Valkyrie
Venture Round in 2022
Valkyrie Investments is a specialized alternative asset management firm.
ForwardLane
Seed Round in 2018
ForwardLane Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in New York, specializing in providing digital advisory and distribution solutions for wealth management, asset management, and commercial banking. Founded in 2014, the company has developed a patented AI-powered insight platform that leverages natural language processing to synthesize data and generate actionable insights for financial advisors and fund distributors. This platform acts as a virtual analyst, analyzing client data daily to identify growth opportunities and enhance client engagement. ForwardLane also offers tools like the A1 signal engine, which automates insights, and ForwardLane Goal Miner, designed to extract financial goals from unstructured data. With additional locations in London and a development center in Fort Lauderdale, ForwardLane aims to streamline decision-making processes for financial institutions, enabling them to transform complex data into meaningful intelligence and foster proactive client interactions.
Crux Informatics
Series A in 2017
Crux Informatics operates a cloud platform that connects data users with data suppliers to enable external data automation. The platform concentrates on integration, transformation, and observability of third-party data, automating the development of data pipelines, ongoing data quality validation, and management of data workflows between suppliers, consumers, and cloud environments at scale. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Crux Informatics serves as a bridge for efficient external data delivery.
Symbiont.io, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in developing a smart contracts platform tailored for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Amsterdam, the company provides a comprehensive infrastructure for capital markets. This includes a unified ledger for sharing business logic and market data, as well as the Symbiont Assembly platform, which facilitates the issuance, tracking, and management of financial instruments such as loans, securities, and commodities. By enabling complex financial instruments to exist within a decentralized blockchain network, Symbiont aims to enhance transparency, reduce risk, and lower costs for financial institutions and government entities. The company has established partnerships with industry leaders, including Vanguard and the State of Delaware, to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency in the capital markets sector.
Market Realist
Venture Round in 2017
Market Realist, Inc. is an investment information technology company based in New York that operates a financial media website focused on delivering institutional-quality research and analytics. Founded in 2013, the company aims to democratize the investment process by making high-level market data accessible to a broad audience, including individual investors and financial professionals. With a team of over 50 financial analysts, Market Realist publishes more than 200 market reports daily, covering a wide range of topics such as earnings reports, company news, mergers and acquisitions, and macroeconomic trends. The company's content is designed to assist clients in making informed investment decisions, thereby enhancing their ability to navigate the complexities of the financial market. Through its efforts, Market Realist has garnered a readership of over 20 million, effectively bridging the gap between institutional insights and everyday investors.
Untapt
Convertible Note in 2016
Untapt Inc. operates a technology platform designed to streamline the hiring process for technologists in financial institutions. Headquartered in New York, the company utilizes a proprietary Deep Learning Neural Network, known as untapt Codex, to analyze large pools of job applicants and open positions, facilitating effective matches with a high likelihood of success. The platform caters to a wide range of users, including staffing firms and large enterprises, and features custom job boards and recruitment sites. Unlike traditional job boards, Untapt fosters enduring connections between clients and candidates, enhancing the recruitment experience through immersive technology accessible on various devices. By leveraging advanced algorithms and data-driven insights, Untapt significantly improves the efficiency of placements per recruiter, supporting the growth of recruitment businesses and startups in the sector.
Tradelegs
Series A in 2016
Tradelegs LLC, founded in 2010 by Hani El-Sakkout and Gideon Agar, is a New York-based company that specializes in decision-support software solutions tailored for portfolio and risk managers, analysts, and traders. The company's flagship product, Derivatives Strategist, is a subscription-based software that empowers users to develop customized options strategies aligned with their investment objectives. By leveraging advanced technology, Tradelegs enables users to adapt to fluctuating market conditions, enhance returns on equity portfolios, and effectively manage risk. The platform supports the creation of adaptive indexes and delivers tools for yield generation and risk management, thus allowing institutional investors and portfolio managers to optimize their strategies throughout the trade lifecycle.
Bristlecone Holdings
Series A in 2016
Bristlecone, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Reno, Nevada, founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing advanced technologies that assist businesses in evaluating consumer creditworthiness. Its platform employs big data analytics and automated approval algorithms to analyze a variety of customer data points, including bank accounts, social data, and public records. By leveraging machine learning, Bristlecone enables businesses to make immediate credit decisions, offering a personalized credit profile for consumers. This technology not only helps merchants assess the risks associated with lending but also supports their growth by facilitating efficient credit evaluations.
WealthForge
Series A in 2016
WealthForge, established in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, specializes in developing and operating a technology platform for private capital markets. Its core offering, the Altigo platform, facilitates transactions between advisors and sponsors, streamlining the process of investing in alternative securities. The platform provides regulatory compliance, investment processing, and connects issuers with registered intermediaries, such as broker-dealers and investment advisors. Additionally, WealthForge offers services like document preparation, investor relations, and escrow services to companies raising capital.
Trumid Financial LLC is a financial technology company based in New York that specializes in electronic trading solutions for the credit market. Founded in 2014, Trumid operates the Trumid Market Center, an electronic trading network specifically designed for corporate bonds, and offers Trumid Bond Stream, a tool that provides TRACE pricing data. The company focuses on enhancing the credit trading experience by integrating advanced technology with market expertise, facilitating direct access to liquidity and valuable market intelligence for professionals in the corporate bond sector. Additionally, Trumid Labs leverages data science to manage its network and provide bond price lookup services, enabling participants to make informed trading decisions. Trumid operates as a subsidiary of Trumid Holdings LLC.
Airex, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates an online marketplace designed for the buying, selling, and consumption of financial applications, data feeds, research reports, transcripts, and estimates. The company offers the AIREX Market, which enables users to discover, access, and transact digital financial products efficiently and cost-effectively. This platform allows a variety of clients, including retail investors, registered investment advisors, wealth advisors, family offices, asset managers, global investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and corporations, to obtain real-time pricing information and analytics. Founded in 2012 and originally known as Tinga Technologies, Airex aims to modernize the distribution of financial products, moving away from traditional sales models that are often cumbersome and slow.
Trunomi
Seed Round in 2015
Trunomi, Inc. is a technology company that operates a consent-based data sharing platform aimed at enhancing customer verification processes for clients in the financial industry, both in the United States and internationally. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Trunomi empowers consumers to digitally manage and share their personal data through a personal data store, while ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations. The platform offers features such as secure messaging, document sharing, and digital rights management, allowing businesses to visualize and manage customer data effectively. Trunomi's patented technology ensures that it does not store or access customer personal data, thereby transcending jurisdictional limitations associated with data privacy. Certified to meet NSA security standards and validated by legal experts, the platform provides a zero-risk solution for organizations to comply with global regulations, automate data subject requests, and enhance the overall customer experience related to privacy.
InterNex Capital
Seed Round in 2015
InterNex Capital, LLC is a digital asset-based lender based in Harrison, New York, that specializes in providing working capital financing solutions for small and mid-sized businesses as well as corporate enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company offers a range of services including revolving lines of credit, term loans, and invoice discounting. Its clientele spans various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, advertising, transportation, engineering, and manufacturing. InterNex Capital leverages technology, data analytics, and credit scoring algorithms to deliver tailored financing solutions, along with underwriting and monitoring services, aimed at meeting the diverse needs of its customers.
Incapture Technologies
Series B in 2015
Incapture Technologies, established in 2012 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing financial service software designed to handle large datasets in a distributed environment. Their core product, Rapture, provides a framework for managing complex data and facilitating rapid application development while ensuring controlled and audited distributed computing.
ClearServe
Series A in 2015
ClearServe is a technology company focused on transforming the portfolio and wealth management landscape for family offices, multi-managers, and private investors. By developing a cloud-based platform, ClearServe aims to replace outdated manual processes and legacy software with a streamlined solution that enhances data transparency and usability. The platform integrates an alternative tracking system with intuitive design features, allowing users to make informed financial and investment decisions. ClearServe addresses significant pain points in the industry, promoting efficiency and clarity in portfolio management.
Market Realist
Series B in 2015
Market Realist, Inc. is an investment information technology company based in New York that operates a financial media website focused on delivering institutional-quality research and analytics. Founded in 2013, the company aims to democratize the investment process by making high-level market data accessible to a broad audience, including individual investors and financial professionals. With a team of over 50 financial analysts, Market Realist publishes more than 200 market reports daily, covering a wide range of topics such as earnings reports, company news, mergers and acquisitions, and macroeconomic trends. The company's content is designed to assist clients in making informed investment decisions, thereby enhancing their ability to navigate the complexities of the financial market. Through its efforts, Market Realist has garnered a readership of over 20 million, effectively bridging the gap between institutional insights and everyday investors.
DriveWealth
Series A in 2015
DriveWealth is a fintech company based in Chatham, New Jersey, founded in 2012. It operates a mobile investing platform designed for individual investors, offering a range of exchange-traded funds, U.S.-listed stocks, and educational content to help users understand financial basics. DriveWealth's technology enables partners worldwide to provide branded investing experiences, facilitating customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth. The company specializes in fractional equities trading and offers cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure, allowing global partners to access the U.S. equities market through real-time fractional share investments.
Untapt
Venture Round in 2015
Untapt Inc. operates a technology platform designed to streamline the hiring process for technologists in financial institutions. Headquartered in New York, the company utilizes a proprietary Deep Learning Neural Network, known as untapt Codex, to analyze large pools of job applicants and open positions, facilitating effective matches with a high likelihood of success. The platform caters to a wide range of users, including staffing firms and large enterprises, and features custom job boards and recruitment sites. Unlike traditional job boards, Untapt fosters enduring connections between clients and candidates, enhancing the recruitment experience through immersive technology accessible on various devices. By leveraging advanced algorithms and data-driven insights, Untapt significantly improves the efficiency of placements per recruiter, supporting the growth of recruitment businesses and startups in the sector.
Bristlecone Holdings
Seed Round in 2015
Bristlecone, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Reno, Nevada, founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing advanced technologies that assist businesses in evaluating consumer creditworthiness. Its platform employs big data analytics and automated approval algorithms to analyze a variety of customer data points, including bank accounts, social data, and public records. By leveraging machine learning, Bristlecone enables businesses to make immediate credit decisions, offering a personalized credit profile for consumers. This technology not only helps merchants assess the risks associated with lending but also supports their growth by facilitating efficient credit evaluations.
Axial Networks
Series B in 2015
Axial Networks, Inc. operates an online platform designed to connect private companies with various capital sources, facilitating financial transactions in the private capital markets. The platform enables users, including CEOs, capital providers, advisors, and bankers, to create professional profiles that enhance credibility and foster connections with potential investors and partners. It offers services such as deal sourcing, marketing, and analytics to help companies find growth capital, identify acquisition opportunities, and manage the deal process effectively. The platform covers a broad range of industries, including healthcare, real estate, financial services, and technology, and supports various capital types, such as growth capital and acquisition financing. Founded in 2004 and based in New York, Axial Networks aims to streamline the process of connecting private companies with the necessary capital to finance their growth or facilitate exits.
Tradelegs
Series A in 2014
Tradelegs LLC, founded in 2010 by Hani El-Sakkout and Gideon Agar, is a New York-based company that specializes in decision-support software solutions tailored for portfolio and risk managers, analysts, and traders. The company's flagship product, Derivatives Strategist, is a subscription-based software that empowers users to develop customized options strategies aligned with their investment objectives. By leveraging advanced technology, Tradelegs enables users to adapt to fluctuating market conditions, enhance returns on equity portfolios, and effectively manage risk. The platform supports the creation of adaptive indexes and delivers tools for yield generation and risk management, thus allowing institutional investors and portfolio managers to optimize their strategies throughout the trade lifecycle.
Incapture Technologies
Series B in 2014
Incapture Technologies, established in 2012 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing financial service software designed to handle large datasets in a distributed environment. Their core product, Rapture, provides a framework for managing complex data and facilitating rapid application development while ensuring controlled and audited distributed computing.
Ogg Trading
Series B in 2014
Ogg Trading, LLC is a trading solutions provider focused on institutional foreign exchange clients in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, the company specializes in the development of advanced trading technology designed to enhance execution efficiency for both buy-side and sell-side institutional traders. Ogg Trading offers a system that employs algorithms to seek optimal execution prices in the market, enabling clients to achieve best execution standards. The firm is recognized for its sophisticated trading software and quantitative capabilities, which position its clients to gain a competitive advantage in executing trades. As of June 2018, Ogg Trading operates as a subsidiary of OTC Exchange Network, Inc.
WealthForge
Series A in 2014
WealthForge, established in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, specializes in developing and operating a technology platform for private capital markets. Its core offering, the Altigo platform, facilitates transactions between advisors and sponsors, streamlining the process of investing in alternative securities. The platform provides regulatory compliance, investment processing, and connects issuers with registered intermediaries, such as broker-dealers and investment advisors. Additionally, WealthForge offers services like document preparation, investor relations, and escrow services to companies raising capital.
Market Realist
Series A in 2014
Market Realist, Inc. is an investment information technology company based in New York that operates a financial media website focused on delivering institutional-quality research and analytics. Founded in 2013, the company aims to democratize the investment process by making high-level market data accessible to a broad audience, including individual investors and financial professionals. With a team of over 50 financial analysts, Market Realist publishes more than 200 market reports daily, covering a wide range of topics such as earnings reports, company news, mergers and acquisitions, and macroeconomic trends. The company's content is designed to assist clients in making informed investment decisions, thereby enhancing their ability to navigate the complexities of the financial market. Through its efforts, Market Realist has garnered a readership of over 20 million, effectively bridging the gap between institutional insights and everyday investors.
Untapt
Convertible Note in 2014
Untapt Inc. operates a technology platform designed to streamline the hiring process for technologists in financial institutions. Headquartered in New York, the company utilizes a proprietary Deep Learning Neural Network, known as untapt Codex, to analyze large pools of job applicants and open positions, facilitating effective matches with a high likelihood of success. The platform caters to a wide range of users, including staffing firms and large enterprises, and features custom job boards and recruitment sites. Unlike traditional job boards, Untapt fosters enduring connections between clients and candidates, enhancing the recruitment experience through immersive technology accessible on various devices. By leveraging advanced algorithms and data-driven insights, Untapt significantly improves the efficiency of placements per recruiter, supporting the growth of recruitment businesses and startups in the sector.
Symbiont
Seed Round in 2014
Symbiont.io, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in developing a smart contracts platform tailored for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Amsterdam, the company provides a comprehensive infrastructure for capital markets. This includes a unified ledger for sharing business logic and market data, as well as the Symbiont Assembly platform, which facilitates the issuance, tracking, and management of financial instruments such as loans, securities, and commodities. By enabling complex financial instruments to exist within a decentralized blockchain network, Symbiont aims to enhance transparency, reduce risk, and lower costs for financial institutions and government entities. The company has established partnerships with industry leaders, including Vanguard and the State of Delaware, to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency in the capital markets sector.
Mathmoney
Seed Round in 2014
Mathmoney
Incapture Technologies
Series A in 2014
Incapture Technologies, established in 2012 and based in San Francisco, specializes in developing financial service software designed to handle large datasets in a distributed environment. Their core product, Rapture, provides a framework for managing complex data and facilitating rapid application development while ensuring controlled and audited distributed computing.
WealthForge
Series A in 2014
WealthForge, established in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, specializes in developing and operating a technology platform for private capital markets. Its core offering, the Altigo platform, facilitates transactions between advisors and sponsors, streamlining the process of investing in alternative securities. The platform provides regulatory compliance, investment processing, and connects issuers with registered intermediaries, such as broker-dealers and investment advisors. Additionally, WealthForge offers services like document preparation, investor relations, and escrow services to companies raising capital.
ClearServe
Seed Round in 2013
ClearServe is a technology company focused on transforming the portfolio and wealth management landscape for family offices, multi-managers, and private investors. By developing a cloud-based platform, ClearServe aims to replace outdated manual processes and legacy software with a streamlined solution that enhances data transparency and usability. The platform integrates an alternative tracking system with intuitive design features, allowing users to make informed financial and investment decisions. ClearServe addresses significant pain points in the industry, promoting efficiency and clarity in portfolio management.
Vesel Interactive
Seed Round in 2013
Vesel Interactive LLC is a financial technology company based in Weston, Florida, that specializes in developing a search engine focused on equity derivatives. The company provides tools and data analytics that help investors access detailed information on trading activity and volume leaders. By creating an electronic network where sell-side firms can post their trading data, Vesel Interactive facilitates better price discovery for investors by identifying active firms in options for stocks, exchange-traded funds, and indexes. Additionally, the platform allows buy-side investors to query sell-side firms regarding potential trades, enhancing the overall trading experience. Founded in 2011 by Christopher Hopgood and Kevin Kirbas, Vesel Interactive aims to equip users with real-time notifications and comprehensive data mining solutions to make informed trading decisions.
WealthForge
Series A in 2013
WealthForge, established in 2009 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, specializes in developing and operating a technology platform for private capital markets. Its core offering, the Altigo platform, facilitates transactions between advisors and sponsors, streamlining the process of investing in alternative securities. The platform provides regulatory compliance, investment processing, and connects issuers with registered intermediaries, such as broker-dealers and investment advisors. Additionally, WealthForge offers services like document preparation, investor relations, and escrow services to companies raising capital.
Market Realist
Seed Round in 2013
Market Realist, Inc. is an investment information technology company based in New York that operates a financial media website focused on delivering institutional-quality research and analytics. Founded in 2013, the company aims to democratize the investment process by making high-level market data accessible to a broad audience, including individual investors and financial professionals. With a team of over 50 financial analysts, Market Realist publishes more than 200 market reports daily, covering a wide range of topics such as earnings reports, company news, mergers and acquisitions, and macroeconomic trends. The company's content is designed to assist clients in making informed investment decisions, thereby enhancing their ability to navigate the complexities of the financial market. Through its efforts, Market Realist has garnered a readership of over 20 million, effectively bridging the gap between institutional insights and everyday investors.
Valkyrie Investments is a specialized asset management firm focusing on the intersection of traditional finance and cryptocurrency sectors. Led by industry veterans with extensive experience at firms like Guggenheim Partners and UBS, Valkyrie aims to create and manage portfolios that include exposure to digital assets and other frontier investments. The company's platform provides access to alternative assets, professionally managed by seasoned asset managers, aiming to generate enhanced returns for investors while promoting economic prosperity and technological innovation.