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BNY Mellon

Founders Aaron Burr Alexander Hamilton Thomas Mellon

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Total investments 43
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$59M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 0.18
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 4
Key employees 39

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Finance
  • Banking
Summary

BNY Mellon is the famous VC, which was founded in 1784. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. BNY Mellon seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

Besides them, we counted 39 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from BNY Mellon is 50-100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this BNY Mellon performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 8-9 partakers. Despite the BNY Mellon, startups are often financed by Pivot Investment Partners, Credit Suisse, Primary Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Credit Suisse, BlackRock, Wells Fargo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by BlackRock, UBS, Societe Generale.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Development, Financial Services. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Symphony Communication Services Holdings, Fnality International, R3.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Abbey Cross

Financial Services
Information Technology
Software
$6M13 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

MoCaFi

Analytics
Banking
Consumer
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$23M31 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

entrio

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$7M31 Mar 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Conquest Planning

Financial Services
FinTech
$19M07 Feb 2023 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

BondIT

Artificial Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Social/Platform Software
$14M06 Dec 2022 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

AccessFintech

Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
$60M22 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

Valkyrie

Financial Services
FinTech
$11M08 Jun 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Proxymity

Financial Services
$6M23 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Proxymity

Financial Services
$31M17 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Databricks expands its data lake analytics with $1.6B funding

– Databricks, a big data analytics software provider, announced that it raised $1.6 billion in a series H financing round led by Counterpoint Global, with participation from BNY Mellon and ClearBridge.
Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management & Research, and Franklin Templeton also contributed, bringing the company’s total raised to $3.5 billion at a $38 billion post-money valuation.
– Cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi says that the capital will be used to support Databricks’ product development, customer adoption, and the evangelization of “data lakehouse.”
– Data lakehouses — a term that came into vogue in 2020 — are data management architectures that combine data lakes, which store structured and unstructured data, with data warehouses, which perform queries and analysis.

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks raises $133 million

– Fireblocks, a cryptocurrency custody company, raised $133m funding.
– The round was led by Coatue, Ribbit and Stripes.
BNY and Silicon Valley Bank are also participating in the funding round.
– Existing investors Paradigm, Galaxy Digital, Swisscom Ventures, Tenaya Capital and Cyberstarts Ventures are investing once again.
– Overall, Fireblocks has raised $179m since day one.
– The company doesn’t have a consumer-facing product.
– Instead, it sells its products to banks, fintech startups and other financial institutions.

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Total investments 43
Average round size 59M
Rounds per year 0.18
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Abbey Cross

Financial Services
Information Technology
Software
$6M13 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

MoCaFi

Analytics
Banking
Consumer
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$23M31 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

entrio

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$7M31 Mar 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Conquest Planning

Financial Services
FinTech
$19M07 Feb 2023 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

BondIT

Artificial Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Social/Platform Software
$14M06 Dec 2022 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

AccessFintech

Financial Services
FinTech
Risk Management
$60M22 Sep 2022 New York, New York, United States

Valkyrie

Financial Services
FinTech
$11M08 Jun 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Proxymity

Financial Services
$6M23 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Proxymity

Financial Services
$31M17 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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