Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

Initialized Capital

Notation Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm that work with technical founding teams. Notation Capital focus on early-stage technical teams, often pre-market or even pre-product, primarily in New York, and provide capital and support to help go-to-market and scale the company.

Notation Capital

Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.

Elefund

Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services. Building an enterprise software company and selling solutions into financial institutions is hard. We have deep domain expertise, the right industry network and are a trusted partner to our portfolio companies as we help guide them through the early stages of their journey.

Illuminate Financial

Steadfast Capital is specialist for succession solutions for medium-sized companies. Steadfast Capital has a successful track record of structuring, financing and assisting company successions in Germany and neighbouring countries. By providing equity they enable business owners to transfer their lifework to the next generation of management and then support the further development of the business. In addition they also provide equity for ''spin-offs'' from lager groups and expansion capital to companies with compelling growth opportunities. They attach great importance to enabling the management teams to become co-shareholders of the companies their funds invest in. Steadfast Capital was founded in 2001 in Frankfurt as an independent private equity advisory business owned by its directors and is currently advising its third generation of funds. The fund capital is provided primarily by institutional, but also private investors from Germany and abroad.

Steadfast Capital

Galaxy Digital operates as a technology-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining.

Galaxy Digital

Autonomous Partners is an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

Autonomous Partners

They are a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. They invest in infrastructure and application companies that will enable these transformative protocols to power services for the next billion users.

Castle Island Ventures

PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return. Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial system that is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.

PayPal Ventures

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

Citi

Stripes is a growth equity firm that invests in software and consumer businesses. Stripes’ software practice invests in leading horizontal and vertical software platforms servicing customers from SMB to Enterprise. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Stripes

DRW is a diversified trading firm that combines technology, research, and risk management to capture trading and investment opportunities. They value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, and so they operate using their own capital and trading at their own risk.  It is headquartered in Chicago with offices in the U.S. and Canada as well as Europe and Asia, they trade all the things you’d expect from a leading firm, including Fixed Income, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy. They also have leveraged their expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital, and crypto-assets.  They operate with respect, curiosity, and an open mind, and the people who thrive here share their belief that it’s not just what they do that matters but also how they do it. It’s a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge the consensus.

Matrix Capital Management (''Matrix'') is an investment management firm overseeing a focused portfolio of carefully selected public and private investments. Established in 1999, Matrix Capital was co-founded by David Goel and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Matrix has delivered attractive, long-term risk-adjusted returns through a concentrated portfolio of high-conviction investments in U.S. companies focused on semiconductors, software, generative artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, and the technology convergence in life sciences. Prior to co-founding Matrix, Managing General Partner David Goel was a senior technology investor at Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management.

Matrix Capital Management

BNY is a financial services company that helps make money by managing it, moving it, and keeping it safe.

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital is a principal investing and merchant division of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo Strategic Capital provides structured financing to small and mid-cap companies in the United States and Canada. Product capabilities include project/development financing, mezzanine financing, and other subordinated debt financing as well as equity financing, including both preferred and common.

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital

Founded in 2018, Fin Capital is a global asset manager focused on full lifecycle investing in B2B Fintech Software companies. Fin Capital is passionate about rolling up its sleeves and partnering with repeat entrepreneurs that have deep financial services experience, differentiated products, and a global mindset. Fin is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and New York. To learn more, visit www.fin.capital.

Fin Capital

Voyager is a crypto-asset broker that provides retail and institutional investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto assets. Voyager offers investors execution, data, wallet, and custody services through its institutional-grade open architecture platform. The Voyager app offers a way to invest in 100 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a selection of altcoins in North America. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Voyager

LeadBlock Partners is a european venture capital fund investing in B2B blockchain/digital assets solutions.

LeadBlock Partners

SCB 10X is a subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) with the mission to create long-term value through investing in exponential technologies, championing passionate entrepreneurs, empowering the long tail underserved, and building successful partnerships. Since its launch, the fund has deployed capital worldwide to expand our know-how in forefront technologies ranging from big data analytics, blockchain, machine learning, location positioning to quantum computing.

SCB 10X

Fidelity provides financial expertise to help people live the lives they want.

Fidelity

Graticule Asset Management Asia provides asset management, investment strategy and advisory services.

Graticule Asset Management Asia

Talos

Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider that connects all crypto ecosystem participants to support a full trading lifecycle. Talos Trading is based in New York, NY and was co-founded by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman in 2018.

Talos is a technology provider that offers an integrated platform to support digital asset trading for institutional clients. Talos' offerings span the full trading lifecycle, encompassing liquidity sourcing, price discovery, automated execution, clearing, settlement, lending, borrowing, and portfolio management tools.

Talos bet its future on becoming an indispensable crypto toolkit for traditional Wall Street. It's seen record growth amid the digital asset meltdown.

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Connecting Institutions to the Digital Asset Ecosystem

Providing AI-driven market intelligence and workflow automation to give firms an edge

Capital Markets Tech

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Partnered with Talos to enhance trading capabilities and offering over 40 liquidity venues. Backed by Wall Street giants, EDXM aims to drive institutional adoption in the crypto space.

Cryptocurrencies

Companies that offer a marketplace for users to buy, sell, and trade a number of cryptocurrencies and other cryptocurrency-linked financial products

Talos is a technology provider that offers an integrated platform to support digital asset trading for institutional clients. Talos' offerings span the full trading lifecycle, encompassing liquidity sourcing, price discovery, automated execution, clearing, settlement, lending, borrowing, and portfolio management tools.
At the core of Talos' platform is an advanced execution management system that aggregates liquidity from multiple venues, including exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) desks. This allows clients to implement sophisticated trading strategies across various digital asset markets. The platform also provides algorithmic trading capabilities, smart order routing, and advanced analytics for in-depth transaction cost analysis.
Talos differentiates itself by building institutional-grade technology tailored to the needs of traditional financial firms venturing into digital assets. The company prioritizes aspects such as compliance, security, and operational efficiency, aligning with the rigorous standards demanded by institutional players.
In 2023, Talos achieved a significant milestone by integrating with CME Group, enabling its clients to trade CME's Bitcoin and Ether futures contracts directly through the Talos platform. This integration enhances Talos' offering with access to regulated, liquid derivative products in the digital asset space.
Key customers and partnerships
Talos has secured partnerships with several prominent entities across the financial services industry. In 2022, the company forged a strategic alliance with Trading Technologies, a leading provider of professional trading software and infrastructure. This collaboration aimed to broaden Trading Technologies' cryptocurrency offering by leveraging Talos' market connectivity and trading services.
Additionally, Talos announced a tie-up with BCB Group, a crypto payment services provider, in 2023. This partnership allows clients of both firms to access a comprehensive suite of front-, middle-, and back-office trading services, streamlining the trade lifecycle process.

TransFICC is a London-based fintech company that provides eTrading technology and connectivity solutions for fixed income and derivatives markets.
TransFICC's core offering is its "One API" platform, which aims to resolve the issue of fragmentation in fixed income markets by providing banks and asset managers with a low-latency, scalable API. The platform enables connectivity to multiple electronic trading venues while supporting a variety of workflows across fixed income products.
TransFICC's services include automated trading workflows, IRS eTrading, and a consolidated tape pilot. The company has developed expertise in providing modern interface technology, resiliency, and business continuity planning to meet the requirements for a consolidated tape provider (CTP) in the fixed income space.
Key customers and partnerships
TransFICC has been running a bond consolidated tape pilot over the past year, hosted in AWS and utilizing production infrastructure and APIs. Multiple market participants, including banks, venues, and asset managers, have tested contributing data and consuming data output via API as part of this pilot.
The company has partnerships with various global banks, such as Citi and HSBC, which have provided feedback on TransFICC's technology and services.

TransFICC

Nitrogen (formerly known as Riskalyze) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides a growth platform for wealth management firms. The platform helps advisors acquire new clients, increase client satisfaction, and retain existing clients. At its core, Nitrogen offers the Risk Number, a quantitative measure of an investor's risk tolerance based on a Nobel Prize-winning academic framework. This data enables advisors to align client portfolios with their risk profiles effectively.
Since its inception in 2011, Nitrogen has invested over USD 50 million in research and development, delivering more than 5 million Risk Numbers to clients. The platform integrates seamlessly with advisors' existing technology stack, including marketing tools, client relationship management (CRM) systems, and asset platforms. It offers lead generation capabilities, customizable marketing resources, proposal generation, light planning support, client engagement features, compliance tools, and risk analysis.
Nitrogen's business model revolves around advisors paying a subscription fee to access the platform's features. As of 2020, advisory firms leveraging Nitrogen experienced organic growth rates of 15% to 45%, significantly higher than the industry average of 3%. The company does not disclose specific revenue figures.

Nitrogen

Clear Markets is a leading company that specializes in developing and operating electronic marketplaces and trading technologies for complex fixed income and credit derivatives products. The company leverages its extensive expertise in building electronic trading systems to facilitate the transition from traditional voice-based trading to electronic platforms. Clear Markets' solutions cater to the needs of major financial institutions across global financial hubs, including Tokyo, London, New York, and Charlotte, North Carolina. The company's management team comprises respected pioneers in the development of the interest rate swap market, bringing a profound understanding of the legal and regulatory landscape governing swaps trading.

Clear Markets

Exabel is a data and analytics platform that enables investment professionals to integrate alternative data and advanced data science tools into their investment strategies. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that allows discretionary managers to complement their fundamental analysis with more data-driven techniques.
Exabel's platform provides features such as hypothesis analysis, predictive modeling, and backtesting, empowering investors to uncover alpha-generating insights from alternative data sources. The platform seamlessly integrates over 50 pre-mapped alternative datasets with fundamental key performance indicators from providers like FactSet and Visible Alpha. It also offers unparalleled flexibility in mapping, forecast composition, and the ability to onboard proprietary data, delivering insights beyond simple backtests.
As of March 2023, a study found that 63% of portfolio managers and investment analysts rated their organization's use of alternative data as 'good', indicating the growing adoption of such data in investment strategies.
Key customers and partnerships
Exabel has established partnerships with several notable alternative data providers to enhance its offerings and reach a broader audience of financial buyers.
In May 2022, Exabel collaborated with People Data Labs, a leading provider of B2B and professional data, to deliver the People Data Labs Insights Platform. This platform provides hedge funds and asset managers with curated insights based on People Data Labs' extensive B2B dataset, leveraging Exabel's analytics capabilities.
Similarly, in June 2022, Exabel partnered with Datayes, an alternative data company offering China-focused datasets. The Datayes Insights Platform utilizes Exabel's platform to provide insights based on Datayes' recruitment data and other China-focused datasets.
Exabel has also joined forces with Eagle Alpha, a prominent player in the alternative data ecosystem, to address the end-to-end challenges of evaluating alternative data. By combining Exabel's analysis platform with Eagle Alpha's expertise, investment teams can efficiently evaluate and integrate alternative data into their investment processes.

Exabel

Earnest Analytics (formerly known as Earnest Research) is a data analytics firm that provides real-time insights and actionable data to institutional investors, companies, consultants, and government agencies. Their structured datasets offer clear signals and tools for in-depth analysis of consumer spending, retail pricing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), foot traffic, and healthcare claims data. Earnest utilizes machine learning algorithms along with expert analysts to deliver accurate investment signals, macroeconomic trends, consumer behavior analyses, and healthcare data.
Initially focused on providing revenue forecasts for public companies using credit card data, Earnest has expanded its offerings to include scanner data, web pricing data, and healthcare data. In November 2022, the company launched its proprietary web platform, Dash, enabling users to track insights across companies, subscribe to earnings surprise alerts, analyze trends, and segment data across various parameters.
Earnest Analytics generates revenue by providing structured data products and analytical tools to its clients through platforms like Snowflake, BigQuery, and S3. As of August 2023, the company increased the panel size of its Orion transaction dataset by 4x, representing credit, debit, and ACH spending data from a more geographically representative sample of US shoppers, with historical data dating back to 2016. In August 2023, Earnest also released its machine learning-based "Reported Metric Predictions by Earnest AI" solution, providing earnings predictions for 450 publicly traded US companies.
Key customers and partnerships
Earnest Analytics was named Snowflake's Retail and Consumer Goods Marketplace Partner of the Year in 2023, recognized for enabling joint customers to understand the consumer economy with real-time data listed on Snowflake Marketplace. The company's clients include leading hedge funds, asset managers, Fortune 500 companies, and industry experts from various sectors such as financial services, consumer goods, and healthcare. Notable clients highlighted in the sources include Rabobank, Hungryroot, and Emory University's Dan McCarthy, who have leveraged Earnest's data for competitive benchmarking, customer behavior analysis, and revenue forecasting.

Earnest Analytics

Platforms that help financial market participants collect, manage, and use traditional and alternative data, derive market insights from news, and provide trade signals to make informed decisions.

Platforms that help institutions such as asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds to develop platforms to trade and operate brokerage services for various financial assets and instruments such as stocks, fixed income securities, derivatives, commodities, and foreign currencies.

Companies that use blockchain technology to share and synchronize data and improve efficiency across the trading workflow and post-trade actions such as clearing and settlement.

Platforms that help companies meet anti-money laundering requirements and provide identity verification tools such as KYC checks.

These platforms provide services such as risk detection, regulatory compliance, risk management, risk intelligence, collateral management, internal processes management, and strengthening of internal controls.

Uses blockchain to automate certain workflows between institutions and capital market participants

Uses GenAI to automate analysis, optimize portfolios, predict market trends, and enhance risk management

Uses AI/ML to process market data and information to derive valuable and timely insights

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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 Uniswap, a decentralized exchange platform, is partnering with Talos, a digital asset investment platform, to provide institutional traders access to decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity.
 According to the agreement, Uniswap Labs will offer Talos’ institutional clients access to its trading APIs, which feature a standard Talos order book layout. The companies also plan to enable institutional clients to use UniswapX, the exchange’s permissionless liquidity aggregation protocol, in the near future.
 
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