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Alexander Ross

Enterprise FinTech VC | General Partner at Illuminate | ex-Bain | Angel Investor

New York, New York

Investor
VC
Angel

Invests in

Locations:

New York City

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
Business Strategy
Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Business Planning
CRM
Management
Private Equity
Process Improvement
Portfolio Management
Investment Banking
Management Consulting
Business Process
Strategic Consulting
Financial Modeling
Banking
Engineering
Venture Capital
Due Diligence
Corporate Development

Education

Investments

Cloudwall Capital

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Curv

Series A

Total Funding: $30M

Weaver.build

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Work Experience

Illuminate Financial

2015

  • General Partner | Head of USA

    2021

  • Investment Director - Founding member

    2015 - 2021

    Leading enterprise fintech VC. Series A and late seed stage. We partner with large financial institutions to validate solutions and drive adoption. Helped to set up and launch Illuminate (fundraise, set up and structure fund, hire team and advisers, implement process).

Enmacc

2019

  • Board Member

    2019

    Led investment in enmacc’s Series A and represent Illuminate on the board. Enmacc is the fastest growing OTC energy trading platform in Europe.

Arteria AI

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

Talos

2021

  • Investor/Advisor

    2021

    Led Illuminate's investment into Talos Series A & Series B

Notabene

2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

Blockdaemon

2021

  • Series A Investor

    2021

Copper.co

2021

  • Investor/Advisor

    2021

SteelEye

2018

  • Board Member

    2018

    SteelEye enables their clients to centralise and analyse all their order, trade, reference, market, communication and CRM data.

ChartIQ

2016

  • Investor

    2016

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2020

CloudMargin - Collateral Management

2016 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2023

    CloudMargin is the leading cloud based collateral management platform bringing stability & resilience to global financial markets. For more information - www.cloudmargin.com.

  • Board Observer

    2016 - 2017