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Illuminate Financial
London, United Kingdom
Illuminate Financial is a thesis‑driven venture capital firm investing in fintech and enterprise software companies that build technology solutions for financial services. The firm leverages deep domain expertise and a g...
Portfolio
52+
Employees
25+
Founded
2014
AUM
≈ $278.5M
Investment focus
Stages
Seed → Series B
Industries
Enterprise SoftwareFinancial Technology
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Fund I
Vintage 2023 • $43.5M
Fund III
Vintage 2023 • $235.0M
Sources
Illuminate Financial
Illuminate Financial is a thesis‑driven venture capital firm investing in fintech and enterprise software companies that build technology solutions for financial services. The firm leverages deep domain expertise and a global network of leading financial institutions to identify and back entrepreneurs solving real problems for banks and other financial firms.
Portfolio
52+
Employees
25+
Founded
2014
AUM
≈ $278.5M
Funds
Fund I · Vintage 2023 • $43.5M
Fund III · Vintage 2023 • $235.0M
Stages
Seed → Series B
Industries
Enterprise SoftwareFinancial Technology
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
Showing 24 of 35 matched portfolio companies
Accacia provides a full‑stack platform that consolidates operational and embodied carbon data for commercial real‑estate portfolios, offering a unified dashboard, carbon intelligence, and automated ESG reporting. The solution also includes a marketplace for low‑carbon building products and equipment, enabling owners and managers to identify reduction opportunities and source sustainable materials directly within the platform.
Funding: $6.5M
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+ 2 Other investorsIlluminate Financial
+ 2 Other investorsIlluminate Financial
Funding: $6.5M
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Arteria AI develops a data-centric contract lifecycle management platform that utilizes Natural Language Processing to transform contracts into structured, searchable data. This technology enables organizations to automate contract generation, streamline negotiations, and gain actionable insights, ultimately reducing the time and costs associated with contract management.
Funding: $30.0M
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Notable Capital
Notable Capital
Funding: $30.0M
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Baton provides a cloud‑native platform that uses AI‑driven load‑matching and predictive routing to align freight demand with available truck capacity in real time. Integrated via REST/GraphQL APIs with transportation‑management systems, it offers dashboards for utilization, deadhead reduction, and carbon‑emission analytics, helping carriers and shippers improve fleet efficiency and meet sustainability targets.
Baton Systems provides a real-time, cloud-native platform for post-trade processing, enabling financial institutions to manage payments, settlements, and collateral with enhanced visibility and control. The technology addresses the challenges of operational risk and intraday liquidity management, facilitating over $3.3 trillion in asset movements in 2024 alone.
Funding: $18.3M
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Illuminate Financial
Illuminate Financial
Funding: $18.3M
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BeZero is an independent carbon ratings agency that provides transparent, verifiable ratings and risk analytics for carbon offset projects across all lifecycle stages. Its platform offers publicly disclosed methodologies, continuous monitoring, a self‑serve pre‑rating Scorecard, portfolio risk tools, and an AI‑driven assistant to help developers, corporate sustainability teams, and institutional investors assess credit quality and manage portfolio risk without conflicts of interest.
Funding: $32.0M
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+ 8 Other investorsGenZero
+ 8 Other investorsGenZero
Funding: $32.0M
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Blockdaemon provides a blockchain infrastructure platform that offers node management, APIs, and staking services for institutional clients. This solution enables organizations to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain networks while ensuring high availability and compliance with industry standards.
Funding: $431.3M
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Funding: $431.3M
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Bluesheets offers fileAI, an AI‑driven platform that extracts, classifies, validates, and orchestrates data from any document type using multimodal OCR and zero‑shot classification. Integrated with over 100 ERP and system connectors, it automates end‑to‑end workflows such as invoice processing, claims handling, and KYC onboarding while providing audit‑ready traceability and compliance for finance, insurance, banking, and healthcare organizations.
Funding: $8.0M
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Funding: $8.0M
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Composable Analytics, Inc. offers the Composable DataOps Platform, which utilizes machine learning and distributed data virtualization to enable enterprises to efficiently manage and analyze vast amounts of data. This platform addresses the challenges of developing data-driven applications and operationalizing Enterprise AI by providing a coherent framework for data integration and analytics.
Copper provides secure cryptocurrency custody through a multi-party computation (MPC) architecture, enabling institutional investors to manage digital assets without exposing them to exchange counterparty risk. Its ClearLoop network facilitates off-exchange settlements, allowing seamless trading on centralized exchanges while maintaining asset security.
Funding: $328.6M
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Funding: $328.6M
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Crossover Markets Group operates CROSSx, an execution-only electronic communication network (ECN) for institutional cryptocurrency trading, utilizing a sub-20 microsecond matching engine to deliver ultra-low latency and high throughput. By decoupling trade execution from custody and brokerage, the platform addresses the liquidity needs of institutions while eliminating conflicts of interest and offering the lowest trading fees in the industry.
Funding: $18.0M
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DRW Venture CapitalIlluminate Financial
DRW Venture CapitalIlluminate Financial
Funding: $18.0M
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Curv develops digital asset security infrastructure that enables crypto-native and financial institutions to create secure digital wallets for managing cryptocurrencies. The platform addresses the need for robust security measures in the storage and transfer of digital assets, ensuring protection against unauthorized access and potential losses.
Franklin TempletonIlluminate Financial
d1g1t is an enterprise wealth management platform that utilizes institutional-grade analytics and risk management tools to enhance portfolio management for financial advisory firms. By integrating comprehensive client data and automating investment strategies, d1g1t enables advisors to efficiently manage complex portfolios and improve client engagement.
Funding: $35.5M
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MissionOG
MissionOG
Funding: $35.5M
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Emmi provides financed emissions data and climate risk analysis for public and private asset classes, enabling investors to assess their carbon exposure accurately. By integrating carbon cost considerations into investment decisions, Emmi facilitates efficient capital allocation towards achieving Net Zero targets.
This startup provides digital wealth management services that utilize transparent pricing and conflict-free fee structures to enhance investment strategies. By offering cashback on trailer fees, it enables individuals to achieve personalized financial goals while ensuring security and trust in their investment decisions.
Funding: $108.2M
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Funding: $108.2M
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enmacc operates a digital platform for OTC trading of energy and environmental commodities, facilitating real-time price discovery and trade execution through its independent RFQ and price screens. The platform enhances market access and liquidity for over 500 member companies, streamlining the trading process and improving operational efficiency for energy traders and portfolio managers.
Funding: $11.1M
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AlantraWachstumsfonds Bayern
AlantraWachstumsfonds Bayern
Funding: $11.1M
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fileAI provides an AI-native data preparation platform that transforms complex files into clean, contextualized, and validated data. Its proprietary AI components handle ingestion, enrichment, and validation using advanced AI OCR and schema-aware reasoning. This structured output directly powers agentic workflows and downstream systems for scalable, touchless automation across various industries.
Funding: $12.2M
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Funding: $12.2M
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finres provides a data-driven platform that utilizes machine learning and agroeconomic modeling to assess climate risks in agriculture. By integrating climate science data with localized meteorological observations, the company enables farmers to prioritize adaptation investments and enhance resilience against climate extremes.
Funding: $4.5M
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Funding: $4.5M
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Flox provides developers with reproducible development environments using Nix, allowing them to create, share, and manage project-specific dependencies effortlessly. This approach eliminates inconsistencies across different machines, reducing the common "it works on my machine" issue and streamlining onboarding for new team members.
Funding: $26.6M
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New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates
Funding: $26.6M
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Fordefi provides an institutional MPC wallet platform and web3 gateway for secure digital asset management. This comprehensive solution allows users to self-custody private keys, connect to thousands of dApps across any blockchain, and enforce granular operational policies. The platform supports trading operations, treasury management, and Wallet-as-a-Service through APIs and developer tools.
Funding: $28.0M
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Electric Capital
Electric Capital
Funding: $28.0M
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The startup develops assessment and monitoring tools that utilize field samples and metadata to evaluate the impact of agricultural practices on soil health. Their technology enables corporations to implement measurable soil condition improvements, enhance yield, and strengthen resilience against environmental risks while ensuring compliance with scientific methodologies.
Funding: $5.1M
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Funding: $5.1M
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Gladia.io provides a speech-to-text API that enables real-time and asynchronous transcription of audio data with less than 300 milliseconds latency, ensuring high accuracy across over 100 languages. This technology enhances productivity for contact centers, sales teams, and media platforms by delivering actionable insights and seamless integration into existing workflows.
Funding: $20.3M
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XAnge
XAnge
Funding: $20.3M
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Interop provides a desktop‑level interoperability platform that unifies legacy, ERP, CRM and cloud‑native applications behind a single UI. It offers a library of ready‑made adapters and a visual low‑code workflow builder for real‑time data synchronization, event‑driven notifications, and secure API mediation, with built‑in monitoring and audit capabilities. The solution enables enterprise IT and business analysts to orchestrate cross‑application processes without extensive redevelopment.
Kiln provides an institutional‑grade, full‑stack staking platform that lets custodians, asset managers, exchanges, and wallet providers add on‑chain yield products without building their own infrastructure. Through a unified SDK and REST APIs, Kiln handles validator operations, reward distribution, slashing protection, and compliance‑ready reporting on a SOC 2 Type II certified environment, enabling white‑label earn experiences to be launched in days.
Funding: $17.0M
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1kx+ 4 Other investors
1kx+ 4 Other investors
Funding: $17.0M
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N5 offers a customer engagement platform that integrates with existing banking systems, enabling real-time marketing campaigns, digital onboarding, and analytics without overhauling core technologies. This solution addresses inefficiencies in legacy systems, resulting in measurable improvements such as a 53% increase in commercial productivity and a 21-point boost in Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Funding: $9.5M
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Illuminate Financial
Illuminate Financial
Funding: $9.5M
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