Institutional Investment & Trading

Ethic, a sustainability-focused personalisation-powered asset management platform, has closed its Series C round on $50m.

Hazeltree, a treasury and liquidity management technology platform for the alternative asset and investment management space, has secured $14m in strategic funding.

Titanbay, a private markets investment platform, has partnered with Apex Group to add an ESG rating to new funds added to the Titanbay platform.

Direct-to-consumer investing platform Yieldstreet has closed a $400m credit facility from Monroe Capital.

Following her retirement, tennis star Serena Williams’ has said she will focus on her venture capital firm Serena Ventures, which backs a variety of companies including FinTechs and InsurTechs, many of which are owned by women and people of colour.

Appital, which stylises itself as the ‘Equity Capital Marketplace’, has raised an additional £1.7m in funding.

API-based credit trading automation and execution service Overbond has received an investment from Fitch Ventures.

MerQube, which offers technology for indexing and rules-based investing, has raised $8m in funding.

Insurtech Gateway, a champion of early-stage InsurTech startups, has completed the first close of its Seed Fund II which will support 20 teams over the next four years from pre-seed to Series A.

Accelex, a SaaS platform redefining alternative investment data management, has raised $5m in funding.