# Martyn James

> Martyn James is a Series A investor at ETFS Capital backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ETFS Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etfs-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/martyn-james-04284082

Martyn James is a Managing Director at ETFS Capital. Martyn attended Durham University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 83% |
| FinTech | 4 | 67% |
| Finance | 3 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## 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. | $10M | Series B | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| WealthKernel | "WealthKernel is the Amazon Web Services of savings, investment and pension infrastructure, for business using the platform it is like plugging into the central power grid instead of producing their own power." | $7.6M | Series A | Jan 24, 2024 |  |
| Alphathena | Alphathena develops an AI-driven platform that enables investors to build, personalize, and share investments based on any market index. Its solutions include ETF-based direct indexing, direct indexing with personalization, tax loss harvesting as a service, and Crypto and Digital Asset Indexes. | $4M | Seed | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| WealthKernel | "WealthKernel is the Amazon Web Services of savings, investment and pension infrastructure, for business using the platform it is like plugging into the central power grid instead of producing their own power." | $7M | Series A | Jan 17, 2022 |  |
| BITA | BITA is the world's first provider of end-to-end infrastructure for index-based and systematic investing. BITA's platform allows institutional clients to flexibly design, backtest, calculate and benchmark investment strategies and indexes without having to rely on traditional index solutions, multiple data vendors and complex internaltools.BITA is headquartered in Frankfurt, Hessen. | $7M | Series A | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Bitadata | BITADATA is the world's first provider of end-to-end infrastructure for index-based and systematic investing. BITA's platform allows institutional clients to flexibly design, backtest, calculate and benchmark investment strategies and indexes without having to rely on traditional index solutions, multiple data vendors and complexinternaltools. BITA was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Hessen. | $7M | Series A | Nov 09, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [XTX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xtx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Start Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-start-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Launchbay Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-horizon) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HPA (Hyde Park Angels)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Launchbay Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchbay-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Volta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volta-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ETFS Capital

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

ETFS Capital is an investment company working across the global investment ecosphere with a focus on ETFs. Created by ETF industry veterans and chaired by Graham Tuckwell, an ETF industry pioneer and founder of ETF Securities. In 2018 ETF Securities sold its European and North American issuance businesses to WisdomTree, Legal & GeneralInvestment Management and Aberdeen Standard and became ETFS Capital.

2 contacts available at ETFS Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Martyn James | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martyn-james-d3e6 |
| Graham Tuckwell | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-tuckwell-1f6f |

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## FAQ

### What does Martyn James invest in?

Martyn James invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Martyn James last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martyn James closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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