• Coop Exchange

  Led · Seed · Feb 2024

  Coop Exchange operates a fintech platform that aims to enable investment in tradable co‑op shares and other co‑operative financial instruments, positioning itself as a marketplace for co‑operatives and mutuals. The company says its mission is to combat wealth inequality by growing the co‑operative economy and providing co‑ops with access to new sources of capital. It plans to become a regulated stock exchange allowing co‑operatives to list bonds and equity with restricted voting rights in line with co‑operative principles. Coop Exchange is targeting impact investors and sustainable fund managers as early customers, arguing the model aligns financial returns with social impact. The venture is headquartered in London with an EU office in Malta and has assembled a board including Ben Reid, Pauline Green, Shaun Tarbuck, and Barry O’Dwyer. Financially, the company completed a pre‑seed round that set a £10m valuation after the investment led by the Co‑operators.

• Responsive

  Led · Series A · Apr 2022

  Responsive provides a hybrid wealth-advisor solution for banks and private managers, offering productivity and insight tools for advisor-led businesses that collectively manage over $10B AUM. Its Prioritize tool helps advisors focus on the most valuable actions and conversations to grow client wealth and trust. The company offers APIs and data tools to enable institutions to innovate rapidly while preserving platform flexibility and regulatory defensibility. Chief Science Officer Logan Grosenick leads development of Responsive’s machine learning–powered personalization engine. In April 2022 Responsive closed a CAD3.5M Series A to commercialize its integrations and further advances in AI-supported wealth-management technology. The funding will also support expansion into US and European markets. Responsive builds a platform that applies brain and behavioral science together with contemporary machine learning to predict client behaviour and personality for banks and private wealth managers. The company says its platform can identify traits such as discipline with saving and life transitions like marriage or having children, enabling advisors to act when it matters. Responsive has been operating in stealth for the past year with a handful of private wealth managers in Canada. Leadership cited in the article includes CEO Davyde Wachell and VP of research Logan Grosenick, a Stanford Ph.D. whose work spans identifying anxiety and depression from brain activity and modelling behaviour in mice. The company emphasizes augmenting human advisors rather than building a robo-advisor, describing its product as cognitive assistance. The recent funding will be used to integrate Grosenick’s research into the platform and advance product development.

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