# The Holt Xchange

> The Holt Xchange is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/holt-accelerator
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HoltAccelerator/
- Website: https://holtxchange.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HoltAccelerator/

The Holt Xchange is a VC fund in Montréal focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Holt Accelerator is a modern day brokers, accelerating deals for fintech startups between corporate clients and investors.The Holt family legacy is rooted in tradition and entrepreneurship. Their history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations, has led them to create the FinTechaccelerator, powered by an AI solutions provider. Holt will be supported by Holdun, a 5th generation family business, Stradigi AI, one of the largest AI solutions providers in Canada, and Form Fintech, one Canada’s fastest growing Fintech communities.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 13 | 42% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 39% |
| Software | 8 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 23% |
| Analytics | 6 | 19% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 19% |
| Grant | 1 | 3% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 32% |
| Canada | 9 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 10% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Portugal | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Tuff | Startup Advisor & Mentor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-tuff |
| Brendan Dunn | Founding Investor | 0 | — |
| Jan Christopher Arp | Founding Managing Partner | 0 | — |
| Jean Amiouny | Advisor | 0 | — |
| Mike McAra | Strategic Advisor | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FilmChain | In a £267B market, up to 30% of revenues in film&TV go underreported, payments are delayed for years, or may never reach owners. FilmChain fixes these issues with the fintech infrastructure that pays stakeholders in near real-time for independent films and operates a royalties management for enterprises. For independents, FilmChain ensurestransparent payments by maintaining transactions on a private Ethereum blockchain ledger and distributing monies ($,€, £) to stakeholders' digital wallets. For enterprises, FilmChain delivers the first-to-market SAAS platform to manage royalties and reports. FilmChain's clients include double Academy Awards nominated films, clients in Europe, UK, Israel, Australia, North America. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Acceleron Bank | PeopleHedge simplifies the process of managing currency risk. At PeopleHedge, they are trying to solve the world's foreign exchange rate problems. PeopleHedge is working on a product that will allow clients to lock in an exchange rate months in advance. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Naoris Protocol | The Naoris protocol is a decentralized cybersecurity mesh that protects the digital world from cyber threats and associated risks. | $11.5M | Seed | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| NAORIS | Naoris is the world’s first holistic distributed cybersecurity ecosystem, bringing a game-changing solution to address 35 years of industry miss-practice by leveraging this unrivaled and disruptive distributed consensus backed rule system.Naoris offers the next generation cybersecurity solutions for any size organisation, from startups to highlyregulated industry and typically hard to defend environments, including governments, the military, and nation state based organization.​Naoris becomes a major player in cybersecurity advancement technologies utilizing proprietary distributed cyber-intrusion detection and de-risking systems that use a combination of technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), elevated network consensus combined with AI and machine learning.​ | $11.5M | Series A | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| NAORIS | Naoris is the world’s first holistic distributed cybersecurity ecosystem, bringing a game-changing solution to address 35 years of industry miss-practice by leveraging this unrivaled and disruptive distributed consensus backed rule system.Naoris offers the next generation cybersecurity solutions for any size organisation, from startups to highlyregulated industry and typically hard to defend environments, including governments, the military, and nation state based organization.​Naoris becomes a major player in cybersecurity advancement technologies utilizing proprietary distributed cyber-intrusion detection and de-risking systems that use a combination of technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), elevated network consensus combined with AI and machine learning.​ |  | Initial Coin Offering | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Manzil | Manzil's mission is to be the leading financial institution providing alternative financial solutions to Canadians wishing to balance material pursuits with spiritual needs. | $1.9M | Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |
| CityFalcon | CityFALCON is redefining how financial news is sourced, curated, distributed, and consumed. We transform unstructured financial content into structured data then deliver analytics, insights, and news in real-time on 250k+ topics from 3000+ sources, including premium non-public content and paywall-free access.We use automation, Big Data and AItechniques, and personalisation to democratise access to the financial markets and their data for everyone, from retail market participants and SMEs to large institutions and corporations. Current channels of delivery are web, mobile app, voice device, and API access, while Single Sign-on, CSV-based historical data sets, and one-time purchase packages are planned for the future. | $2.2M | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| NAORIS | Naoris is the world’s first holistic distributed cybersecurity ecosystem, bringing a game-changing solution to address 35 years of industry miss-practice by leveraging this unrivaled and disruptive distributed consensus backed rule system.Naoris offers the next generation cybersecurity solutions for any size organisation, from startups to highlyregulated industry and typically hard to defend environments, including governments, the military, and nation state based organization.​Naoris becomes a major player in cybersecurity advancement technologies utilizing proprietary distributed cyber-intrusion detection and de-risking systems that use a combination of technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), elevated network consensus combined with AI and machine learning.​ |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2021 |  |
| agryo | Agryo is a US C Corp enterprise risk intelligence provider, delivering global (any place on earth) risk intelligence to enable financial institutions to assess, manage and monitor financial risks in the crop field level for underwriting agriculture insurance, credit, trade finance and environmental services (like carbon credits); as well as meetingsustainability goals. |  | Grant | Jan 26, 2021 |  |
| agryo | Agryo is a US C Corp enterprise risk intelligence provider, delivering global (any place on earth) risk intelligence to enable financial institutions to assess, manage and monitor financial risks in the crop field level for underwriting agriculture insurance, credit, trade finance and environmental services (like carbon credits); as well as meetingsustainability goals. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Draper Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-associates-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Expert Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expert-dojo) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Level One Robotics And Controls, — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Uniera](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uniera) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Bluefin Equity Partners — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BREEGA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breega-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Holt Xchange invest in?

The Holt Xchange invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact The Holt Xchange?

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### Who are the partners at The Holt Xchange?

The team at The Holt Xchange includes Benjamin Tuff (Startup Advisor & Mentor), Brendan Dunn (Founding Investor) and Jan Christopher Arp (Founding Managing Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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