CME Ventures is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CME Group. They make minority stake investments in early stage technology companies who products or services may have strategic use for CME Group's business or financial services.
CME Ventures has made investments in OpenGamma, SparkCognition, 1QBit, iguazio, Privitar, Orbital Insight, Filament, Layer, Fortscale, CrossLend, Dwolla, CrossLend, Digital Asset Holdings, Ripple, and Wickr.
CME Ventures has exited their investments in Nervana and Fortscale.
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Funded Companies
Ripple is a global currency exchange and remittance network that aims to lower the cost and improve the speed of international bank transfers relative to legacy financial infrastructure.
An artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company offering cognitive computing analytics for the information technology, operational technology, and the internet of things (IoT) industries.
CrossLend offers a cross-border marketplace lending platform that makes pan-European investments possible via a single platform.
A telecommunications and security company that builds secure communication tools, such as a messaging application. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Orbital Insight is a U.S-based company developing geospatial analytics software.
Filament(IoT) is a Reno, Nevada-based internet of things company founded in 2012 by Allison Clift-Jennings, Sally Carson and Jeremie Miller.
Intel Nervana was a subsidiary of Intel developing processors for artificial intelligence systems.
Iguazio is a company founded by Yaron Haviv, Orit Nissan-Messing, Asaf Somekh and Yaron Segev.
Fortscale is a San Mateo, California-based artificial intelligence company founded by Idan Tendler.