neosfer is the early-stage investor and innovation unit of Commerzbank Group. It investigates future technologies that are relevant to business and society, promotes and develops sustainable, digital solutions, and brings them profitably to the bank and its customers. All of this is done through the three areas of invest, build, connect. It creates access to innovation through strategic venture capital (invest), in-house development of technologies and business models (build), and building ecosystems around the sustainable and digital future of society (connect).  With a portfolio of more than 30 digital and sustainable startups, neosfer has always kept its eyes on the future and is continuously developing. Some successful prototypes have already emerged from this and are being used in the Commerzbank Group. These include Lissi, which develops EUDI wallet connectors as part of the eIDAS 2.0 regulation and was the first independent start-up to be founded by neosfer. Through its own events, such as the monthly tech startup event series ''Between the Towers'' and the Impact Festival, the company strengthens its network in the innovation, venture and sustainability sectors.  neosfer GmbH, or neosfer for short, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Commerzbank AG based in Frankfurt am Main.

Neosfer

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

The FinLab Pte Ltd accelerates the development of disruptive FinTech start-ups changing our world today. Through our deep expertise and broad experience in the financial industry and the venture capital ecosystem, we provide start-ups with valuable insights, analytics and a strong infrastructure to propel their businesses to the next level. A joint venture between Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL) and United Overseas Bank Ltd (UOB), our wide connections in ASEAN, Greater China, Europe and the United States provide our start-ups an unparalleled access to the global market for growth and expansion.

The FinLab

AlbionVC supports visionary founders with long-term capital and scale-up expertise. Founded in 1996, today we are partners to UK early-stage B2B software and healthcare companies. AlbionVC manages c. $1 billion of venture funds, currently invested in over 50 companies. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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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

HSBC is a banking and financial services organization. The shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American Depositary Receipts. Through an international network linked by advanced technology, including a rapidly growing e-commerce capability, HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services: personal financial services; commercial banking; corporate, investment banking and markets; private banking, and other activities.

HSBC

ING Ventures is the venture capital arm of ING making minority investments in early stage companies that have a strategic relevance to ING. It targets disruptive technologies that have the potential to impact ING’s business and ensure customers and clients get access to best-in-class services. Based in Amsterdam but shadowing ING’s geographic footprint of 41 countries, ING Ventures is a €300 million fund that not only drives innovation within ING, but also helps entrepreneurs with hands-on support, know-how, scaling expertise and access to our distribution network.

ING Ventures

TransFICC

TransFICC is an e-trading technology company providing low latency connectivity for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. The company resolves the problem of fragmentation in the fixed income and derivatives markets.  It does three things such as translates Execution Venue API’s to a single API. Clients connect once to TransFICC's unified API, and TransFICC manages connectivity with the electronic venues from that point, uses low-latency, scalable and secure technology, essential to keep pace with price updates and not get beaten to trade by high-frequency trading firms, and provides timestamps for price and order messages. Measured in microseconds, timestamps record when data arrives at the bank or asset manager, helping to provide an audit trail, which supports Best Execution. TransFICC makes it easier to upgrade when venues change their application programming interfaces, compared with the enterprise systems of legacy firms, the firm claims. It also focuses solely on the business of providing market access. TransFICC was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.

London-based TransFICC 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.

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London-based TransFICC 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 provides modern interface technology, resiliency, and business continuity planning to meet the requirements for a consolidated tape provider (CTP) in the fixed-income space.As of January 2023, the company’s technology supported multiple trading workflows across 57 trading venues.

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.

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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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