Clearstream

Corporate

Clearstream is an international central securities depository headquartered in Luxembourg and part of Deutsche Borse Group, providing post-trade infrastructure and custody services.

Portfolio

companies

Portfolio companies

Origin

Origin provides a digital platform to automate the debt issuance process for capital markets.

Proxymity

Digital investor communications platform connecting issuers, intermediaries, and investors

Team

Thilo Derenbach

Head of European Custody Product

Thilo brings extensive custody and securities services experience from senior roles at Clearstream. He also serves on the advisory board of Digital Vault Services.

Jens Hachmeister

Head of Issuer Services & New Digital Markets

Jens brings extensive management experience across Deutsche Börse, Clearstream, and Digital Asset. He currently heads issuer services and new digital markets at Clearstream, following previous roles in human resources, integration planning, and digital assets.

Recent investments

Series A7 October 2020

€0

Origin secures Series A financing from Clearstream and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to automate bond issuance

FinTech

Clearstream and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange led the financing round to support the development of automated debt issuance solutions.

"We are very excited and proud to have the confidence of Clearstream and LuxSE in this transaction. This step is a fantastic validation of not just our technology, but also of the impact we have already had on the market and most importantly our customers. We look forward to working together with our new partners to make debt issuance cheaper, faster, and better for all market participants."

— Raja Palaniappan, CEO and co-founder

Origin—London, UK

Clearstream + 1 other

5 May 2020

$20.5M

Proxymity raises $20.5m in a strategic round to spin out as an independent entity backed by global financial institutions.

FinTech

The strategic funding round was backed by eight major financial institutions including BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Computershare, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and State Street.

"We’re extremely proud of what Proxymity has achieved so far within Citi since we developed the platform in 2017. To date, Proxymity has supported over 3,000 shareholder meetings and, after successful pilots, we’ve fully launched the platform in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Australia, as well as a pilot in Spain,"

— Dean Little, Co-Founder

Proxymity—London, UK

BNY Mellon + 7 others