# Citadel Securities

> Citadel Securities is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/citadel-securities
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/citsecurities
- Website: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/citadelsecurities

Citadel Securities is a next-generation capital markets firm powered by the integration of financial, mathematical, and engineering expertise. Combining deep trading acumen with cutting-edge analytics and technology, Citadel Securities delivers critical liquidity to the world’s most important financial institutions—while helping shape the globalmarkets of tomorrow.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 56% |
| FinTech | 3 | 19% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 19% |
| Web3 | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 19% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 13% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 50% |
| India | 2 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Al-Natsheh | Quantitative Research Analyst | 0 | — |
| Charles Vazac | Core Technology Engineer | 0 | — |
| Costas Bekas | Head, Quantitative Development | 0 | — |
| Jamil Nazarali | Global Head of Business Development | 1 | — |
| Joseph Mecane | Head of Citadel Execution Services | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ripple | Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enablingenterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis. | $500M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Adani Group | Adani Group is an energy & utilities company located in Ahmedabad. | $250M | Post-IPO Secondary | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange | National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange is an electronic platform facilitating trading in commodity derivatives. It offers futures and options contracts across a spectrum of agricultural commodities—such as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, spices, and fibres—as well as select non-agricultural products. The exchange ensures regulation by theSecurities and Exchange Board of India, with an independent board of directors overseeing operations. It enhances market transparency and price discovery through standardized contracts and a real-time electronic trading system. | $56.7M | Series C | Aug 29, 2025 |  |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | HIVE Digital Technologies builds and operates cutting-edge data centers. By integrating its data center operations experience with Bitcoin mining, HIVE is actively contributing to the progress of Web3, AI, and HPC in the decentralized digital economy. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| TransFICC | TransFICC is an e-trading technology company providing low latency connectivity for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. The company resolves the problem of fragmentation in the fixed income and derivatives markets. It does three things such as translates Execution Venue API’s to a single API. Clients connectonce to TransFICC's unified API, and TransFICC manages connectivity with the electronic venues from that point, uses low-latency, scalable and secure technology, essential to keep pace with price updates and not get beaten to trade by high-frequency trading firms, and provides timestamps for price and order messages. Measured in microseconds, timestamps record when data arrives at the bank or asset manager, helping to provide an audit trail, which supports Best Execution.TransFICC makes it easier to upgrade when venues change their application programming interfaces, compared with the enterprise systems of legacy firms, the firm claims. It also focuses solely on the business of providing market access.TransFICC was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom. | $25M | Series B | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Texas Stock Exchange | The Texas Stock Exchange focuses on helping US and global enterprises to have access to US equity capital markets, as well as providing a forum for trading and listing public corporations and the expanding universe of exchange-traded products. | $41M | Private Equity | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| McKay Brothers | We are driven by the belief that financial markets work best when many diverse firms are engaged. And low latency telecom is critical infrastructure for these firms. McKay Brothers was at the forefront of the evolution of low latency telecom from fiber to microwave, which resulted in a dramatic increase in speed. Our firm has a history andcontinued commitment to innovation and technical excellence.McKay Brothers is solely a telecom service provider. We do not trade for our own account. We offer equal access to all subscribers for each of our services. The core of our mission is to level the playing field by providing access to the fastest telecom to the financial markets. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| FMX | FMX is committed to providing best-in-class solutions that satisfy all of our clients' needs. | $172M | Corporate Round | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| New York Community Bancorp | New York Community Bancorp is a bank holding company and a producer of multi-family mortgage loans in New York City, with an emphasis on apartment buildings that feature below-market rents. It has two bank subsidiaries: New York Community Bank (the Community Bank), New York Commercial Bank (the Commercial Bank. The Community Bank has 241 branchesand operates through seven divisional banks. The Commercial Bank has 35 branches in Manhattan and operates 18 of its branches under the divisional name Atlantic Bank. During the year ended December 31, 2012, all of the one-to-four family loans the Company originated was sold to government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). Customers of the Community Bank and the Commercial Bank have access to their accounts through 263 of its 287 automatic teller machines (ATMs) locations in five states. The Company also serves its customers through three Websites, which include www.myNYCB.com, www.NewYorkCommercialBank.com and www.NYCBfamily.com. | $1.1B | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Sk3w Technologies | Sk3w Technologies specializes in providing exchange access solutions. | $7M | Series A | Jul 25, 2023 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Citadel Securities invest in?

Citadel Securities invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Citadel Securities?

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### Who are the partners at Citadel Securities?

The team at Citadel Securities includes Adam Al-Natsheh (Quantitative Research Analyst), Charles Vazac (Core Technology Engineer) and Costas Bekas (Head, Quantitative Development), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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