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Alexander Ross

General Partner at Illuminate

New York, New York

Overview 

Alexander Ross is a General Partner at Illuminate Financial, a leading Enterprise FinTech venture capital firm in New York City. With a background at Bain and experience as an angel investor, he has successfully invested in companies like Cloudwall Capital and Curv, showcasing his expertise in the FinTech sector and strategic investment decisions. Ross's career highlights include being a founding member and Investment Director at Illuminate Financial, as well as serving on the boards of various successful companies such as Enmacc and Arteria AI, demonstrating his strong leadership skills and ability to drive growth and innovation in the financial technology industry.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner | Head of USA

    2021 - Current

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Investor/Advisor

    2021

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

Talos is an end-to-end crypto trading platform that provides digital asset trading technology for lenders, brokers, and investors.

Raised $145,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Notation Capital, LeadBlock Partners, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, PayPal Ventures, SCB 10X, General Atlantic, BNY, Citi and Voyager.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Notabene helps businesses perform crypto transactions that are regulatory compliant.

Raised $27,000,000.00 from Apollo, Y Combinator, ParaFi Capital, Jump Capital, CMT Digital, Green Visor Capital, DRW Venture Capital, Signature Ventures, Wintermute and Next Block Accelerator.

  • Series A Investor

    2021

Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks.

Raised $431,300,797.00 from Axevil Capital.

  • Investor/Advisor

    2021

  • Board Member

    2018

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

  • Investor

    2016

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2020

  • 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

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