Shea Wallon
Managing Director @ Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund
New York, United States
Shea Wallon is a Series A investor at Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund in New York focused on FinTech and Software. Shea Wallon Managing Director, Fitch Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Shea Wallon invests in
Stages Shea Wallon invests in
Countries Shea Wallon invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (50%)
- Software 4 (50%)
- Financial Services 4 (50%)
- Risk Management 3 (38%)
- Information Technology 3 (38%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (63%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Series E 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 4 (50%)
- United Kingdom 2 (25%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
- Hong Kong 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Bixby Research and Analytics
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Bixby Research and Analytics connects asset managers and hedge funds to market news and financial information in the debt markets. Asset managers and hedge funds can get market-moving news and financial data in the private debt market through Bixby Research and Analytics. The exclusive software platform developed by Bixby is customized to eachclient's portfolio of businesses and provides insightful updates for the most difficult positions to manage. | $5.5M / Series A / Apr 19, 2023 | |
Overbond AI
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Overbond is a developer of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven real-time data solutions for bond trading automation. Overbond offers the most advanced bond trading data streams and execution management system (EMS) in the market. The Overbond suite can be integrated into the systems and workflow of any and every fixed income trading desk in theworld.Overbond helps fixed income trading desks overcome the lack of a complete and centralized pricing and transaction data source for the bond markets, execute more client trades, increase the profitably of the trades that are executed, conduct pre-trade and post-trade analyses, monitor prices and risk and prepare reports.Overbond clients have realized ten times return on investment and achieved a minimum of $3 million additive profit by using Overbond to automate trading per trading desk. Fixed income traders using Overbond can increase their profitability by responding to 80% to 120% more client trade requests while maintaining an optimal ratio of trades the desk wants to execute versus trades the desk doesn’t want to execute. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 03, 2022 | |
Cognitive Credit
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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. | $8M / Series A / Nov 22, 2021 | |
Diginex Solutions
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Diginex Solutions is a disruptive impact tech business helping organizations to address the world’s most pressing ESG and sustainability issues, utilizing the latest blockchain technology to lead change and increase transparency. | $6M / Series A / Jul 29, 2021 | |
SecurityScorecard
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SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management,board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. | $180M / Series E / Mar 18, 2021 | |
Sigma360
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Sigma360 is is the definitive risk decisioning software platform. Developed at MIT, Sigma360 helps leading firms identify, screen, monitor and review clients and their relationships against the largest cloud-native risk intelligence database. The leadership team includes professionals with 50+ years of combined experience, including deep domainexpertise in computer science, law and government.Core platform solution areas: https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/adverse-media-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/sanctions-and-watchlist-screening https://www.sigma360.com/solutions/enhanced-due-diligenceSigma was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York. | $6M / Seed / Oct 29, 2020 | |
Acin
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Acin is a market-defining fintech company that is on a mission to make banks safer and transform the financial industry’s approach to non-financial risk, through the use of data. | $12M / Series A / Sep 28, 2020 | |
PeerIQ
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PeerIQ is a New York-based financial information services company that is creating tools to analyze, access, and manage risk in the peer-to-peer lending sector. We pool detailed loan data to provide authoritative, independent analytics and benchmarks that our institutional clients use to price instruments, value loan portfolios, develop investmentviews, and manage risk. PeerIQ aims to strengthen the P2P sector by increasing transparency, enabling efficient risk management, and providing analytics that support better investment decision-making. | $12M / Series A / Aug 02, 2017 |
Co-Investors
Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund
Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund Contacts
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Shea Wallon
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What does Shea Wallon invest in?
Shea Wallon invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Shea Wallon closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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