# Moody's Investors Service

> Moody's Investors Service is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/moodys-corporation
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MoodysRatings
- Website: https://www.moodys.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoodysCSR

Moody's Investors Service is a bond credit rating business that provides research, credit rating, and financial risk analysis services. The company’s ratings and analysis track debt that covers various countries, corporate issuers, public finance issuers, and structured finance obligations. Additionally, the company also offers predictiveratings, research and investor briefings, pricing and valuation tools, and credit opinions. The company’s primary goal is to help investors analyze the credit risks associated with fixed-income securities. Moody’s Investor Service rates debt securities in several market segments related to public and commercial securities in the bond market. These include government, municipal and corporate bonds; managed investments such as money market funds, fixed-income funds, and hedge funds; financial institutions that include banks and non-bank finance companies; and asset classes in structured finance.Considered one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, Moody’s Investor Service employs approximately 6,100 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 28 countries.Moody’s Investor Service was founded by John Moody in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City, United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 43% |
| FinTech | 4 | 29% |
| Finance | 4 | 29% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Analytics | 3 | 21% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Grant | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 29% |
| China | 1 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lisa Westlake | Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer | 0 | — |
| Gordon Sinclair | Vice President (Commercial Real Estate Finance Group) | 0 | — |
| Helen Cregger | Vice President - Senior Credit Officer | 0 | — |
| John Goggins | Executive Vice President & General Counsel | 0 | — |
| John Moody | Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octaura | Octaura is an electronic trading solution created by the industry – for the industry. Backed by eight major US financial institutions, Octaura has reimagined the way the syndicated loan and the CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. | $46.5M |  | Jun 09, 2025 | https://www.octaura.com |
| MioTech | MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 26, 2024 | https://www.miotech.com/ |
| QuantCube Technology | Created in July 2013 by two ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs, QuantCube Technology was born out of a desire to use to the fullest extent the potential and the new opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.What was at the beginning a Fintech startup focusing on the development of the next generation of investmentstrategies rapidly became over the past six years a cross-sectoral R&D company whose purpose is to create value from all types of data, while being at the forefront of innovation and advocating for an ethical use of the data. While looking at the future of Analytics, they are always keen to take on new challenges, as they did when they decided a couple of years ago to extend their analytics to the Space industry for example. |  | Series B | Dec 20, 2022 | http://www.q3-technology.com/ |
| Octaura | Octaura is an electronic trading solution created by the industry – for the industry. Backed by eight major US financial institutions, Octaura has reimagined the way the syndicated loan and the CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do. |  | Seed | Apr 02, 2022 | https://www.octaura.com |
| BitSight | Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence andassess aggregate risk. Organizations worldwide, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight’s proven Security Ratings technology on a daily basis to make integral risk and business decisions. With over 1,000 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service. For more information, please visit www.bitsighttech.com or follow @BitSight on Twitter. | $250M | Corporate Round | Sep 13, 2021 | https://www.bitsight.com/ |
| VisibleRisk | Manage your cyber risk, as clearly as financial risk VisibleRisk – a joint venture between Moody’s and Team8 – equips business leaders to understand, manage and communicate cyber risk in financial terms. | $25M | Series A | May 12, 2021 | https://visiblerisk.com/ |
| MioTech | MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 04, 2020 | https://www.miotech.com/ |
| Malaysian Rating | MARC provides credit ratings and research on issuers of commercial papers, bonds, long-/short-term debts, and preferred shares, as well as asset-backed securities. MARC also offers industry analyses, rating reports, and rating indices for issuers and investors locally and globally. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 11, 2020 | https://www.marc.com.my/ |
| Quipu Bank | Quipu is building the first digital bank for the informal economy in LATAM. Using proprietary AI algorithms, Quipu assesses informal microbusinesses’ creditworthiness using over 80,000 alternative data points. Quipu leverages this data to provide working capital loans through a local supply chain financing system that allows microbusinesses to buysupplies, ingredients and materials at wholesale price. The company is building an uncollateralized loan protocol to boost their loan operation. Quipu’s goal is to become the one-stop-shop for financial services for micro-businesses in LATAM providing easy, fair and alternative access to working capital. | $15K | Grant | Jul 23, 2020 | https://www.quipumarket.com/ |
| SynTao Green Finance | STGF provides ESG data and ratings, green bond verification, and green finance solutions to financial institutions and corporates in China. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 30, 2019 | http://www.syntaogf.com/index_EN.asp |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bank of America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-america) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Five Capital Advisors — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Horizons Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/horizons-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [JP Morgan Chase](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jpmorgan-chase-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Moody's Investors Service invest in?

Moody's Investors Service invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Corporate Round and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Moody's Investors Service?

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### Who are the partners at Moody's Investors Service?

The team at Moody's Investors Service includes Lisa Westlake (Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer), Gordon Sinclair (Vice President (Commercial Real Estate Finance Group)) and Helen Cregger (Vice President - Senior Credit Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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