# Doug Atkin

> Doug Atkin is a seed investor at Communitas Capital Partners backing Financial Services. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Communitas Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/communitas-capital-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-atkin-33b1b
- Website: https://x.com/ddougatkin

Doug Atkin is a seed investor at Communitas Capital Partners in New York focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Douglas Atkin has been an investor, analyst and senior executive in the financial technology industry for over 20 years. He presently manages the GPM-Center Court Fund at Guggenheim Partners. Doug began his career at Instinet where he rose through the ranks to become the company’s CEO, leading its successful $450mm IPO in 2001. He was a Co-founderof Efficient Frontiers, a consulting firm specializing in trading technology, regulation, and market-structure. Doug was also the CEO of Majestic Research which was sold to ITG (NYSE: ITG) in 2010. Doug was selected as one of the Top New Yorkers by New York Magazine for his leading role in redefining the financial marketplace, and Institutional Investor profiled him as one of the top 30 individuals making the greatest impact on e-finance. In addition, Doug sits on the Board of Selerity Financial and the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$7.5M |
| Series A | $5M–$15M |
| Series D | $25M–$57M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 35% |
| FinTech | 8 | 31% |
| Finance | 5 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 19% |
| SaaS | 3 | 12% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 42% |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Series D | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 58% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 4% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adaptive | Adaptive is a management and technology consulting company specializing in technology strategy, governance, solution development, and risk management, with a focus on artificial intelligence solutions. | $7M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Abstract | Abstract provides an AI-driven policy intelligence platform that analyzes legislative, regulatory, and media data to help organizations identify risks and opportunities. The platform uses large language models and retrieval-augmented generation to process complex information and present it in a structured format. Abstract enables businesses tomonitor regulatory developments, assess potential impacts, and integrate insights into decision-making workflows. | $4.8M | Seed | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Bench Talent Cloud | Bench Talent Cloud offers talent management services via a tech-enabled external talent community that serves as a virtual bench. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Vortexa | Vortexa provides a real-time data and analytics platform for energy and freight industries. The company covers all vessel classes of crude oil, refined products, LPG, and LNG. It helps traders, analysts, and freight professionals gain a competitive edge in complex and opaque markets by confidently making trading decisions. Its platform usesartificial intelligence to analyze and interpret data and absorb data points from multiple sources to show oil's past, present, and future flow worldwide. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Entrio | entrio platform enables to get access and insights into both current and prospective vendors, which can help to cut costs and minimize risk. entrio's open platform of APIs, native integrations, and webhooks, allows concentrate on immediately upgrading and optimizing your stack. | $7.5M | Seed | Mar 31, 2023 |  |
| Finery Markets | Finery Markets is a leading over-the-counter, multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets. Serving clients since 2019, Finery Markets provides solutions throughout the whole trade lifecycle: - High-performance execution venue with deep institutional liquidity and firmquotes. - Price intelligence and pre-trade risk management tools. - Position management, risk controls, reporting tools and cost analysis, as well as flexible settlement based on a noncustodial model. - Single entry point to global liquidity providers via API and GUI. - Robust infrastructure: 99.99+% uptime and full automation.The Finery Markets platform is available as a white-label solution for prime brokers, OTC desks and exchanges that are willing to develop and expand a low-touch client business. | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| 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 | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Graphite | Graphite is a technology platform that helps companies accelerate business performance with on-demand experts, consultants, and executives. Leading investment firms, professional services firms and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills, alleviate bandwidth constraints, drive major organizational change, and innovatefaster. | $15M | Series A | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Graphite | Graphite is a technology platform that helps companies accelerate business performance with on-demand experts, consultants, and executives. Leading investment firms, professional services firms and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills, alleviate bandwidth constraints, drive major organizational change, and innovatefaster. | $15M | Series A | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Alchemy | Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house. | $15M | Series A | Dec 17, 2019 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Communitas Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/communitas-asset-management) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Communitas Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/communitas-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Elysian Park Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysian-park-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mousse Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mousse-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Communitas Capital Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

Communitas Capital is a new venture capital firm founded by financial industry veterans Doug Atkin.

5 contacts available at Communitas Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Koplin | Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-koplin |
| Doug Atkin | Managing Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-atkin |
| Ajay Sharma | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-s-494f |
| Duncan L. Niederauer | Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duncan-l-niederauer |
| Parker Odrich | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parker-odrich |

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## FAQ

### What does Doug Atkin invest in?

Doug Atkin invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 Doug Atkin's check size?

Doug Atkin typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$7.5M at Seed, $5M–$15M at Series A and $25M–$57M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Doug Atkin participates in.

### When did Doug Atkin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Doug Atkin closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 26 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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