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Board Observer
2026
Introducing a tailored US credit card solution for Latin American residents with US assets: Enjoy the benefits of American financial services seamlessly, without the traditional barriers, designed specifically to cater to your transnational lifestyle.
Board Member
2025
Institutions have a generational opportunity to transform how money and assets move, shifting a source of friction into a catalyst for growth. Baton is a trusted technology partner helping the worlds largest banks seize it. Every day, our platform processes nearly $30 billion for 7 of the 9 largest banks, having facilitated the settlement of over $29 trillion in value and handled more than $184 million transactions.
We build connected, real-time and AI-ready tools essential to future-proof the industry, enabling financial institutions to optimise liquidity, collateral and payments, unlocking improved profitability and capital efficiencies.
Our technology connects market participants through coordinated, real-time workflows. By streamlining movements between institutions and reducing operational, liquidity and settlement risks, while bridging finance with 24/7 and digital asset markets, we help institutions convert financial resources into a spur for revenue opportunities.
Our institutional-grade DLT infrastructure is ready for fiat-to-digital convergence, delivering the speed, safety, transparency and efficiency needed for scaled adoption of intraday markets and tokenised digital assets. Our technology powers real-time solutions and collaborative, industry-led financial networks that connect institutions and provide the digital backbone to address market-wide challenges, adding value, cutting costs and mitigating risk.
Our AI-ready platform gives institutions the governed data foundation for AI-assisted workflows and rapid reconciliation of fragmented data.
With deep financial expertise, technical strength and a culture of delivery and innovation, Baton is an experienced, independent partner helping institutions move fast and reinvent their financial markets infrastructure.
Learn more at www.batonsystems.com
Baton: trusted by the market. Built to change it.
Board Observer
May 2024
Crossover Markets is a digital asset trading technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions in the cryptocurrency markets. CROSSx, the companys execution-only cryptocurrency Electronic Communication Network (ECN), is powered by the industrys fastest and most advanced matching engine and includes order logic that enables clients to choose with whom they want to trade. Led by a team with decades of FX trading, prime brokerage technology and artificial intelligence experience, Crossover is ushering the next big wave of institutions in the crypto market.
For more information visit crossovermarkets.com.
Investor
May 2023
Notabene’s SafeTransact is an easy-to-use platform that empowers customers to identify and stop high-risk crypto activity before it occurs.
Investor
Mar 2023
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Board Member
Aug 2022
The institutional layer for onchain assets
Kiln is the leading institutional onchain asset and yield management platform, enabling institutions to generate yield on their digital assets and empower users with direct access to onchain yield.
Trusted by industry leaders including VanEck, CoinShares, Fireblocks, Ledger, Coinbase, Crypto.com, and Binance.US, Kiln provides access to diverse yield sources across 30+ PoS networks – from native staking to DeFi strategies.
Having surpassed $18 billion in assets delegated in 2025, Kiln offers a comprehensive suite of yield products, real-time reporting, and monetization tools that help custodians, wallets, exchanges, and asset managers streamline onchain operations.
Kiln is SOC 2 Type II compliant.
Investor
Jun 2022
Cloudwall is a risk platform technology provider for digital assets based in NYC and Singapore. Our flagship product, Serenity, is a cloud-based portfolio risk platform for digital asset hedge funds, prop trading firms, OTC desks and investors managing a diverse portfolio of digital assets.
Board Observer
Jan 2022
We build data-centric end-to-end Digital Documentation powered by AI. Our award-winning platform Arteria turns your documents into data that powers your data systems and automates and accelerates documentation processes to reduce the time it takes to generate and collaborate on documentation processes and get you to revenue and value faster.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
YvesBlue (YB) provides multi asset class, ESG and impact analytics, research and data for financial institutions and investment management firms, delivering users a clear picture of the ESG risks and health of their portfolio.
Investor
Jul 2021
We find, fund and support the best entrepreneurs solving real problems for financial institutions.
Building an enterprise software company and selling solutions into financial institutions is hard.
Large financial firms know they need to adopt new technology solutions to remain competitive and compliant, but they struggle to filter and identify the best companies that are fit for purpose.
Bridging this gap requires more than just patient capital to help with this challenge.
It needs the support of a trusted partner who can help make the right introductions to the right people at the right time.
At Illuminate, our deep networks and partnerships with key industry participants across banks, infrastructure providers, asset & wealth managers, exchanges and established vendors allow us to gain real insight into what the industry needs and help portfolio companies achieve their full potential.
We understand the challenges founders face. We have been the entrepreneur, the vendor, the industry executive and the end consumer.
We are an independent sector specialist investor.
Experience · 13 entries
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2026
Board Observer
2026
Introducing a tailored US credit card solution for Latin American residents with US assets: Enjoy the benefits of American financial services seamlessly, without the traditional barriers, designed specifically to cater to your transnational lifestyle.
2025
Board Member
2025
Institutions have a generational opportunity to transform how money and assets move, shifting a source of friction into a catalyst for growth. Baton is a trusted technology partner helping the worlds largest banks seize it. Every day, our platform processes nearly $30 billion for 7 of the 9 largest banks, having facilitated the settlement of over $29 trillion in value and handled more than $184 million transactions.
We build connected, real-time and AI-ready tools essential to future-proof the industry, enabling financial institutions to optimise liquidity, collateral and payments, unlocking improved profitability and capital efficiencies.
Our technology connects market participants through coordinated, real-time workflows. By streamlining movements between institutions and reducing operational, liquidity and settlement risks, while bridging finance with 24/7 and digital asset markets, we help institutions convert financial resources into a spur for revenue opportunities.
Our institutional-grade DLT infrastructure is ready for fiat-to-digital convergence, delivering the speed, safety, transparency and efficiency needed for scaled adoption of intraday markets and tokenised digital assets. Our technology powers real-time solutions and collaborative, industry-led financial networks that connect institutions and provide the digital backbone to address market-wide challenges, adding value, cutting costs and mitigating risk.
Our AI-ready platform gives institutions the governed data foundation for AI-assisted workflows and rapid reconciliation of fragmented data.
With deep financial expertise, technical strength and a culture of delivery and innovation, Baton is an experienced, independent partner helping institutions move fast and reinvent their financial markets infrastructure.
Learn more at www.batonsystems.com
Baton: trusted by the market. Built to change it.
2024
Board Observer
May 2024
Crossover Markets is a digital asset trading technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions in the cryptocurrency markets. CROSSx, the companys execution-only cryptocurrency Electronic Communication Network (ECN), is powered by the industrys fastest and most advanced matching engine and includes order logic that enables clients to choose with whom they want to trade. Led by a team with decades of FX trading, prime brokerage technology and artificial intelligence experience, Crossover is ushering the next big wave of institutions in the crypto market.
For more information visit crossovermarkets.com.
2023
Investor
May 2023
Notabene’s SafeTransact is an easy-to-use platform that empowers customers to identify and stop high-risk crypto activity before it occurs.
Investor
Mar 2023
Let us sift through the data to bring you the nuggets. Say goodbye to indexing, wasting gas on event logs and constantly querying RPCs. Start writing functions.
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