Brian Zboril

Global Head of CME Ventures

📍 Winnetka, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Observer
Aug 2026
Silicon Data is on a mission to revolutionize compute markets through unparalleled data transparency. As pioneers in the field, Silicon Data is dedicated to developing cutting-edge products that provide essential intelligence and efficiency to compute markets worldwide.
Board Observer
Jul 2025
Bringing Wall Street to the Stadium
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Revelate is the #1 data marketplace platform for data discovery, sharing, cross-listing, and monetization.
Board Observer
Feb 2023
Kemiex is the all-in-one market information, purchasing 
and sales platform for animal and human nutrition raw materials.
Board Member
Jun 2021
BlockFills is a technology and crypto trading firm in the digital assets space. BlockFills has created a trading ecosystem that combines world-class liquidity and professional trading connectivity with secure settlements.
Board Observer - Risk Commitee
Jun 2021
Symphony is an AI-powered communication and technology company fueled by interconnected platforms: Messaging, Voice, Directory and Analytics. Our modular technology - built for global finance - enables over 1,000 institutions to prioritize data security, navigate complex regulatory compliance and optimize business interactions. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in New York City with 10 additional offices across the globe. Find out more at symphony.com
Interim Board Member
Jan 2020
Axoni is a real-time data replication company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants.
Interim Board Member
Jan 2020
Cloud9 Technologies, now part of Symphony, is the leading voice collaboration and analytics firm for the financial markets that is reinventing the way traders communicate. We offer advanced trader communication, voice analytics, and transcription solutions.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Axoni is a real-time data replication company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Cloud9 Technologies, now part of Symphony, is the leading voice collaboration and analytics firm for the financial markets that is reinventing the way traders communicate. We offer advanced trader communication, voice analytics, and transcription solutions.
Interim Board Observer
Jan 2020
The largest global financial institutions use OpenFin’s intelligent workspaces and developer platform to help their teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively. Delight users and accelerate time-to-value with a workspace that does it all. Launch apps, automate tasks, configure complex layouts, search, context share, send and receive notifications and discover new apps. Our Chromium container provides all the tools you need to build Native Web Apps and deploy securely to locked-down desktops. Use our APIs to enable complex layouts, cross-app messaging, desktop notifications, secure OS access, and more. Clients expectations about how work gets done have changed. They don’t want siloed apps: they want a connected experience. Whether it’s more powerful layouts, unified notifications, or data flowing from one app to another - our tools empower you to give customers what they want. Join the OpenFin ecosystem and deliver elevated workspace experiences to your customers today. Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the operating system for enterprise productivity, enabling app distribution, workspace management and workflow automation. Used by 90% of global financial institutions, OpenFin deploys more than 3,500 desktop applications to more than 2,400 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, ING Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital among others. The company is based in New York with offices in London and presence in Hong Kong.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
The largest global financial institutions use OpenFin’s intelligent workspaces and developer platform to help their teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively. Delight users and accelerate time-to-value with a workspace that does it all. Launch apps, automate tasks, configure complex layouts, search, context share, send and receive notifications and discover new apps. Our Chromium container provides all the tools you need to build Native Web Apps and deploy securely to locked-down desktops. Use our APIs to enable complex layouts, cross-app messaging, desktop notifications, secure OS access, and more. Clients expectations about how work gets done have changed. They don’t want siloed apps: they want a connected experience. Whether it’s more powerful layouts, unified notifications, or data flowing from one app to another - our tools empower you to give customers what they want. Join the OpenFin ecosystem and deliver elevated workspace experiences to your customers today. Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the operating system for enterprise productivity, enabling app distribution, workspace management and workflow automation. Used by 90% of global financial institutions, OpenFin deploys more than 3,500 desktop applications to more than 2,400 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, ING Ventures, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital among others. The company is based in New York with offices in London and presence in Hong Kong.
Board Member
Apr 2019
OpenGamma is a derivatives analytics firm with unparalleled expertise in OTC and ETD margin methodologies, backed by CME, JSCC, Accel and Dawn. Our teams bring together a unique mix of practitioner, quantitative and software engineering expertise. Today, we are trusted by the largest and most sophisticated global banks and fund managers, with thousands of users depending on our analytics. Our product coverage spans across margin solutions (validating and optimising cleared and bilateral portfolios), UMR or SIMM processing and regulatory reporting. OpenGamma has on-boarded 50+ clients to our cloud-based solution including Tier One Investment Banks, Asset Managers and Hedge Funds – successfully delivering to these demanding organisations within committed timelines. To find out more information, or to watch our free demo video, visit opengamma.com.
Board Member
Apr 2019
We’re Duco, and we make managing mission-critical data easy. Our vision is to cut time spent on data-related work in financial services Operations and Finance departments by 90%. Why? Because firms in the industry spend millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours every year trying to solve data problems. We give you the tools you need to automate all data across your enterprise (regardless of format or source) on one platform, driven by the end-user. It’s a no-code, cloud-native, AI-powered solution that enables you to start trusting your data. This eliminates manual work, cuts cost, reduces risk, turbocharges agility and creates transparency. Our customers are saving money and time, simplifying their businesses, ditching old technology and changing their legacy – are you? Find out more at https://du.co/.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Avathon, a leader in Industrial AI, extends the life of critical infrastructure while advancing the journey toward full autonomy. Avathon’s Industrial AI platform empowers commercial and government customers with scalable, secure, and value-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and resilience across heavy industry.
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2026
Board Observer
Aug 2026
Silicon Data is on a mission to revolutionize compute markets through unparalleled data transparency. As pioneers in the field, Silicon Data is dedicated to developing cutting-edge products that provide essential intelligence and efficiency to compute markets worldwide.
2025
Board Observer
Jul 2025
Bringing Wall Street to the Stadium
2023
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Revelate is the #1 data marketplace platform for data discovery, sharing, cross-listing, and monetization.
Board Observer
May 2023
Since 2012, Mercaris has helped its customers capitalize on the growing demand for organic and non-GMO agriculture by providing market access and services tailored to the needs of the identity-preserved agriculture industry. Mercaris focuses its data and products on the organic and non-GMO grains and oilseeds markets across all regions of the United States and Canada. Additionally, through its newly launched dairy initiative, Mercaris hosts quarterly online auctions for certified organic cream which proves to be an effective example of price discovery. Mercaris also operates a trading business that enables buyers and sellers to find new markets and more profitably trade organic and non-GMO commodities. Mercaris provides market-based tools, including data, analysis, and trading, for the sustainable, identity-preserved agricultural sector. Our services help support and foster the growth of agricultural practices that protect and build soil, water, and air quality, as well as protect both human and animal health in the communities in which we work. By fulfilling our mission, we also enable others in the value chain to contribute to broader goals of environmental sustainability and increased access to information in otherwise underserved markets. Mercaris is a Certified B Corporation.
Board Observer
Feb 2023
Kemiex is the all-in-one market information, purchasing 
and sales platform for animal and human nutrition raw materials.
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