Vinyl Equity, a FinTech infrastructure company for capital markets and corporate transactions and SEC-registered transfer agent, has closed a $20m Series A funding round led by Jump Capital.
The raise also drew strategic participation from MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP), the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, alongside continued backing from Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Infinity Ventures, and Cambrian FinTech.
Vinyl replaces legacy workflows with modern systems that deliver real-time accuracy, auditability, and control across the full lifecycle of capital markets and corporate transactions in both private and public markets. This spans shareholder recordkeeping, equity operations, paying agency, and transaction workflows.
Its payments solutions provide compliant, secure distributions through a single integrated workflow, allowing issuers to execute distributions at scale without introducing additional intermediaries or manual reconciliation.
The platform is built with document collection, KYC/KYB controls, tax filing, audit trails, and fraud prevention integrated at the workflow layer, replacing paper-based processes with a streamlined digital experience suited to the regulatory requirements of modern capital markets.
The company is also expanding its capabilities through integrations with leading equity plan administrators. By linking transfer agency and equity plan administration via APIs, vested and exercised shares are issued and reconciled in real time, removing the manual data entry and settlement delays that have historically characterised the category and, in some cases, caused costly setbacks for plan participants.
The company is already working with a growing number of publicly traded and private companies. Among its clients is Neptune Insurance Holdings, for which Vinyl acted as transfer agent following the company’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange, overseeing shareholder onboarding, recordkeeping, and transaction processing.
The Series A proceeds will be directed towards growing Vinyl’s engineering, compliance, and go-to-market teams, accelerating infrastructure development across capital markets and corporate transactions, deepening support for issuers across private and public markets, and constructing the systems required to underpin compliant operations as regulatory frameworks continue to develop.
Vinyl Equity CEO and co-founder Rob Schoder said, “The frustration we hear from issuers is consistent. The systems they use to interact with the capital markets were built for a different era, and the workarounds that held things together no longer scale. We’re delivering adaptable infrastructure that solves immediate needs for issuers and their shareholders to ensure they’re prepared now and for the next evolution.”
Vinyl Equity CTO and co-founder Poornaprajna Udupi said, “We made deliberate architectural choices to ensure Vinyl could operate reliably in regulated, high-stakes market environments. That meant prioritizing consistency, auditability, and system integrity across the entire issuer lifecycle from the start so that core workflows function predictably under real market conditions—and the foundation is already in place for what comes next.”
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