NEX Opportunities
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
NEX Opportunities is a VC fund in London focused on Financial Services and Software. NEX Opportunities invests in exceptional financial technology companies that are transforming markets. They partner with pioneers who are bringing new technologies, sciences, business models, and talent to capital markets technology. They are backed and fully supported by the NEX Group and operate with a global footprint.They know the market.They know technology. And most importantly, they know people. They grow companies with care, and for the long-term. They provide a platform for extraordinary growth.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries NEX Opportunities invests in
Financial ServicesSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsBlockchain
Stages NEX Opportunities invests in
Series AFunding RoundSeedSeries BSeries C
Countries NEX Opportunities invests in
United StatesUnited Kingdom
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Matt Sowton
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 8 (53%)
- Software 7 (47%)
- FinTech 5 (33%)
- Analytics 3 (20%)
- Blockchain 3 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (33%)
- Funding Round 4 (27%)
- Seed 2 (13%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 7 (47%)
- United Kingdom 4 (27%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Matt Sowton
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
ErisX
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ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | Series A / Oct 01, 2018 | |
Duco
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Duco is a data engineering technology company that provides self-service data engineering in the cloud. The company empowers users to normalize, validate, and reconcile any type of data on demand. Duco uses computer science to solve the world's reconciliation problems through its software Duco Cube. Their customers include international banks,brokers, exchanges, asset managers, hedge funds, administrators, service providers, and corporates.Duco provides innovative technology that enables financial institutions to normalize, validate and reconcile any type of data in Duco’s cloud, providing firms with on-demand data integrity and insight. Their SaaS solution is used by some of the largest companies in the world, including international banks, exchanges, asset managers, hedge funds, administrators and service providers.Headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Luxembourg, Duco serves clients throughout Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. | $28M / Series B / Jan 28, 2018 | |
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 / Series A / May 11, 2017 | |
RSRCHXchange
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RSRCHX is the marketplace for institutional research. Built in consultation with asset management institutions and research providers, RSRCHXchange radically modernises the way in which financial institutions buy and sell research. Ahead of MiFID II unbundling changes coming into force in January 2018, the RSRCHXchange platform enables buy-sidefirms to access alpha-generating research in a more efficient, discerning and transparent way. At the same time, research providers benefit from access to a growing community of global buy-side firms and efficient payment, compliance and administration processes designed to help analysts focus on what they do best: produce insightful research.Headquartered in London, RSRCHXchange is the only research marketplace built to the specification of the international fund management industry, by experts with decades of fund management and research procurement experience. Our founders are committed to ongoing collaboration with both domestic and international asset management and research communities and continue to invest in additional functionality and platform enhancements. To find out more please go to http://rsrchxchange.com/ or follow us on twitter @rsrchx. | Feb 23, 2017 | |
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RSRCHXchange
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RSRCHX is the marketplace for institutional research. Built in consultation with asset management institutions and research providers, RSRCHXchange radically modernises the way in which financial institutions buy and sell research. Ahead of MiFID II unbundling changes coming into force in January 2018, the RSRCHXchange platform enables buy-sidefirms to access alpha-generating research in a more efficient, discerning and transparent way. At the same time, research providers benefit from access to a growing community of global buy-side firms and efficient payment, compliance and administration processes designed to help analysts focus on what they do best: produce insightful research.Headquartered in London, RSRCHXchange is the only research marketplace built to the specification of the international fund management industry, by experts with decades of fund management and research procurement experience. Our founders are committed to ongoing collaboration with both domestic and international asset management and research communities and continue to invest in additional functionality and platform enhancements. To find out more please go to http://rsrchxchange.com/ or follow us on twitter @rsrchx. | Series A / Feb 23, 2017 | |
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. | $15M / Series B / Feb 16, 2017 | |
Cloud9 Technologies
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Cloud 9 Technologies is a cloud communications service provider. We provide high performance voice, messaging and collaboration services designed for the unique needs of distributed work groups and teams. We deliver our services from the cloud using software applications that leverage the internet and advanced WebRTC technologies. C9 Traderconnects the institutional trading community with a voice and messaging solution designed especially for the financial markets. It provides a secure and compliant way to connect with your trading counterparties while eliminating the hassle and expense of legacy turret systems and private lines. | $30M / Series A / Oct 12, 2016 | |
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. | $13.3M / Series D / Oct 05, 2016 | |
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. | $60M / Feb 02, 2016 | |
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Duco
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Duco is a data engineering technology company that provides self-service data engineering in the cloud. The company empowers users to normalize, validate, and reconcile any type of data on demand. Duco uses computer science to solve the world's reconciliation problems through its software Duco Cube. Their customers include international banks,brokers, exchanges, asset managers, hedge funds, administrators, service providers, and corporates.Duco provides innovative technology that enables financial institutions to normalize, validate and reconcile any type of data in Duco’s cloud, providing firms with on-demand data integrity and insight. Their SaaS solution is used by some of the largest companies in the world, including international banks, exchanges, asset managers, hedge funds, administrators and service providers.Headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Luxembourg, Duco serves clients throughout Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. | Series A / Sep 21, 2015 | |
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FAQ
What does NEX Opportunities invest in?
NEX Opportunities invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 15 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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Who are the partners at NEX Opportunities?
The team at NEX Opportunities includes Matt Sowton (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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