W.P. Carey is a prominent real estate investment trust headquartered in New York, specializing in net lease properties. Founded in 1973, it has built a diversified portfolio of over 1,200 operationally-critical commercial properties encompassing approximately 142 million square feet, primarily located in the United States and Northern and Western Europe. The company focuses on high-quality single-tenant assets, including industrial, warehouse, office, retail, and self-storage facilities, which are subject to long-term leases with built-in rent escalators. W.P. Carey is recognized as one of the largest owners and managers of net lease assets, employing a credit and real estate underwriting process that spans various industries. The firm's long-term leases with creditworthy tenants generate stable cash flows, enabling consistent dividend income for investors.
Conquest Planning Inc. is a financial technology company based in Winnipeg, Canada, that offers an online platform for financial planning and advice. Established in 2018, the company focuses on providing innovative solutions tailored to the needs of the financial services industry. Through its platform, Conquest Planning aims to enhance the financial planning process, making it more accessible and efficient for users seeking personalized financial advice.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with a satellite offices in Dallas and Chicago, Valkyrie assists clients on and between coasts. Valkyrie is a multi-asset management company providing a wide range of investment management services to clients as trusted fiduciary advisors. We create and manage bespoke portfolios, including safe exposure to digital assets and other frontier investments. Whether you’re an endowment, entrepreneur, family office, or individual, we will not only protect your wealth but we’ll also help it thrive in the world. At Valkyrie, our mission is to invest responsibly to enable economic prosperity, technological innovation, and social progress.
Valkyrie
Venture Round in 2022
Valkyrie Investments is a specialized alternative asset management firm.
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in anti-money laundering software tailored for businesses involved with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company also has offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore. Its product suite includes REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders and visualizes data, and a real-time API that provides risk scoring based on the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also produces activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools to help financial institutions understand the risks associated with cryptocurrency activities and to estimate potential criminal revenues. Additionally, the company offers web-based investigation tools to detect cyber-criminals and track extortion payments, thereby enhancing security for government agencies, banks, exchanges, and cryptocurrency businesses.
Since 2001, Volante has been focused on addressing the challenges of financial message integration and payments on-boarding, processing and orchestration. With a broad range of over 85 financial institutions and corporates as clients in 26 countries they provide the business agility needed to be competitive and thrive in the digital payments age by quickly dealing with the complexities of change, and taking advantage of business opportunities as they arise.
All Volante products are born from a heritage of payments and financial message integration, and are rich with innovative functionality as a result of best practice driven R&D over the past 16 years. This means that their products coupled with their growing and maintained library of hundreds of international and domestic message standards plugins and transformations enable projects to be completed in months not years, or weeks not months, while insulating core systems from change.
Proxymity Limited is a digital platform focused on enhancing proxy voting and investor communications. Founded in 2017 and based in London, the company provides a solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, improving the efficiency and transparency of the voting process for ordinary shares. Proxymity's platform automates shareholder disclosure requests and responses in compliance with regulatory requirements, facilitating a seamless exchange of meeting data and votes without the need for manual data entry or paper-based transfers. This innovative approach streamlines the flow of information and enhances the overall experience for all parties involved in the proxy voting process.
Fundbox, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Plano, Texas, that focuses on providing payment and credit solutions specifically for small businesses engaged in business-to-business transactions. Founded in 2013, Fundbox aims to disrupt the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by creating a network that enables businesses to facilitate efficient transactions with one another. The platform allows sellers to enhance their average order volumes and improve their sales close rates by offering competitive net terms and flexible payment plans to their small and medium-sized business customers.
Quantexa Limited is an information technology company based in London, specializing in entity resolution and network building technology. Founded in 2016, Quantexa offers solutions that include comprehensive customer and network views, fraud detection, compliance, anti-money laundering, and surveillance. The company's technology leverages real-time entity resolution, network analytics, and artificial intelligence to integrate diverse data sets and enhance decision-making for its clients. Quantexa serves a global clientele across various sectors, including financial services, corporate, and public institutions, and has established a strategic alliance with Accenture. The company operates internationally with offices in the UK, Brussels, New York, Boston, and Sydney.
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Milestone Group is a global provider of investment technology solutions for asset managers, fund product manufacturers, fund distributors, life and pension companies, and fund service providers. We are a technology company, born from a consulting and operational heritage which allows us to understand the bigger picture. Our company is recognised globally as a thought leader and an architect of new enterprise business solutions for the funds industry. Our solutions continue to lead the industry towards enhanced best practice in efficiency and control in new areas through ongoing research and development. We have established operations in Boston, London and Cape Town, with our headquarters in Sydney, Australia. Our clients operate our solutions across 15 countries, and we provide 24 x 7 follow-the-sun support operations. Our team is grounded on the principal of industry experience. Our people are drawn from the world’s most highly regarded investment houses, fund distributors, banks and financial administrators, many having direct operations management experience. Our Purpose is to improve revenues with innovative technology, drive down costs with in-built efficiency and reduce risk with design simplicity. Our clients are some of the world’s leading financial institutions – asset managers, life companies, pension funds, fund distributors and administrators. Each seeks measurable growth, founded on making sound decisions about their technology for today and for the future. Our pControl solutions help organizations deliver new products to market, with speed and agility, safety of operations, and low operating cost. pControl integrates seamlessly with existing core technologies and is trusted by the industry’s leading firms to enable their investment product strategies.
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.
HQLAᵡ is a financial technology innovation firm that leverages R3’s distributed ledger technology, Corda, to provide liquidity management and collateral management solutions for institutional clients in the global securities financing markets. HQLAᵡ and Deutsche Börse Group formed a strategic partnership for the creation of a joint operating model that provides market participants with improved collateral mobility across a fragmented securities settlement eco-system.
Since 2001, Volante has been focused on addressing the challenges of financial message integration and payments on-boarding, processing and orchestration. With a broad range of over 85 financial institutions and corporates as clients in 26 countries they provide the business agility needed to be competitive and thrive in the digital payments age by quickly dealing with the complexities of change, and taking advantage of business opportunities as they arise.
All Volante products are born from a heritage of payments and financial message integration, and are rich with innovative functionality as a result of best practice driven R&D over the past 16 years. This means that their products coupled with their growing and maintained library of hundreds of international and domestic message standards plugins and transformations enable projects to be completed in months not years, or weeks not months, while insulating core systems from change.
Proxymity Limited is a digital platform focused on enhancing proxy voting and investor communications. Founded in 2017 and based in London, the company provides a solution that connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real time, improving the efficiency and transparency of the voting process for ordinary shares. Proxymity's platform automates shareholder disclosure requests and responses in compliance with regulatory requirements, facilitating a seamless exchange of meeting data and votes without the need for manual data entry or paper-based transfers. This innovative approach streamlines the flow of information and enhances the overall experience for all parties involved in the proxy voting process.
iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Civic Champs, Inc. is a software developer that provides an application designed to assist nonprofit organizations in managing volunteer activities and tracking essential data for grant applications. The app utilizes geofencing technology to monitor volunteer check-ins and check-outs, streamlining the process of hour tracking and engagement. In addition to time management, the platform facilitates small donations, event scheduling, and mentorship tracking, while offering real-time data access and feedback mechanisms. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Civic Champs aims to reduce the administrative burden on nonprofits by automating volunteer management tasks. The application is available for download on both the App Store and Google Play.
Vestwell is a digital retirement platform founded in 2016 and based in New York, New York. The company simplifies the offering and administration of 401(k) plans by addressing common challenges faced by advisors, employers, and employees. Vestwell streamlines the process through seamless plan design, automated onboarding, and efficient administration, while also providing flexible investment strategies at competitive prices. By serving as a single point of contact, Vestwell modernizes retirement offerings, focusing on the best interests of both plan sponsors and participants.
iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
C.C. Busy assists child care providers use voice assistants to log each child’s daily activities, making that log available to parents and regulators. Paperwork doesn’t take care of children, people do! Child care providers spend too much time on required paperwork, distracting them from the care of children. C.C. Busy saves child care providers time, allows providers to focus on children, keeps providers in compliance and facilitates communication with parents.
C.C. Busy assists child care providers use voice assistants to log each child’s daily activities, making that log available to parents and regulators. Paperwork doesn’t take care of children, people do! Child care providers spend too much time on required paperwork, distracting them from the care of children. C.C. Busy saves child care providers time, allows providers to focus on children, keeps providers in compliance and facilitates communication with parents.
iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
DBV-X, a new EU regulated marketplace for collateral and secured deposits, will go live in Europe later this year. Focused solely on funding and collateral needs, DBV-X will offer market participants cost-efficient and rapid access to a diverse range of counterparties and high-quality liquid assets. All participants sign a single standard legal agreement to join the platform and have full control over the products and counterparties used, thereby enabling a peer-to-peer market to flourish.
iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Focused on helping the IM community efficiently source block liquidity through transparent trading protocols.
Cutwater Asset Management is a client-focused and solutions-based investment advisor focused exclusively on fixed income investments. Cutwater's model combines world-class investment expertise and risk management capabilities with exceptional client service, in-depth consultation, and extensive interaction between clients and the investment team. Their clients include state and local governments, financial institutions, pension funds, unions, insurance companies, corporations and consultants. As one of the largest institutional fixed-income investment managers in the world, Cutwater’s model combines proven investment expertise and risk management capabilities with exceptional client service. Cutwater's investment philosophy is based on a set of fundamental tenets that define their approach to managing fixed income portfolios. The objective of their investment philosophy is to provide their clients with consistent, top quartile risk-adjusted portfolio performance through market cycles. On 2 January, 2015 Cutwater Asset Management was acquired by BNY Mellon. Cutwater is part of BNY Mellon's $1.6 trillion in assets multi-boutique investment business and is operated by Insight Investment, a leading European asset manager and one of BNY Mellon's premier investment firms.
FastMatch is a new Electronic Communication Network for foreign exchange trading. FastMatch strives to offer its customers access to large pools of diversified liquidity at unparalleled speed with complete transparency in the optimal location.
3 Advisors is an independent investment counselling firm dedicated to the development, execution and maintenance of our clients' effective and independent portfolio strategies. They are a trusted advisor to both wealthy families and institutional clients and, through our work, have earned the reputation as Canada's independent investment counsellor of choice in this highly specialized field.
Allbridge offers enterprise wealth management services to its clients. The company's range of services include consolidated reporting, compliance, operations, data management, and distribution analytics. Furthermore, it offers business consulting services to its clients. Allbridge was founded in 1993 by Susan Stevens and is based in New Jersey.
PNC Global Investment Servicing
Acquisition in 2010
PNC Global Investment Servicing provides processing, technology, and business intelligence services to asset managers, broker/dealers, and financial advisors. It offers fund accounting and administration, wealth management reporting, subaccounting, transfer agency and shareholder, marketing and distribution, managed account, integrated banking transaction, accounting and administration, custody and securities lending, alternative investment, and international fund services. The company also provides call center, broker/dealer support, financial planner support, health savings account, and bill payment and presentment services. PNC Global Investment Servicing was formerly a subsidiary of PNC Financial Services until being acquired by BNY Mellon in 2010.
Founded in 2002, Insight Investment is an asset manager based in the United Kingdom. The firm provides financial services to private investors, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance groups, local government, charities and other financial institutions.
GlobeImmune, operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in developing and manufacturing Tarmogens, a targeted molecular immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Its products include GI-3000, a Tarmogen for epidermal growth factor receptor over expressing tumors; GI-4000, a Tarmogen for mutated-Ras mediated cancers; GI-5005, a Tarmogen for chronic hepatitis C infection; GI-8000, a Tarmogen for influenza; and GI-10000 Targeted Ablation of Mutational Escape, a novel use of the Tarmogen platform that eliminates or prevents the emergence of mutated escape variants in patients receiving antiviral or targeted cancer therapies. GlobeImmune was founded in 1995 as Ceres Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The company is based in Louisville, Colorado.
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Cycore is a privately held graphics software company based in Uppsala, Sweden. Cycore was founded in 1996 by a group of creative engineers, led by Jerry Pettersson.
Cycore currently employs 78 people worldwide (as of February 2000) and specializes in the development of 3D technologies for the Internet, as well as special effects software and animation solutions for film makers, designers and corporations worldwide.
Net Value Holdings is a virtual incubator focused on early-stage e-commerce businesses. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, the company identifies promising e-commerce opportunities and provides support through a network of experienced executives, advisors, and essential services. Currently, Net Value Holdings has interests in nine Internet businesses at various stages of development. The firm's collaborative approach aims to foster growth and innovation in the e-commerce sector.