BNY
VC Fund
New York, United States
BNY is a global financial services company that helps make money work for the world – managing it, moving it and keeping it safe. For more than 240 years BNY has partnered alongside clients, putting its expertise and platforms to work to help them achieve their ambitions. Today BNY helps over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100banks globally access the money they need. BNY supports governments in funding local projects and works with over 90% of the top 100 pension plans to safeguard investments for millions of individuals, and so much more. As of September 30, 2025, BNY oversees $57.8 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.1 trillion in assets under management.BNY is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Headquartered in New York City, BNY has been named among Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators. Follow BNY on LinkedIn or visit the BNY Newsroom for the latest company news. Additional information is available on www.bny.com
- Total investments:
- 75
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries BNY invests in
Stages BNY invests in
Countries BNY invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Amit Chowdhary
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Caroline Butler
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 26 (35%)
- FinTech 17 (23%)
- Software 12 (16%)
- Finance 9 (12%)
- Blockchain 7 (9%)
Stage
- Funding Round 11 (15%)
- Series B 8 (11%)
- Series C 7 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (9%)
- Series A 6 (8%)
Country
- United States 29 (39%)
- United Kingdom 6 (8%)
- Israel 2 (3%)
- Switzerland 2 (3%)
- Italy 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Ainslie Simmonds
President
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President | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Amit Chowdhary
Managing Director - Workforce Planning, Analytics, Operations and Technology
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Managing Director - Workforce Planning, Analytics, Operations and Technology | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Caroline Butler
Global Head of Custody, Tax , Regulatory & Network Management
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Global Head of Custody, Tax , Regulatory & Network Management | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Edmund Kelly
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Leon Crutchley
Director, Business Development & New Product Development, Front Office Solutions
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Director, Business Development & New Product Development, Front Office Solutions | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 31 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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LemonEdge
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LemonEdge is a low-code development platform with an integrated accounting engine, designed for financial services. They solve a wide range of complex financial challenges, across the entire industry through a flexible development approach and a suite of powerful tools tailored to the financial services. | $21M / Series A / Jul 29, 2026 | |
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JBG SMITH Declaration Partners JV
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JBG SMITH Declaration Partners JV is a newly established company. It is a joint venture between JBG SMITH and Declaration Partners. | Debt Financing / May 27, 2026 | |
Domyn
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Domyn develops AI models and applications for regulated industries. Their flagship product, Crystal, allows organizations to accelerate AI deployments and enhance governance, facilitating adoption in production. Incorporating robust key security features and controls designed for highly confidential and mission-critical use cases, Crystal hasgained the trust of Fortune 500 companies. iGenius is also working with NVIDIA to build Colosseum, one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 20, 2026 | |
JLL Income Property Trust
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JLL IPT is an institutionally managed REIT that owns and manages a diversified portfolio of office, retail, industrial & apartment estates. | $1B / Debt Financing / Mar 17, 2026 | |
Waffo
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Waffo is a global payments platform provider supporting over 70 currencies and more than 300 payment methods, offering secure, flexible, and scalable payment solutions that enable businesses to seamlessly process cross-border transactions, expand into international markets, and deliver smooth, localized payment experiences to customers around theworld. | $15M / Series A / Feb 04, 2026 | |
Talos
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Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider that connects all crypto ecosystem participants to support a full trading lifecycle. Talos Trading is based in New York, NY and was co-founded by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman in 2018. | $45M / Series B / Jan 29, 2026 | |
Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $50M / Corporate Round / Dec 04, 2025 | |
iCapital
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iCapital Network is an online platform that unlatches the world of private equity, enabling institutions and qualified investors. It is a financial services company that features a financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices,and other sophisticated investors. The company connects advisors and their high net worth investors in leading alternative investment managers through best-in-class user experience.The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $820M / Private Equity / Jul 10, 2025 | |
Conquest Planning
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Conquest Planning provides financial planning software that integrates AI-driven analytics, real-time collaboration, and open APIs to support advisory workflows. The platform offers digital self‑service, collaborative hybrid, and traditional advisor‑led modes tailored to varied client needs. Its Strategic Advice Manager dynamically generatespersonalized strategies and adjusts plans using client data and tax‑aware modeling. The system centralizes data integration, scenario testing, and reporting to streamline advisor efficiency and client engagement. Multiple financial institutions deploy the platform to automate plan creation and foster goal‑based conversations without replacing human expertise. | $80M / Series B / Jun 23, 2025 | |
AgentSmyth
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AgentSmyth is a leader in financial analysis automation. AgentSmyth provides a suite of smart autonomous agents that act as specialized team members, revolutionizing coordination in finance. Our services include macro research, expertise at both the ticker and sector levels, and unusual option flow monitoring, all while delivering tick-by-ticknarratives. | $8.7M / Seed / Jun 02, 2025 | |
| See all 75 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does BNY invest in?
BNY invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 75 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at BNY?
The team at BNY includes Ainslie Simmonds (President), Amit Chowdhary (Managing Director - Workforce Planning, Analytics, Operations and Technology) and Caroline Butler (Global Head of Custody, Tax , Regulatory & Network Management), among 31 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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