Led · Series A · Dec 2025

Architect Financial Technologies Inc. builds trading technology and brokerage services for institutional clients across global markets. Its flagship product is AX, the financial industry’s first centralized exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets such as foreign currencies, interest rates, single stocks, stock indexes, metals, and other commodities. Operated by Architect Bermuda Ltd. under the Bermuda Monetary Authority, AX provides regulatory clarity and is presently open to hedge funds, market makers, asset managers, insurers, and other professional investors, with a wait-list for sophisticated individual traders. Established in 2023, Architect previously raised a $5 million pre-seed round in 2023 and a $12 million seed round in 2024. The newly secured capital will be used to scale AX’s infrastructure, broaden its product coverage, and deepen global distribution. Management believes these efforts will help catalyze a new era in global derivatives trading by extending perpetual futures to traditional markets.

Participated · Series E · Jan 2022

Lukka provides enterprise data and software solutions that help risk-mature businesses address financial, risk, compliance, and trade finance issues complicated by blockchain data. Its core product set includes Enterprise Data Management Software for audit-ready cryptoasset financial reconciliation and reporting. The company serves customers needing standardized, auditable blockchain data and reporting across multiple business entities. Lukka intends to use the new funds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, the company has formed a commercial partnership to broaden its product use across large portfolios. The partnership with Animoca Brands will enable that partner to leverage Lukka’s software globally for reconciliation and reporting, enhancing its capabilities to manage and analyze blockchain data. Lukka provides institutional‑grade crypto-asset software and data, offering middle- and back‑office solutions that bridge blockchain data and traditional business needs. Its products meet rigorous technical control standards, including AICPA SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II. High‑profile customers named in 2021 include State Street, S&P Dow Jones Indices, and RSM, and its customer base spans crypto‑native firms to institutions at the intersection of crypto and traditional finance. To date Lukka has processed more than $2.1 trillion in unique transactions supporting 10,415 entities engaging in crypto activities. The company says the new capital will accelerate an aggressive growth and global expansion strategy. The firm emphasizes institutional accuracy and completeness across its suite of reporting, analytics, and data solutions. Lukka provides institutional-grade middle- and back-office software and crypto asset data that transform complex blockchain information into audit-ready, easy-to-use inputs for traditional financial operations. Its products, including Lukka Reference Data, Lukka Prime and the consumer-facing Lukka Essentials, are built to institutional standards such as AICPA SOC controls. The company serves both crypto-native and traditional financial customers, including over 200 active crypto funds and firms like S&P Dow Jones Indices, IHS Markit, RSM, and Arca. Lukka reports having processed $4.4 trillion in unique transactions to date. With plans to add features supporting derivatives and DeFi, the firm intends to scale operations to meet institutional adoption needs. Founded in 2014 and based in New York City, Lukka emphasizes accuracy, completeness and audit readiness for financial reporting, risk management, and audits. Lukka provides institutional-grade software and data that turn complex blockchain and crypto asset data into usable information for middle- and back-office operations. Its product suite includes Lukka Reference Data, Lukka Prime (a fair market value pricing methodology for crypto assets), and LukkaTax for Professionals. The company builds its solutions to institutional technical control standards such as AICPA SOC Controls. Lukka serves customers including digital asset exchanges, trading desks, CPA and accounting firms, fund administrators, miners, protocols, and auditors. It plans to expand its institutional-grade software and data products to traditional businesses and funds as they rapidly adopt crypto assets. Founded in 2014, Lukka is based in New York City.

Led · Seed · Nov 2021

Options AI Financial is a broker-dealer led by CEO John Foley that aims to bring smart options to retail investors. The company's platform offers a visual approach to options trading, enabling investors to clearly see opportunity, compare strategies and manage positions. Options AI closed a $4.1M seed funding round. The round was led by Akuna Capital, Optiver Principal Strategic Investments and Miami International Holdings, Inc., with participation from ViewTrade Holdings. The company is expanding its team and plans to open an office in Chicago. The raise was reported by FinSMEs on 08/11/2021.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2021

Vesica Technologies develops SHIFT, a toolkit that provides traders a “front page view” of markets by surfacing directional information on daily movements, volatility, and major trades across asset classes. SHIFT uses customizable, drag-and-drop widgets to monitor equities and options data across all 16 U.S. stock and options exchanges in real time. The product is designed to simplify synthesis of ubiquitous market data and improve traders’ decision-making and workflow efficiency. Vesica says it will use the new financing to scale the platform and expand strategic partnerships. The company was founded by CEO Saad Hussain and CTO Dr. Alessandro Warth and is based in Los Angeles. Management positions SHIFT as a tool for both inexperienced day traders and seasoned market professionals to access actionable market color. Investors describe the platform as an innovative market insight tool that will fuel continued growth and development.

Led · Series B · May 2017

Ledger Holdings is the NYC-based parent company of bitcoin options exchange LedgerX. LedgerX operates a bitcoin swap exchange (Swap Execution Facility) led by CEO Paul Chou. The exchange is awaiting regulatory approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate the first U.S. regulated exchange and clearing house for bitcoin options. Upon approval, participating institutions can use the LedgerX platform to obtain and hedge bitcoin using exchange-traded and centrally-cleared options contracts. Ledger Holdings closed an $11.4M Series B to support its plan to operate a regulated exchange and clearing house for bitcoin and other digital currencies.