DRW Venture Capital
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
DRW Venture Capital is a VC fund in Chicago focused on FinTech and Financial Services. DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.As a firm with no outside investors, wehave a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.
- Total investments:
- 61
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries DRW Venture Capital invests in
Stages DRW Venture Capital invests in
Countries DRW Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$12M
- Series A
- $7M–$35M
- Series B
- $15M–$97M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 19 (31%)
- Financial Services 16 (26%)
- Blockchain 13 (21%)
- Cryptocurrency 12 (20%)
- Software 11 (18%)
Stage
- Series B 16 (26%)
- Series A 11 (18%)
- Seed 8 (13%)
- Series C 7 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (7%)
Country
- United States 36 (59%)
- Israel 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Finland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kimberly Trautmann
Head of DRW Venture Capital
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Head of DRW Venture Capital | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Don Wilson
Founder and CEO
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Founder and CEO | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Kaiko
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Kaiko is a digital assets market data provider, offering global data connectivity to more than 100 centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Our guiding mission is to bridge the gap between traditional and crypto finance by providing actionable financial data and services. Our four business units — Market Data, Quantitative Analytics,Indices and Research — empower use cases across the investment lifecycle. | $57M / Series B / Sep 14, 2026 | |
Databento
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Databento eliminates tens of thousands in upfront data expenses per dataset, while giving you the instant flexibility to pick up real-time full exchange feeds or terabytes of historical data when you need it.Whether you're a Fortune 500 bank or a single-person startup, we scale with your budget and needs and deliver the same cutting edgeperformance and data integrity. | $97M / Series B / Jul 09, 2026 | |
Crossover Markets Group
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Crossover Markets Group develops trading technology for digital asset markets and operates CROSSx, an execution-only electronic communication network used for cryptocurrency transactions. The platform connects institutional participants such as liquidity providers, brokers, and trading firms to execute spot digital asset trades through a matchingengine that processes orders and generates market pricing. It separates trade execution from custody and brokerage functions, allowing participants to choose their own counterparties and service providers for settlement and credit relationships. The system supports configurable liquidity pools, order matching rules, and connectivity through APIs and graphical interfaces for trading and market data access. Crossover Markets Group also maintains infrastructure and tools that facilitate order routing, liquidity interaction, and continuous trading in cryptocurrency markets. | $31M / Series B / Mar 04, 2026 | |
TRM Labs
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TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Our products are trusted by leading companies including PayPal, Visa, FTX, Uniswap, Anchorage, and federal agencies such as the FBI and IRS. Every day, we tacklechallenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. To accomplish our mission, we have raised over $79M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Tiger Global, and Bessemer. Our team is made up of world class experts from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, US Treasury Department, McKinsey, Coinbase, and top-tier tech companies. TRM is a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and London. | $70M / Series C / Feb 04, 2026 | |
Nasdaq Private Market
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Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue and tech platform for private companies/issuers, employees and other shareholders, banks, broker-dealers, as well as prospective investors of private company stock. Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $44 billion in transactional volume and has executed more than600 company-sponsored programs on behalf of private companies. More than 160,000 market participants have unlocked liquidity through an NPM program. NPM offers private companies and investors various liquidity solutions including tender offers, auctions, company marketplaces, and block trades. In 2021, NPM spun-off of Nasdaq to become its own, independent company receiving strategic investments from Nasdaq, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and later Allen and Co. Today’s reality is that companies are choosing to stay private for longer. This is the new market standard. With leadership and expertise in the market, NPM’s vision is to further expand the liquidity landscape. | $37.6M / Series C / Jan 16, 2026 | |
Kraken
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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. | $800M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Lemon Cash
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Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America. | $20M / Series B / Oct 10, 2025 | |
Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $135M / Series E / Jun 24, 2025 | |
Notabene
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Notabene was founded to build SWIFT for Crypto. Notabene Transact, their core offering is now processing $5B of transactions a day between thousands of regulated institutions for purposes. They just launched Notabene Flow, the only B2B focused VisaNet like pull payment layer for stablecoins to their network. Notabene Flow allows their networkmembers to offer better high margin B2B high margin services, such as recurring and agentic cross border B2B payments that no one has been able to solve at scale using stablecoins. | $14.5M / Series B / Nov 12, 2024 | |
Vast.ai
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Vast.ai operates a GPU cloud platform that lets teams spin up high‑performance compute in seconds and scale to thousands of GPUs on demand. Powered by a network of 1,000‑plus independent providers across North America, Europe, and Asia, Vast.ai optimizes workload placement for both price and performance—typically saving customers 40–80% versustraditional hyperscalers. The company serves researchers, ML engineers, and AI‑driven enterprises with pay‑as‑you‑go clusters, reserved capacity, and API‑first orchestration for training, inference, and data‑intensive pipelines. | $4M / Seed / Jul 12, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does DRW Venture Capital invest in?
DRW Venture Capital invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Blockchain startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 61 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 DRW Venture Capital's check size?
DRW Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $120k–$12M at Seed, $7M–$35M at Series A and $15M–$97M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds DRW Venture Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at DRW Venture Capital?
The team at DRW Venture Capital includes Kimberly Trautmann (Head of DRW Venture Capital) and Don Wilson (Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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