Virtu Financial
VC Fund
New York, United States
Virtu Financial is a VC fund in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Virtu is the global leader in electronic market making. They actively make markets across a broad range of asset classes including equities, foreign exchange, commodities, options and fixed income, providing two-sided liquidity on over two hundred market centers around the world. As market makers, they lower costs for both retail and institutionalinvestors by supplying competitive bids and offers, without seeking to take on risky directional positions. Virtu's liquidity provision plays a vital role in the overall health and efficiency of the global financial markets, especially in times of market turbulence.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Virtu Financial invests in
Stages Virtu Financial invests in
Countries Virtu Financial invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $7.5M–$31M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (50%)
- Financial Services 6 (50%)
- Software 3 (25%)
- Trading Platform 3 (25%)
- Finance 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (33%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (17%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Series E 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 5 (42%)
- Japan 1 (8%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
- Belgium 1 (8%)
- New Zealand 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Doug Cifu
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Joseph Molluso
co-President
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co-President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Laine Litman
Global Head of FICCC Liquidity
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Global Head of FICCC Liquidity | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Robert Greifeld
Chairman
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Chairman | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ruben Costa-Santos
Trading Analytics
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Trading Analytics | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossover Markets Group develops trading technology for digital asset markets and operates CROSSx, an execution-only electronic communication network used for cryptocurrency transactions. The platform connects institutional participants such as liquidity providers, brokers, and trading firms to execute spot digital asset trades through a matchingengine that processes orders and generates market pricing. It separates trade execution from custody and brokerage functions, allowing participants to choose their own counterparties and service providers for settlement and credit relationships. The system supports configurable liquidity pools, order matching rules, and connectivity through APIs and graphical interfaces for trading and market data access. Crossover Markets Group also maintains infrastructure and tools that facilitate order routing, liquidity interaction, and continuous trading in cryptocurrency markets. | $31M / Series B / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| SaaS, Fintech, Middleware, Trading Infra | $3.2M / Seed / May 21, 2025 | ||
| EDX Markets operates an institutional digital asset marketplace that provides cryptocurrency spot trading, clearing, and settlement services. The company offers a non-custodial trading venue with a central clearing model designed to streamline trade settlement, manage counterparty exposure, and support institutional trading workflows. It alsoprovides perpetual futures trading for eligible international institutional participants, along with API connectivity, market access tools, and crypto infrastructure services. Its platform supports trading across a range of digital assets while emphasizing transparent market operations and operational efficiency for financial institutions. | Series A / Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 29, 2022 | ||
| BioLumic develops light signals that activate plant growth and unlock the natural genetic potential of crops. The company's photogenics platform leverages innovation in plant science, light technology and genetic insights. Demonstrated results include higher yield, improved vigor, increased disease and pest resistance, and improvements incrops composition. These results have been across a variety of seeds and seedling: soybean, cannabis and vegetable and fruit crops. It is a clean technology that does not require the use of chemicals or amendments. BioLumic is a private company and was founded in 2013. | $13.5M / Series B / Jun 21, 2022 | ||
| InvestX is the private equity marketplace for registered dealers to provide access to retail accredited investors. Their goal is to democratize private equity investing to provide every investor with access to highly vetted, top-quality private companies at significantly lower minimums.InvestX Members can invest in any of the private equity dealson its platform at minimum investment sizes as low as $2500. To meet the steep minimums required by private equity firms, InvestX aggregates all of their members’ smaller checks and writes the multi-million-dollar check to the PE firm.InvestX provides access to the same high-quality private company deals that institutional investors and the ultra-wealthy are investing in. InvestX members are always assured that a professional Private Equity firm has taken the investment through its thorough, institutional quality due diligence process.InvestX partners with private equity firms that have a strong track record of success. Additionally, members are assured that the private equity firms’ interests are aligned with theirs because the PE firm will always co-invest alongside the members in the investment. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 22, 2021 | ||
| CFTC- regulated futures exchange to offer smaller, simpler, more accessible futures for active individual investors. | $7.5M / Series B / Apr 23, 2021 | ||
| Equiduct is a trading platform offering premium Best Execution services and a lit central limit order book. | $3.7M / Series A / Jun 27, 2019 | ||
| ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $20M / Series B / Apr 30, 2019 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Virtu Financial invest in?
Virtu Financial invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Virtu Financial's check size?
Virtu Financial typically joins rounds of $7.5M–$31M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Virtu Financial participates in.
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Who are the partners at Virtu Financial?
The team at Virtu Financial includes Doug Cifu (CEO), Joseph Molluso (co-President) and Laine Litman (Global Head of FICCC Liquidity), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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