Farooq J.

Fintech Venture Capital Investments

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Mar 2026
A BEE4 é um novo mercado regulado pela CVM no Brasil, com foco no desenvolvimento do segmento de acesso, com licenças para atuar como Depositária Central (CVM 31) e Mercado de Balcão Organizado (CVM 135), viabilizando o acesso de PMEs brasileiras ao mercado de capitais de forma inovadora, segura e eficiente. Atualmente, a BEE4 já lista empresas com faturamento entre R$10 milhões e R$500 milhões, com regras simplificadas e em plena operação. Para saber mais sobre o mercado BEE4, acesse nosso site.
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Apr 2025
Kanastra is the technological backoffice for alternative investments. We use proprietary technology for structured fund trust services and securitization services. If your backoffice gets you in trouble, run to the hills.
Investor
Mar 2024
BIST, ABD borsaları ve TEFAS fonları Midasta! Kriptonun Midas hali ile tanış.
Fintech VC Investments
Jun 2016
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. We utilize and leverage our products and services—as well as products and services of other institutions in the World Bank Group—to provide development solutions customized to meet clients’ needs. We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and political challenges. Clients view IFC as a provider and mobilizer of scarce capital, knowledge, and long-term partnerships that can help address critical constraints in areas such as finance, infrastructure, employee skills, and the regulatory environment. IFC is also a leading mobilizer of third-party resources for its projects. Our willingness to engage in difficult environments and our leadership in crowding-in private finance enable us to extend our footprint and have a development impact well beyond our direct resources. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. https://youtube.com/shorts/UWDx7dWuPgg?feature=share
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2016
EMBonds is an electronic trading platform for Emerging Markets bonds. The platform can be used by institutional investors such as mutual fund managers, hedge fund managers, private banks, and investment banks to access liquidity in corporate and sovereign issues, both local and hard currency. The company was founded by Mehmet Artun and Kerim Acanal two former Emerging Markets fixed income traders with over 15 years trading experience each. Having worked both as a market maker and portfolio manager, the founders set out to improve access to secondary market liquidity by making it easier for international investors to access local market liquidity. EMBonds is backed by Earlybird, a venture capital fund based in Germany and International Finance Corporation part of the World Bank Group.
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2026
Investor
Mar 2026
A BEE4 é um novo mercado regulado pela CVM no Brasil, com foco no desenvolvimento do segmento de acesso, com licenças para atuar como Depositária Central (CVM 31) e Mercado de Balcão Organizado (CVM 135), viabilizando o acesso de PMEs brasileiras ao mercado de capitais de forma inovadora, segura e eficiente. Atualmente, a BEE4 já lista empresas com faturamento entre R$10 milhões e R$500 milhões, com regras simplificadas e em plena operação. Para saber mais sobre o mercado BEE4, acesse nosso site.
2025
Investor
Apr 2025
Kanastra is the technological backoffice for alternative investments. We use proprietary technology for structured fund trust services and securitization services. If your backoffice gets you in trouble, run to the hills.
2024
Investor
Mar 2024
BIST, ABD borsaları ve TEFAS fonları Midasta! Kriptonun Midas hali ile tanış.
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
GTN is a fintech pioneer with decades of success, holding broker-dealer and capital markets services licenses in multiple jurisdictions through its subsidiaries. We are committed to empowering brokers, banks, asset managers, and fintechs with scalable and innovative investment and trading solutions that enable access to a comprehensive network of global markets and multiple asset classes, making investment and trading accessible for all. GTNs investment and trading solutions offer seamless integration with the existing services of regulated financial firms and fintechs via our co-branded front-ends or versatile API suite. The GTN API suite, inspired by embedded finance, provides the adaptability to develop bespoke trading/investment applications or incorporate GTN features into existing platforms, enhancing their value proposition. In addition, our comprehensive global trading ecosystem includes best-in-class execution, custody, and post-trade solutions. GTN brings together a diverse team of over 300 talented individuals spread across Dubai, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the UK, and the US, united by a shared passion and purpose: empowering clients and transforming the accessibility to investment and trading opportunities to all. We are backed by strategic investors like the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and SBI Ventures Singapore Pte. Ltd., a group company of SBI Holdings, Inc., one of the largest financial services firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
2016
Fintech VC Investments
Jun 2016
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. We utilize and leverage our products and services—as well as products and services of other institutions in the World Bank Group—to provide development solutions customized to meet clients’ needs. We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and political challenges. Clients view IFC as a provider and mobilizer of scarce capital, knowledge, and long-term partnerships that can help address critical constraints in areas such as finance, infrastructure, employee skills, and the regulatory environment. IFC is also a leading mobilizer of third-party resources for its projects. Our willingness to engage in difficult environments and our leadership in crowding-in private finance enable us to extend our footprint and have a development impact well beyond our direct resources. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. https://youtube.com/shorts/UWDx7dWuPgg?feature=share
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