IMX Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

NZX Ltd facilitates capital raising and securities trading. Its main function is to provide a market for the trading, clearing, and settlement of securities. It also provides market data relating to listed companies and indexes. It operates the New Zealand securities, derivatives, and energy markets, builds and maintains the infrastructure on which it operates, and provides a range of information and data to support market growth and development on a scale. NZX also provides wealth management services for New Zealand advisers via its Wealth Technologies business. Its segments include Markets which generates key revenue, Funds Management, and Wealth Technologies.

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.

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.

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).

BitSight is a Boston-headquartered provider of security ratings platforms. The company applies algorithms to generate daily ratings from 250 to 900, aiding third-party risk management, cyber insurance underwriting, performance benchmarking, M&A due diligence, and aggregate risk assessment. BitSight serves over 1,000 customers, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20 percent of Fortune 500 firms, and three of the top five investment banks.

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.

Shanghai DZH Ltd operates as an Internet financial information service provider in China. It offers professional financial data and data analysis services. It also provides non-investment consulting and agency-specific software products. In addition, the company offers financial information integrated services internationally.

Servyou Software Group Co Ltd is a comprehensive service provider of fiscal and taxation information in China. It offers tax system development and operation and maintenance for tax authorities, and provides comprehensive Internet financial and taxation services for taxpayers and financial and tax intermediaries with the Yiqiying brand.

Tradegate AG Wertpapierhandelsbank is a Germany-based company. It is engaged in providing banking and financial services. In addition to retail banking, the company focuses on the trading of several domestic and foreign securities on the Tradegate Exchange, and the Frankfurt and Berlin stock exchanges. The company's main business activity consists of market specialist activities and market making; it acts as a Market Specialist on the Tradegate Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and as an order book manager on the Berlin Stock Exchange. It extends its services to the securities listing on the stock exchanges in Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hanover, and Dusseldorf.

Modern Treasury is a San Francisco-headquartered fintech platform for payment operations and reconciliation. Its API automates ACH, wire, and RTP transfers with approval workflows and ledger syncing to bank statements. Finance teams at Brex and Ramp process $100 billion monthly through its console. Founded in 2018, it supports multi-entity treasury for 500 enterprise clients.

StashAway is a Singapore-headquartered digital wealth manager using its proprietary ERAA framework for risk-managed portfolios across stocks, bonds, and alternatives. Available in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong since 2016, it serves retail investors with automated rebalancing to adapt to economic regimes. The platform manages multi-asset strategies including ESG funds and fixed-income products.

TradingView is a web-based platform delivering advanced charting tools, real-time market data, and social networking features for traders and investors worldwide. New York-headquartered with engineering teams in Vilnius, Lithuania, it supports 50 million monthly active users through web, desktop, and mobile applications. The platform integrates with over 50 brokerages including Interactive Brokers, OANDA, and IG, allowing seamless trade execution from interactive charts. TradingView equips more than 40,000 publishers, brokerages, and fintech companies with embeddable widgets and APIs. Founded in 2011, the company completed a $37 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners in 2018 and acquired TradeIT in 2019 to bolster brokerage connectivity.

Boursa Kuwait Securities Co KPSC operates as a financial exchange and clearing house in Kuwait. The company also provides securities-related services to participants in the financial sector. Its segments includes securities exchange and clearing, out of which the majority is from the securities exchange.

Dubai Financial Market PJSC operates as a regulated secondary market for the trading of securities issued by public shareholding companies, bonds issued by federal or local governments, local public institutions, and mutual funds as well as other local or foreign financial instruments. The company is focused on trading in financial instruments, acting as a commercial, industrial and agricultural holding and trust company, financial investment consultancy, and brokerage in local and foreign shares and bonds. It is engaged in a single segment of operating stock exchanges and related clearing house. The company derives the majority of revenue from Trading commission fees and rest from Brokerage fees, Clearing, settlement and depository fees, Listing and market data fees, and Other fees.

TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence tools for financial institutions, crypto firms, and agencies like the FBI and IRS to detect and investigate cryptocurrency crimes. Trusted by clients including PayPal, Visa, FTX, Uniswap, and Anchorage, the company has raised over $79 million from investors such as JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Tiger Global. Operating remotely with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and London, TRM employs experts from the U.S. Secret Service, Treasury, and Coinbase.

TP ICAP GROUP PLC provides broking professional intermediary services to match buyers and sellers of different financial, energy, and commodities products. Its role includes creating liquidity and price discovery in markets and providing insight and context to the clients. The company provides proprietary over-the-counter ('OTC') pricing information in the world with the data on financial, energy, and commodities products. Its clients include banks, insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, hedge funds, central banks, energy producers and refiners, risk and compliance managers, and charities. The company's segments include Global Broking which generates key revenue, Energy & Commodities, Liquidnet, Parameta Solutions, and Corporate.

Addepar is a wealth management platform aggregating data for over four trillion dollars in assets across more than 800 firms in 30 countries. Used by advisors for portfolio analysis, reporting, and Marketplace access to alternative investments, it integrates with over 100 partners. Offices span Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, and Edinburgh.

MX Technologies is a Lehi, Utah-headquartered fintech company founded in 2010 that aggregates, enhances, analyzes, presents, and acts on financial data for banks, credit unions, and fintech providers. It offers data aggregation, cleansing, auto-categorization, classification, money management tools, custom APIs, data analytics, marketing services, and user interfaces. The company supports online and mobile banking applications through partnerships with financial institutions across the United States.