Market Maker XTX Discussed Publicly with its Venture Capital Arm

XTX Markets, a large market maker, has released more information on its venture capital arm, XTX Ventures. Ekaterina Holt, the former Deutsche Bank corporate strategy executive and LSE graduate, has joined XTX as its haed in 2018, and carried on making investments. 

XTX Ventures focuses its investments on the machine-learning algorithms and tech that power the rest of the company. Its portfolio is made up of strategic investments in fintech and capital-markets startups, and venture investments in early-stage companies in any industry and in any location, from healthcare to advertising to robotics, according to Holt.

XTX didn’t disclose the assets under management of its venture unit or its returns over the years.

XTX Ventures's selected investments:

Company Sector/business line

• Adgoji Digital ad platform

• Clearmatics Blockchain company for financial infrastructure

• Colibri Speech recognition for online meetings

• Eko Health Uses ML for cardiopulmonary care

• Nimbla Credit-risk engine for receivables

• REalyse Real-time residential real estate data analysis platform

• ​Xihelm Computer vision for crop harvesting and industrial greenhouses

XTX was founded and is majority-owned by Alex Gerko, a Deutsche Bank alum with a PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University.