Illuminate Financial Management

Illuminate Financial Management, established in 2014, is a London-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in the Fintech sector. It focuses on areas such as compliance, regulation, and connectivity within financial institutions, primarily in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. The firm typically invests between $0.25 million to $3 million, aiming for a 5% to 20% stake in its portfolio companies. Illuminate Financial Management provides deep domain expertise and industry network, acting as a trusted partner to guide its investments through their early stages.

Mark Beeston

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Konstantin Koenig

Principal

Alexander Ross

General Partner and Head of New York

Rezso Szabo

Partner

Katherine Wilson

Senior Principal

Luca Zorzino

General Partner and Head of Asia

77 past transactions

Terminal 3

Seed Round in 2025
Terminal 3 is a technology company specializing in data storage and access solutions for Web3. It enables users to securely store and manage their data, ensuring privacy and security, while allowing for seamless and controlled access across various applications and websites. The company achieves this by leveraging decentralized storage and advanced cryptographic techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs.

Pliant

Series B in 2025
Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

TransFICC

Series B in 2025
TransFICC Limited is a London-based e-trading technology company that specializes in providing low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2015, the company addresses the challenges of fragmentation in these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates various execution venue APIs into a single point of access. This streamlined approach allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect once to TransFICC's API, simplifying the management of connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures timely data transmission, employing microsecond timestamping to facilitate an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By offering cloud-based hosting and scalable solutions, TransFICC enables its clients to adapt quickly to changes in trading venues, thereby enhancing their trading efficiency and competitiveness.

N5 now

Series B in 2025
N5 specializes in customer engagement software and IT services, primarily serving leading banks in Latin America. The company's core offering is a digital platform that facilitates customer interaction, optimizes information flow, and provides strategic consulting. This platform helps financial institutions enhance efficiency, meet business targets, and deliver value to customers and shareholders. Currently, N5 is expanding its services to the U.S. market.

fileAI

Series A in 2025
fileAI is an innovative company that focuses on providing an AI-based data extraction platform tailored for financial transparency. Founded in 2020, the firm specializes in combining human-assisted artificial intelligence with advanced automation to enhance bookkeeping processes. Its platform automatically retrieves data from various financial and non-financial sources, organizing it into an accounting ledger. Clients benefit from a comprehensive dashboard that offers detailed reports and analytics, which facilitate the automation of manual data entry and support informed business decision-making. By streamlining accounting processes, fileAI aims to deliver efficiency and clarity to organizations in the Fintech and SaaS sectors.

BeZero Carbon

Series C in 2025
BeZero Carbon is a global rating agency focused on the voluntary carbon market. The firm specializes in providing independent, risk-based, project-level carbon ratings, which are critical for organizations seeking to invest in carbon projects aimed at combating climate change. By delivering informed assessments, BeZero Carbon equips leading organizations with the necessary knowledge and tools to make more effective climate-related decisions. The company's overarching goal is to enhance investment in environmental markets, thereby contributing to a sustainable future.

Notabene

Series B in 2024
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform for crypto compliance tailored for the financial industry. The company focuses on helping financial institutions adhere to emerging global regulations concerning cryptocurrency transactions, specifically addressing the complexities of the Travel Rule. Notabene offers a unified API and dashboard designed to assist compliance officers in managing risk associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By providing access to a broad network of crypto businesses, Notabene simplifies the compliance process, enhances transaction confidence, and ultimately supports its clients in increasing their transaction volumes and business growth.

Reality Defender

Series A in 2024
Reality Defender is a company that specializes in detecting deepfakes and AI-generated media, addressing the risks posed by manipulated content across multiple formats, including audio, video, images, and text. Its platform employs advanced synthetic media detection algorithms to identify and assess the authenticity of digital content in real time. This capability enables both enterprises and government entities to effectively combat synthetically altered media, ensuring more reliable digital communication. With a patented multimodal approach, Reality Defender offers flexible deployment options, allowing its technology to seamlessly integrate into existing infrastructures for proactive management of digital media.

Gladia.io

Series A in 2024
Gladia.io is a company focused on providing an audio intelligence API platform that enables businesses to integrate advanced artificial intelligence capabilities into their applications. The platform specializes in extracting, analyzing, and interpreting data from audio sources. Key features include translation, sentiment analysis, voice synthesis (speech-to-text), voice recognition (text-to-speech), offensive content detection, background removal, and face detection. By offering these tools, Gladia.io allows software development teams to seamlessly embed audio-based AI functionalities into their products, thereby enhancing the ability to derive valuable insights from sound data.

Crossover Markets

Series A in 2024
Crossover Markets Group is a digital asset exchange focused on addressing the liquidity requirements of institutional clients. The company has developed a trading platform that enhances the speed of cryptocurrency transactions and minimizes latency, aligning with the performance standards typically expected in traditional foreign exchange or equity markets. By enabling seamless cryptocurrency trading, Crossover Markets aims to support institutional investors in maintaining liquidity while navigating the digital asset landscape.

Accacia

Seed Round in 2024
Accacia is an AI-enabled platform focused on real estate decarbonization, designed to assist real estate and infrastructure owners, developers, asset managers, and operators in measuring, tracking, and managing climate risks. The platform provides real-time tracking of emissions at both the asset and portfolio levels, adhering to organizational boundaries as outlined by the GHG Protocol. By offering comprehensive tools for monitoring emissions, Accacia enables its clients to effectively address their environmental impact and implement strategies for sustainability.

Composable Prompts

Seed Round in 2024
We aim to revolutionize the way applications interact with content. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT have fundamentally changed our interaction with textual data, we believe in taking a step further. Composable Prompts ensures that every business, regardless of its scale or domain, can leverage the native data processing capabilities of LLMs in the most efficient way possible. We've built the API Studio for LLMs, a comprehensive toolkit for designing, deploying, and operating business-specific APIs. Our suite offers a structured, domain-specific approach, shifting from rudimentary, text-based interactions to a world of structured, efficient, and integrated content processing. Our Core Offerings: Interaction Designer: Crafting intuitive prompt templates and robust data schemas. Prompt Assistance: Using LLMs to enhance prompt design and offer improvement suggestions. API Service: Seamlessly integrating LLMs into your applications and business processes. Cache Service: Ensuring optimal performance by intelligently storing and reusing Interaction Results. Collaboration & Optimization Tools: From sharing prompt segments to monitoring performance, we have developers covered.

fileAI

Series A in 2024
fileAI is an innovative company that focuses on providing an AI-based data extraction platform tailored for financial transparency. Founded in 2020, the firm specializes in combining human-assisted artificial intelligence with advanced automation to enhance bookkeeping processes. Its platform automatically retrieves data from various financial and non-financial sources, organizing it into an accounting ledger. Clients benefit from a comprehensive dashboard that offers detailed reports and analytics, which facilitate the automation of manual data entry and support informed business decision-making. By streamlining accounting processes, fileAI aims to deliver efficiency and clarity to organizations in the Fintech and SaaS sectors.

Accela Technology

Series A in 2023
Accela Technology Corporation, established in 2001 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in infrastructure software for information retrieval. The company offers eAccela, a critical software solution, and an XML-integrated multi-lingual business document server. These tools enable clients to index, search, and retrieve information from diverse repositories, enhancing business productivity by leveraging unstructured data.

Accelex

Series A in 2023
Accelex is a company that specializes in data acquisition, analytics, and reporting systems aimed at investors and asset servicers in the alternative assets sector. By leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision, Accelex enables clients to efficiently acquire, extract, and analyze investment data from their portfolios. The company's technology transforms unstructured content into structured data, providing comprehensive insights into investment performance and transactional information. This capability allows clients to automate the processes of accessing and organizing data, facilitating informed decision-making and enhancing the overall understanding of their investments, from the broader portfolio level down to individual assets.

Arteria AI

Series B in 2023
Arteria AI is a financial services-focused artificial intelligence company that specializes in contract lifecycle management. It offers a platform that facilitates end-to-end digital contracting for large organizations, allowing users to generate, negotiate, and transform executed contracts into actionable data. This capability enables clients to diagnose issues, uncover opportunities, and enhance overall organizational value. The platform serves as a vital documentation layer for banking processes and supports the real-time flow of data and analytics. By integrating documentation processes with automation, Arteria AI promotes seamless processing of core business activities across enterprises.

d1g1t

Venture Round in 2023
d1g1t Inc., based in Toronto, Canada, is a company that develops a digital wealth management platform. This platform offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. It leverages analytics and risk management tools to provide features such as client management, monitoring and managing the adviser's business growth, historical performance and future risk analysis, onboarding solutions, and portfolio tracking. The goal is to deepen the adviser-client relationship through personalized interaction.

N5 now

Series A in 2023
N5 specializes in customer engagement software and IT services, primarily serving leading banks in Latin America. The company's core offering is a digital platform that facilitates customer interaction, optimizes information flow, and provides strategic consulting. This platform helps financial institutions enhance efficiency, meet business targets, and deliver value to customers and shareholders. Currently, N5 is expanding its services to the U.S. market.

Finres

Seed Round in 2023
Finres is a technology company that employs artificial intelligence and big data to enhance the resilience of the global food system amidst climate change. It offers a comprehensive, algorithmic solution to identify and evaluate climate risks, enabling swift and robust investment decisions. By prioritizing adaptation efforts, Finres helps financial institutions and farmers secure investments and improve crop yields, despite climate-related challenges.

Vault Platform

Venture Round in 2023
Vault Platform Ltd. is a London-based company established in 2018 that offers a blockchain-based counter-harassment platform. This platform enables employees to record, report, and resolve misconduct in the workplace, promoting a culture of integrity and accountability. Vault Platform serves as a comprehensive solution for corporate ethics, integrating features for case management and data analysis to support organizations in maintaining a safe and respectful work environment.

Pontoro

Seed Round in 2023
Pontoro Inc. is a financial technology company established in late 2018, aimed at enhancing investor access to private market assets, particularly in the realm of infrastructure debt financing. The company is developing a patented technology solution that will create an innovative private investment platform, offering liquidity typically absent in traditional investment opportunities. By utilizing a blockchain-based platform, Pontoro facilitates the flow of infrastructure loans from large banks to institutional investors, enhancing asset liquidity and providing price transparency in the private market. With an initial focus on addressing the significant shortfall in infrastructure debt finance, Pontoro is poised to transform the landscape of private investments.

Finsemble

Venture Round in 2023
Finsemble is a technology company specializing in interoperability solutions for the finance industry. Its no-code and low-code smart desktop platform enables seamless connectivity between various types of applications, including native, web, in-house, and third-party software. By facilitating information sharing and synchronization, Finsemble allows clients to create customized, automation-assisted workflows that enhance operational efficiency. The platform significantly improves trading processes, achieving notable outcomes such as ten-minute time savings per trade and a 33% reduction in request-for-quote response times. Finsemble's offerings have garnered the trust of major financial institutions, including Citi, Pictet Asset Management, and Charles River Development, due to its commitment to high-quality US-based support and collaborative partnerships.

Osome

Series B in 2022
Osome is a digital business assistant that provides online accounting services specifically tailored for small and medium businesses. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, the company operates in key markets including Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Osome offers a range of services, such as company incorporation, corporate secretary functions, accounting, payroll management, and immigration support. By leveraging artificial intelligence and automation, Osome enhances efficiency in business operations, allowing clients to focus on growth while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The company's innovative approach aims to improve customer satisfaction and drive significant potential for growth and profitability in the administrative services sector.

Kiln

Series A in 2022
Kiln is a Paris-based company established in 2018 that offers a platform for enterprise-level pledge services focused on encrypted assets. The company provides validator-independent APIs that facilitate multi-provider staking, allowing digital assets to be staked across various environments, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. By streamlining the staking process, Kiln aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency in the rapidly evolving web3 industry. Its innovative platform enables clients to deploy, manage, and monitor blockchain validators programmatically, making it easier for businesses to integrate and operate within the blockchain ecosystem. As the demand for collaboration among multiple stakeholders grows, Kiln is well-positioned to serve as an aggregator, driving forward the integration of diverse players in the digital asset space.

BeZero Carbon

Series B in 2022
BeZero Carbon is a global rating agency focused on the voluntary carbon market. The firm specializes in providing independent, risk-based, project-level carbon ratings, which are critical for organizations seeking to invest in carbon projects aimed at combating climate change. By delivering informed assessments, BeZero Carbon equips leading organizations with the necessary knowledge and tools to make more effective climate-related decisions. The company's overarching goal is to enhance investment in environmental markets, thereby contributing to a sustainable future.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2022
Fordefi is a pioneering company that specializes in a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet platform tailored for decentralized finance (DeFi). Its innovative Web3 gateway allows institutions to securely connect to decentralized applications (dApps) across various blockchain networks. Fordefi's platform is designed to enhance the security of digital assets while providing essential features such as MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, and insightful tools for smart contract transactions. Additionally, it offers transaction simulation and risk alerts, enabling market participants to navigate the DeFi landscape with greater confidence and security. As the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform in the DeFi sector, Fordefi is committed to making the interaction with digital assets both efficient and secure for its users.

Net Purpose

Series A in 2022
Net Purpose is a pioneering data provider focused on simplifying impact measurement for investors, with the goal of making this process effortless by 2025. Catering to the growing demand for sustainable investing, which represents a substantial portion of global capital, the company has developed an innovative data aggregation platform. This platform delivers real-time information on the social and environmental outcomes of companies and investment portfolios, allowing investors to easily access and analyze relevant data. By streamlining the collection of raw quantitative data, Net Purpose enables investors to efficiently create and manage sustainable and impact investment strategies while adapting to evolving environmental, social, and governance standards.

SteelEye

Series B in 2022
SteelEye Limited is a London-based company that provides a cloud-based compliance platform designed to assist financial firms in meeting regulatory obligations. Founded in 2017, SteelEye's platform consolidates and analyzes both structured and unstructured data from various sources to facilitate transaction reporting, record-keeping, and trade reconstruction. By offering surveillance and intelligent insights, the company helps clients navigate the complexities of financial regulations while ensuring accurate compliance. SteelEye's mission is to foster trust in the financial markets by simplifying the compliance process and reducing associated costs.

Accelex

Series A in 2022
Accelex is a company that specializes in data acquisition, analytics, and reporting systems aimed at investors and asset servicers in the alternative assets sector. By leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision, Accelex enables clients to efficiently acquire, extract, and analyze investment data from their portfolios. The company's technology transforms unstructured content into structured data, providing comprehensive insights into investment performance and transactional information. This capability allows clients to automate the processes of accessing and organizing data, facilitating informed decision-making and enhancing the overall understanding of their investments, from the broader portfolio level down to individual assets.

Accela Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Accela Technology Corporation, established in 2001 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in infrastructure software for information retrieval. The company offers eAccela, a critical software solution, and an XML-integrated multi-lingual business document server. These tools enable clients to index, search, and retrieve information from diverse repositories, enhancing business productivity by leveraging unstructured data.

Cloudwall

Seed Round in 2022
Cloudwall is a digital asset risk platform designed to assist institutional investors in navigating the complexities of the digital asset marketplace. The company aims to accelerate the blockchain economy by facilitating capital flow to builders and innovators in the sector. Cloudwall's platform enables institutional investors to effectively manage their digital asset portfolios, aligning with their investment and risk objectives. Through its expertise in fintech and research, Cloudwall is committed to providing valuable insights and tools that support informed decision-making in the evolving landscape of digital assets.

Talos

Series B in 2022
Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider based in New York, co-founded in 2018 by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman. The company specializes in offering a comprehensive crypto trading platform that supports the entire trading lifecycle, including price discovery, clearing, and settlement. Talos Trading provides solutions across spot, futures, and foreign exchange markets, leveraging institutional-grade technology to enable clients to stream real-time and request-for-quote prices. Additionally, the platform includes portfolio accounting tools and facilitates efficient settlement processes, connecting various participants within the crypto ecosystem.

TransFICC

Venture Round in 2022
TransFICC Limited is a London-based e-trading technology company that specializes in providing low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2015, the company addresses the challenges of fragmentation in these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates various execution venue APIs into a single point of access. This streamlined approach allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect once to TransFICC's API, simplifying the management of connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures timely data transmission, employing microsecond timestamping to facilitate an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By offering cloud-based hosting and scalable solutions, TransFICC enables its clients to adapt quickly to changes in trading venues, thereby enhancing their trading efficiency and competitiveness.

Genesis Global

Series C in 2022
Genesis Global Technology Limited specializes in developing custom software and solutions tailored for the capital markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in New York, the company provides a range of platforms designed to enhance trading and operational efficiency. Its offerings include an automated quoting system for managing requests for quotes, an order execution management system, and a trade allocation manager that facilitates various trading processes. Additionally, Genesis Global offers tools for data management and reconciliation, such as a short/long code manager and a matcher. The company is led by a team of industry veterans with substantial experience in trading technologies across multiple asset classes, aiming to deliver innovative solutions that align with the evolving needs of clients in the financial sector.

Revelate

Series A in 2022
Revelate is a developer of a data fulfillment platform that offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities for data sharing and commercialization. The platform is designed to alleviate the challenges faced by data teams in distributing data according to consumer needs, both within and outside their organizations. By seamlessly integrating into existing data ecosystems, Revelate empowers companies to prepare, package, and distribute data efficiently and effectively from any source to any recipient. This innovative approach helps organizations fully realize the value of their data assets.

Emmi

Seed Round in 2021
Emmi is an Australian fintech company specializing in carbon risk solutions. It has developed a carbon auditing platform designed to deliver comprehensive financial insights related to carbon risks. The platform features an investment-grade carbon rating system that allows clients to assess risks, enhance returns, and manage revenue effectively. By providing a clear understanding of the carbon risk associated with specific companies, Emmi enables clients to evaluate the necessary decarbonization strategies required for maintaining competitiveness in the market.

Pontoro

Seed Round in 2021
Pontoro Inc. is a financial technology company established in late 2018, aimed at enhancing investor access to private market assets, particularly in the realm of infrastructure debt financing. The company is developing a patented technology solution that will create an innovative private investment platform, offering liquidity typically absent in traditional investment opportunities. By utilizing a blockchain-based platform, Pontoro facilitates the flow of infrastructure loans from large banks to institutional investors, enhancing asset liquidity and providing price transparency in the private market. With an initial focus on addressing the significant shortfall in infrastructure debt finance, Pontoro is poised to transform the landscape of private investments.

Notabene

Series A in 2021
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform for crypto compliance tailored for the financial industry. The company focuses on helping financial institutions adhere to emerging global regulations concerning cryptocurrency transactions, specifically addressing the complexities of the Travel Rule. Notabene offers a unified API and dashboard designed to assist compliance officers in managing risk associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By providing access to a broad network of crypto businesses, Notabene simplifies the compliance process, enhances transaction confidence, and ultimately supports its clients in increasing their transaction volumes and business growth.

Wematch.Live

Series B in 2021
Wematch.Live is a fintech company that offers web-based solutions aimed at enhancing the efficiency of financial institutions by automating the processes of matching, negotiation, and lifecycle management. The company focuses on replacing traditional voice broking with a streamlined electronic service that provides transition liquidity, thereby improving productivity and mitigating the risks associated with voice interactions. Utilizing licensed technology, Wematch.Live caters to regulated entities and offers structured products, including securities financing, OTC equity derivatives, and cleared interest rate derivatives. This enables firms to effectively find liquidity, negotiate trades, and optimize the management of their assets and trading structures.

Profian

Seed Round in 2021
Profian is a developer of data security software focused on providing solutions for confidential computing. The company utilizes open-source technology to ensure data confidentiality and integrity, enabling organizations to securely operate cloud-native applications. Its platform supports a binary format compatible with various hardware systems, allowing businesses to deploy applications without the need for extensive redesign or recompilation across different environments. Additionally, Profian incorporates third-party attestation to help clients meet regulatory compliance requirements, ensuring a robust security framework for sensitive data in use.

Time is

Seed Round in 2021
Time is Ltd. s.r.o. is a Prague-based company that specializes in developing a workplace productivity analysis and insights platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of large organizations. Founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl, the company provides a software solution that consolidates data from various communication and productivity tools, including calendar applications and Slack. This platform utilizes machine learning to visualize workflows and analyze performance metrics, helping organizations identify successful work patterns and minimize inefficiencies within teams. Additionally, Time offers a meeting rating tool that enables users to assess the value of the time spent in meetings, further contributing to improved productivity.

Blockdaemon

Series A in 2021
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York and Ireland, the company provides tools that allow users to manage nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed to be fully portable, enabling users to easily switch between networks and chains without the need for extensive configuration. The company also supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert dev-ops advice, facilitating smoother integration and deployment in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

Vault Platform

Series A in 2021
Vault Platform Ltd. is a London-based company established in 2018 that offers a blockchain-based counter-harassment platform. This platform enables employees to record, report, and resolve misconduct in the workplace, promoting a culture of integrity and accountability. Vault Platform serves as a comprehensive solution for corporate ethics, integrating features for case management and data analysis to support organizations in maintaining a safe and respectful work environment.

Talos

Series A in 2021
Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider based in New York, co-founded in 2018 by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman. The company specializes in offering a comprehensive crypto trading platform that supports the entire trading lifecycle, including price discovery, clearing, and settlement. Talos Trading provides solutions across spot, futures, and foreign exchange markets, leveraging institutional-grade technology to enable clients to stream real-time and request-for-quote prices. Additionally, the platform includes portfolio accounting tools and facilitates efficient settlement processes, connecting various participants within the crypto ecosystem.

Accelex

Seed Round in 2021
Accelex is a company that specializes in data acquisition, analytics, and reporting systems aimed at investors and asset servicers in the alternative assets sector. By leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision, Accelex enables clients to efficiently acquire, extract, and analyze investment data from their portfolios. The company's technology transforms unstructured content into structured data, providing comprehensive insights into investment performance and transactional information. This capability allows clients to automate the processes of accessing and organizing data, facilitating informed decision-making and enhancing the overall understanding of their investments, from the broader portfolio level down to individual assets.

Accela Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Accela Technology Corporation, established in 2001 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializes in infrastructure software for information retrieval. The company offers eAccela, a critical software solution, and an XML-integrated multi-lingual business document server. These tools enable clients to index, search, and retrieve information from diverse repositories, enhancing business productivity by leveraging unstructured data.

Copper Financial Network

Series B in 2021
Copper is a technology company specializing in secure digital asset custody and portfolio management for institutional investors. Established in 2001, it offers a robust infrastructure that includes a secure wallet architecture, available as a standalone application, mobile app, and browser extension for smart contract signing. Copper's ClearLoop network enables off-exchange trading and settlement at tier-1 digital asset exchanges, further enhancing the security and efficiency of asset management. The company is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, and operates as a broker-dealer and registered investment advisor, with its assets managed by the executive team.

SteelEye

Series A in 2021
SteelEye Limited is a London-based company that provides a cloud-based compliance platform designed to assist financial firms in meeting regulatory obligations. Founded in 2017, SteelEye's platform consolidates and analyzes both structured and unstructured data from various sources to facilitate transaction reporting, record-keeping, and trade reconstruction. By offering surveillance and intelligent insights, the company helps clients navigate the complexities of financial regulations while ensuring accurate compliance. SteelEye's mission is to foster trust in the financial markets by simplifying the compliance process and reducing associated costs.

Arteria AI

Series A in 2021
Arteria AI is a financial services-focused artificial intelligence company that specializes in contract lifecycle management. It offers a platform that facilitates end-to-end digital contracting for large organizations, allowing users to generate, negotiate, and transform executed contracts into actionable data. This capability enables clients to diagnose issues, uncover opportunities, and enhance overall organizational value. The platform serves as a vital documentation layer for banking processes and supports the real-time flow of data and analytics. By integrating documentation processes with automation, Arteria AI promotes seamless processing of core business activities across enterprises.

Genesis Global

Series B in 2021
Genesis Global Technology Limited specializes in developing custom software and solutions tailored for the capital markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in New York, the company provides a range of platforms designed to enhance trading and operational efficiency. Its offerings include an automated quoting system for managing requests for quotes, an order execution management system, and a trade allocation manager that facilitates various trading processes. Additionally, Genesis Global offers tools for data management and reconciliation, such as a short/long code manager and a matcher. The company is led by a team of industry veterans with substantial experience in trading technologies across multiple asset classes, aiming to deliver innovative solutions that align with the evolving needs of clients in the financial sector.

Net Purpose

Seed Round in 2020
Net Purpose is a pioneering data provider focused on simplifying impact measurement for investors, with the goal of making this process effortless by 2025. Catering to the growing demand for sustainable investing, which represents a substantial portion of global capital, the company has developed an innovative data aggregation platform. This platform delivers real-time information on the social and environmental outcomes of companies and investment portfolios, allowing investors to easily access and analyze relevant data. By streamlining the collection of raw quantitative data, Net Purpose enables investors to efficiently create and manage sustainable and impact investment strategies while adapting to evolving environmental, social, and governance standards.

YvesBlue

Seed Round in 2020
Yves Blue Corporation is a data analytics firm based in New York that specializes in providing software solutions for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis. The company's platform integrates ESG data from various sources, enabling financial institutions and investment management firms to identify risks and opportunities within their portfolios. Yves Blue's offerings include sector-specific metrics, a consolidated dashboard, tailored reporting, and insights into carbon budgets, all aimed at enhancing portfolio management and risk assessment. Originally incorporated as Flat World Partner Technologies Inc. in 2018, the company rebranded to Yves Blue Corporation in October 2020.

Curv

Series A in 2020
Curv Inc. is a company that specializes in developing cloud-based infrastructure for digital asset security. Founded in 2018 by Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger, Curv provides a multi-party computation (MPC) solution that eliminates the need for private keys, enhancing safety against cyber threats and insider risks. Its technology allows users, including financial institutions and crypto-native companies, to securely build and manage digital wallets for storing and transferring various digital assets across different blockchains. Curv's offerings include a cloud-based wallet service that replaces conventional cold and hot storage solutions, as well as an enterprise-grade policy engine that enables organizations to define risk profiles and enforce compliance measures. Additionally, the company provides Curv Air Gap, which integrates an offline machine to facilitate secure transaction signing. Headquartered in Winchester, California, with research and development operations in Tel Aviv, Israel, Curv aims to streamline the transaction process while ensuring the highest levels of security.

TransFICC

Series A in 2020
TransFICC Limited is a London-based e-trading technology company that specializes in providing low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2015, the company addresses the challenges of fragmentation in these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates various execution venue APIs into a single point of access. This streamlined approach allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect once to TransFICC's API, simplifying the management of connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures timely data transmission, employing microsecond timestamping to facilitate an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By offering cloud-based hosting and scalable solutions, TransFICC enables its clients to adapt quickly to changes in trading venues, thereby enhancing their trading efficiency and competitiveness.

FiveAI

Series B in 2020
FiveAI Limited is a computer software company that specializes in developing autonomous vehicle software tailored for the mobility service market. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, the company focuses on creating a software platform that addresses the challenges of urban mobility, particularly in complex urban environments. By leveraging technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, FiveAI aims to provide solutions for vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and transportation operators, facilitating the deployment of self-driving vehicles. With a commitment to enhancing public transport through autonomous technology, FiveAI positions itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of urban transportation.

SteelEye

Series A in 2020
SteelEye Limited is a London-based company that provides a cloud-based compliance platform designed to assist financial firms in meeting regulatory obligations. Founded in 2017, SteelEye's platform consolidates and analyzes both structured and unstructured data from various sources to facilitate transaction reporting, record-keeping, and trade reconstruction. By offering surveillance and intelligent insights, the company helps clients navigate the complexities of financial regulations while ensuring accurate compliance. SteelEye's mission is to foster trust in the financial markets by simplifying the compliance process and reducing associated costs.

Baton Systems

Series A in 2020
Baton Systems Inc., established in 2015 with headquarters in Fremont, California, specializes in developing an on-demand platform for clearing, settling, and managing financial transactions. This platform enhances efficiency within the payments infrastructure across capital markets, serving global banks, custodian banks, and exchanges. The company operates under the name Baton Systems since its founding, having previously been known as Ubixi, Inc.

Genesis Global

Convertible Note in 2019
Genesis Global Technology Limited specializes in developing custom software and solutions tailored for the capital markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in New York, the company provides a range of platforms designed to enhance trading and operational efficiency. Its offerings include an automated quoting system for managing requests for quotes, an order execution management system, and a trade allocation manager that facilitates various trading processes. Additionally, Genesis Global offers tools for data management and reconciliation, such as a short/long code manager and a matcher. The company is led by a team of industry veterans with substantial experience in trading technologies across multiple asset classes, aiming to deliver innovative solutions that align with the evolving needs of clients in the financial sector.

Tookitaki

Series A in 2019
Tookitaki is a regulatory technology company that specializes in anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance solutions for financial institutions. By leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, Tookitaki aims to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of financial crime detection and prevention. The company's platform integrates various components of anti-money laundering and anti-financial crime systems, fostering collaboration within the financial community. Through its innovative solutions, Tookitaki seeks to reduce false positives and streamline compliance processes, ultimately helping businesses navigate the complexities of regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions.

Enmacc

Series A in 2019
Enmacc GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Munich, Germany, operates a digital over-the-counter (OTC) energy trading platform that facilitates the procurement and trading of both standardized and non-standardized energy products. The platform serves a diverse clientele, including energy traders, portfolio managers, and procurement officers from large energy companies and industrial consumers. Enmacc enhances the trading process by providing increased speed, efficiency, and security, allowing participants to trade directly with market counterparts without intermediaries. The platform features three trading screens: entender, an independent request-for-quote platform; enmarket, an open marketplace for bilateral trading; and engreen, which specializes in Guarantees of Origin and facilitates access to real-time pricing. With a network of over 410 companies and 1,800 active traders, Enmacc promotes greater market access and liquidity, streamlining the daily operations of energy market participants.

d1g1t

Series A in 2019
d1g1t Inc., based in Toronto, Canada, is a company that develops a digital wealth management platform. This platform offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. It leverages analytics and risk management tools to provide features such as client management, monitoring and managing the adviser's business growth, historical performance and future risk analysis, onboarding solutions, and portfolio tracking. The goal is to deepen the adviser-client relationship through personalized interaction.

Tookitaki

Series A in 2019
Tookitaki is a regulatory technology company that specializes in anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance solutions for financial institutions. By leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, Tookitaki aims to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of financial crime detection and prevention. The company's platform integrates various components of anti-money laundering and anti-financial crime systems, fostering collaboration within the financial community. Through its innovative solutions, Tookitaki seeks to reduce false positives and streamline compliance processes, ultimately helping businesses navigate the complexities of regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions.

Cosaic

Series B in 2019
Cosaic, Inc. is a software developer specializing in charting and data visualization solutions tailored for the capital markets. The company focuses on creating HTML5 financial charting tools that serve brokerages, individual traders, institutional trading desks, financial portals, and independent trading platforms. Its flagship product, ChartIQ, is a professional-grade financial visualization platform that enables clients to design responsive and interactive charting experiences for their end users. Additionally, Cosaic offers the Term Structure Graph, a real-time interactive chart for fixed income and derivatives markets. The company's technology is designed to integrate seamlessly across multiple devices and frameworks, enhancing user efficiency and allowing financial firms to connect third-party applications within their systems. Founded in 2012 and based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Cosaic was previously known as ChartIQ, Inc. until its name change in July 2020.

dv01

Series B in 2019
dv01, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York that specializes in providing data management and analytics solutions for institutional investors, banks, and lenders in the financial lending markets. Incorporated in 2014, dv01 offers a range of products, including its cloud-based portfolio management solution, dv01 LOANS, which enables investors to analyze and compare lender data. The company also provides dv01 BONDS, a loan data agent service for securitizations, and Securitization Explorer, a web portal designed to enhance investor insights into consumer loan securitizations. By integrating data from various marketplace lending platforms and mortgage servicers, dv01 aims to bring transparency and efficiency to lending markets, facilitating better decision-making and risk management for its clients. The company's platform has reported on significant volumes of online lending and mortgage loans, addressing the need for reliable data in an evolving financial landscape.

SteelEye

Seed Round in 2018
SteelEye Limited is a London-based company that provides a cloud-based compliance platform designed to assist financial firms in meeting regulatory obligations. Founded in 2017, SteelEye's platform consolidates and analyzes both structured and unstructured data from various sources to facilitate transaction reporting, record-keeping, and trade reconstruction. By offering surveillance and intelligent insights, the company helps clients navigate the complexities of financial regulations while ensuring accurate compliance. SteelEye's mission is to foster trust in the financial markets by simplifying the compliance process and reducing associated costs.

Genesis Global

Series A in 2018
Genesis Global Technology Limited specializes in developing custom software and solutions tailored for the capital markets. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with an additional office in New York, the company provides a range of platforms designed to enhance trading and operational efficiency. Its offerings include an automated quoting system for managing requests for quotes, an order execution management system, and a trade allocation manager that facilitates various trading processes. Additionally, Genesis Global offers tools for data management and reconciliation, such as a short/long code manager and a matcher. The company is led by a team of industry veterans with substantial experience in trading technologies across multiple asset classes, aiming to deliver innovative solutions that align with the evolving needs of clients in the financial sector.

CloudMargin

Venture Round in 2018
CloudMargin Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in a cloud-based collateral and margin management platform tailored for financial institutions of all sizes. Founded in 2014 by a team with extensive experience in collateral management and capital markets, CloudMargin aims to enhance efficiency and reduce costs for its clients, which include banks, asset management firms, brokerage firms, and insurance companies. The platform operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, providing real-time reports on collateral positions and automating workflows to facilitate streamlined processing and settlement. By addressing the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional collateral management solutions, CloudMargin seeks to make effective collateral management accessible to all market participants while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

TransFICC

Seed Round in 2017
TransFICC Limited is a London-based e-trading technology company that specializes in providing low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2015, the company addresses the challenges of fragmentation in these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates various execution venue APIs into a single point of access. This streamlined approach allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect once to TransFICC's API, simplifying the management of connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures timely data transmission, employing microsecond timestamping to facilitate an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By offering cloud-based hosting and scalable solutions, TransFICC enables its clients to adapt quickly to changes in trading venues, thereby enhancing their trading efficiency and competitiveness.

dv01

Seed Round in 2017
dv01, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York that specializes in providing data management and analytics solutions for institutional investors, banks, and lenders in the financial lending markets. Incorporated in 2014, dv01 offers a range of products, including its cloud-based portfolio management solution, dv01 LOANS, which enables investors to analyze and compare lender data. The company also provides dv01 BONDS, a loan data agent service for securitizations, and Securitization Explorer, a web portal designed to enhance investor insights into consumer loan securitizations. By integrating data from various marketplace lending platforms and mortgage servicers, dv01 aims to bring transparency and efficiency to lending markets, facilitating better decision-making and risk management for its clients. The company's platform has reported on significant volumes of online lending and mortgage loans, addressing the need for reliable data in an evolving financial landscape.

RegTek Solutions

Series A in 2017
RegTek Solutions, Inc. is a software company specializing in control and compliance solutions for global trade and transaction reporting. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company offers a suite of products designed to enhance regulatory reporting capabilities for financial institutions. Its key offerings include Load.Trade, which provides audited transparency and control over transactions; Reportable.Trade, an engine that generates reportable events and ensures completeness; Validate.Trade, which facilitates validation across multiple venues; BackLoad.Trade, a hosted solution that reduces the risks and costs associated with mandatory backloading of securities; and Reconcile.Trade, which delivers maintained reconciliations for reporting purposes. RegTek Solutions operates as a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P., continuing the legacy of the Report-it suite originally developed by Risk Focus Inc.

Revelate

Series A in 2017
Revelate is a developer of a data fulfillment platform that offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities for data sharing and commercialization. The platform is designed to alleviate the challenges faced by data teams in distributing data according to consumer needs, both within and outside their organizations. By seamlessly integrating into existing data ecosystems, Revelate empowers companies to prepare, package, and distribute data efficiently and effectively from any source to any recipient. This innovative approach helps organizations fully realize the value of their data assets.

Privitar

Series A in 2017
Privitar Ltd. is an enterprise software company specializing in privacy-preserving data mining and advanced data anonymization solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the company serves a diverse global client base across North America, Europe, and Asia. Privitar's product suite includes Privitar Publisher, which allows organizations to securely manage and audit data access, and Privitar Lens, which facilitates the creation of privacy-preserving APIs for reporting and analytics. Additionally, its SecureLink system focuses on data de-identification, while the Privitar Data Privacy Platform enhances data utilization while safeguarding sensitive information. The company's technologies enable clients to analyze potentially sensitive data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CPRA, and HIPAA, thereby fostering data-driven innovation and maintaining customer privacy across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and marketing.

AxeTrading

Venture Round in 2017
AxeTrading, established in 2008 and headquartered in London, specializes in fixed income electronic trading solutions. The company addresses market challenges such as fragmented liquidity and regulatory demands (MiFID2, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, Basel III) by providing technology that enables clients to implement and manage their fixed income trading strategies efficiently. Their platform aggregates liquidity from various sources, including electronic venues, messaging platforms, and voice channels, facilitating electronic trading networks for fixed-income products.

Relata

Venture Round in 2017
Relata is a company that specializes in client relationship analytics, focusing on transforming data from thousands of company relationships into actionable insights. By leveraging this data, Relata empowers sales teams to make informed decisions and take effective actions in their relationship-driven endeavors. Through its innovative platform, the company aims to eliminate guesswork in sales activities, enhancing the ability of teams to cultivate and manage their client relationships successfully.

Privitar

Seed Round in 2016
Privitar Ltd. is an enterprise software company specializing in privacy-preserving data mining and advanced data anonymization solutions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the company serves a diverse global client base across North America, Europe, and Asia. Privitar's product suite includes Privitar Publisher, which allows organizations to securely manage and audit data access, and Privitar Lens, which facilitates the creation of privacy-preserving APIs for reporting and analytics. Additionally, its SecureLink system focuses on data de-identification, while the Privitar Data Privacy Platform enhances data utilization while safeguarding sensitive information. The company's technologies enable clients to analyze potentially sensitive data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CPRA, and HIPAA, thereby fostering data-driven innovation and maintaining customer privacy across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and marketing.

Cosaic

Series A in 2016
Cosaic, Inc. is a software developer specializing in charting and data visualization solutions tailored for the capital markets. The company focuses on creating HTML5 financial charting tools that serve brokerages, individual traders, institutional trading desks, financial portals, and independent trading platforms. Its flagship product, ChartIQ, is a professional-grade financial visualization platform that enables clients to design responsive and interactive charting experiences for their end users. Additionally, Cosaic offers the Term Structure Graph, a real-time interactive chart for fixed income and derivatives markets. The company's technology is designed to integrate seamlessly across multiple devices and frameworks, enhancing user efficiency and allowing financial firms to connect third-party applications within their systems. Founded in 2012 and based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Cosaic was previously known as ChartIQ, Inc. until its name change in July 2020.

CloudMargin

Seed Round in 2015
CloudMargin Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in a cloud-based collateral and margin management platform tailored for financial institutions of all sizes. Founded in 2014 by a team with extensive experience in collateral management and capital markets, CloudMargin aims to enhance efficiency and reduce costs for its clients, which include banks, asset management firms, brokerage firms, and insurance companies. The platform operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, providing real-time reports on collateral positions and automating workflows to facilitate streamlined processing and settlement. By addressing the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional collateral management solutions, CloudMargin seeks to make effective collateral management accessible to all market participants while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
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