iLex designs, builds, and operates platforms for syndicated loan markets, connecting global banks, asset managers, and debt advisors. Its platform offers integrated connectivity with leading market solutions, harnessing data to deliver scalable solutions across various loan instruments.
WePlayed
Venture Round in 2024
WePlayed is a sports media technology company that automatically converts full-length game film into ready-to-share short-form highlights. Its platform uses machine learning-assisted recognition and crowdsourcing to extract meaningful moments, catalog and activate unpublished post-game footage, and enable teams, leagues, and other sports organizations to create, comment on, and share clips for fans. By combining analytics with streamlined content workflows, the company aims to meet the rising demand for bite-sized video and to boost fan engagement across digital channels. WePlayed collaborates with colleges, conferences, and sports entities to streamline production and distribution of highlight content, helping athletes showcase performances and fans access timely, shareable moments from games.
Founded in London in 2017, Globacap operates a blockchain-based platform for debt issuance. It offers an automated capital markets platform for equity and debt issuance, administration, and custody, aiming to streamline post-trade processes and enable frictionless asset creation and transfer.
Pearl Semiconductor
Seed Round in 2023
Pearl Semiconductor specializes in developing high-performance reference clocks and timing integrated circuits. Utilizing piezoelectric MEMS resonators built on CMOS, the company caters to industries such as industrial, networking, telecom, and automotive.
iLex designs, builds, and operates platforms for syndicated loan markets, connecting global banks, asset managers, and debt advisors. Its platform offers integrated connectivity with leading market solutions, harnessing data to deliver scalable solutions across various loan instruments.
Frictionless
Seed Round in 2022
DEFYCA is a company that facilitates investment in private credit markets by leveraging blockchain technology. It offers a fully digital infrastructure that allows debt funds to operate efficiently while providing investors with frictionless access to yield-bearing, stablecoin-backed assets. The company's liquidity marketplace features instant and transparent processes for risk assessment, auctioning, and collateralization of originator bonds. By utilizing crypto-rails, DEFYCA enables both digital and crypto investors to engage with traditional debt securities and loan portfolios through tokenized assets, thus bridging the gap between conventional finance and the evolving landscape of digital investment.
Arcturus is a software company that specializes in the post-production and streaming of volumetric videos. The company's platform, Holosuite, enables creatives to finesse and amplify volumetric captures to fit artistic and production goals. HoloSuite is designed to author, edit, and stream volumetrically captured performers so that producers can create immersive virtual and augmented reality experiences using live-action performances.
Hex Trust
Series B in 2022
Hex Trust is a licensed provider of secure custody services for digital assets. It offers solutions including custody, decentralized finance (DeFi), brokerage, and financing through its proprietary platform Hex Safe™. The company serves financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporates, and private clients, with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and expanding across Europe and the Middle East.
Atto
Convertible Note in 2022
Atto is a company that specializes in online identity verification services, focusing on identity proofing and verification through its IDaaS platform. This platform facilitates the brokering of verified personal attributes and multi-factor authentication, aiding various sectors such as healthcare, recruitment, gaming, retail banking, and consumer finance. Atto's solutions enhance customer onboarding processes by addressing challenges related to risk management, compliance, and fraud, while also enabling businesses to assess customer affordability and verify account information. The company connects to over 5,500 banks across 30 countries, supporting Open Banking initiatives. With a growing client base and recent collaborations with major financial institutions, Atto aims to streamline the application process for lenders and other businesses, ultimately improving customer experience. Founded in 2010 and based in Edinburgh, Atto also maintains offices in New York, London, and Sydney.
Navenio
Venture Round in 2021
Navenio Limited is a software technology company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in location-based services for indoor environments through mobile applications. Established in 2015, Navenio's innovative platform enhances indoor localization without the need for additional hardware, such as beacons or Wi-Fi. By utilizing advanced techniques like fingerprinting of the electromagnetic spectrum and indoor mapping, Navenio's solutions enable clients across various sectors, including retail, transportation, venues, and healthcare, to efficiently locate individuals and improve workforce productivity. The company's intelligent workforce solution automates processes based on established best practices, leading to significant enhancements in staff efficiency and operational workflows.
Ultraleap
Series D in 2021
Ultraleap specializes in developing and commercializing innovative haptic control systems. Founded in 2013, the company is renowned for its mid-air haptics and 3D hand tracking technologies. Ultraleap's solutions include Leap Motion Controller for optical hand tracking, VR Developer Mount for virtual reality experiences, and Gemini, a hand tracking platform. Its applications span across extended reality, automotive, digital signage, industrial automation, consumer electronics, and location-based entertainment.
Jaguar Microsystems
Series A in 2021
Jaguar Microsystems is a technology company established in 2020 by Dr. Sunny Siu, specializing in cloud computing and data processing solutions tailored for data centers. The company develops data processing unit (DPU) chips that enhance the efficiency of data processing, focusing on accelerated Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) for various data center applications. In addition to its core offerings, Jaguar Microsystems serves domestic cloud service providers, telecommunications companies, and Internet service providers, while also expanding its reach to meet the demands of the global market.
LeapXpert
Series A in 2021
LeapXpert is a developer of a business communication platform that facilitates secure and compliant messaging for enterprises. Its Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP) enables organizations to integrate consumer messaging applications into their critical business processes. This platform allows employees and clients to communicate through their preferred messaging apps while maintaining a centralized source for management and oversight. LeapXpert addresses the compliance and regulatory challenges associated with the increasing use of messaging applications in business, providing accessible digital records of all interactions. The platform enhances communication between employees, clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders, thereby elevating messaging to a formal business communication channel akin to traditional calling or emailing. With a client base that includes several of the world's top global banks, LeapXpert serves tens of thousands of users across various industries.
Applied Digital
Venture Round in 2021
Applied Digital designs, builds, and operates next-generation digital infrastructure across North America, providing digital infrastructure solutions and cloud services for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads. The company operates data center hosting and HPC hosting businesses, delivering energized data center space and related services to customers, including crypto mining clients, and supports scalable computing workloads through its facilities.
Founded in London in 2015, Wrisk is a technology-driven insurance company that offers a flexible, user-friendly app for managing various types of insurance. It provides customers with a personalized 'Wrisk Score' to help them understand factors affecting their premiums and consolidates multiple insurance plans into one manageable platform.
Caelus Technologies
Venture Round in 2021
Caelus Technologies specializes in the development of high-performance data converters, utilizing its patented architecture and techniques to deliver embedded intellectual property and standalone chips. The company's innovative solutions cater to a variety of applications, including instrumentation, medical imaging, data acquisition, sensors, and both wireless and wired communications. By focusing on ultra-high resolution and high-speed data conversion, Caelus enables its clients to create advanced products for emerging markets such as 5G and the Internet of Things. Through its commitment to cutting-edge technology, Caelus Technologies positions itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of data conversion solutions.
FAC (Fund Admin Chain)
Seed Round in 2020
FundAdminChain is a disruptor in the fund investment technology sector, founded by buy-side and DLT industry experts and in close collaboration with distributed ledger technology giant R3. Driven to enable Fund Managers to take control of the cost of investment and thus improve end investors’ returns on their hard-earned investments.FAC offers forward-thinking buy-side participants the opportunity to collectively shape the future of the fund's industry, through a transparent, open partnership, with costs and operating principles governed by the participants of the FAC network.
HKbitEX is a digital asset exchange that focuses on providing spot trading services primarily for professional and institutional investors. The company operates a high-performance trading platform that offers comprehensive technology solutions, ensuring a smooth and structured trading experience. Committed to compliance and regulation, HKbitEX also facilitates over-the-counter (OTC) trading, catering to the needs of global professional investors in the digital asset market.
Hex Trust
Series A in 2020
Hex Trust is a licensed provider of secure custody services for digital assets. It offers solutions including custody, decentralized finance (DeFi), brokerage, and financing through its proprietary platform Hex Safe™. The company serves financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporates, and private clients, with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and expanding across Europe and the Middle East.
ReSec Technologies
Series A in 2020
ReSec Technologies is an Israeli cybersecurity company specializing in file-based malware threat protection. It offers a gateway solution using patented Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology, treating every file as a potential threat and delivering safe replicas in real-time. ReSec serves large enterprises across various sectors, including finance, defense, government, and telecom.
Navenio Limited is a software technology company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in location-based services for indoor environments through mobile applications. Established in 2015, Navenio's innovative platform enhances indoor localization without the need for additional hardware, such as beacons or Wi-Fi. By utilizing advanced techniques like fingerprinting of the electromagnetic spectrum and indoor mapping, Navenio's solutions enable clients across various sectors, including retail, transportation, venues, and healthcare, to efficiently locate individuals and improve workforce productivity. The company's intelligent workforce solution automates processes based on established best practices, leading to significant enhancements in staff efficiency and operational workflows.
Amplyfi, established in 2015 and headquartered in Cardiff, UK, specializes in AI-driven business intelligence software. Its core product, DataVoyant, leverages artificial intelligence to explore and analyze the deep web, uncovering relevant open-source content that conventional search engines miss. This service aids enterprises across diverse sectors, such as automotive, finance, and healthcare, in making informed decisions by providing unbiased, data-driven insights. Amplyfi's technology combines machine learning and data analytics with advanced search capabilities, enabling clients to proactively address market trends and customer needs.
Applied Blockchain
Seed Round in 2020
Applied Blockchain is a London-based company founded in 2015 that develops blockchain applications and provides consulting services using privacy-preserving distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. It builds enterprise solutions that apply advanced cryptography to enhance data security and privacy across industries such as financial services, energy, aviation, automotive, supply chain, telecom, legal, medical, property and recruitment. The company offers end-to-end services including architecture, privacy, user interface design, development and ongoing support, integrating blockchain technology to improve data security, transparency, automation and operational efficiency. Its solutions include a private blockchain banking application, biometric login and identity verification, a distributed drone registry and employment/academic verification tools, along with training workshops for clients. Shell has been reported as a major client and investor. Founded in 2015 and based in London, Applied Blockchain focuses on building and deploying secure, decentralized applications and infrastructure for enterprises and startups.
Applied Digital
Venture Round in 2020
Applied Digital designs, builds, and operates next-generation digital infrastructure across North America, providing digital infrastructure solutions and cloud services for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads. The company operates data center hosting and HPC hosting businesses, delivering energized data center space and related services to customers, including crypto mining clients, and supports scalable computing workloads through its facilities.
Crypto Finance
Series B in 2020
Crypto Finance AG, established in 2017 and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, specializes in providing comprehensive services for institutional investors seeking exposure to the crypto asset class. The company, through its subsidiaries, offers asset management, brokerage, and storage services. Its asset management division provides regulated passive investment vehicles, while the brokerage division facilitates secure, liquid, and transparent trading through a proprietary algorithmic order management system, granting access to leading crypto exchanges. The storage division ensures physically and digitally secure storage services for crypto keys. Crypto Finance AG is FINMA-regulated, ensuring a robust and compliant environment for its clients.
CryptoBLK
Venture Round in 2020
CryptoBLK Limited is a technology company specializing in the development of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Hong Kong, with additional offices in Singapore and Thailand, the company creates innovative software platforms designed to enhance efficiency and transparency across various sectors. Its notable products include ATLAS, an open account trade finance platform; TOPAZ, an asset valuation and management system; MIDAS, which authenticates motor insurance documents to prevent fraud; and Cerberus, a health and performance monitoring system for DLT applications. CryptoBLK serves multiple industries, including trade finance, insurance, property technology, central bank digital currencies, and payment solutions, focusing on delivering secure and trustworthy services that simplify workflows and improve productivity.
Archax Ltd is a London-based digital securities exchange that specializes in trading asset-backed tokens, including digital securities and security tokens. Established in 2018, it is recognized as the UK's first regulated digital securities exchange, broker, and custodian, having received authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority. Archax aims to serve institutional investors by providing a secure platform for trading various digital assets, from cryptocurrencies to digital securities. The exchange is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing institutional trading workflows and operates on high-performance infrastructure hosted in top-tier data centers. By bridging the gap between the blockchain-centric technology community and traditional investment sectors, Archax facilitates safe trading among recognized participants in a regulated environment.
NowCM
Venture Round in 2018
NowCM is a cloud-native integrated transaction platform designed for primary credit and bond issuance. The company offers a comprehensive financial platform that streamlines the entire value chain of issuing financial instruments from a single source. Its platform features digitalized and automated financial infrastructure that connects issuers, investors, and banks. This enables various entities, including corporates, project developers, and public sector issuers, to efficiently raise debt in the capital markets. By reducing transaction costs and minimizing time to market, NowCM enhances the overall process of financial instrument issuance.
CallSign specializes in developing an online transaction platform that pioneers digital trust. Utilizing proprietary technology, it mimics human identification methods, offering high-fidelity AI-based user recognition with minimal friction.
Unispectral
Series A in 2016
Unispectral Ltd., established in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing advanced camera sensors. The company's core technology, hyperspectral imaging sensor, leverages MEMS technology to discern material properties across solids, liquids, and gases. This innovation enables Unispectral to offer superior low-light photography capabilities and rich color imagery, setting it apart in the camera sensor industry.
Si-Ware Systems
Series A in 2013
Si-Ware Systems is a technology company specializing in the design and manufacture of integrated circuits and micro electro mechanical systems. The company operates in two primary sectors: ASIC Solutions, which focuses on custom ASIC development with expertise in analog/mixed-signal and RF design, and Optical MEMS Technology, which enables the fabrication of multiple optical components on silicon substrates. Si-Ware is also known for its NeoSpectra platform, an all-in-one material analysis solution that employs single-chip FT-NIR spectrometers to facilitate on-site analysis across various industries, including agriculture, food, and life sciences. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional research and development facilities in Paris, France, and Cairo, Egypt.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Series A in 2006
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited is a biotechnology company specializing in the development and commercialization of nanopore-based sequencing technology for the analysis of DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules. Its innovative product lineup includes the portable MinION device, the benchtop PromethION, and the GridION system, all of which enable real-time data streaming and scalable sequencing for a variety of applications in scientific research, personalized medicine, environmental monitoring, and agriculture. The Flongle offers smaller, on-demand sequencing solutions, catering to users requiring rapid insights. Operating in over 80 countries, Oxford Nanopore's technology is designed for accessibility and ease of use, featuring straightforward library preparation and automated solutions. The company maintains a robust patent portfolio, supporting its ongoing research and development in both biological and solid-state nanopore technologies. Founded in 2005 and based in Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Nanopore Technologies also has offices in multiple countries, including the United States, China, and Germany.