CME Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
CME Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and FinTech. CME Ventures is the corporate venture capital and strategic investment arm of CME Group focused on building and managing a portfolio of external minority equity investments.CME Ventures acts as a bridge between core CME Group businesses and external partners to inform a firm-wide understanding of emerging market structure changes while investingin key areas of opportunity.The team’s primary goal is to drive quantifiable strategic growth and shareholder value across all areas of the firm.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries CME Ventures invests in
Stages CME Ventures invests in
Countries CME Ventures invests in
Contacts
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Brian Zboril
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Danny Slutsky
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Jennifer McKellar
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Josh Kravitt
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (38%)
- FinTech 8 (28%)
- Financial Services 8 (28%)
- Analytics 6 (21%)
- Finance 5 (17%)
Stage
- Series B 8 (28%)
- Series A 6 (21%)
- Seed 3 (10%)
- Funding Round 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 15 (52%)
- Canada 2 (7%)
- Brazil 1 (3%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Brian Zboril
Executive Director
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Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Danny Slutsky
Manager
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Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jennifer McKellar
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Josh Kravitt
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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FutureSports
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FutureSports is a new index provider that transforms professional and college sports data into rule-based financial benchmarks. | Seed / Jul 23, 2026 | |
Eris Exchange
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Eris Exchange is a U.S. futures exchange registered as a Designated Contract Market with the CFTC.The Exchange lists USD cash-settled interest rate swap futures that trade electronically on the ErisSwapBook and clear through CME Clearing. Current open interest in Eris USD Interest Rate SwapFutures is over 180,000 contracts, and they receiveseamless margin offsets against the CME ratescomplex, including Eurodollar and U.S. Treasury Futures. Trademarks of Eris Exchange and/or itsaffiliates include Eris, Eris Exchange, Eris SwapBook, Eris BlockBox, Eris PAI, Eris Methodology, ErisPricing Engine and the Eris Logo. For more information, visit Eris Exchange online athttp://www.erisfutures.com or follow Eris on Twitter @erisfutures. | Venture - Series Unknown / May 19, 2026 | |
Grão Direto
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The agriculture that has so much technology inside the gate and gives lessons of modernity to Brazil and to the world can also be so technological and modern in the commercialization of its products!The Grão Direto forms a web between buyers and producers of grains connected in a much more intelligent way.Through technology, they can interactdigitally and much faster and more efficiently. This is either for spot, future or barter trading. Grão Direto was created with the necessary flexibility to support all the chain's profiles: cooperatives, tradings, traditional brokers, feed factories, warehouses, traders and much more.The platform generates market intelligence gains for producers and buyers to make better decisions, as well as more agility in processes associated with marketing (logistics, contract management, financial products and more). | $15.4M / Series B / Mar 10, 2025 | |
HERE
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OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.OpenFin offers a desktop application to run outside the browser, generate real-time applications, desktop notifications, tear-outs, docking support, create custom title bars and frames, animation effects, maintainwindow size and position, and secure communications. The world’s largest banks and trading platforms use OpenFin to deploy desktop applications both in-house and to their buy-side and sell-side customers. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, DRW Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NEX Group’s fintech investment business Euclid Opportunities, Nyca Partners and Pivot Investment Partners, and an elite group of financial industry executives. The company is based in New York with offices in London. | $35M / Series D / May 23, 2023 | |
Axoni
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Axoni is a real-time data replication technology company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid, reliable deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants. Founded in 2017, the company serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financialmarket infrastructure firms across the globe from offices in New York and London. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 26, 2023 | |
Kemiex
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Trade & Information Platform, AgTech, InsurTech, FinTech, FoodTech, SaaS enabled Marketplace, Business Solutions 4.0 | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 24, 2023 | |
Revelate
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TickSmith, with its Enterprise Data Web Store, simplifies the online data shopping and distribution experience for data buyers and provides the necessary tools for data producers to connect, package, unify and monetize their data. Currently enabling the world’s leading exchanges and financial institutions to generate new revenue streams andincrease their customer base, the Enterprise Data Web Store provides a proven, secure, end-to-end solution that removes the complexities of selling and buying data.By leveraging modern distribution channels, data producers can attract data buyers eager to consume new sources of data on a daily basis.Deployed in a Single-Tenant SaaS model, TickSmithʼs out-of-the-box Enterprise Data Web Store is built on a scalable modular platform that can grow with your business. | $20M / Series A / Jan 26, 2022 | |
Blockfills
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Blockfills is an institutional digital asset liquidity provider. | $37M / Series A / Jan 19, 2022 | |
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Blockfills
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Blockfills is an institutional digital asset liquidity provider. | $7M / Seed / Jun 24, 2021 | |
OpenGamma
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OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives, by providing actionable recommendations to front-office, risk, and treasury. Their deep quantitative understanding of CCP margin and capital models, coupled with their cutting-edge cloud-based technologies, give derivatives users the ability to uncover hiddenopportunities that enhance returns. Since its founding in 2009, OpenGamma has built a global client base consisting of the world’s leading financial institutions and companies across clearing houses, banks, and buy-side firms. Due to their simple set-up, clients are up and running within hours, receiving actionable recommendations for immediate derivative cost savings.With offices in London and New York, their team brings together a unique mix of the practitioner, quantitative, and software engineering expertise, providing unique insights, and products designed from direct experience. With thousands of users depending on their derivatives analytics every day, OpenGamma helps firms tackle the biggest issues in derivatives trading. | $10M / Series E / Apr 03, 2019 | |
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FAQ
What does CME Ventures invest in?
CME Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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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The team at CME Ventures includes Brian Zboril (Executive Director), Danny Slutsky (Manager) and Jennifer McKellar (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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