Optiver
VC Fund
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Optiver is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Since our 1986 founding, Optiver has remained steadfast in our commitment to improving global financial markets. From thought leadership and policy advocacy, to partnering with exchanges and investment firms, we have a dedicated history of using our expertise to make markets healthier and more transparent for all parties involved. As a natural evolution of this mission to improve capital markets, Optiver is incubating and empowering the most impactful projects in the industry. More than ever before, Optiver is actively partnering with entrepreneurs and founders shaping financial markets of the future.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Optiver invests in
Stages Optiver invests in
Countries Optiver invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $3.7M–$35M
- Series B
- $21M–$31M
- Series C
- $38M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 5 (31%)
- Financial Services 5 (31%)
- Finance 3 (19%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (19%)
- Stock Exchanges 3 (19%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Series C 3 (19%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 6 (38%)
- United Kingdom 2 (13%)
- Brazil 1 (6%)
- Belgium 1 (6%)
- The Netherlands 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alena Nasedkina
Financial Controller
|
Financial Controller | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jean Cayla
Head of Execution and Direct Trading
|
Head of Execution and Direct Trading | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kjelle Blom
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kris Manios
Technology Lead
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Technology Lead | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Pat Cooney
Chief Technology Officer
|
Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| A5X is a financial institutional platform offers trading and post-trading solutions to the capital and financial markets. | $70.3M / Series D / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Digital Asset describes itself as a provider of blockchain-based software and services that help institutions build and run distributed applications for finance and other regulated markets. The company offers a smart-contract platform called Daml together with its public blockchain network, Canton Network, enabling enterprises to tokenize real-world assets and manage digital asset lifecycles. Through its tools and developer SDK, clients can deploy applications that support tokenization, clearing and settlement, custody and asset servicing, collateral mobility, digital cash, and other workflows across institutional participants. Digital Asset supports interoperability across multiple systems while preserving privacy and regulatory control for participants. | $355M / Series E / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Eden Block seeks to enable the full potential of blockchain and crypto by investing in a small number of high conviction early-stage opportunities each year. | Private Equity / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| We are driven by the belief that financial markets work best when many diverse firms are engaged. And low latency telecom is critical infrastructure for these firms. McKay Brothers was at the forefront of the evolution of low latency telecom from fiber to microwave, which resulted in a dramatic increase in speed. Our firm has a history andcontinued commitment to innovation and technical excellence.McKay Brothers is solely a telecom service provider. We do not trade for our own account. We offer equal access to all subscribers for each of our services. The core of our mission is to level the playing field by providing access to the fastest telecom to the financial markets. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 31, 2025 | ||
| A5X is a financial institutional platform offers trading and post-trading solutions to the capital and financial markets. | $37.8M / Series C / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Digital Asset describes itself as a provider of blockchain-based software and services that help institutions build and run distributed applications for finance and other regulated markets. The company offers a smart-contract platform called Daml together with its public blockchain network, Canton Network, enabling enterprises to tokenize real-world assets and manage digital asset lifecycles. Through its tools and developer SDK, clients can deploy applications that support tokenization, clearing and settlement, custody and asset servicing, collateral mobility, digital cash, and other workflows across institutional participants. Digital Asset supports interoperability across multiple systems while preserving privacy and regulatory control for participants. | $135M / Series E / Jun 24, 2025 | ||
| A5X is a financial institutional platform offers trading and post-trading solutions to the capital and financial markets. | $30.6M / Series B / Jan 09, 2025 | ||
| BMLL Technologies Ltd. operates cloud based technology platform that offers machine learning and inference framework for common limit order book problems. | $21.4M / Series B / Sep 30, 2024 | ||
| Sk3w Technologies specializes in providing exchange access solutions. | $7M / Series A / Jul 25, 2023 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Optiver invest in?
Optiver invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Optiver invest in?
Optiver typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$35M at Series A, $21M–$31M at Series B and $38M–$80M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Optiver's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Optiver took part in.
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Who are the partners at Optiver?
The team at Optiver includes Alena Nasedkina (Financial Controller), Jean Cayla (Head of Execution and Direct Trading) and Kjelle Blom (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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