Every year they invest £100,000 each in up to 20 early-stage startups using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning to build great products and businesses that solve real world problems. In exchange for the investment, they look to receive 5-10% equity. We’re able to lead rounds and help startups raise more through introductions to their network of angels and VCs.

AI Seed

Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. Fly invests from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.

Fly Ventures

redalpine is the Swiss venture capital firm that empowers GameChangers. Founded in 2006, redalpine brings together financial investment, operational expertise, and a vast international network to help ambitious entrepreneurs transform their vision into a reality. With over €1bn in assets under management, the firm has backed some of Europe’s most disruptive software and science companies, including N26, Taxfix, Inkitt, 9fin, Carvolution, vivenu, and Infinite Roots. redalpine has over 95 companies in its portfolio and invests Europe-wide from its offices in Zurich and Berlin.

redalpine

Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital is an alternative investment firm based in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic.

Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital

Spark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional products and the creative individuals behind them. Known for embracing risk and a unique approach, Spark Capital has backed companies like Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Tumblr. Recognizing that there are no set playbooks or formulas for success, the firm supports founders in achieving success on their own terms. Spark Capital invests across all sectors and stages, operating out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.

Spark Capital

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicorns Revolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra.  Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Seedcamp

500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm with $2.4 billion in assets under management. The firm invests in founders who are building fast-growing technology companies. It focuses on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can generate long-term value and economic growth. 500 Global collaborates with key stakeholders and provides advisory services to governments on fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems to support startups. The firm has invested in over 5,000 founders and more than 2,800 companies across 80+ countries. It has funded over 35 companies valued at more than $1 billion and over 160 companies valued at over $100 million, including those that are private, public, or have exited. The team consists of over 190 members based in more than 25 countries, with experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from leading technology companies.

500 Global

9fin

9fin uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract key information from bond & loan documentation. By making data easy to search, filter and analyse, 9fin helps fixed income professionals make better, smarter decisions. Our predictive analytics help forecast key capital markets events with a high degree of accuracy (100% record in 2018); these include defaults, ratings changes, refinancing & recapitalisation transactions. In 2019, 9fin's analytics, real-time news and comprehensive financial data has: - Helped Banks & Law firms win new mandates - Allowed Funds to spot trading opportunities / credit risk - Enabled Sponsors to extract maximum value from their portfolio Used by world leading banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Backed by leading VC funds & the only fintech in Europe accepted onto Google's AI residency program. Selected for IA Velocity program, first ever accelerator run by the Investment Association whose members manage £7.7 trillion AUM

London-based 9fin is an analytics platform provider that offers AI-powered data, news, and predictive analytics for debt capital markets. The company's proprietary technology leverages machine learning (ML) and computer vision to centralize and analyze complex financial information, helping subscribers gain intelligence on leveraged credit. 9fin's platform offers various products, including news alerts, financials, covenants, comparables, deal predictions, ESG analysis, restructuring insights, and search functionality.

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

Capital Markets Tech

9fin bolsters C-suite with the promotion of Jen Speirs to COO

London-based 9fin is an analytics platform provider that offers AI-powered data, news, and predictive analytics for debt capital markets. The company's proprietary technology leverages machine learning (ML) and computer vision to centralize and analyze complex financial information, helping subscribers gain intelligence on leveraged credit. 9fin's platform offers various products, including news alerts, financials, covenants, comparables, deal predictions, ESG analysis, restructuring insights, and search functionality.In October 2023, 9fin launched "9fin AI," a powerful tool that enables clients to ask questions about companies in debt capital markets and receive real-time answers utilizing large language models and the company's proprietary data.&nbsp;In December 2022, the company reported that it had more than doubled its client base and quadrupled its ARR since 2021.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of December 2022, the company claimed that it supported over 60 customers, including top investment banks, debt advisors, and law firms in debt capital markets, as well as 80% of European high-yield sales and trading desks.

Finpilot is an AI-powered platform that helps financial analysts streamline their research and analysis workflows. The company's technology extracts knowledge from unstructured financial data sources including SEC documents, call transcripts, research reports, and private financial documents. The platform features a web-based AI chat tool that enables analysts to search and query information across multiple sources through a conversational interface. Unlike generic AI models, Finpilot provides source-linked answers with references to primary materials, allowing users to verify the accuracy of information whether in charts or text format. As of February 2024, the platform was available in public beta with plans for a self-serve business model for individual analysts and an enterprise version. The platform also includes task agents designed to automate complex workflows such as report generation, company comparisons, trend analysis, and extraction of segment data from charts and text. Finpilot was spun out of Euclidean Technologies, an investment firm focused on quantitative analysis.

Finpilot

Rogo offers GenAI solutions for financial institutions with tools specifically designed to meet the unique needs of global hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, and institutional investors. The company utilizes proprietary financial AI, combining large language models (LLMs) and expertise on financial services, which can adapt to understand the language and data specific to an organization. It can help teams with tasks like accelerating research, making data-driven decisions, and producing finance-related materials.The platform extracts data from internal sources like company presentations, memos, models, databases, data rooms, and meeting notes, combined with a library of 100+ million various external sources, including filings, investor calls, and transcripts of over 70,000 companies globally, along with real-time market data, news and media sources, web searches, and other third-party data.

Rogo

Portrait Analytics is a Boston-based startup developing a GenAI platform for investment research and thesis creation. Founded in 2022 by David Plon, a former principal analyst at Baupost Group, and Connell Gough, a full-stack developer, the company aims to revolutionize the way investment analysts conduct research and generate investment ideas. Portrait's platform leverages advanced AI models to accelerate the speed of research by answering complex questions and producing insights for users. The technology extracts and synthesizes key information from company filings, documents, and other sources to provide factual, auditable responses to user queries.The company's first product is a Q&amp;A-based application that incorporates GenAI search and summarization capabilities. It is designed to function as a "junior analyst," capable of performing tasks such as finding investment ideas, building financial models, and creating pitch decks. Portrait's platform includes an idea generation tool that helps analysts sift through thousands of companies to identify potential investment opportunities. It also provides comprehensive research summaries to quickly familiarize analysts with specific companies or sectors. As of July 2023, the platform was in private beta testing with select asset managers, with plans to expand access to more analysts in the coming months.

Portrait Analytics

Helix by HL is a joint venture between TIFIN, a developer of AI-powered wealth management solutions, and private market investments manager Hamilton Lane.It develops a GenAI assistant, powered by proprietary data and industry expertise of Hamilton Lane, which generates data-driven insights on private market benchmarking, forecasting, and diligence for wealth investors and their intermediaries. Its platform offers a conversational tool that answers private market questions and generates insights in plain English.

Helix by HL

Wokelo AI operates a secure GenAI platform geared toward accelerating business research. It provides customized, in-depth analyses for market intelligence and investment research, distinguishing itself through the creation of human-like syntheses at scale.The company's platform serves as a research assistant and co-authoring tool, capable of generating high-fidelity, factually bounded reports and presentations. It offers information on various business aspects, like mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, product strategy, and user reviews, among others​. It is also capable of generating various business documents, including sector briefings, company due diligence, financial analysis, earnings transcripts and annual reports analysis, investment memos, and market maps​.Wokelo AI utilizes a proprietary cognitive engine that curates a range of data, including analyst reports, internal data, podcasts, product reviews, call transcripts, articles, and news, along with 500+ pre-integrated datasets. It also utilized GPT models by OpenAI and open-source models like LLaMA as of November 2023.Key customers and partnershipsThe primary clientele of Wokelo comprises professionals from private equity firms, investment banks, corporate strategy departments, and venture capital firms. Some of its disclosed customers as of May 2024 included Guggenheim, Sage, Tata, Deloitte, Gratia, and Seven Seven Six.

Wokelo AI

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.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for capital markets

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

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

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