# Alexander Ross

> Alexander Ross is a Series A investor at Illuminate Financial backing FinTech and Blockchain. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Illuminate Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illuminate-financial)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-ross-676b327/
- Website: https://x.com/alexanderross

Alexander Ross is a Series A investor at Illuminate Financial in London focused on FinTech and Blockchain. Alexander Walter Hugh Ross is based out of New York, New York and is the General Partner | Head of NYC of Illuminate Financial. Alexander previously worked at CloudMargin as a Board Director. Alexander Walter Hugh Ross attended the University of Bristol.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6.3M |
| Series A | $8M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 57% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |
| Construction | 1 | 14% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LendOS | Right Pedal LendOS is a SaaS/Managed Service fintech company aiming to modernize the way financial institutions provide companies with debt financing around the world. It is founded on modern technology that is easily adoptable, adaptable and scalable; driving liquidity, efficiency and profitability in the lending space. | $8M | Series A | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Notabene | Notabene was founded to build SWIFT for Crypto. Notabene Transact, their core offering is now processing $5B of transactions a day between thousands of regulated institutions for purposes. They just launched Notabene Flow, the only B2B focused VisaNet like pull payment layer for stablecoins to their network. Notabene Flow allows their networkmembers to offer better high margin B2B high margin services, such as recurring and agentic cross border B2B payments that no one has been able to solve at scale using stablecoins. | $14.5M | Series B | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Reality Defender | Reality Defender is the market leader in deepfake detection, protecting enterprises and governments from realtime deepfake and agentic fraud. Sign up for free access at https://www.realitydefender.com/apiAwards: 2025 - Gartner: Recognized as Market Leader in Deepfake Detection 2025 - JPMorgan: Inducted into Hall of Innovation 2025- World Economic Forum: Named Technology Pioneer 2025 - USA DIU + Japan MOD: 1st Place "Global Innovation Challenge" 2024 - RSA Conference: 1st Place “Most Innovative Startup” 2024 - SINET16 Innovator Award 2023 - SXSW 1st Place "Artificial Intelligence, Voice, & Robotics Technologies" | $33M | Series A | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Cloudwall Capital | Cloudwall Capital is a team of passionate fintech and research professionals looking to help institutional investors navigate the digital asset marketplace. | $6.3M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Curv | Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets.The company's security technology is enabling users to build crypto finance products that safely transfer, store, and manage any digital asset on any blockchain or digital system for recording transactions.Its research and development office is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Curv's decentralized security model utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, enabling transactions to be securely signed in a mathematically-proven, distributed way. Its enterprise-grade policy engine allows clients to define risk profiles and enforce granular policies to ensure only authorized transactions are allowed.Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger established the company in New York, New York in 2018. |  | Series A | Oct 22, 2020 |  |
| Weaver.build | Weaver is a platform that matches main contractors to vetted residential projects. We check that homeowners are tender-ready, have full design information and are serious about their project reducing time wasted with prospects that lead to nothing. Contractors input their business preferences and we’ll match them to an abundance of work that suittheir ambitions so they don’t need to run the sales & marketing department alone. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Weaver.build | Weaver is a platform that matches main contractors to vetted residential projects. We check that homeowners are tender-ready, have full design information and are serious about their project reducing time wasted with prospects that lead to nothing. Contractors input their business preferences and we’ll match them to an abundance of work that suittheir ambitions so they don’t need to run the sales & marketing department alone. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accenture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accenture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackstone Innovations Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackstone-innovation-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Booz Allen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/booz-allen-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Illuminate Financial

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise AI & Fintech companies. With teams across London, New York, and Singapore, we combine capital with unmatched connectivity to global financial institutions, helping visionary founders build and scale. Illuminate operates at the centre of the globalfinancial services ecosystem. We connect founders with investors, financial institutions, and strategic partners, giving our portfolio companies direct access to insight, demand, and decision-makers. From this unique vantage point, we identify critical market needs and back the solutions best placed to solve them, creating a virtuous cycle that drives transformation across the industry.

5 contacts available at Illuminate Financial.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Rodrigues | Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-rodrigues-d633 |
| Alexander Ross | General Partner \| Head of NYC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-ross |
| Alex Gheorghe | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-gheorghe |
| Katherine Wilson | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katherine-wilson |
| Luca Zorzino | General Partner & Head of Asia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luca-zorzino |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexander Ross invest in?

Alexander Ross invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alexander Ross's check size?

Alexander Ross typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6.3M at Seed and $8M–$33M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alexander Ross participates in.

### When did Alexander Ross last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexander Ross closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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