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Illuminate Financial

Illuminate Financial portfolio

Illuminate Financial has 6 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.

Website: illuminatefinancial.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 6.

Deals, last 12 months: 2.

Rounds led: 2 of 5.

Capital in their rounds: $186M.

Latest deal: Crossover Markets · Mar 4, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in London, GB, founded in 2014. It led 2 of the 5 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Crossover Markets's $31M Series B+ round in March 2026, alongside DRW Venture Capital, Wintermute Ventures, XTX Markets and 3 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Fintech (5) and Stablecoins (3). It has co-invested with Wintermute Ventures, XTX Markets and Ripple, most often Wintermute Ventures (2 rounds).

About Illuminate Financial

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: London, GB.

Founded: 2014.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech.

Check size: $1M to $8M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

What Illuminate Financial invests in

Fintech · 5 · 83%
Stablecoins · 3 · 50%
AI agents · 1 · 17%
RWA and tokenization · 1 · 17%
Staking and restaking · 1 · 17%
Developer tools and cloud · 1 · 17%
Insurance · 1 · 17%

Illuminate Financial recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
CCrossover Markets	Series B+ · $31M	Mar 4, 2026	DRW Venture Capital, Wintermute Ventures, XTX Markets +3
ZZocks	Series B+ · $45M	Jan 26, 2026	RFG Advisory, Motive Ventures, 14Peaks Capital +4
EEndowus	Series A · $70M · lead	Oct 22, 2025	Citi Ventures, Prosus Ventures
CCrossover Markets	Series A · $12M · lead	Jun 26, 2024	Wintermute Ventures, ThinkMarkets, Flow Traders +6
BBlockdaemon	Series A · $28M	Jun 8, 2021	Warburg Serres, Goldman Sachs, Lerer Hippeau +12

How Illuminate Financial invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	3 60%	$110M
Series B+	2 40%	$76M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2021	1 20%	$28M
2024	1 20%	$12M
2025	1 20%	$70M
2026	2 40%	$76M

Illuminate Financial portfolio companies

CCrossover Markets$31MSeries B+ · Mar 2026
ZZocks$45MSeries B+ · Jan 2026
EEndowus$70MSeries A · Oct 2025
BBlockdaemon$28MSeries A · Jun 2021
PPliantbacker
FfileAIbacker

Company	Round with Illuminate Financial	Total raised	Latest raise
CCrossover Markets Fintech	Mar 4, 2026 Series B+ · $31M	$43M	Mar 4, 2026 Series B+
ZZocks AI agents	Jan 26, 2026 Series B+ · $45M	$58.8M	Jan 26, 2026 Series B+
EEndowus Fintech	Oct 22, 2025 Series A · $70M · lead	$70M	Oct 22, 2025 Series A
BBlockdaemon Stablecoins	Jun 8, 2021 Series A · $28M	$393.8M	Jan 26, 2022 Series B+
PPliant Stablecoins	backer	$40M	Apr 28, 2025 Series B+
FfileAI Stablecoins	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Fintech).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 5 rounds on Recent Funding that name Illuminate Financial. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Illuminate Financial, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/illuminate-financial (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.