BattleFin
Venture Round in 2024
BattleFin is a company that specializes in sourcing, organizing, evaluating, and vetting alternative data. It operates a database platform aimed at facilitating the accessibility of alternative data to various stakeholders, including data buyers and the venture capital community. By trading live capital based on the alternative data it identifies, BattleFin provides valuable feedback, validation, and verification to data providers. This approach not only enhances the quality and reliability of the data but also supports companies in identifying talent and opportunities essential for their asset management needs. Through its innovative platform, BattleFin plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between alternative data sources and market participants.
Axoni - Veris Post-Trade Processing Business
Acquisition in 2024
Axoni - Veris Post-Trade Processing Business is a unit of Axoni.
Acadia
Acquisition in 2022
AcadiaSoft, Inc. is a provider of workflow and communication solutions specifically tailored for derivatives collateral management. The company offers a range of products, including the AcadiaSoft Messaging Platform, which facilitates communication for collateral calls between investment managers and broker-dealers, and the AcadiaSoft Collateral Manager, a software solution available both as an installed product and via SaaS. Additionally, AcadiaSoft provides the MarginSphere Xpress platform, extending messaging capabilities to counterparties not currently connected to its electronic messaging service. The company also offers consultative services to assist clients in navigating regulatory compliance, along with guidance for obtaining regulatory approval for the ISDA SIMM framework. Established in 2009 and headquartered in Pembroke, Massachusetts, AcadiaSoft has operations in Boston and London, operating as a subsidiary of SSB Investments LLC.
Maystreet
Acquisition in 2022
Maystreet, Inc. is a New York-based information technology company that specializes in developing a market data infrastructure platform designed to deliver comprehensive capital market data. Founded in 2012, the company offers a cloud-based solution that provides real-time and intraday historical data, facilitating trade execution, surveillance, performance analysis, historical backtesting, end-of-day reporting, and risk and compliance management. Maystreet's platform serves a diverse clientele, including banks, market makers, quantitative investment firms, traditional asset managers, trading platform vendors, regulators, researchers, and portfolio managers. With a focus on low latency and exchange connectivity, the company empowers its clients to enhance their workflows and make informed decisions within the complexities of global capital markets.
Borns Robot
Series B in 2022
Borns Robot is a Chongqing-based medical robotics company that designs and manufactures surgical robots and digital diagnosis and treatment solutions for doctors and patients. Its product portfolio includes laparoscopic robotic systems, modular robotic arms, robotic imaging and diagnostic systems, disposable instruments, and open surgical platforms, enabling automated and minimally invasive procedures in general surgery, urology, and gynecology. The company serves healthcare providers with solutions that support diagnosis, planning, and execution of robotic-assisted surgeries and operates from Chongqing with an additional presence in Chengdu, China.
Global Data Consortium
Acquisition in 2022
Global Data Consortium Inc. is a technology company that specializes in electronic identity verification through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, Worldview. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers a comprehensive solution for businesses seeking to verify customer identities globally. Worldview provides a centralized access point to local, high-quality reference data, facilitating instant verification of consumer and business identities, as well as contact information and age verification. The platform supports various functionalities, including address verification, correction, geo-coding, and standardization, and can be integrated into users' existing systems or utilized via batch processing and web-based tools. Global Data Consortium serves a diverse clientele, including e-commerce, logistics, mapping, and financial services firms across multiple regions, including Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America.
Floww
Corporate Round in 2022
Floww Ltd., established in London in 2016, develops and operates a SaaS platform that empowers investors and financial institutions to analyze and manage their portfolios. Its key products include DEALFLOWW for deal tracking, MONEYFLOWW for investor onboarding, FLOWWTRANSACT for decentralized marketplace creation, and FlowwConnect for startup capital raising. Serving venture capital firms, accelerators, family offices, private equity firms, and startups, Floww's platform enhances transparency and data-driven decision-making.
Tora Trading
Acquisition in 2022
Tora is a cloud-based technology provider that specializes in front-to-back office solutions tailored for the buy-side investment community. The company offers an integrated platform that includes portfolio, order, and execution management systems, alongside compliance and analytics engines. Designed by buy-side traders for their peers, Tora's products specifically address the unique trading challenges faced in the Asian market. Each solution is developed in-house, ensuring seamless integration and a comprehensive trading experience. Tora serves a diverse clientele of institutional investors, including mutual funds and hedge funds, as well as sell-side proprietary trading desks. Its technology is instrumental in facilitating efficient trading operations and accessing multi-asset liquidity globally.
PrimaryBid
Series C in 2022
PrimaryBid operates an online investment platform enabling private investors fair access to equity placings, fundraisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies on equal terms with institutional investors.
Founded in 2015, BondCliQ develops a central market system for the U.S. corporate bond market, aiming to enhance institutional trading conditions. Its platform provides pre-trade pricing data and post-trade TRACE information, benefiting both buy-side/sell-side participants and regulators.
OpenExchange
Corporate Round in 2021
OpenExchange, Inc., operating as OpenExchange Communications, is a provider of a meeting network tailored for the financial services sector. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Boston, New York, London, and Hong Kong, the company delivers a range of products designed to enhance communication within the investment community. Its offerings include OE Connect, OE Stream, OE Conference, and OE Learn, as well as OpenExchange Virtual, which facilitates virtual meetings through desktop videoconferencing technology that operates over any IP network. The platform allows users to create personal online profiles, schedule video meetings, and access a global directory of financial services professionals, thereby supporting investment managers, investment banks, and public companies in their interactions. OpenExchange's solutions aim to improve the efficiency and security of communications in the financial market.
Quantile Technologies
Acquisition in 2021
Quantile Technologies specializes in reducing counterparty risk in financial markets. Its advanced strategies rebalance portfolios and decrease risk between market participants, enhancing market efficiency, liquidity, and client returns while strengthening the overall financial system.
FINBOURNE Technology
Corporate Round in 2021
Founded in 2016, FINBOURNE Technology develops investment management platforms designed to transform and simplify investment data. Its flagship product, LUSID, securely stores a full history of every transaction and adjustment, supporting IBOR, ABOR, tax-lot accounting, valuation, and risk workflows. The company also offers Luminesce, a data virtualization engine for real-time insights.
Vitillo
Debt Financing in 2021
Vitillo has become a prominent player in the hydraulic industry. Its success is attributed to its capacity to fulfill the individual needs of its customers, which allows Vitillo to provide a comprehensive solution to each of them. This involves producing and supplying fittings, adapters, and hoses, whether rigid or flexible, for high and medium-pressure fluids.
PrimaryBid
Series B in 2020
PrimaryBid operates an online investment platform enabling private investors fair access to equity placings, fundraisings, and IPOs of AIM-listed companies on equal terms with institutional investors.
CurveGlobal
Venture Round in 2019
CurveGlobal Markets is the brand name of the London Stock Exchange derivatives market.
Refinitiv
Acquisition in 2019
Refinitiv is a leading provider of financial markets data and infrastructure, catering to over 40,000 institutions across more than 190 countries. The company specializes in delivering comprehensive data and insights, trading platforms, and open data technology that foster a robust global financial community. Its offerings enhance performance in various areas, including trading, investment, wealth management, regulatory compliance, market data management, enterprise risk, and the fight against financial crime. Refinitiv also develops financial data and risk analytics tools that provide consolidated real-time information, enabling both individual investors and financial institutions to access accurate and relevant financial data efficiently.
Beyond Ratings
Acquisition in 2019
Beyond Ratings is an independent macro-financial risk services company specializing in the assessment of country and sovereign risks. Leveraging a proprietary risk methodology and advanced indicators, the firm evaluates nations' wealth and monitors their economic and financial performance in the context of global risks, including energy prices and climate change. Beyond Ratings provides a range of services, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research reports, portfolio analysis, and financial metrics, aimed at helping clients optimize risk exposure and identify investment opportunities. Their clientele includes pension funds, asset managers, infrastructure funds, development banks, commercial banks, and insurers, who rely on Beyond Ratings for informed decision-making in risk management and investment advisory.
Nivaura
Seed Round in 2019
Nivaura provides a blockchain-enabled platform for automated issuance and administration of financial products and instruments. The company's technology suite automates key processes for issuing and managing loans, bonds, and structured notes, delivering greater efficiency, accuracy, and transparency while supporting compliance. Its platform enables on-demand issuance and ongoing administration for banks, brokers, exchanges, and funds, driving faster, cheaper operations across the life cycle of financial instruments.
Euroclear
Corporate Round in 2019
Euroclear is a prominent provider of post-trade services in the financial industry, established in 1968 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The company specializes in the settlement and custody of both domestic and cross-border securities, including bonds, equities, and derivatives. Euroclear serves a diverse clientele, including wealth managers, institutional investors, transfer agents, custodians, and fund managers, offering a range of services such as fund management, fund distribution, transaction settlement, asset servicing, and collateral management. Known for its resilience and commitment to efficiency, Euroclear plays a crucial role in enhancing risk mitigation and automating processes within the capital markets.
Acadia
Corporate Round in 2018
AcadiaSoft, Inc. is a provider of workflow and communication solutions specifically tailored for derivatives collateral management. The company offers a range of products, including the AcadiaSoft Messaging Platform, which facilitates communication for collateral calls between investment managers and broker-dealers, and the AcadiaSoft Collateral Manager, a software solution available both as an installed product and via SaaS. Additionally, AcadiaSoft provides the MarginSphere Xpress platform, extending messaging capabilities to counterparties not currently connected to its electronic messaging service. The company also offers consultative services to assist clients in navigating regulatory compliance, along with guidance for obtaining regulatory approval for the ISDA SIMM framework. Established in 2009 and headquartered in Pembroke, Massachusetts, AcadiaSoft has operations in Boston and London, operating as a subsidiary of SSB Investments LLC.
CurveGlobal
Venture Round in 2018
CurveGlobal Markets is the brand name of the London Stock Exchange derivatives market.
The Yield Book
Acquisition in 2017
The Yield Book is a leading provider of fixed-income analytics, catering to market makers and institutional investors. The company offers a comprehensive suite of analytical tools that facilitate complex analyses of portfolios, benchmarks, trading decisions, historical performance, and risk. Its products deliver insights across a wide array of financial instruments within the fixed income sector, including government securities, agency bonds, corporate debt, high-yield instruments, emerging market assets, mortgages, asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and derivatives. By equipping clients with in-depth risk analytics and support for regulatory stress testing, The Yield Book enables sophisticated portfolio analysis in global markets.
Mergent
Acquisition in 2016
Mergent is a global provider of business and financial information on public and private companies, offering research platforms and data solutions for academic, corporate, and financial professionals and institutions as well as public libraries. The company delivers online and print resources such as Mergent Online and Mergent Intellect for company and industry research, Mergent BondViewer for fixed-income data, and First Research industry reports, along with Hoover's academic solutions and the Million Dollar Directory. In addition, Mergent provides analytics, data feeds, data collection services, cloud-based applications, corporate actions and pricing, private company data, and print and digital archives. With a long history, Mergent combines comprehensive global data with technology to support economic and demographic analysis, equity and debt research, and corporate intelligence for its clients.
Kerel Robot
Series B in 2016
Kerel Robot provides integrated solutions for automation control systems and information systems. They engage in industrial robots, automated production lines, intelligent warehousing, and other business segments. They provide integrated services such as solution customization, equipment production and manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.
Kerel Robot
Series A in 2015
Kerel Robot provides integrated solutions for automation control systems and information systems. They engage in industrial robots, automated production lines, intelligent warehousing, and other business segments. They provide integrated services such as solution customization, equipment production and manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.
Russell Investments Group
Acquisition in 2014
Russell Investments Group, established in 1936, is a global asset manager offering multi-asset portfolios and services. It serves institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and high net worth individuals. The firm provides actively managed equity, fixed income, balanced, and multi-asset mutual funds, along with customized portfolios. Russell Investments Group operates through its subsidiaries in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, conducting in-house research and employing fundamental analysis for global investments across public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets.
Kerel Robot
Angel Round in 2014
Kerel Robot provides integrated solutions for automation control systems and information systems. They engage in industrial robots, automated production lines, intelligent warehousing, and other business segments. They provide integrated services such as solution customization, equipment production and manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.
GATElab
Acquisition in 2013
GATElab is a technology company based in Italy and the UK that specializes in advanced trading and post-trade services. It provides innovative software solutions for trading and market access, applying emerging technologies to enhance operations within the finance sector. GATElab focuses on information management and integration, delivering cutting-edge tools that facilitate efficient trading practices and improve market accessibility for its clients globally.
LCH.Clearnet Group
Acquisition in 2012
LCH is a leading multi-asset class clearing house, serving a broad number of major exchanges and platforms as well as range of OTC markets. LCH’s commitment to the horizontal model ensures a clear growth path for clearing across multiple markets, exchange, venues and geographies.
FTSE Group
Acquisition in 2011
FTSE Group offers indexing and analytic solutions. It calculates indexes that measures and benchmarks markets and asset classes in many countries around the world. It is used by pension funds, asset managers, ETF providers, and investment banks for investment analysis, performance measurement, and asset allocations. The series of indexes that are provides by the company are market cap weighted, factor, alternatively weighted, industry specific, fixed income, and sustainable investments. The services of the company are data and index solutions, ETFs, rea time data, derivatives, and ICBs.
FTSE Group is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1995 by Mark Makepeace.
Turquoise Trading
Acquisition in 2009
Turquoise Trading is the European multilateral trading facility majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group. With a single connection, members can trade shares, depository receipts, ETFs, and European Rights Issues of 19 European countries with an efficient interoperable post-trade model, as well as US securities. Members include banks, brokers, specialist trading firms, and retail intermediaries.