Participated · Series C · May 2019

OpenFin builds a web-based OS and application interface aimed at financial services to unify desktop apps and workflows. Its platform offers a single search interface—what the CEO described as “Spotlight Search on steroids”—to search across apps, reduce the industry’s so-called “toggle tax,” and drive richer workflows. The company says its software is used by more than 3,800 banks and wealth and asset management firms across 60+ countries. OpenFin recently closed a $35M Series D, bringing total capital raised to $82M. It competes with enterprise browser-like offerings such as Island and counts major banks and trading firms among its customers and investors. The company has expanded its footprint with a deal with the London Stock Exchange and into the U.S. government sector via a strategic partnership and investment from In-Q-Tel. OpenFin offers a desktop operating platform that sits above native operating systems (Windows, macOS) to let users view, use, and integrate multiple apps on one screen. The platform automatically synchronizes updates across apps and allows customers to build and integrate custom apps, reducing time lost to app switching and duplicate data entry. OpenFin targets knowledge-worker productivity and aims to displace traditional web browsers such as Chrome and Edge, competing with emerging browser startups like Island. The company emphasizes security and user experience as differentiators. Historically focused on finance customers including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, OpenFin is expanding into the government sector through a partnership with In-Q-Tel. Its recent funding includes a $10 million investment from ING Ventures and an additional undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel. OpenFin is a NYC-based provider of a web-based operating system for financial firms. Led by CEO Mazy Dar, its OS is used at more than 1,500 banks and buy-side firms across nearly 200,000 desktops in 60+ countries. The company also maintains offices in London. It raised an additional $5m as part of its Series C, bringing that round to $22m and total funding to date to $45m. Investors in the Series C include HSBC, Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners and Wells Fargo. OpenFin said it will use the financing to expand its product offering into Asian markets and to fund new product initiatives. OpenFin provides an operating system for the financial services industry that enables easier app deployment, faster security assurances, and interoperability across desktop applications. Its platform prevents apps from accessing local file systems to simplify security reviews for banks and institutions. OpenFin launched OpenFin Cloud Services to let firms create private local app stores without coding. The company reports more than 1,500 major financial firms as customers, nearly 40 leading vendors, 15 of the world’s 20 largest banks, and over 1,000 apps built on the OS. Deployments exceed 200,000 desktops, and since its February 2017 Series B its deployments and headcount have more than doubled while its European presence has tripled. OpenFin plans to use new capital for hiring and to expand its footprint across more desktops globally, aiming to become the core operating infrastructure for financial application developers. OpenFin provides a common operating layer for financial desktop applications using a modern, open technology stack and Google’s Chromium engine to deliver a secure, sandboxed environment across Windows, Mac and Linux. The platform enables rapid development and ‘instant’ deployment of desktop apps, shrinking deployment and update cycles from 6–18 months to immediate rollout. OpenFin’s technology is licensed across over 100,000 desktops and is used by applications from 35 of the world’s largest banks and trading platforms. Customers use the platform to redesign and unify front‑end experiences for traders and other end users, and to deploy applications both in‑house and to buy‑ and sell‑side clients. Strategic partners are integrating with the platform—Euclid Opportunities said it is bringing NEX Optimisation services onto OpenFin—indicating enterprise fintech adoption. Financially, OpenFin announced a $15 million Series B and has raised $22 million in total venture funding to date.

Participated · Series B · Dec 2018

ErisX launched a spot market supporting dollar trading pairs for bitcoin, bitcoin cash, litecoin and ethereum, plus bitcoin trading pairs with the other three cryptocurrencies. Its platform includes both an exchange and a clearinghouse, allowing custody of cash and digital assets. The company says the spot launch is an initial step toward broader plans to offer futures, which are pending regulatory approval of its derivatives clearing organization (DCO) application with the CFTC. ErisX is continuing to build out its exchange and clearinghouse technology stacks and to onboard clients. Management expects customers for both spot and futures markets in the coming months as the platform develops. The company has been fundraising to support that development and has also added NYDIG COO/CFO Rob Flatley to its board alongside ConsenSys' Joseph Lubin. ErisX operates a single platform for individuals and institutions to access digital asset spot and futures markets, combining professional trading tools with regulatory oversight. The company plans to enable trading of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and ether on both spot and futures markets starting next year, pending regulatory approval. ErisX intends to operate as an intermediary-friendly, CFTC-registered futures exchange with a clearing organization registration pending, and to run a regulated spot market for digital assets. The firm emphasizes security and regulatory compliance as core differentiators for institutional and individual participants. Leadership includes CEO Thomas Chippas, chief commercial officer Kelly Brown, and Head of Clearing Liz James. Financially, the company recently completed a Series B round to fund platform development and team expansion. ErisX is launching a derivatives exchange (DCM) and clearing organization (DCO) that will offer fully regulated digital asset futures and spot contracts on a single platform. The platform is designed to provide a regulated, transparent and stable venue with centralized exchange infrastructure for institutional and individual traders. ErisX plans to integrate digital asset products and technology into compliant capital markets workflows and to accelerate investments in the platform and team following a recent funding round. Leadership changes accompanying the launch include Thomas Chippas as CEO and Neal Brady as Executive Chairman. The company is backed by a broad syndicate spanning traditional capital markets and digital-asset investors, which the team says will contribute expertise and market input. Aspects of the offering are pending regulatory approval; no revenue or user metrics are disclosed in the announcement.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2018

Duco provides a cloud technology platform that enables banks, brokers, asset managers and exchanges to normalize, validate and reconcile any type of data via on-demand data integrity and insight. Led by CEO Christian Nentwich, the company serves international banks, brokers, exchanges, asset managers, hedge funds, administrators, service providers and corporates across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Duco completed a $28m growth investment to support expansion. The company will use the funds to expand its global presence, grow headcount in Europe and the US, launch an Asia office and broaden its product set. Duco is based in London and also has offices in New York and Luxembourg.

Led · Series A · Dec 2016

Axoni builds AxCore, a software platform that synchronizes data across financial institutions to reduce cost, risk, and errors when moving trade data and other critical information. The company’s technology guarantees continual, real-time replication of data with accuracy and completeness, solving coordination problems between large counterparties. Axoni has deployed or is developing solutions across cleared stock loans at OCC, global credit derivatives with DTCC, a corporate bond issuance platform with DirectBooks, global equity swaps with a consortium of market participants, and a global derivatives platform slated to launch in 2023. Since its 2017 founding, the firm has expanded its client base to include market infrastructure companies, asset managers, hedge funds, and global banks across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Led by CEO Greg Schvey, Axoni has raised more than $110M since inception and intends to use the new funds to expand operations and its business reach. Axoni provides financial market infrastructure and multi-party data networks that aim to increase efficiency, transparency, and reliability in global capital markets. Its client base includes buy-side and sell-side firms, infrastructure providers, and technology companies across the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company says applications of its technology have expanded rapidly in recent years. Axoni plans to use the new funding to expand its networks across additional asset classes and regions. Since its founding in 2013, the company has raised a total of $90 million. The firm highlights its role in driving digitalization and solving complex post-trade and capital markets infrastructure challenges. Axoni builds blockchain infrastructure, distributed-application development, and workflow-automation tools focused on multi-party data synchronization for capital markets. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the company counts many of the world’s largest financial institutions and capital-markets infrastructure firms among its clients. Its core product suite includes AxCore, an infrastructure offering intended for mission-critical deployments, and tooling for distributed ledger applications. Axoni is developing AxLang, an Ethereum-compatible smart-contracting language designed to enable formal verification. The company plans to use recent financing to enhance its data synchronization technology, expand infrastructure products to support broader AxCore deployments, and grow the network of enterprises using distributed ledgers. Financially, Axoni has raised $59 million to date following the latest $36 million Series B. Axoni provides distributed ledger technology, bespoke smart contract development, and analytics tools tailored to capital markets participants. Its core deployments focus on post-trade data management, reference-data collaboration, and automation in derivatives processing. The company has worked with banks and market infrastructure firms to optimize post-trade workflows for credit default swaps and equity swaps. Axoni has collaborated with Citi on multiple live deployments and is engaged in projects to replatform the DTCC Trade Information Warehouse to streamline and reduce the cost of derivatives processing. It was selected as the distributed ledger provider for NEX Group's Harmony network for post-trade data management. Founded in 2013 and led by CEO Greg Schvey, Axoni has recently completed Series A financing and attracted strategic investors from both financial institutions and venture capital. Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that provides distributed ledger technology to the financial services industry. Its product offerings include distributed ledger technology deployments, bespoke smart contract development, and analytics tools. Those solutions have been implemented in partnership with more than a dozen global banks and financial infrastructure providers. Founded in 2013 and led by CEO Greg Schvey, Axoni focuses on distributed ledger infrastructure for capital markets. In December 2016 the company completed an $18m Series A financing and has raised above $20m in total funding to date. Investors include both financial institutions and venture firms, reflecting cross-sector support for its technology.

Participated · Series C · Aug 2012

OpenGamma is a London-based derivatives analytics firm providing pre- and post-trade margin analytics to large global banks and fund managers. Its SaaS platform offers deep quantitative coverage across numerous derivatives products and enables dynamic management of funding, liquidity and optimization across bilateral, SIMM and cleared portfolios. The firm's analytics and product coverage help clients manage large derivatives inventories and generate capital savings that improve performance. OpenGamma plans to use the funding to expand its offering, including launching automated workflow solutions for the treasury management of asset managers and other financial participants. The company closed a $21M funding round as it prepares to ramp up growth plans. OpenGamma offers an open-source analytics and risk management platform for financial services, with a focus on derivatives analytics. Its open architecture lets firms build analytics applications for traders and risk managers and has positioned it as a leader in derivatives analytics. The company works with market infrastructure providers including CME Group, Eurex and JSCC and counts top-tier banks, hedge funds and asset managers as customers. OpenGamma says it has seen a 300% increase in recurring revenues in the last 12 months and has doubled both its customer base and team amid geographic expansion. The new funding will support continued growth and expansion of teams in London, New York and Singapore. OpenGamma has previously raised a mix of rounds and a 2014 debt financing and has attracted investors such as FirstMark Capital, Lawrence Lenihan and NEX Group. OpenGamma is a London-based provider of open-source, cloud-native derivatives risk analytics led by CEO Peter Rippon. Its software seeks to provide an objective view of all-in costs for derivatives users, helping the sell-side minimize balance-sheet usage and the buy-side make counterparty decisions. The solution is used by a wide range of banks, asset managers, hedge funds and clearing houses. The company received a minority equity investment from The Japan Exchange Group. The firm said it is using the funds to expand operations. An earlier institutional investment of $13.3m closed in October 2016. OpenGamma is a London-based open source financial software company that provides derivatives risk analytics. Its core product set is built on a derivatives analytics library released in 2016 that underpins its risk products and custom client solutions. In April 2016 the company launched "risk-as-a-service", a suite of cloud-based analytics addressing a broad range of derivatives risks for banks, asset managers, hedge funds and clearing houses. The company offers clients control of development while helping manage costs in the face of increasing global regulation. OpenGamma intends to use the newly raised funds to expand adoption across financial institutions. Founder Kirk Wylie recently left to pursue other interests and the company is now led by newly-appointed CEO Peter Rippon. OpenGamma develops the OpenGamma Platform, an open-source analytics and risk management system for front-office traders, quants and risk managers. The platform offers pre-trade, live and batch risk analytics and integrates with legacy data sources, trading systems and market data feeds. OpenGamma emphasizes transparency, customization and cost reduction compared with proprietary risk tools. The company plans to use new funding to drive product innovation, expand geographically, and support its growing open-source community. Demand for its offering has increased as regulation and data volumes push firms toward flexible open-source alternatives. OpenGamma highlights its 1.0 platform launch and industry recognition in 2012 as validation of its market fit.