Illuminate Financial

Illuminate Financial is a London-based venture capital firm focused on financial technology and enterprise software for the financial services sector. Founded in 2014, it backs fintech startups at seed, Series A, and growth stages and helps them address challenges in banking, regulation, compliance, and connectivity. The firm invests globally, with emphasis on the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, and supports portfolio companies with deep domain expertise, an extensive industry network, and practical guidance to navigate early growth and scale adoption by financial institutions.

Mark Beeston

Managing Partner

Konstantin Koenig

Principal

Mark Rodrigues

Venture Partner

Alexander Ross

Partner

Rezso Szabo

Partner

Past deals in Asset Management

TransFICC

Series B in 2025
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

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.

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.

d1g1t

Venture Round in 2023
d1g1t develops a digital wealth management platform that provides analytics-driven portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. The platform integrates risk management tools, client management, onboarding, portfolio tracking, historical performance analysis, and future risk forecasting to support adviser-client relationships and business growth. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on transparent, data-driven investment guidance for advisory firms and their clients.

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.

Pontoro

Seed Round in 2023
Pontoro is a fintech company that develops a digital securitization and liquidity platform for private market assets. Its technology integrates technical, legal, and regulatory protocols to convert traditionally illiquid private fund interests into liquid investments, increasing investor access and participation while improving efficiency for fund administration. With a focus on infrastructure debt finance, the platform seeks to address the large financing shortfall by enabling liquidity, transparency, and customization for investors and limited partners and by broadening capital flows into private markets.

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.

Net Purpose

Series A in 2022
Net Purpose facilitates effortless impact measurement for investors by aggregating data on companies' social and environmental outcomes. This enables investors to align with evolving ESG standards and build sustainable investment strategies.

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.

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.

TransFICC

Venture Round in 2022
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

Emmi

Seed Round in 2021
Emmi is an Australian fintech focused on carbon risk solutions. It developed a carbon auditing platform that calculates financed emissions and assesses climate risk for investment portfolios. The platform combines advanced algorithms, broad data coverage, and carbon pricing integration to help financial institutions and investors evaluate climate-related risks and incorporate carbon costs into investment decisions, supporting a sustainable future.

Pontoro

Seed Round in 2021
Pontoro is a fintech company that develops a digital securitization and liquidity platform for private market assets. Its technology integrates technical, legal, and regulatory protocols to convert traditionally illiquid private fund interests into liquid investments, increasing investor access and participation while improving efficiency for fund administration. With a focus on infrastructure debt finance, the platform seeks to address the large financing shortfall by enabling liquidity, transparency, and customization for investors and limited partners and by broadening capital flows into private markets.

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.

Copper

Series B in 2021
Copper provides secure infrastructure and custody for institutional digital asset investments, offering portfolio management and protection for institutional clients. Its secure wallet architecture is available as a standalone product, a mobile app, and a browser extension for smart contract signing. The company is complemented by the ClearLoop network, enabling off-exchange trading and settlement at tier-1 digital asset exchanges, and it supports uncollateralized lending options. Copper also operates affiliated advisory firms that deliver wealth management, financial planning, and investment advisory services, including support for credit unions and their members as broker-dealer and registered investment adviser activities. The combined platform serves institutional and select client segments by integrating custody, trading, settlement, and advisory capabilities under a unified digital asset ecosystem.

Net Purpose

Seed Round in 2020
Net Purpose facilitates effortless impact measurement for investors by aggregating data on companies' social and environmental outcomes. This enables investors to align with evolving ESG standards and build sustainable investment strategies.

Yves Blue Corporation

Seed Round in 2020
Yves Blue Corporation develops a software platform that provides analytics for the environmental, social, and governance market. The platform ingests and integrates ESG data from multiple sources, identifies risks and opportunities, and visualizes them for users, while delivering analytics reports on financial portfolios. Established in 2018 and based in New York, the company was formerly known as Flat World Partner Technologies Inc., changing its name in October 2020. It serves financial institutions and investment management firms by offering multi-asset class ESG and impact analytics, research, and data, with sector-specific metrics, a consolidated dashboard, streamlined onboarding, tailored reporting, carbon budget insights, and news-based analysis to give a clear picture of portfolio health and ESG-related risks.

TransFICC

Series A in 2020
TransFICC specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

d1g1t

Series A in 2019
d1g1t develops a digital wealth management platform that provides analytics-driven portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. The platform integrates risk management tools, client management, onboarding, portfolio tracking, historical performance analysis, and future risk forecasting to support adviser-client relationships and business growth. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on transparent, data-driven investment guidance for advisory firms and their clients.

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 specializes in low-latency connectivity solutions for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. It offers a unified API that simplifies access to multiple execution venues, ensuring microsecond timestamping of data and comprehensive audit trails to support best execution requirements.

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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