufacturers to meet market range expectations while promoting access to sustainable power solutions.

Koywe

Seed Round in 2023
Koywe is a technology company that specializes in providing payment APIs and SDKs designed for the integration of cryptocurrency into financial applications. Its offerings enable developers to create solutions for remittances, digital wallets, and investment services. By utilizing blockchain technology, Koywe facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, allowing companies to seamlessly connect wallets and portfolios. The company focuses on delivering straightforward and well-documented tools that empower businesses to leverage cryptocurrencies effectively, thus enhancing their financial service capabilities.

Moove

Debt Financing in 2022
Moove is a fintech company specializing in mobility finance. It provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs across Africa, democratizing vehicle ownership. Moove embeds alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and delivery platforms, using proprietary performance analytics to underwrite loans.

HelperAI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
HelperAI lets enterprises build a 24/7 AI workforce, automating routine tasks, and breaking language barriers for global expansion. With seamless integration with your business SOPs, CRM systems, and popular tools, our AI agents redefine customer support, sales, and marketing functions. Experience unprecedented efficiency with HelperAI.

Deel

Secondary Market in 2022
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform designed to simplify hiring, paying, and managing a global remote workforce. The platform combines contract creation and templates, payroll processing, tax compliance, and localized benefits administration in a single interface, enabling employers to onboard international employees and contractors efficiently. It provides tools for payments, invoicing, receipts, and customer support, along with guidance on local labor regulations and tax requirements. Deel supports global contractors by facilitating contract generation, onboarding, and compliant payment workflows, and helps organizations manage cross-border teams across multiple countries. By integrating hiring, payroll, taxes, and benefits, the platform aims to streamline international talent management and payroll operations, reducing administrative burdens and risk for businesses expanding worldwide.

GreenArc Capital Pte.

Convertible Note in 2022
GreenArc Capital Pte Ltd is a fintech company based in Singapore that specializes in impact investing and financial lending services for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Established in 2016, the firm utilizes an AI-driven platform to connect institutional investors with mission-aligned private debt opportunities, particularly focusing on vulnerable populations. GreenArc Capital aims to foster inclusive growth and close the financing gap associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to its lending services, the company offers Conservation Finance Solutions that link markets to forest protection projects. By leveraging technology and data, GreenArc Capital also provides tools for impact measurement and reporting, enhancing transparency and credibility in the assessment of environmental and social outcomes in private asset portfolios.

ClearMotion

Venture Round in 2022
ClearMotion, Inc. is an automotive technology company that specializes in developing advanced suspension systems to enhance vehicle comfort and handling. Founded out of MIT in 2008 and based in Billerica, Massachusetts, with operations in Nuneaton, United Kingdom, ClearMotion integrates hardware and software to create a proactive ride system that anticipates and counteracts shocks and vibrations from uneven road surfaces. This innovative technology not only improves ride quality but also enhances the overall user experience in vehicles. By mapping road surfaces in real-time, ClearMotion's system can mitigate the effects of road roughness almost instantaneously, ensuring a smoother ride for both drivers and passengers.

Spectral

Venture Round in 2022
Spectral, established in 2020 and headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, specializes in developing an AI-driven platform for creating and deploying sophisticated smart contracts. This platform facilitates the generation of complex smart contracts using natural language, expediting development time and minimizing errors.

Celonis

Series D in 2022
Celonis is a company that specializes in execution management, focusing on optimizing and analyzing business processes across various industries, including production, human resources, and logistics. Its core product, the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS), utilizes advanced process mining technology to enhance productivity and streamline operations. The EMS provides a comprehensive suite of tools and applications, including Celonis Studio, designed for business executives and users to effectively manage execution across analytics, strategy, planning, and automation. By offering unique software solutions, Celonis enables organizations to improve process transparency and efficiency, ultimately unlocking their full execution capacity.

Based

Seed Round in 2022
Based is a communication platform which is build over the NFT .

Proof of Impact

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company based in San Diego, California. It operates a blockchain-based platform that enables verified impact investing and financing for projects worldwide, serving NGOs, corporates, non-profits, and individuals.

END-Labs

Seed Round in 2022
END-Labs is a blockchain development studio focused on creating Web3 lending infrastructure. The company specializes in developing a suite of blockchain-based products designed to enhance the financial landscape by connecting fiat-native borrowers with institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) capital. Its platform operates as an application-specific blockchain, facilitating the integration of various decentralized applications that function together across the blockchain ecosystem. This innovative approach enables borrowers to identify and access sources of capital with optimized costs and terms based on the assets they wish to use as collateral, thereby driving capital efficiencies in the lending process.

Alongside

Venture Round in 2022
Alongside builds indexes for cryptocurrencies.

Infima

Seed Round in 2022
Infima employs deep learning technologies to revolutionize mortgage security analytics. Its solutions provide actionable insights into future borrower, security, and market behavior, empowering investors and traders to make informed decisions for superior portfolio construction and risk management.

Aptos

Series A in 2022
Aptos is a web3 startup founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company develops a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that allows developers to create future-proof applications. Aptos aims to provide universal access to decentralized assets through its network, utilizing a safe and reliable programming language that facilitates application development. The team at Aptos is composed of skilled engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders, all working towards enhancing the accessibility and scalability of blockchain infrastructure for developers.

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Quadrata

Seed Round in 2022
Quadrata is a web3-based passport network established in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng, headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California. The company focuses on integrating an identity and compliance layer into decentralized finance (DeFi) across existing public blockchains. Its technology facilitates the creation of a permission-open DeFi ecosystem, allowing users to expand financial services while providing access to essential identity information, including KYC/AML status, country of residence, credit reputation, and accredited investor status. Through its innovative approach, Quadrata aims to enhance compliance and trust within the DeFi landscape.

Alcentra

Acquisition in 2022
Alcentra is a global asset management firm focused on sub-investment grade corporate credit. Established in 2002 and headquartered in London, the company offers expertise across senior secured loans, high-yield bonds, private credit, structured credit, special situations, and multi-strategy credits. Alcentra's experienced team, based in Boston, London, New York, and Singapore, works collaboratively to provide tailored investment solutions for clients worldwide.

Chainsight

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Chainsight is a company that specializes in providing an API for web3 background checks, focusing on enhancing security for digital assets. Its platform offers real-time detection and prevention of transactions involving malicious decentralized applications, wallets, fake tokens, NFTs, and phishing sites. By delivering blockchain-labeled data and tools for crypto fraud detection, Chainsight enables internet-related businesses and users to safeguard themselves against various forms of online fraud, including attacks from malicious addresses and smart contracts. The company's services are designed to ensure a safer experience in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Azra Games

Seed Round in 2022
Azra Games is a blockchain-based game development company founded in 2022 in Sacramento, California, by Sonny Mayugba. The company focuses on creating collectible combat role-playing games (RPGs) specifically tailored for core gamers. By leveraging blockchain technology, Azra Games enables players to engage in a new paradigm of gaming, allowing them to create, play, collect, trade, and socialize around unique characters within their games. The company's innovative approach aims to redefine the gaming experience through unique online strategy game platforms that emphasize collectible and combat elements.

Quantifeed

Series C in 2022
Quantifeed is a digital investing platform that serves financial institutions, enabling them to provide a customized digital investing experience under their own brand. Founded in 2013 in Hong Kong by former investment banking executives Alex Ypsilanti and Ross Milward, Quantifeed offers an automated investment platform that includes a library of portfolios for asset allocation, thematic investments, and various trading strategies. Its software and financial models allow banks, brokers, and wealth planners to configure solutions tailored to their wealth management objectives, thereby facilitating access to a wide range of stocks, funds, and other asset classes across major global markets. This approach enables financial institutions to efficiently reach and engage a large customer base, enhancing their digital wealth management offerings.

SpotOn

Series F in 2022
SpotOn is a technology company founded in 2017 by Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in providing innovative software and payment solutions tailored for small and midsize businesses. SpotOn offers a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that includes tools for payments, point-of-sale systems, marketing, website development, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, and review management. By integrating these services, SpotOn aims to enhance operational efficiency and customer engagement for its clients. The company's mission is to empower businesses by delivering high-quality solutions at fair prices, supported by personalized local service.

TIFIN

Series D in 2022
TIFIN is a platform that develops and operates fintech companies specializing in wealth management, investments, and personal finance. It leverages investment intelligence, data science, and technology to create intelligent products tailored to individual investors.

Brelyon

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Brelyon specializes in manufacturing immersive display solutions. Its flagship product is a headset-free virtual monitor, offering an alternative to multi-monitor setups and VR headsets for office, gaming, and teleoperations.

Stord

Series D in 2022
Stord develops a cloud-based software platform for managing warehousing and distribution services. Its platform enables clients to oversee product flow across multiple warehouses on one dashboard, facilitating on-demand scaling and optimizing inventory and orders globally.

Amberdata

Series B in 2022
Amberdata is a data platform that provides blockchain and cryptocurrency market data through a software-as-a-service offering. It combines validated blockchain and crypto market data from leading exchanges into a unified platform and API, enabling customers to build data-powered applications and gain competitive insights. The platform offers tools, APIs, and SDKs for traders, investors, wallets, and developers, delivering real-time and historical data on blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, and helping financial institutions conduct research, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

Coherent

Series B in 2022
Coherent is a technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for the insurance industry. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, with additional offices in Shanghai, Singapore, and Manila, Coherent develops applications that enhance product development, sales, and customer engagement for insurance companies. Its flagship offerings include Factory, a tool enabling insurers to digitize backend operations and manage pricing models through Excel; Coherent Connect, a social media marketing campaign manager; Coherent Explainer, which simplifies the quote breakdown process; and Coherent Flow, designed for remote policy sales through features like video chat and electronic signatures. Additionally, the company offers Coherent Spark, a no-code platform that transforms spreadsheet-based business logic into customized APIs, facilitating better integration of software solutions across business operations.

Eaglebrook Advisors

Series A in 2022
Eaglebrook Advisors is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm that specializes in providing financial advisors with access to bitcoin through its proprietary asset management platform. The firm offers a range of services designed to facilitate the management of digital investments, including portfolio integration, institutional custody, tax optimization, and liquidation strategies. By prioritizing security and compliance, Eaglebrook Advisors aims to simplify the investment process for financial advisors, enabling them to effectively manage and optimize their clients' cryptocurrency assets.

Rigetti Computing

Post in 2022
Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs, manufactures, and deploys quantum integrated circuits in low-temperature environments. It develops control systems for quantum logic operations and software to integrate its systems into existing cloud infrastructure. The company focuses on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning, offering the world's first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing.

CesiumAstro

Series B in 2022
CesiumAstro designs and manufactures advanced communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other airborne platforms. Its products include multi-beam active phased array systems, software-defined radios, single-board computers, and Ka-Band active phased array antennas. CesiumAstro's solutions enable connectivity between various mobile devices in space environments.

Teller Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Teller is a United States-based blockchain project focused on decentralized lending. It provides a platform that connects to users' bank accounts to offer risk-assessed, unsecured loans, eliminating the need for collateral. By utilizing an algorithmic credit risk protocol, Teller aims to create decentralized lending markets that enhance lending opportunities while minimizing risks. The company's cloud-based system effectively delivers creditworthiness data, enabling users to engage in loans with digital currency. Through this innovative approach, Teller seeks to transform the lending landscape by making access to loans more efficient and secure.

CelLink

Series D in 2022
CelLink designs and manufactures high-conductance, large-area flexible circuits and backplanes for power electronics and solar applications. The company develops flexible conductive backplanes that integrate busing, fusing, voltage and temperature monitoring into a single circuit, enabling efficient power and data transmission. Based in Belmont, California, CelLink serves applications including batteries, LEDs, wire harnessing, and solar cells, aiming to provide reliable, scalable power-management solutions at an affordable price.

Zand

Venture Round in 2022
Zand is a digital bank that serves retail and corporate clients. It operates a platform that provides tools for managing personal and business finances, giving customers control over their financial activities and enabling simple, user-friendly banking services.

Micruity

Seed Round in 2022
Micruity develops advanced APIs that enable financial institutions, such as 401(k) providers, to offer annuities to their participants. This service aims to enhance retirement income security and provide a pension-like experience for Americans.

Anghami

Post in 2022
Founded in 2011, Anghami is a leading music streaming platform focused on the Middle East and North Africa. It offers a vast catalog of Arabic and international songs for streaming and offline download, featuring licensed content from major labels such as Rotana, EMI, Sony, Warner, and Universal. The company serves its customers through a mobile application and has strategic partnerships with notable regional entities like MBC Group.

Capital Markets Gateway

Series B in 2022
Capital Markets Gateway Inc. is a financial technology firm that specializes in modernizing the equity capital markets. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with additional locations in New York and Seattle, CMG offers a platform that provides real-time information and analytics to investors, underwriters, and issuers. Founded in 2015 and officially launched in 2017 by a team of experienced professionals, the platform enhances transparency and workflow efficiencies in capital raising activities. It enables users to monitor the capital raising landscape, conduct due diligence, and make informed investment decisions while facilitating collaboration between stakeholders. Currently, CMG's platform is utilized by over 100 buy-side firms and 10 investment banks, supporting a substantial amount of assets under management.

6Sense

Series E in 2022
6sense is a developer of a predictive intelligence platform that enhances revenue growth for organizations. The company utilizes artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to provide comprehensive visibility across the customer journey, from brand awareness to revenue generation. Its platform captures anonymous buying signals and buyer intent data, allowing sales, marketing, and customer success teams to target the right accounts effectively. By recommending optimal channels and messages, 6sense removes guesswork and inefficiencies from the sales process, leading to improved pipeline quality, accelerated sales velocity, and higher conversion rates. Through its innovative approach, 6sense aims to empower revenue teams to grow revenue predictably and efficiently.

Pinwheel

Series B in 2022
Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform. Fintechs and financial institutions alike trust Pinwheel to access the data and controls within traditional and non-traditional payroll platforms to update direct deposits, streamline income and employment verification, improve underwriting, power earned wage access, and build innovative new products. With consumer permissioning, Pinwheel connects to the majority of these providers, covering over 1,400+ platforms and nearly 80% of anyone receiving a paycheck in the US, to enable market-leading fintechs, like Block (formerly Square), to easily access and update the payroll data of more than 100 million US-based employed people. Pinwheel is the only provider that handles both direct deposit switching and the provision of income and employment data to be Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). To learn more, visit www.pinwheelapi.com.

Ironclad

Series E in 2022
Ironclad, Inc. is a software company that specializes in contract management solutions for legal firms and businesses in the United States. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Ironclad's platform automates various aspects of the contract lifecycle, including workflows, approvals, and the identification of key terms and entities. Its software allows users to create, store, and manage contracts efficiently, transforming them into searchable and manageable digital assets. The platform also offers features such as automated templates for various contract types, e-signature capabilities, and integration with other systems. Ironclad serves a diverse clientele, ranging from early-stage startups to established technology companies, aiming to streamline and enhance their contract processes.

Checkout.com

Series D in 2022
Checkout.com is a company that specializes in providing an online payments platform designed to facilitate secure digital transactions across the Internet. Established in 2012, it offers a comprehensive solution that supports payments in over 150 currencies, integrating local acquiring capabilities and advanced fraud detection through a single API. The platform enables businesses to accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as various alternative and local payment methods. With a focus on eliminating intermediaries, Checkout.com connects retailers directly with customers' bank accounts, delivering data-rich insights that help enhance performance and improve approval rates. The company employs more than 1,700 people across 19 offices globally, ensuring local expertise and tailored risk management solutions to help businesses optimize their mobile and online purchasing while effectively managing potential risks.

CAIS

Private Equity Round in 2022
Founded in 2009, CAIS is a New York-based financial technology platform that connects independent financial advisors with top-tier managers of specialized investment products. The company offers streamlined access to alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, structured notes, and digital assets.

Oddity

Venture Round in 2022
ODDITY is a consumer-tech company that builds and scales digital-first brands to disrupt the offline-dominated beauty and wellness industries. The company owns IL MAKIAGE and SpoiledChild.

ATM.com

Series A in 2021
ATM.com is a technology company that helps consumers control and monetize the value of their data. It develops Ant Transaction Machines to track data and give users immediate control over what can be used, enabling self-monetization of digital actions. The company also operates an embedded financial platform that makes micro-investing and participation in rewards programs more accessible, allowing users to open investment accounts and build small, recurring investments. Founded in 2018 in Newport Beach, California by Walter Cruttenden and Mike Gleason, ATM.com focuses on capturing data-driven value and facilitating revenue sharing with data aggregators and micro-investment partners while simplifying access to investment opportunities for individuals.

Arcade

Series A in 2021
Arcade provides an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Arcade’s Wrapped NFT technology allows NFTs to be bundled to secure one loan. Arcade is also an open-source Defi primitive it allows developers to build on top of the platform.

Figment Networks

Series C in 2021
Figment Networks develops open-source tools for crypto network health monitoring, enabling informed staking decisions. It focuses on networks like Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company was founded in 2018.

EQRx

Post in 2021
EQRx, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 2019. The company focuses on re-engineering the drug discovery and delivery process to provide a market-based solution to the escalating costs of medications. EQRx aims to enhance the efficiency and affordability of high-quality, patent-protected medicines by collaborating with various stakeholders across the healthcare system and leveraging advancements in science and technology. The company has developed a robust pipeline with over ten programs, including clinical and preclinical projects targeting oncology and immune-inflammatory conditions, featuring compounds such as Aumolertinib, Lerociclib, Sugemalimab, and Nofazinlimab.

Proof of Impact

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2019, Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company based in San Diego, California. It operates a blockchain-based platform that enables verified impact investing and financing for projects worldwide, serving NGOs, corporates, non-profits, and individuals.

Lacework

Series D in 2021
Founded in 2015, Lacework provides a unified cloud security platform that automates security aspects such as configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly detection, threat identification, and incident investigation. It offers continuous monitoring of all cloud components, enabling security teams to protect data and workloads while maintaining compliance.

Benchling

Series F in 2021
Benchling, Inc. delivers a cloud-based informatics platform for life sciences research and development. The platform unifies experiment design, data capture, and collaboration in a single interface, enabling scientists to design, record, and share experiments. It consists of an integrated lab notebook, a biological registration system to track inventory such as plasmids, antibodies, and cell lines, and a molecular biology design and analysis suite that supports end-to-end R&D workflows. Additional modules include Benchling Insights for querying and visualizing structured data and collaboration around it, and Bioregistry for biological entity registration and strain management. Benchling serves researchers in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies as well as academic and government labs, including research and development managers and principal investigators who need centralized data management and streamlined collaboration. The platform is applied across antibodies, cell therapy, gene therapy, proteins and peptides, vaccines, and industrial biotechnology. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Benchling enables scientists to design DNA, manage workflows, and accelerate decision-making throughout the R&D lifecycle.

UNest

Series B in 2021
UNest is a financial technology company based in North Hollywood, California, founded by Ksenia Yudina in 2018. The company specializes in providing an accessible digital investing platform aimed at helping families build a secure financial future for their children. UNest allows parents to open a UTMA account quickly and easily through its app, with no paperwork required. The platform offers advisor-guided investment plans, a simple gifting feature, and the ability to set up recurring contributions. Additionally, users can earn rewards through UNest Rewards.

Lexington Partners

Acquisition in 2021
Lexington Partners is a New York-based independent investment firm focused on private equity and related alternative assets, notably secondary markets and co-investments. Since 1990 it has organized 20 secondary funds and 10 co-investment pools, totaling about $55 billion in capital, to serve a global client base that includes pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices from more than 40 countries. The firm sources and manages investment interests across private equity and related assets, delivering diversified exposure through secondary acquisitions and co-investment opportunities for institutional investors worldwide.

Wonolo

Series D in 2021
Wonolo Inc. is an on-demand staffing platform based in San Francisco, California, that connects businesses with temporary workers to meet immediate labor needs. Founded in 2014, the platform allows companies to post job openings for various roles, including general labor, warehouse operations, delivery drivers, and administrative tasks. Wonolo pre-screens workers to ensure they meet specific standards, streamlining the job-matching process and enabling organizations to quickly find vetted talent. The platform serves as a marketplace for approximately one million underemployed workers across the United States, providing them with opportunities for flexible work and a living wage. By democratizing access to employment and offering portable benefits, Wonolo aims to transform the contingent labor market. The company fosters a remote-first work culture and is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce.

Lark

Series D in 2021
Lark is a developer of a virtual platform focused on chronic disease prevention and management. Founded in 2011 by Julia Hu and Jeff Zira, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Lark's platform leverages advanced artificial intelligence alongside human coaching and connected devices to offer real-time, personalized support and counseling. This approach aims to help users make healthier choices and effectively manage their chronic conditions. The company's programs, including those recognized by the CDC for diabetes prevention, wellness, diabetes care, and hypertension, serve approximately 1.5 million users. These initiatives have shown clinically validated improvements in health outcomes, as documented in multiple peer-reviewed journals and analyst reports.

CarDekho

Series E in 2021
CarDekho is a technology services company that delivers mobile application development, web design and development, offshore staffing, and testing and quality assurance solutions. It offers consulting and development for enterprise mobility, including iOS, Android, and cross‑platform applications, as well as web services such as responsive design, CMS, e‑commerce, and custom web applications. The firm provides offshore talent for designers, developers, and QA specialists, and offers comprehensive testing services covering automated, manual, functional, and integration testing. CarDekho builds applications across a wide range of sectors, including automotive, e‑learning, finance, social networking, travel, health, job placement, news, utilities, entertainment, lifestyle, e‑commerce, IT, communication, and publishing.

O'Shaughnessy Asset Management

Acquisition in 2021
O'Shaughnessy Asset Management is an investment management firm founded in 1987 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The company specializes in providing asset management and investment advisory services, focusing on a diverse array of equity portfolios that cater to various client needs. These portfolios range from micro-cap to large-cap value strategies, serving institutional investors, individual investors, and high-net-worth clients. O'Shaughnessy Asset Management is dedicated to delivering tailored investment solutions and managing client assets with a commitment to performance and client satisfaction.

Nerdy

Post in 2021
Nerdy is a curated direct-to-consumer platform that specializes in live online learning, utilizing technology and artificial intelligence to connect learners of all ages with experts across a wide range of subjects. The platform offers various learning formats, including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large group sessions, and adaptive self-study options. By focusing on delivering high-quality educational experiences, Nerdy aims to provide significant value to both learners and professionals in the gig economy, establishing itself as a comprehensive online learning destination.

Discord

Series H in 2021
Discord operates as a communication platform offering voice, video, and text services for users to interact with friends and communities. Originally created for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as art communities, study groups, and local clubs.

Amberdata

Series A in 2021
Amberdata is a data platform that provides blockchain and cryptocurrency market data through a software-as-a-service offering. It combines validated blockchain and crypto market data from leading exchanges into a unified platform and API, enabling customers to build data-powered applications and gain competitive insights. The platform offers tools, APIs, and SDKs for traders, investors, wallets, and developers, delivering real-time and historical data on blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, and helping financial institutions conduct research, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

Canva

Venture Round in 2021
Canva is a global provider of graphic design software solutions. Founded in 2012, it offers an online platform that enables users to create designs for presentations, social media graphics, and more using a wide range of layouts, images, filters, icons, shapes, and fonts. Its user-friendly interface democratizes design by making professional-quality graphics accessible to all.

SpotOn

Series E in 2021
SpotOn is a technology company founded in 2017 by Doron Friedman, Matt Hyman, and Zach Hyman, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in providing innovative software and payment solutions tailored for small and midsize businesses. SpotOn offers a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that includes tools for payments, point-of-sale systems, marketing, website development, online ordering, appointments, eCommerce, digital loyalty, and review management. By integrating these services, SpotOn aims to enhance operational efficiency and customer engagement for its clients. The company's mission is to empower businesses by delivering high-quality solutions at fair prices, supported by personalized local service.

Snyk

Series F in 2021
Snyk Ltd., established in 2015, specializes in a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enhances application security. It focuses on identifying, rectifying, and monitoring known vulnerabilities across critical components of modern applications, including code, open-source libraries, containers, and infrastructure as code. Snyk's offerings, such as Snyk Code (static application security testing), container vulnerability management, and application security management, integrate seamlessly with developers' workflows, improving security posture, productivity, and collaboration. With over 1,200 global customers, including industry leaders like Google and Salesforce, Snyk is recognized for its developer-first approach and strategic partnerships.

Checkr

Series E in 2021
Checkr is a technology company that builds platforms for the background check industry. It provides screening services such as social security number trace, criminal record checks, driving records, verifications, drug tests, and credit checks, along with continuous monitoring and security infrastructure. The company offers an API and Checkr Connect IDV to integrate identity verification with background checks, enabling faster and more transparent hiring decisions. It serves multiple sectors, including financial services, retail and hospitality, healthcare, higher education, on-demand economy platforms, manufacturing, software and technology, and contact centers and peer-to-peer marketplaces. Founded in 2014, Checkr is headquartered in San Francisco.

Jaris

Series B in 2021
Jaris is a financial services platform that specializes in providing purpose-built, private-label embedded financial solutions. The company focuses on enhancing point-of-sale systems, independent software vendors, software as a service businesses, and marketplaces by offering financing options that do not involve credit risk. Jaris's tools streamline the process from underwriting to servicing, allowing for quick working capital advances and loans. These financial products are designed to be repaid through a percentage of daily card sales processed via partner payment systems. By facilitating access to financing, Jaris aims to drive customer engagement, reduce churn, and increase revenue for its clients while supporting their merchants' growth.

Talkdesk

Series D in 2021
Talkdesk Inc., founded in 2011 by Cristina Fonseca and Tiago Paiva, specializes in browser-based cloud contact center software for small businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices across Europe and North America, Talkdesk offers an end-to-end solution that optimizes customer engagement, workforce management, and analytics. Its platform enables users to identify callers before answering, provides comprehensive customer insights from various sources, monitors call performance in real-time, and offers intelligent customer self-service data for agents. With over 1,400 enterprise clients worldwide, including IBM and Acxiom, Talkdesk helps businesses enhance customer satisfaction, productivity, and cost savings through its adaptable platform.

Li-Cycle

Post in 2021
Li-Cycle is a clean technology company specializing in the resource recovery of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The company employs its proprietary Spoke and Hub recycling process, which enables the efficient processing of battery manufacturing scrap and spent batteries. At its Spokes, Li-Cycle produces black mass and other intermediate products, while its Hubs focus on recovering valuable raw materials such as lithium carbonate, cobalt sulphate, and nickel sulphate. Committed to sustainable practices, Li-Cycle’s technology allows for the recovery of 80 to 100% of materials found in lithium-ion batteries, addressing the growing demand for critical battery resources in an environmentally responsible manner.
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