Zurich-based ETFbook, a number one information and analytics platform specialising within the ETF market, introduced at present the profitable closing of a €4 million Sequence A funding spherical led by BlackFin Capital Companions.
ETFbook gives a complete information and analytics platform accessible via a user-friendly net software and sturdy APIs. With a presence in key European monetary hubs together with London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Dublin, ETFbook has demonstrated robust progress since its launch, now participating with a various consumer base of 35+ main institutional shoppers.
“We’re more than happy to announce BlackFin Capital Companions as our first exterior investor,” declared Pawel Janus, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO of ETFbook. “This funding will speed up the execution of our formidable product roadmap and geographic enlargement technique, enabling ETFbook to raised serve the ever-evolving information & analytics wants within the thriving ETF markets, globally.”
Based in 2020 by Bartłomiej Igła and Pawel Janus, ETFbook has a mission to organise the world’s ETF information and make it accessible, actionable, and beneficial for the ETF ecosystem.
By their platform, they empower institutional members with dependable information, actionable analytics, and automatic options to reinforce market actions. Purchasers embody ETF Issuers, Index Suppliers, Fund Service Suppliers, Market Makers, Exchanges, and Purchase-Facet Establishments.
In accordance with ETFbook, in 2024, the ETF business achieved unprecedented success, attracting €1.8 trillion in web inflows and surpassing €14.5 trillion in property beneath administration (AUM).
This era of explosive progress additionally witnessed vital innovation inside the business. Notable developments included the launch of the primary Bitcoin ETF, which marked a major milestone within the cryptocurrency house.
“The ETF market is poised for continued progress, notably amongst wealth and retail buyers. With over 40 new ETFs launched weekly and vital flows dynamic throughout all asset courses, market members require a centralized instrument to navigate and perceive evolving funding developments. ETFbook’s skilled crew has developed a complete platform that needs to be a beneficial addition to each investor’s toolkit,” states Arnaud Llinas, ETF Business skilled and ex Head of Amundi ETFs and Lyxor ETFs, who suggested and co-invested with BlackFin Capital Companions.
To successfully navigate this market evolving at breakneck velocity, ETF eco-system and funding professionals require entry to complete, up-to-date, actionable information and analytics to make knowledgeable and strategic choices.
Use circumstances span a variety, together with new product evaluation, fund flows evaluation, efficiency comparisons throughout ETFs monitoring comparable indices, liquidity evaluation from on & off-exchange buying and selling volumes.
With the growing sophistication of newly launched merchandise like Lively ETFs or Digital Belongings ETPs, ETFbook gives options to help portfolio composition information manufacturing that allow the itemizing of these new ETF issuers’ merchandise.
“As a finance-focused investor, we observe day by day the robust tailwinds propelling ahead the entire ETF business,” states Romain Grimal, Sr. Funding Supervisor at BlackFin Capital Companions. “Now we have been impressed by the robustness of ETFbook’s platform in addition to its founding crew’s execution capabilities. ETFbook gives a solution to the wants of all stakeholders concerned. We share Pawel and Bartlomiej’s imaginative and prescient and are thus delighted to guide ETFbook’s Sequence A funding spherical to help them in turning into the main supply of fact for the ETF market.”
The latest funding spherical will gas ETFbook’s additional enlargement as the corporate will search to draw prime abilities throughout the organisation from product improvement, via information science, all the way in which to gross sales and advertising and marketing. This can serve to reinforce platform capabilities, notably drawing on the most recent AI development, develop information protection and ignite quicker progress, particularly as ETFbook prepares for a US market entry already later this 12 months.
