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DRW Venture Capital
Corporate VC · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
DRW Venture Capital is the venture arm of the diversified trading firm DRW. It invests in financial and enterprise technology that benefits DRW's own trading work.
Invests inFintechCrypto & Web3
In its own wordsfintechenterprise technologytradingfinancial technology
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Or find every investor that fitsDRW Venture Capital lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 15 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (46%), Crypto & Web3 (21%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (8%). 69% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Alumni Ventures, Tribe Capital and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name DRW Venture Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundDRW Venture Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 21% |
| Series A | 21% |
| Series B | 43% |
| Growth | 14% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 10 | 2 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 58th | 21% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 80th | 46% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 46% | 12% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 21% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 8% | 18% |
| Developer Tools | 4% | 0% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Alumni Ventures | 3 |
| Tribe Capital | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Abstract | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Blockchain Capital | 2 |
| Cadenza | 2 |
| Citi Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers13100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare DRW Venture Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with DRW Venture Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Series B | |
| 1 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for DRW Venture Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in DRW Venture Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaca provides APIs for trading stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Jan 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| BVNK provides stablecoin payment services for enterprises, allowing them to send, receive, and manage stablecoin payments globally. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Dec 2024Series B | Funding round | |
| Crossover Markets operates a digital asset exchange for institutional participants | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Mar 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Databento provides market data APIs and solutions for firms | FintechDeveloper Tools | Jul 2026Series B · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| HyLight uses autonomous airships and AI to safeguard infrastructures with millimeter precision, spotting risks before they become disasters | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Kaiko provides data, analytics, and indices to the crypto industry | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Sept 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Kraken provides a platform for buying, selling, and trading various financial assets, including cryptocurrencies and stocks. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Lemon provides a virtual wallet for storing and managing digital pesos and dollars, as well as investments and Bitcoin transactions. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Oct 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Mantic predicts world events using AI forecasting | AI & Machine Learning | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Nasdaq Private Market provides infrastructure for private companies and their investors to access liquidity, data, and capital solutions | FintechFintech | Jan 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Silicon Data provides data and tools for companies to track and predict GPU performance and pricing | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Aug 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| TRM Labs provides AI investigations and blockchain intelligence solutions | CybersecurityFintech | Feb 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Rowan prepares and sells industrial businesses | Industrial & Manufacturing | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- drw.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Dec 2024
- Companies checked
- 13
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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