# Optiver

> Optiver is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/optiver
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/OptiverEurope
- Website: http://www.optiver.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OptiverEurope/

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 naturalevolution 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.6M–$35M |
| Series B | $21M–$31M |
| Series C | $38M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 33% |
| Finance | 3 | 20% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 20% |
| Stock Exchanges | 3 | 20% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series C | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| Belgium | 1 | 7% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alena Nasedkina | Financial Controller | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alena-nasedkina |
| Jean Cayla | Head of Execution and Direct Trading | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-cayla |
| Kjelle Blom | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kjelle-blom |
| Kris Manios | Technology Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kris-manios |
| Pat Cooney | Chief Technology Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pat-cooney-4bf4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Asset | 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. | $355M | Series E | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Digital Asset | 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. | $355M | Series F | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Eden Block | 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 | 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 |  |
| McKay Brothers | 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 | 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 | 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. | $135M | Series E | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| A5X | 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 | 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 | Sk3w Technologies specializes in providing exchange access solutions. | $7M | Series A | Jul 25, 2023 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IMC Trading](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imc-financial-markets) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Tradeweb](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tradeweb) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ABN AMRO Clearing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abn-amro-clearing-chicago-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Optiver's check size?

Optiver typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$35M at Series A, $21M–$31M at Series B and $38M–$80M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Optiver participates in.

### How do I contact Optiver?

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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 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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