• Caplight

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

  Caplight combines proprietary private company and investor data with a marketplace that connects investors and broker-dealers for secondary market liquidity. Its dataset includes 100,000 company and investor profiles, $4 trillion in funding round data, $300+ billion in proprietary secondary data, and more than $5 billion in daily live transaction flow. Customers collectively manage over $52 trillion in assets and access Caplight via its platform, API, and MCP server. The company says it will use the Series A proceeds to expand across private market data and agentic workflows for research and transactions. Caplight was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco. Securities transactions are offered through Caplight Markets LLC, member FINRA/SIPC.

• Primary Portal

  Led · Series A · Jul 2024

  Primary Portal develops and operates digital infrastructure solutions that aggregate and digitise equity capital market processes to automate manual, labour-intensive issuance workflows. Founders John Bentinck and Ilan Leshem draw on over 20 years of equity capital markets experience to modernise analogue and error-prone processes. The platform is used by over 90 banks and 400 institutional investors, rapidly digitising the equity issuance space. With the new funding, the company plans to connect asset managers' order management systems with banks to enable straight-through processing in capital markets transactions. It will also advance analytical data solutions to provide powerful data and analytical tools to banks and asset managers. Primary Portal completed the first stage of a £7.5 million Series A round led by DB1 Ventures, which makes Deutsche Börse a shareholder. Primary Portal provides a digital platform aggregating and digitising equity capital market deals, with a dashboard showing live IPOs, recently priced ABOs, convertibles, rights issues and other equity products. Founded in 2020 by John Bentinck and Ilan Leshem, the company has established themselves with over 50 banks and 1,000 active users across Europe and Asia. The firm launched its offering in the US market at the beginning of November and intends to expand operations and business reach there. Primary Portal plans to extend its product set to enable institutional investors to communicate feedback and indications of interest to banks. The company raised new funding to support these expansion and product-development plans. The fundraising strengthens its position as a market infrastructure provider for fund and flow traders.

• Next Gate Tech

  Led · Equity · Apr 2023

  Next Gate Tech offers a smart data management, insights and analytics SaaS platform that ingests datasets from multiple sources and generates calculations to oversee delegates, analyze investment behavior, compare performance and produce risk-based metrics. The company's technology is used by banks, asset managers and other fund-industry players to optimize operations, comply with regulatory requirements and enhance customer experience. Led by CEO Davide Martucci, Next Gate Tech focuses on helping financial institutions streamline processes, improve efficiency and reduce costs. The company has offices in Luxembourg and in London. Following the recent investment, Enrique Sacau, CEO of Kneip, is joining the board. The firm intends to use the €8M to accelerate development of its solutions. Next Gate Tech is a Luxembourg-based, data-driven fintech offering SaaS solutions that transform fragmented asset-management data using cloud technology. Its platform supports a range of operational tasks for asset managers, including NAV oversight, risk oversight, and ESG oversight. The company raised €5 million in a funding round backed by NewAlpha Asset Management and a syndicate of investors. Proceeds will fund R&D in analytics, recruitment, the opening of a new London office, and wider expansion across Europe. CEO Davide Martucci said the investor cohort will help accelerate the company’s growth toward becoming a European leader in data management and analytics for fund industry operations. NewAlpha noted that rising regulatory demands around risk management, reporting and NAV oversight are driving demand for improved data management and oversight.

• figo

  Led · Series B · Nov 2016

  figo GmbH is a Hamburg-based banking service provider offering third parties innovative banking functions under the amended Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). Its core product, the figo Banking API, allows fintechs, banks and large customers to link applications, products and services to more than 3,100 financial sources. The technology is already in use at well-known companies. Led by CEO André Bajorat, figo focuses product development and offerings around PSD2 and other regulatory requirements. The company raised €6.8M in a Series B financing and intends to use the funds for internationalization and further expansion of its PSD2-related products. figo is a banking service provider that delivers a SaaS-based banking service via a proprietary API. The API integrates with third-party systems and lets clients link their products to over 3,100 banks and other financial service providers. The company is led by CEO André M. Bajorat and CFO Heiko Rahlfs. figo completed a financing round of undisclosed amount. Backers named in the round include High‑Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF), Carlo Koelzer and Joerg Heilig. The company says it will use the funds to strengthen its German market position and to expand into Europe.

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