# BNY

> BNY is a VC fund in New York backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/bny-mellon
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bnymellon
- Website: http://www.bnymellon.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bnymellon

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

## Contacts

5 contacts available for BNY. Shizune tracks 30 team members at BNY. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/bnymellon?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $11M–$97M |
| Series C | $14M–$440M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 23 | 39% |
| FinTech | 16 | 27% |
| Software | 10 | 17% |
| Finance | 9 | 15% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 10% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 12 | 20% |
| Series B | 9 | 15% |
| Series C | 7 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 8% |
| Series A | 4 | 7% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 46% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 8% |
| Israel | 2 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ainslie Simmonds | President | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ainslie-simmonds |
| Charles Teschner | MD, Global Head of Data and Analytics Solutions | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-teschner |
| Edmund Kelly | Member of the Board of Directors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edmund-kelly |
| Leon Crutchley | Director, Business Development & New Product Development, Front Office Solutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leon-crutchley |
| Stuart Logan | MD - Global HRBP Operations, Technology & People Experience | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-logan-8977 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| iCapital | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Snorkel AI | Snorkel AI is a technology startup that empowers data scientists and developers to turn data into accurate and adaptable AI applications fast with Snorkel Flow, a first-of-its-kind data-centric development platform, powered by programmatic labeling. Snorkel Flow reduces the time, cost, and friction of labeling training data so data science anddevelopment teams can more easily build and scale AI models to deploy more meaningful applications. Incorporating human judgment into the AI process through subject-matter experts is made more efficient and scalable leading to more ethical, responsible outcomes.Two out of the top three US banks, several government agencies and Fortune 500 companies use Snorkel Flow. Snorkel’s core research was developed at Stanford AI lab and is deployed at Google, Intel, Apple, IBM, DARPA, and other trailblazing organizations. | $100M | Series D | May 29, 2025 |  |
| 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" | $85.6K | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| EquiLend | EquiLend is a global financial technology firm that provides trading and post-trade services for the securities finance industry. It provides automated trading solutions through platforms like Next Generation Trading (NGT), Competitive Bid, and ECS Loan Market, enabling seamless securities lending transactions. Its post-trade services offerautomated workflow management, including recalls, returns, settlement monitoring, and billing. EquiLend also provides regulatory technology solutions to help clients comply with SFTR reporting, SEC Rule 10c-1a, CSDR, and T+1 settlement requirements. Its data and analytics services, including DataLend and Orbisa, offer real-time market data, portfolio analysis, and trading insights. The company also offers EquiLend Spire, a platform that integrates with its suite of products and third-party vendor solutions to manage securities finance activities. |  | Corporate Round | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Quantexa | Quantexa’s Contextual Decision Intelligence is a new approach to data that gives organizations the ability to connect internal and external data sets to provide a single view, enriched with intelligence about the relationships between people, places and organizations. Our platform dynamically generates the context needed to automate millions ofoperational decisions, at scale, across multiple business units, including Anti-Money Laundering, Know-Your-Customer, Fraud, Credit Risk and Customer Intelligence. Quantexa is a global business with offices in London, New York, Boston, Brussels, Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. | $175M | Series F | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Proxymity | Proxymity is a digital investor communications platform. The company connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors in real-time via our unique digital pathway, which creates more efficient, accurate, and transparent solutions. Proxymity streamlines process such as proxy voting and shareholder disclosure, enhancing the overall efficiency ofinvestor communications. | $26M |  | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| HQLAx | HQLAx is an innovative financial technology firm that leverages Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to bring game-changing efficiencies to the securities finance and repo industry. The company's core clients are banks and asset managers active in the global securities finance and repo markets, and its unique platform enables marketparticipants to execute frictionless, precise and real-time transfer of ownership of securities. HQLAx is regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier as an authorized IT systems and communication networks operator of the financial sector, under the category of support professionals of the financial sector (“support PFS”). |  | Series C | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Abbey Cross | B2B, Trading and Compliance Venue for deliverable (think payments) Emerging Market Currencies. Linking Payments banks to the suppliers of EM Trading and Settlement services | $6.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BNY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bny) — VC Fund, 65 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Credit Suisse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-suisse) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [UBS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ubs) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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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 59 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 BNY's check size?

BNY typically joins rounds of $11M–$97M at Series B and $14M–$440M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BNY participates in.

### How do I contact BNY?

Public channels for BNY include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at BNY?

The team at BNY includes Ainslie Simmonds (President), Charles Teschner (MD, Global Head of Data and Analytics Solutions) and Edmund Kelly (Member of the Board of Directors), among 30 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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