# Deutsche Borse

> Deutsche Borse is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/deutsche-borse
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/deutscheboerse
- Website: http://deutsche-boerse.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeutscheBoerseAG

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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 14 | 45% |
| FinTech | 11 | 35% |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Finance | 5 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 19% |
| Series A | 5 | 16% |
| Series B | 5 | 16% |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 16% |
| Germany | 3 | 10% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Preuss | Deputy CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-preuss |
| Christoph Böhm | Member of the Executive Board, Chief Information Officer & Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoph-b%C3%B6hm |
| Knuth Posern | Head of Unit Customer and Counterparty Data | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/knuth-posern |
| Martin Reck | MD | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-reck |
| Simon Seiter | Head of Digital Assets | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-seiter |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caplight | 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 | 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 | Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 40+ other digital assets. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Founded in 2011 and with over 7 million clients, Kraken is one of theworld's largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges and we're growing faster than ever. Kraken's range of successful products is playing an important role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets. Kraken is a marketplace for digital assets where buyers, sellers, traders, and speculators come together to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple against national currencies like USD, EUR, CAD, and JPY. Clients trading larger sizes benefit from its principal Over-the-Counter (OTC) desk and white glove service. Advanced traders and technical analysis wizards can take advantage of the company's professional charting tools. Software engineers, botters, and hobbyist automators have available both REST and Websocket APIs with which trades can be made and market information obtained. Kraken provides 24/7 live chat support for any questions you have about getting started. | $200M | Secondary Market | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| MerQube | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [JP Morgan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jp-morgan-chase) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BNY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bny) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BNY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnymellon) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BNP Paribas Securities Services](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnp-paribas-securities-services) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Deutsche Borse invest in?

Deutsche Borse invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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 Deutsche Borse?

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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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