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Illuminate Financial

Illuminate Financial

Venture Capital

Illuminate Financial is a specialist venture capital investor focused on enterprise software companies serving the financial services industry.

Portfolio

9

companies

By category

  • Uncategorised£180M
  • CleanTech£42.6M
  • FinTech£24.8M
  • RegTech£18.0M
  • Big Data£16.5M
  • Other£21.3M

By location

  • New York£180M
  • London£123M

Portfolio companies

Accelex

Accelex

Accelex delivers data acquisition, analytics, and reporting solutions for private markets investors.

BeZero Carbon

BeZero Carbon

BeZero Carbon operates a ratings agency that evaluates carbon offset projects.

Copper

Copper

Copper provides digital asset infrastructure for institutional cryptocurrency investors.

FeedStock

FeedStock

FeedStock supplies artificial intelligence software for compliance and commercial analysis in financial services.

Genesis

Genesis

Genesis provides low-code and no-code application development platforms for financial markets.

Privitar

Privitar

Privitar provides a comprehensive data privacy platform that enables organisations to manage sensitive information securely.

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Team

Mark Whitcroft

Mark Whitcroft

Founding Partner

Mark brings venture capital and board experience from roles at Illuminate Financial and various portfolio companies. He now serves as chief executive and co-founder of PlannerPal and Hazel.

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Mark Beeston

Managing Partner

Mark brings financial technology venture capital and operating experience, having previously held senior roles at ICAP, T-Zero, and Deutsche Bank before founding Illuminate Financial.

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Recent investments

Series B
£42.6M

The funding round was led by Quantum Energy Partners with participation from corporate and existing investors to support global expansion.

"We have a once in a generation opportunity to build environmental and ecological restoration into the heart of the economic model. Starting with carbon, effective ecosystem markets have huge potential to accelerate the Net Zero transition and generate economic prosperity. Developing the information infrastructure that allows these markets to take off is fundamental to their growth. The raise will ensure we can continue to invest in our ratings, risk and analytics tools to make this vision a reality."
— Tommy Ricketts, CEO
Series B
£18.0M

The compliance technology firm secured £18m from a syndicate led by Ten Coves Capital to accelerate its international growth.

"Facing regulatory clampdowns, huge data volumes, and inflation impacts on budgets, financial firms need ways to reduce costs through efficiencies and automation. This is what we deliver through our distinctive, data-centric compliance platform."
— Matt Smith, CEO
Series A
£13.0M

The funding extension will support team growth, venue connectivity, and new product development.

"As banks and asset managers focus on automating trading workflows to deliver increased efficiency, TransFICC’s ‘One API’ has been implemented at some of the largest Fixed Income trading banks and Exchanges,"
— Steve Toland, Co-Founder
Seed
$200M

The financing round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from a group of prominent institutional investors.

"The Genesis platform is already trusted by leading institutions from Citi, who is also a strategic investor from previous funding rounds, and ING to Alliance Bernstein and B3 to speed innovation and accelerate delivery of purpose-built financial markets applications,"
— Stephen Murphy, CEO