Callais Capital builds regional portfolios of startups with diverse, equitable and inclusive teams. We have been actively investing in startups since 2014, with an emphasis on the burgeoning startup ecosystem along the Third Coast and Mississippi River Valley.

Callais Capital

SenaHill is a merchant bank connecting the dots between global financial institutions and the entrepreneurial innovators of financial technology. They ensure the right ideas get in front of the right people. As former operators with incredible domain expertise in the Fin-Tech space, they view their client’s business from the perspective of experience, not a spreadsheet. Their powerful business model includes two primary and complementary offerings: Principal investing with the SenaHill Investment Group, LLC, an investment banking with SenaHill Advisors, LLC. They're uniquely positioned to assist their clients throughout their company’s lifecycle from inception and capital raising, through scaling and growth. They're driven to build sustainable businesses and create franchises that can stand-alone or have successful exits.  As partners, they offer grounded insight and advice while leveraging our experience and relationships to achieve our client’s strategic objectives. Wall Street is in its DNA. Collectively they have 150 years of operating experience in the Fin-Tech space. They're former entrepreneurs and CEOs. We intimately understand the challenges facing new founders and established leaders. Through our extensive relationships and expertise, we bring a perspective that allows them to strategically connect the technology creators with the technology consumers. They are proactive investors and advisors who are passionate about technology, entrepreneurship, and helping companies realize their maximum potential.

SenaHill Partners

Kayon Partners is a venture firm that focuses on early to growth-stage investments in companies that disrupts their marketplaces through innovations. It engages entrepreneurial leaders with capital and support as they transform ideas into market-disrupting businesses. Portfolio businesses of the company are FUNDATION, Harrington, Intarcia, LATERAL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, and symbiont.  Kayon Partners was founded in 2016 by Steve Garrow, Timothy Mitrovich, and David Vogel.

Kayon Partners

Hundsun Technology Inc. Ltd. was established in February 1995 by eight engineers. It theynt public in December, 2003, listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code 600570). Over the years, Hundsun has developed into China’s leading supplier of financial software and network services, covering a variety of fields, including securities, futures,funds, banks,  trust fund, insurances and financial management. Headquartered in Hangzhou, Hundsun has established presence in 28 major cities throughout the Chinese Mainland, as theyll as in Japan, the United States, and Hong Kong.    Designated as one of national-level high-tech enterprises, Hundsun was ranked among China’s top 10 domestic computer software suppliers. In the past years, Hundsun has received various awards from the Chinese government, and has gained nationwide acclaim for its outstanding products and services. After obtaining the ISO9001 certificate, Hundsun achieved CMMI L4 certification for the international Software Engineering Organization and receives international recognition for ISO 27001 certification. With increased information security level and a more effective quality control system, Hundsun has consolidated its position as China’s leading financial software supplier.    With 15 years of experience in China’s financial market, Hundsun has established close relationship with its clients in almost all areas of China’s financial and capital market. Hundsun will continue to enlarge its business scope and customer base. With a corporation culture of “passion, confidence, patience, and accountability” and its commitment to its clients and the market, Hundsun will strive to establish itself into the world’s leading supplier of financial software and network service.

Hundsun Technologies

Wicklow Capital, Inc. is a Chicago-based principal investment firm out of the family office of Dan Tierney, co-founder and board member of GETCO, Inc., once one of the world's leading market makers and financial innovators in financial and commodities markets.

Wicklow Capital

DHVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. We invest in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare sectors. Our team brings together decades of combined experience in entrepreneurship, operations, investment, and research to serve our portfolio companies in growing and achieving success.

DHVC

Atlantic Merchant Capital Investors is a private merchant bank focused on the origination of proprietary private equity transactions. They invest in U.S. businesses with successful management teams and attractive economic models. They have extensive experience in banking, financial services, and related businesses, but will consider opportunities in other industries that offer promising economic models and are being promoted by experienced management teams.

Atlantic Merchant Capital

Celeridem Capital Management is a company that helps to manage a company's finances to help it succeed in the modern economy. They believe that in some cases, the benefits from these changes will accrue to established regulated financial companies. The company principals’ extensive experience as investors, advisors, and directors of regulated financials provide them with a unique perspective.

Celeridem Capital Management

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia.  Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods.  Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.

Fenbushi Capital

Launched in 2014, Medici Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc., created to manage and oversee the company’s investments in firms building solutions leveraging and servicing blockchain technologies. Medici Ventures has a growing portfolio of groundbreaking new companies and tech businesses.

Medici Ventures

Citi Ventures harnesses the power of Citi to help people, businesses, and communities thrive in a world of technological change. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures accelerates discovery of new sources of value by exploring, incubating, and investing in new ideas, in partnership with Citi colleagues, clients, and the innovation ecosystem.

Citi Ventures

Each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will receive investment of $200,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Each of the 10 startups accepted into SkyDeck Europe will receive investment of €145,000 from our dedicated European Fund. Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley’s global startup accelerator. Named in Forbes as a top five U.S. university accelerator, SkyDeck combines hands-on mentorship with the vast resources of its research university. Participating startups have access to SkyDeck’s 480 advisors, 50 industry partners, and a network of more than 510,000 UC Berkeley alumni.

SkyDeck Berkeley

Raptor Group Holdings is an alternative investment firm that provides investment management and advisory services. Raptor Group sources and invest in companies across various stages and asset classes, ranging from early-stage venture to both private and public equity. Raptor focuses on various industries including, but not limited to Sports, Consumer, Technology, Media, Entertainment, and Financial Services.  It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Raptor Group

Hearst's Financial Venture Fund provides a diverse range of information and services to media companies. The company is committed to quality products, investing in healthcare solutions, reducing emissions, providing analysis and software to the financial services industry, delivering investigative journalism, and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming.

Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund

Alpha Square Group (ASG) is a family office with more than $1 Billion AUM that invests in global innovation across public and private markets. ASG is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is based in New York City.

Alpha Square Group

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

Nasdaq Ventures is a global venture investing program focused on cultivating talent and technology advancement within financial services—spurring innovation that aligns with and accelerates our vision to reimagine the markets of tomorrow.

Nasdaq Ventures

Bloccelerate is a global accelerator and a fund focused on investing in blockchain companies all over the world. They bring together a decentralized community of advisors, mentors, and developers to facilitate the blockchain ecosystem.

Bloccelerate VC

Symbiont

Symbiont has developed the market-leading platform for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Symbiont smart contracts enable complex instruments to live their entire lifecycle on a truly decentralized, enterprise blockchain network with end-to-end privacy. Financial institutions and governments are working with Symbiont to develop new business lines, increase transparency, reduce risk, and save costs. Industry leaders such as Vanguard and the State of Delaware have chosen to partner with Symbiont. Headquartered in New York City, Symbiont is a financial technology company founded by a team of experts in capital markets and blockchain technology.

Symbiont

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