# FD Technologies

> FD Technologies is a VC fund in Newry backing B2B and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newry, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-derivatives/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/FDplc
- Website: https://fdtechnologies.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firstderivatives/

FD Technologies is a VC fund in Newry focused on B2B and FinTech. First Derivatives (FD) is a leading provider of products and consulting services to some of the world’s largest finance, technology and energy institutions. FD is the developer of the world-leading database technology kdb+.Focused on financial institutions that work cross-asset, often with multi-system and/or high volume trading activities,the Company scopes, designs, develops, implements and supports a broad range of mission critical data and trading systems across front, middle and back-office operations. The Company’s software is also used in a range of industries including telecoms, digital marketing, pharma and utilities to help organisations solve their most demanding data management and analytics challenges.Incorporated in 1996, FD has served the capital markets industry since its incorporation. The Company holds a niche market position in terms of domain knowledge of capital market asset classes (equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, etc), as well as expertise in leading financial services systems (such as Calypso, Murex, Opics, Summit, Principia, Opus, Wall Street, kdb+, etc). The Company continues to work closely with leading global financial institutions to enable client proprietary and 3rd Party systems cope with the demands of high volume, complex trading in an increasingly regulated market. This combination of domain knowledge and technical expertise in leading financial services technologies has motivated the Company to invest in developing its own product suite.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for FD Technologies. Shizune tracks 8 team members at FD Technologies. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/first-derivatives?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |
| Automotive | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 75% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seamus Keating | Chairman | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seamus-keating |
| Brian Conlon | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-conlon |
| Dave Thomas | Chief Scientist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-thomas-6 |
| David Humphries | Group Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-humphries |
| Gerard Buggy | Chief Strategy Officer | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerard-buggy |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $14.7M | Series B | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Zipabout | Zipabout offers invaluable knowledge and insight to policy-makers, transport operators and travellers through a range of innovative, easy-to-use products such as our realtime B2B2C platform, Passenger Connect. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 18, 2019 |  |
| AuditComply | AuditComply is an Integrated Risk Management (IRM) platform, revolutionizing the way enterprises assess, track, action and report on risk, compliance and quality processes in real time. Defining the next generation of GRC, AuditComply empowers enterprises to Mitigate Risk, Drive Compliance and Improve Quality within the industry’s most innovativeand user-friendly assessment platform.AuditComply operates in highly regulated industries such as Automotive, Aviation, Food & Beverage, Oil & Gas, Finance, and Manufacturing with key fortune 500 clients situated throughout the UK, EU, US, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. Our diverse and varied customer base includes, Shell, Sysco, Autoliv, Cooke Aquaculture, Bushmills and McCloskey International. |  |  | Dec 11, 2017 |  |
| Cobalt | Cobalt delivers a private peer-to-peer network that significantly reduces post-trade cost and risk for financial market participants. It aims to use the technology behind bitcoin to simplify foreign exchange trading.The company also aims to create a single, shared view of each transaction by using blockchain technology, which uses complexcryptography to allow people to safely view and edit shared ledgers. The technology was first developed to underpin cryptocurrency bitcoin, doing away with the need for a central bank.Cobalt was founded in 2015 by Andy Coyne and Adrian Patten. It is headquartered in London, England. |  | Seed | Dec 19, 2016 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Augment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augment-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Co-FundNI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/co-fundni) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EG Funds Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eg-funds-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does FD Technologies invest in?

FD Technologies invests primarily in B2B, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact FD Technologies?

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### Who are the partners at FD Technologies?

The team at FD Technologies includes Seamus Keating (Chairman), Brian Conlon (CEO) and Dave Thomas (Chief Scientist), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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