We back the strongest Fintechs by providing patient capital, knowledge and access. We invest exclusively in growth stage companies (series B+) and support their development by leveraging our strategic partnerships with investors, incumbents, sector bodies, and regulators. We aim to play a key role in helping secure the future of a resilient, innovative and thriving financial services sector in the UK and abroad.

We strive to create strategic and economic value to Nomura by acquiring and integrating complementary and transformational assets, as well as taking equity positions in high-growth companies and initiatives that demonstrate disruptive yet tangible potential.

A joint-venture between Ledger, CoinShares and Nomura, Komainu is the first regulated digital asset custody solution built by institutions for institutions.

Currencycloud's global, multi-currency account infrastructure allows clients quick access to virtual named accounts for their customers, with the ability to collect, convert, pay and manage multiple currencies simultaneously, anywhere in the world

Kantox is a leading fintech company building software solutions that help businesses overcome FX risk management challenges.

Invested and managed a ~€200M global strategic venture capital fund with focus on Fintech, Deep Tech and Financial Services. Investments included: Digital Reasoning (sold to Smarsh), Forge Global (SPAC) , Kantox (sold to BNP), Symphony Communications, CurrencyCloud (sold to Visa), DAH, amongst other.

Forge unlocks the private market for investors, shareholders, companies and institutions. It provides unique access to and liquidity in pre-IPO securities from the leading, most innovative “unicorn” companies in the world.

Digital Reasoning is a leading AI/NLP company. The company's cognitive computing platform automates the analysis of unstructured data and derives actionable insights that help organisations detect risks, threats and opportunities automatically.

Leading secure collaboration tools for the financial services industry

Invested and managed a global strategic VC fund with focus on Fintech and financial services that captured opportunities created by changes in financial regulation and capital markets structure. Exits included four IPOs (FxAll, IHS Markit, Tradeweb and CETIP). Other investments included ERIS, iSwap, TMC Bonds (sold to ICE), Acadiasoft (sold to LSEG) and Optier.

MTS Associated Markets is an electronic fixed income market that was established to trade Belgian, Danish and Finnish sovereign securities.

Krogger & Company is a leading adviser to start-ups, high-growth companies and established businesses that need help crystallizing their ideas into executable business plans. We write world-class business plans, value companies and advise entrepreneurs and CEOs on how to navigate the challenging worlds of capital raising and business creation.

OpTier is the leader provider of Application Performance Management (APM) and Big Data Analytics services. OpTier analyzes billions of business transactions per day to help businesses proactively manage, monitor and optimize their production applications. OpTier clients include Aflac, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, O2 and Wells Fargo.

Originally launched as an independent exchange in 2011, Eris introduced an innovative contract design to replicate the exact cash flows and much of the same yield curve granularity as OTC swaps, while also incorporating the operational benefits and cost efficiencies of listed, exchange-traded instruments.

Risk workflow solutions for the financial services industry

M&A banker involved in the execution of transactions worth more than $4bn with focus on the industrial and technology sectors. Selected transactions include:- Bain Capital’s $1.75bn acquisition of American Standard.- ProSiebenSat.1’s €320m sale of C More to TV4 AB.- CCMP’s £460M acquisition of BOC Edwards.- Defense of Wellstream’s $6bn takeover attempt of Acergy.- Acergy's $290M acquisition of 51% of NKT Flexibles (attempted)- Francisco Partners' $300M acquisition of Orc Software (attempted)- Fairness opinion for Eramet on the value of its Alloys division.Additional projects include corporate finance advice to the following companies: Permira, Bodycote Testing, Philips, Becker Mining, Breitenfeld, Tarmac, Metso, Wavin, Geberit, Sanitec, Uponor, SGS, Wolters Kluwer and Crucell.

Corporate Finance assignments (valuation, IPOs, acquisitions) with focus on Latin American assets. Clients include: Parmalat Uruguay, Areva Mexico, ETF Venezuela and Petrofalcón.

Founded and ran a specialized management consulting company with offices in Mexico City andMonterrey. Conducted a variety of market entry studies, customer segmentation analyses,operations and e-commerce consulting for organizations in the construction, financial services and retail industries.

$100M venture capital fund and accelerator for dotcom investments in Latin America funded by Cemex and managed in conjunction with The Boston Consulting Group. The fund focused on business-to-business (e.g. vertical marketplaces) and business-to-consumer e-commerce, adapting successful U.S. and European models into the Latin American market. Successful exits included Alterbrain (the first pan-american web developing firm) sold to Neoris in 2001.

Designed and ran econometric models to determine optimal taxes and tariffs, as part of the Ministry of Finance's economic policy on social goods, such as water and electricity.