Nasdaq
VC Fund
New York, United States
Nasdaq is a global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information, and public company services. Nasdaq provides the infrastructure, tools, and strategic insights tailored for the capital-market opportunities of today and the expectations of tomorrow.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Nasdaq invests in
FinanceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechBlockchain
Stages Nasdaq invests in
Series BSeries ASeries CCorporate RoundSeries D
Countries Nasdaq invests in
United StatesChinaFranceFinlandUnited Kingdom
Contacts
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Andreas Gustafsson
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Bill Dague
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Dmitri Sedov
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Edward Knight
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JJ Raymond
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Finance 6 (43%)
- Software 4 (29%)
- Financial Services 4 (29%)
- FinTech 3 (21%)
- Blockchain 3 (21%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (29%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
- Corporate Round 2 (14%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 7 (50%)
- China 2 (14%)
- France 1 (7%)
- Finland 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Andreas Gustafsson
Senior Vice President/Chief Counsel
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Senior Vice President/Chief Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Bill Dague
VP, Head of Data Product
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VP, Head of Data Product | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Dmitri Sedov
Chief Product Officer & Investment Intelligence
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Chief Product Officer & Investment Intelligence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Edward Knight
Executive Vice President and Global Chief Legal and Policy Officer
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Executive Vice President and Global Chief Legal and Policy Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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JJ Raymond
AVP, Marketing & Sales Technology Operations
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AVP, Marketing & Sales Technology Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 17 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Nasdaq Private Market
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Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue and tech platform for private companies/issuers, employees and other shareholders, banks, broker-dealers, as well as prospective investors of private company stock. Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $44 billion in transactional volume and has executed more than600 company-sponsored programs on behalf of private companies. More than 160,000 market participants have unlocked liquidity through an NPM program. NPM offers private companies and investors various liquidity solutions including tender offers, auctions, company marketplaces, and block trades. In 2021, NPM spun-off of Nasdaq to become its own, independent company receiving strategic investments from Nasdaq, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and later Allen and Co. Today’s reality is that companies are choosing to stay private for longer. This is the new market standard. With leadership and expertise in the market, NPM’s vision is to further expand the liquidity landscape. | $37.6M / Series C / Jan 16, 2026 | |
Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $50M / Corporate Round / Dec 04, 2025 | |
Puro.earth
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Puro.earth is the first B2B marketplace, standard, and registry focused solely on carbon removal. It mobilizes the world’s economy to reward carbon net-negative emissions. It does this by helping voluntary corporate buyers accelerate carbon dioxide removal at an industrial global scale. Puro.earth provides carbon removal as a service, throughidentifying suppliers, verifying their carbon removals, and issuing CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs), an integral part of long-term procurement portfolios to fulfill net-zero pledges. Aiming at climate and economic impact, Puro.earth is driving forward a market of carbon-negative industries, enabling a new revenue stream to accelerate their growth. | $12.8M / Series B / Sep 04, 2025 | |
Rustler
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Originally conceptualized as a modern, user-friendly alternative to traditional banking systems, Rustler aims to lower the barrier to financial tools through intuitive design and cardless technology. While active development is currently on hold, the company operates as a strategic holding and research entity, with plans for potential integrationinto future digital ecosystems or partner ventures. | $3M / Series A / Apr 17, 2025 | |
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Nasdaq Private Market
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Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue and tech platform for private companies/issuers, employees and other shareholders, banks, broker-dealers, as well as prospective investors of private company stock. Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $44 billion in transactional volume and has executed more than600 company-sponsored programs on behalf of private companies. More than 160,000 market participants have unlocked liquidity through an NPM program. NPM offers private companies and investors various liquidity solutions including tender offers, auctions, company marketplaces, and block trades. In 2021, NPM spun-off of Nasdaq to become its own, independent company receiving strategic investments from Nasdaq, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and later Allen and Co. Today’s reality is that companies are choosing to stay private for longer. This is the new market standard. With leadership and expertise in the market, NPM’s vision is to further expand the liquidity landscape. | $62.4M / Series B / Feb 08, 2024 | |
Sunwoda Electric Vehicle Battery
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Sunwoda Electric Vehicle Batter provides electric vehicle battery pack solutions for new energy vehicle companies through advanced lithium battery integration technology. | $360.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 01, 2023 | |
LeveL ATS
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LeveL ATS is an independently operated US Equity Alternative Trading System located in Boston. | Corporate Round / Aug 02, 2021 | |
Fnality International
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Fnality International provides a digital cash system that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions. The company develops DLT-based wholesale payment systems in key jurisdictions, each overseen by its home central bank. It also offers banks a system for managing digital payments and supports the growing industry adoption oftokenized assets and marketplaces. | $65.5M / Series A / Jun 03, 2019 | |
Cuebiq
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Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platformoffers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.Cubeiq was founded in 2015 and is based in New York. | $27M / Series B / May 18, 2018 | |
Digital Reasoning
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Digital Reasoning is a developer of an artificial intelligence cognitive computing platform intended for businesses. It is an Artificial Intelligence company that understands the nuances of human intention and behavior found in communications providing global enterprises with critical intelligence and insights.It was founded by Tim Estes in 2000and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. | $30M / Series D / Mar 19, 2018 | |
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FAQ
What does Nasdaq invest in?
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The team at Nasdaq includes Andreas Gustafsson (Senior Vice President/Chief Counsel), Bill Dague (VP, Head of Data Product) and Dmitri Sedov (Chief Product Officer & Investment Intelligence), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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