Joshua Lloyd-Lyons

Head of Corporate Development & M&A, EVP @ 73Strings | ex Venture Capital & Growth Investor (Fidelity, Eight Roads Ventures)

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
VC🌍 United Kingdom
11
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5
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6y
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Portfolio

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Investor
Dec 2023
ZILO is focused on transforming global transfer agency to create sustainable value for firms and the customers they serve. To achieve this, we started with a clean technology slate, a design-driven approach, and a commitment to put people first. ZILOs technology enables firms to replace legacy end-of-life systems, many of which were developed 30+ years ago, and slash costs, risk, and user friction along the way. Our founders, leadership, engineering, and product teams are highly experienced with successful track histories of pioneering innovation-driven businesses, products, and services. Our collective goal is to be the market leading solution in global asset and wealth management.
Board Observer & Investor
Jun 2023
73 Strings is digitalizing alternative investments. We provide efficiency and intelligence to how illiquid assets are analysed, valued, monitored and transacted thanks to our AI-augmented solutions, powered by 100s years of corporate finance and private assets expertise. Today, we offer two AI-augmented solutions: Qubit X (Valuation for Equity and Credit) and Graviton X (Data Collection & Monitoring). Our solutions optimize the most time-consuming components of the Valuation processes to let investment professionals focus on key tasks making judgment calls, and acting on critical insights.   To learn more about our products visit www.73strings.com To join our global team and help us shape the future of fintech, apply for one of our open positions or send a note along with your CV to jobs@73strings.com. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/73-strings/company_financials
Board Observer & Investor
Nov 2022
Quantifeed is a global leader in digital wealth and investment management technology. Wealth and asset managers worldwide use Quantifeed to build, distribute, and manage investment solutions. QEngine, Quantifeed’s modular, API-driven platform, streamlines portfolio management, from construction and distribution to trading and operations, enabling greater personalisation and scalability. It drives efficiencies across both advisory and discretionary businesses, helping firms deepen client engagement and accelerate growth. Headquartered in Hong Kong and London, with a presence in Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney, Quantifeed is shaping the future of digital investing.
Investor
Aug 2022
LMAX Group acquired FX HedgePool in October 2024. Accordingly, this page is no longer active and users should visit the LMAX Group page. FX HedgePool is the world’s leading peer-to-peer matching service for institutional foreign exchange transactions. Since its launch in January 2020, FX HedgePool has facilitated over $8 trillion in matched foreign exchange trades for a network of 40+ investment managers and banks. FX HedgePool helps institutional investors eliminate market impact and information leakage, reduce operational overhead and risk, and achieve consistent and transparent execution in all market conditions.
Investor
Sep 2021
Smart Pension is one of the UK’s largest and fastest-growing pension providers. Offering a workplace pension as a defined contribution master trust for employers of all sizes. We are excited to announce that we now manage over £10 billion of UK pension savings on behalf of around 2 million savers and 100,000 employers. Were proud to be the highest-rated pension provider on Trustpilot, reflecting the trust our members place in us every day. This is a significant milestone to reach in just over a decade. By combining pensions expertise with digital innovation, weve built a pension experience designed to help your employees save, plan and prepare for retirement with confidence. Driven by people We are digital first, not digital only. We provide excellent customer experiences and access to human expertise as standard. Powered by technology We are part of the Smart Group, and powered by Keystone, Smart’s global savings and investments technology platform. Our technology is our backbone, removing barriers and creating frictionless experiences, clear choices and speed. Built for the future We push to modernise pensions. Reducing pain points and innovating to deliver better long-term outcomes, for people and the world we live in. Get in touch today to see how we can support you.
Investor
Jul 2021
FINBOURNE has created an interconnected network of functionality and data that enables the investment community to better serve clients in a constantly evolving market.
Investor
Mar 2021
Moonfare is a leading global private equity investment platform and manager that provides eligible individual investors and family offices on a global scale access to institutional-quality private market opportunities, primaries, secondaries, and co-investments at lower minimums. A pioneer in widening access to private assets, we help our clients build diversified portfolios designed for long-term wealth creation with reduced volatility. This goes beyond offering funds from top-tier managers such as KKR, Carlyle, and EQT. Drawing on our global reach, we are able to identify and source a broader range of private equity opportunities that others can’t, including proprietary Moonfare investment products comprising carefully curated co-investments, secondaries and direct deals. Independent and exclusively focused on private equity, Moonfare is trusted by over 5,500 investors and has €3.8 billion in assets under management (AuM). Headquartered in Berlin, we operate in 24 countries, with offices in New York, London, Zürich, Singapore, Paris and Luxembourg. Capital at Risk.
Investor
Oct 2020
PrimaryBid is a leading fintech firm. We build advanced retail capital-raising solutions for regulated financial institutions, enabling smart investor inclusion in public offerings globally. Our technology platform facilitates efficient investor access in IPOs, follow-ons, block sales, and fixed income offerings, and transforms retail investor participation into a systematic and data-driven component of capital formation. Our technology has delivered over 300 offers including Soho House, CARMAT, Beazley and Compass. PrimaryBid SA. is the retail partner of Euronext and is authorised and supervised by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), supervised by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). PrimaryBid Securities Inc. is a Member of FINRA / SIPC. Investing in securities involves risk. EU offers are not for distribution to US Persons, or persons physically located in the US. To find out more about PrimaryBid visit our website.
Board Observer
Sep 2020
The SaaS Platform for Investment Management and Product Design. ALPIMA is a B2B financial technology and advisory firm serving banks, asset managers, wealth managers, consultants, product providers and other financial firms worldwide. We are a fast-growing team of engineers, applied scientists, and capital markets + investment professionals with one mission: to harness the latest advances in data science and technology to help our clients thrive in the digital age and deliver investment management as a service. Focused on the front office, our cloud-native platform enables rapid product design, instant portfolio construction and optimisation, interactive visualization and personalization at scale in real-time. It integrates with existing systems and data and is delivered as a white-labelled service. Alpima was acquired by Quantifeed in 2022.
VC Investor
Jul 2020
We invest in founders that are shaping the future of finance. Our team seeks to partner with visionary entrepreneurs that are redefining Wealth and Asset Management. We’re excited by unique business models, emerging technologies and new perspectives. We invest in category leaders that can create new markets, enhance portfolio returns or disrupt traditional processes. We harness the global network and deep industry expertise of Fidelity International to accelerate growth.
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (11)
Board (3)
2023
Investor
Dec 2023
ZILO is focused on transforming global transfer agency to create sustainable value for firms and the customers they serve. To achieve this, we started with a clean technology slate, a design-driven approach, and a commitment to put people first. ZILOs technology enables firms to replace legacy end-of-life systems, many of which were developed 30+ years ago, and slash costs, risk, and user friction along the way. Our founders, leadership, engineering, and product teams are highly experienced with successful track histories of pioneering innovation-driven businesses, products, and services. Our collective goal is to be the market leading solution in global asset and wealth management.
Board Observer & Investor
Jun 2023
73 Strings is digitalizing alternative investments. We provide efficiency and intelligence to how illiquid assets are analysed, valued, monitored and transacted thanks to our AI-augmented solutions, powered by 100s years of corporate finance and private assets expertise. Today, we offer two AI-augmented solutions: Qubit X (Valuation for Equity and Credit) and Graviton X (Data Collection & Monitoring). Our solutions optimize the most time-consuming components of the Valuation processes to let investment professionals focus on key tasks making judgment calls, and acting on critical insights.   To learn more about our products visit www.73strings.com To join our global team and help us shape the future of fintech, apply for one of our open positions or send a note along with your CV to jobs@73strings.com. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/73-strings/company_financials
2022
Board Observer & Investor
Nov 2022
Quantifeed is a global leader in digital wealth and investment management technology. Wealth and asset managers worldwide use Quantifeed to build, distribute, and manage investment solutions. QEngine, Quantifeed’s modular, API-driven platform, streamlines portfolio management, from construction and distribution to trading and operations, enabling greater personalisation and scalability. It drives efficiencies across both advisory and discretionary businesses, helping firms deepen client engagement and accelerate growth. Headquartered in Hong Kong and London, with a presence in Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney, Quantifeed is shaping the future of digital investing.
Investor
Aug 2022
LMAX Group acquired FX HedgePool in October 2024. Accordingly, this page is no longer active and users should visit the LMAX Group page. FX HedgePool is the world’s leading peer-to-peer matching service for institutional foreign exchange transactions. Since its launch in January 2020, FX HedgePool has facilitated over $8 trillion in matched foreign exchange trades for a network of 40+ investment managers and banks. FX HedgePool helps institutional investors eliminate market impact and information leakage, reduce operational overhead and risk, and achieve consistent and transparent execution in all market conditions.
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
Smart Pension is one of the UK’s largest and fastest-growing pension providers. Offering a workplace pension as a defined contribution master trust for employers of all sizes. We are excited to announce that we now manage over £10 billion of UK pension savings on behalf of around 2 million savers and 100,000 employers. Were proud to be the highest-rated pension provider on Trustpilot, reflecting the trust our members place in us every day. This is a significant milestone to reach in just over a decade. By combining pensions expertise with digital innovation, weve built a pension experience designed to help your employees save, plan and prepare for retirement with confidence. Driven by people We are digital first, not digital only. We provide excellent customer experiences and access to human expertise as standard. Powered by technology We are part of the Smart Group, and powered by Keystone, Smart’s global savings and investments technology platform. Our technology is our backbone, removing barriers and creating frictionless experiences, clear choices and speed. Built for the future We push to modernise pensions. Reducing pain points and innovating to deliver better long-term outcomes, for people and the world we live in. Get in touch today to see how we can support you.
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