# Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund

> Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Analytics. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.hearst.com/fitch-group/financial-venture-fund

Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund is a VC fund focused on Software and Analytics. Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6M–$14M |
| Series B | $10M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| Analytics | 5 | 50% |
| Risk Management | 5 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 40% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 60% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series E | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 70% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shea Wallon | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shea-wallon |
| Erlinda Arriola | Associate Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erlinda-arriola |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cognitive Credit | Cognitive Credit combines data and develops tailored solutions for institutional credit investors. Its cutting-edge, data-driven software combines modern productivity tools with analytical features for more efficient and precise corporate credit analysis. Its proprietary data extraction pipeline is quick, accurate, and transparent. To supportcross-team collaboration and on-the-go connectivity, the company designs with the entire investment team in mind. It enables its clients to be as productive and insightful as possible by combining the most accurate fundamental data in the market with real-time updates and a suite of advanced analytics. | $8M | Series A | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Diginex Solutions | Diginex Solutions is a disruptive impact tech business helping organizations to address the world’s most pressing ESG and sustainability issues, utilizing the latest blockchain technology to lead change and increase transparency. | $6M | Series A | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| SecurityScorecard | SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management,board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. | $180M | Series E | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Sigma360 | Sigma360 is is the definitive risk decisioning software platform. Developed at MIT, Sigma360 helps leading firms identify, screen, monitor and review clients and their relationships against the largest cloud-native risk intelligence database. The leadership team includes professionals with 50+ years of combined experience, including deep domainexpertise in computer science, law and government.Core platform solution areas: https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/adverse-media-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/sanctions-and-watchlist-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/enhanced-due-diligenceSigma was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. | $6M | Seed | Oct 29, 2020 |  |
| Acin | Acin is a market-defining fintech company that is on a mission to make banks safer and transform the financial industry’s approach to non-financial risk, through the use of data. | $12M | Series A | Sep 28, 2020 |  |
| Symbiont | Symbiont has developed the market-leading platform for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Symbiont smart contracts enable complex instruments to live their entire lifecycle on a truly decentralized, enterprise blockchain network with end-to-end privacy. Financial institutions and governments are working with Symbiont to developnew business lines, increase transparency, reduce risk, and save costs. Industry leaders such as Vanguard and the State of Delaware have chosen to partner with Symbiont. Headquartered in New York City, Symbiont is a financial technology company founded by a team of experts in capital markets and blockchain technology. | $20M | Series B | Jan 23, 2019 |  |
| Cortera | Cortera is a provider of comprehensive business-to-business payment and purchase behavior data and insights on public and private companies. The company tracks $1.6 trillion in business-to-business purchases across 45 spend categories to deliver insights on 20 million U.S. business locations. Cortera's solutions enable companies of all sizesto better understand their customers, suppliers and business partners by gaining visibility into what they purchase, how they pay and how their purchase and payment behavior changes over time. Thousands of companies across diverse industries use Cortera solutions to increase revenue, improve sales and marketing effectiveness, and reduce risk. Cortera is privately held with offices in Boca Raton, Florida; Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts and Bangalore, India. | $10M | Series B | Sep 20, 2018 |  |
| TruValue Labs | Headquartered in San Francisco, TruValue Labs is a technology company leveraging advances in natural language processing, cognitive computing, and machine learning to provide actionable insights. Our products analyze big data in real-time, providing analytics from sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues atthe speed of current events – an essential tool for successful business and investment decision-making.As the importance of sustainability issues in underlying value become increasingly apparent, TruValue Labs provides solutions to identify material data for researchers, analysts, portfolio managers and consumers to help understand company performance. | $13.6M | Series A | May 14, 2018 |  |
| PeerIQ | PeerIQ is a New York-based financial information services company that is creating tools to analyze, access, and manage risk in the peer-to-peer lending sector. We pool detailed loan data to provide authoritative, independent analytics and benchmarks that our institutional clients use to price instruments, value loan portfolios, develop investmentviews, and manage risk. PeerIQ aims to strengthen the P2P sector by increasing transparency, enabling efficient risk management, and providing analytics that support better investment decision-making. | $12M | Series A | Aug 02, 2017 |  |
| GeoQuant | GeoQuant is a revolutionary platform that fuses political science with computer science to help global investors.GeoQuant was co-founded by Mark Rosenberg, PhD, a Berkeley-trained political scientist and former Director Eurasia Group, and Dor Kelman, a computer engineer with deep experience in fast-growth Israeli startups, who was previouslylead engineer and first hire at Crossrider PLC.GeoQuant's first hire is Ross Schaap, PhD, former long-time head of Comparative Analytics at Eurasia Group, who now spearheads Data & Analytics team for GeoQuant. The company's Tel-Aviv based engineering team specializes in data science, machine learning and database architecture. GeoQuant's top line Political Risk Scores and data streams for G20 countries are now also available on the Bloomberg Terminal. |  | Series A |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund invest in?

Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Risk Management startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 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 Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund's check size?

Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $6M–$14M at Series A and $10M–$20M 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 Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund?

The team at Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund includes Shea Wallon (Managing Director) and Erlinda Arriola (Associate Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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