Axoni Funding, Investors & Competitors

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, Tradeweb Markets is a leading fixed-income trading platform. While it does offer electronic processing for some voice-negotiated trades, the company focuses primarily on providing electronic trading networks that connect broker/dealers, institutional clients, and retail customers. While the company offers trading in a wide variety of products, the bulk of its business is in US and European government debt, mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate swaps, and US and international corporate bonds. The firm also sells fixed-income trading and price data, primarily through a deal with Refinitiv’s Eikon service.

Pipe is a financial services platform that enables subscription-based businesses to access capital by trading future recurring revenue streams with institutional investors through real-time auctions. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company processes transactions for SaaS firms, media publishers, and e-commerce operators seeking non-dilutive funding based on annual contract values. Launched in 2020, Pipe integrates with billing systems like Stripe and Zuora to automate revenue verification and payouts, serving over 5,000 companies globally with a marketplace exceeding $3 billion in tradable revenue by 2023.

Paxos is a New York-headquartered regulated trust company founded in 2012. The firm issues stablecoins including Pax Dollar and partners with PayPal for PYUSD, while providing settlement services for gold tokens and crypto brokerage. Paxos operates under New York Department of Financial Services oversight, serving institutions like Venmo and Interactive Brokers with digital asset custody and trading infrastructure.

Alpaca is a New York-headquartered developer platform offering API-based brokerage services for stock and cryptocurrency trading. The infrastructure provides commission-free execution, real-time market data feeds, paper trading environments, and advanced order types including algorithmic strategies. Backed by Y Combinator and investors like Spark Capital, Alpaca powers trading apps for retail and institutional users across multiple global markets.

A5X is a São Paulo-based financial marketplace operator providing electronic trading, clearing, settlement, and post-trading infrastructure for Brazil's capital and money markets. The platform facilitates transactions in equities, fixed-income securities, derivatives, and foreign exchange through high-speed matching engines and risk management tools. It connects institutional investors, brokers, and market makers with straight-through processing capabilities. Launched to foster competition alongside B3, A5X emphasizes low-latency execution and regulatory-compliant reporting for domestic financial institutions.

Stock3 AG is a technology company specializing in stock exchanges and trading. The group operates a web platform and associated mobile applications, offering the following solutions: technical infrastructure and editorial content related to capital markets; targeted outreach to an audience with active trading and investment behavior, to its advertising partners; a terminal solution for financial market data and analysis to market participants, and the opportunity to conduct securities transactions with various brokers via the parent company's web platform and mobile applications. Geographically, the group is currently active in the DACH region, with a focus on Germany.

S&P Global provides data and benchmarks to capital and commodity market participants. Its ratings business is the largest credit rating agency in the world and S&P's largest segment by profitability. S&P's largest segment by revenue is market intelligence, which provides desktop, data and advisory solutions, enterprise solutions, and credit/risk solutions mostly in the financial-services industry. S&P's other segments include energy (formerly commodity insights, this segment includes Platts and other data), mobility (Carfax), and indexes. S&P plans to spin off mobility in 2026.

Intercontinental Exchange is a vertically integrated operator of financial exchanges and provides ancillary data products. Though the company is probably best known for its ownership of the New York Stock Exchange, which it acquired in 2013, ICE operates a large derivatives exchange, too. The company's largest commodity futures product is the ICE Brent crude futures contract. In addition to the exchanges business, which is about 54% of net revenue, Intercontinental Exchange has used a series of acquisitions to create its mortgage technology business (22% of net revenue) and fixed-income and data-services segment (24% of net revenue).

Moody’s, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed-income securities. The ratings segment, Moody’s Investors Service, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm’s profit and often (depending on bond issuance levels) a majority of the firm's revenue. The other segment, Moody’s Analytics, consists of decision solutions, research and insights, and data and information.

London Stock Exchange Group is a fully integrated financial exchange company covering the financial market value chain from primary and secondary markets across multiple asset classes over data, index, and analytics down to clearing and post-trading reporting. With the acquisition of Refinitiv, LSEG generates about two thirds of its revenue from data and analytics including its FTSE Russell and WM/Refinitiv benchmarks as well as data feeds and terminals. The group is also a majority shareholder in Tradeweb, one of the dominant global fixed-income trading venues, as well as LCH, the largest clearinghouse for over-the-counter swaps globally.

Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its trading business (about 22.5% of sales), the company sells market and financial data to investors, offers Nasdaq-branded indexes, and lists companies through its capital access segment (42.5%). Nasdaq's newest segment, financial technology, was primarily constructed through the acquisitions of Verafin and Adenza and has expanded the company into capital management, financial crime, and regulatory compliance software (35%) as it seeks to become a diversified technology company.

Thomson Reuters is a leading global provider of business information services, delivering trusted data, technology, and expertise to professionals across legal, tax, accounting, risk, compliance, and the news and media sectors. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company combines deep domain knowledge with data and software solutions to help clients make informed decisions, manage complexity, and drive efficiency. Thomson Reuters serves legal and accounting/tax professionals, corporations, and governments worldwide, but around 75% of revenue is generated in the US. The company is known for flagship products such as Westlaw, UltraTax CS, and Reuters News.

East Money Information Co Ltd is engaged in securities business, financial e-commerce service business, financial data service business, and Internet advertising service business. It mainly provides paid financial data services, financial e-commerce services, and Internet advertisement services through its Website, eastmoney.com. It generates majority of ots revenue from the securities business.

MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI boasts over $18 trillion in benchmarked assets, including over $2.3 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. In its sustainability and climate segment, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.

Experian is one of the leading credit bureaus in North America and the United Kingdom, providing the consumer information that is the basis for making lending decisions. The company also provides decision analytics, marketing data, and direct-to-consumer credit products and services. Roughly one quarter of the company's revenue is generated outside of North America and the United Kingdom, primarily in Latin America and Asia.

Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network Co Ltd is engaged in providing Internet financial information services and online financial software. The company's business includes an online market trading system, mobile financial information service, fund sales, financial big data processing, and cloud services. It serves individuals, brokers, funds, private placements, banks, insurance, government, and research Institutional clients.

Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange enabling trades on event outcomes in economics, climate, public health, media, and international affairs. New York-based since its 2021 launch, the platform offers granular markets beyond traditional stocks or bonds, providing direct exposure to specific trends. Kalshi serves retail and institutional investors with cash-settled contracts on over 1,000 monthly events.

Along with Experian and TransUnion, Equifax is one of the leading credit bureaus in the United States. Equifax’s credit reports provide credit histories on millions of consumers, and the firm's services are critical to lenders’ credit decisions. In addition, about 40% of the firm’s revenue comes from workforce solutions, which provides income verification and employer human resources services. Equifax generates about 25% of its revenue from outside the United States.