Nasdaq Ventures is a global venture investing programme focused on cultivating talent and technology advancement within financial services, supporting innovation across data, analytics, anti-financial crime, market infrastructure and ESG.
Gabriella brings governance, customer success, and product experience from roles at Nasdaq and Thomson Reuters. She currently serves as Vice President of Governance and ESG Solutions at Nasdaq.
The capital raise was led by WisdomTree, Bank of America, Citi, KBC Group, Temasek and Tradeweb to support the expansion of its global settlement network.
"The closing of our Series C reflects a shared conviction that the future of money demands a new foundation, one with Fnality at its core. Our blockchain-based settlement systems, anchored in the credit quality of central bank money, connect traditional finance with the fast adoption of tokenized and decentralized markets. With 24/7 payment rails, real-time settlement, and enhanced liquidity management, we’re not just modernizing wholesale payments, we’re building a future that fuses Decentralized Finance’s operational optimization with Traditional Finance’s capital efficiency. This investment accelerates our journey toward a financial market infrastructure that is more resilient, more inclusive, and ready for the hybrid future of global finance."
The financing concludes a total Series A raise of £9.5m and will support global expansion and AI product integration.
"We have invested heavily in data architecture and leveraged our governance expertise to build data structures that ensure the utmost integrity around entity data, which enables the development of highly accurate and time-saving AI features. Thanks to this funding round, we can supercharge the Kube platform to empower enterprises to manage, analyse and visualise entity data in a way that will transform day-to-day operational efficiency. We’re delighted to be partnering with Barclays as both a customer and investor, and to see our relationship with Nasdaq Ventures go from strength to strength."
Optiver led the financing round with participation from FactSet, Nasdaq Ventures, IQ Capital and CTC Venture Capital.
"We are thrilled to welcome Optiver as a significant shareholder and are delighted to have the ongoing support from our existing investors who have backed the latest round. We have an incredibly diverse team of supporting investors, with deep-seated global market and technology expertise, and we are poised to scale the business further, as we build out and scale our data feed business and futures coverage and wider product offering globally."
The Series B round will help fund the deployment of the company's tokenised cash innovation and global liquidity management ecosystem.
"Our Series B funding round represents the financial sector’s desire for a central bank money backed blockchain-based settlement solution that bridges the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralised finance (DeFi) in wholesale markets. Each Fnality Payment System utilises DLT to provide a 24/7 payment rail with the ability to reduce settlement cycles to real-time, while significantly improving intraday liquidity management and marking significant innovation in the speed, functionality, and resilience of wholesale payments."
