Deutsche Borse
VC Fund
Frankfurt, Germany
Deutsche Borse is an exchange company providing investors, financial institutions, and companies with access to global capital markets. Its business areas cover all aspects of financial market transactions. This includes the provision of indices, data, software, SaaS, and analytics solutions, as well as admission, trading, and clearing. It alsoprovides fund services, settlement and custody of financial instruments, and collateral and liquidity management.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Deutsche Borse invests in
Stages Deutsche Borse invests in
Countries Deutsche Borse invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$16M
- Series B
- $6M–$31M
- Series C
- $30M–$38M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 15 (47%)
- Financial Services 15 (47%)
- Finance 7 (22%)
- Software 6 (19%)
- Blockchain 5 (16%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (19%)
- Series B 5 (16%)
- Series C 4 (13%)
- Corporate Round 4 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (13%)
Country
- United States 10 (31%)
- United Kingdom 5 (16%)
- Germany 3 (9%)
- Denmark 1 (3%)
- Singapore 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andreas Preuss
Deputy CEO
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Deputy CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Christoph Böhm
Member of the Executive Board, Chief Information Officer & Chief Operating Officer
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Member of the Executive Board, Chief Information Officer & Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Knuth Posern
Head of Unit Customer and Counterparty Data
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Head of Unit Customer and Counterparty Data | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Martin Reck
MD
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MD | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Simon Seiter
Head of Digital Assets
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Head of Digital Assets | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caplight is a platform that enables institutional investors to buy and sell derivatives of private equity.For the first time in the private markets, institutional investors can hedge positions, generate income on assets, and access true liquidity with public settlement-like mechanics.Caplight serves a broad range of QIBs including hedge funds,VC funds, family offices, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, and insurance firms.Securities are offered by North Capital Private Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a partner of Caplight Markets LLC. | $16M / Series A / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Performativ provides a cloud-based wealth management platform that brings portfolio management, investment analytics, trading, reporting, compliance, client communication, and workflow automation into one system. The platform supports wealth managers, asset managers, investment advisors, private banks, financial institutions, and multi-familyoffices, with tools for multi-custodian data aggregation, portfolio rebalancing, order management, digital client portals, integrations, access controls, and audit trails. | $14M / Series A / Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| Kraken is a digital asset exchange and related services provider that enables users to buy, sell, trade, stake, and store cryptocurrencies. It offers spot trading, futures, margin trading indexes, over-the-counter (OTC) execution, and a multi-chain wallet. Kraken supports a large number of cryptocurrencies and fiat currency pairs, and it provides tools for both retail users and institutional clients. It also offers advanced order types, real-time market data, account management services, and resources for learning about blockchain and digital assets. | $200M / Secondary Market / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| MerQube is a cloud native indexing platform designed for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. In the growing space of passive (index-linked) indexing, MerQube provides robust financial indices in the areas of equities, futures and options and ESG and has the expertise that spans market-capitalization weightedindices to risk-premia, volatility, thematics, and ESG. | $30M / Series C / Apr 13, 2026 | ||
| Institutional Shareholder Services is a provider of corporate governance solutions for asset owners, hedge funds, and asset service providers. ISS’s solutions include objective governance research and recommendations, end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions, turnkey securities class-action claims management, and reliable globalgovernance data and modeling tools. Institutional clients turn to ISS to apply their corporate governance views, identify governance risk, and manage their complete proxy voting needs on a global basis. | $870.9M / Secondary Market / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Primary Portal is a FinTech company providing digitized solutions connecting banks and institutional investors for capital markets. | $9.6M / Series A / Jul 25, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| FundsDLT is shifting the technological paradigm in the wealth and asset management industry using a decentralized network and APIs. We streamline a range of fund administration and order-routing tasks by using blockchain to automate several processes in a secure manner. The platform enables a cooperative ecosystem between all actors in theinvestment fund distribution chain to exchange data in real time and remove redundant activities. Our fully integrated model makes investment fund distribution easier, cheaper and faster.Launched in 2020, FundsDLT operates mainly in Europe and is backed by four major players in the industry: Clearstream, Credit Suisse Asset Management, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Natixis Investment Managers. | Series B / Jul 01, 2023 | ||
| Caplight is a platform that enables institutional investors to buy and sell derivatives of private equity.For the first time in the private markets, institutional investors can hedge positions, generate income on assets, and access true liquidity with public settlement-like mechanics.Caplight serves a broad range of QIBs including hedge funds,VC funds, family offices, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, and insurance firms.Securities are offered by North Capital Private Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a partner of Caplight Markets LLC. | $3M / Corporate Round / Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| 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. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Deutsche Borse invest in?
Deutsche Borse invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Deutsche Borse invest in?
Deutsche Borse typically joins rounds of $5M–$16M at Series A, $6M–$31M at Series B and $30M–$38M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Deutsche Borse's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Deutsche Borse took part in.
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Who are the partners at Deutsche Borse?
The team at Deutsche Borse includes Andreas Preuss (Deputy CEO), Christoph Böhm (Member of the Executive Board, Chief Information Officer & Chief Operating Officer) and Knuth Posern (Head of Unit Customer and Counterparty Data), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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