Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that offers a diverse range of services across four main segments: Investment Banking, Institutional Client Services, Investing & Lending, and Investment Management. The Investment Banking segment provides financial advisory services, such as guidance on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and capital raising through public and private offerings. Institutional Client Services focuses on executing transactions in various financial markets, including equities, fixed income, and commodities, while also offering securities lending and prime brokerage services to institutional clients. The Investing & Lending segment engages in investment activities across a wide array of asset classes, including debt securities and real estate. Finally, the Investment Management segment delivers investment management and wealth advisory services to high-net-worth individuals and institutions, emphasizing portfolio management and financial counseling. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in London, Goldman Sachs operates as a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group UK Limited, serving a diverse client base that includes corporations, governments, and individual investors worldwide.
Managing Director, TMT / Internet Banking — Investment Banking Division
Sebastien Gagnon
Managing Director
Stefan Goetz
Executive Director - Principal Investments Area
James Hayward
Managing Director
Matthias Hieber
Manager Director
Erdit Hoxha
Partner
Sonya Huang
Investment Banking Analyst
Russ Hutchinson
COO of Global M&A
Kani Keita
Associate, Merchant Banking Division
Michael Kondoleon
Vice President - GS Growth
Jason A. Kreuziger
Managing Director
Madhu Kumar
Vice President
Cedric Lucas
Managing Director
Jade Mandel
Vice President, Growth Equity
Mark Midle
Managing Director
Masanori Mochida
President of Goldman Sachs Japan
Antoine Munfa
Managing Director - Merchant Banking Division at Goldman Sachs - Growth Equity Team
Jason Nassof
Vice President
Matt O'Neill
Managing Director
Christian Resch
Managing Director, GS Growth
Max Ritter
Managing Director
Simon Rothery
CEO
Sarah Shenton
Vice President in the Merchant Banking Division
Rajat Sood
Managing Director
Adriana Tajonar
Vice President of Life Sciences Investing
Alex Tishakov
Analyst, Investment Banking Division
Samuel Villegas
President and CEO of Goldman Sachs
Colin Walsh
Managing Director - Life Sciences Investing
Georgia Watson
Vice President, Growth and Venture Investments
Kaixun Zhang
Managing Director
Past deals in Trading Platform
BSE
Post in 2025
BSE Limited, established in 1875 and based in Mumbai, India, is Asia's first stock exchange and a significant player in the Indian capital markets. Formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Limited, it was renamed in July 2011. The company facilitates trading in various financial instruments, including equity, debt instruments, derivatives, and mutual funds, and serves as a platform for over 5,000 listed companies. BSE Limited also provides ancillary services such as risk management, clearing and settlement, market data dissemination, IT support, and educational programs for market participants. With a commitment to maintaining market integrity, BSE Limited is recognized for its innovative systems and processes, having achieved multiple international certifications for quality and security. The exchange has a broad shareholder base, including strategic partnerships with leading global exchanges, enhancing its operational capabilities and reach.
Nasdaq Private Market
Series B in 2024
Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) is a secondary market trading platform designed for private companies, their employees, and investors seeking liquidity in private company stock. Since its inception, NPM has facilitated over $44 billion in transactions and managed more than 600 company-sponsored liquidity programs, enabling over 160,000 market participants to access liquidity. The platform provides a range of solutions for private companies and investors, including tender offers, auctions, company marketplaces, and block trades. In 2021, NPM became an independent entity after spinning off from Nasdaq, with strategic investments from several major financial institutions. As more companies choose to remain private for extended periods, NPM aims to enhance the liquidity landscape, leveraging its expertise to support the evolving needs of the market.
Xpansiv
Venture Round in 2023
Xpansiv is a developer of a global commodity exchange platform that focuses on facilitating the transaction of environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-inclusive commodities. The company ingests data from the entire lifecycle of various commodities, transforming it into intelligent commodities and digital assets. Its platform offers a user-friendly environment for registering, managing, trading, settling, retiring, analyzing, and reporting a diverse range of data-driven environmental commodities. These include carbon credits and renewable energy certificates. By providing a comprehensive market infrastructure, Xpansiv enables participants to effectively value energy, carbon, and water, contributing to a clear path toward achieving net zero goals.
AccessFintech
Series C in 2022
AccessFintech Limited is a fintech company that specializes in risk management services for the global financial industry, including banks and buy-side firms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the company offers a platform that aggregates data from various internal systems, vendors, and reports, providing users with a unified portal. This system enables clients to track the entire trade lifecycle, prioritize risks, and respond to market changes effectively. AccessFintech’s technology creates a comprehensive visual display of potential risks associated with financial transactions, facilitating collaboration across organizations. The platform also supports control functions that allow managers to identify bottlenecks and intervention points while tracking usage patterns to enhance operational efficiency. By connecting financial firms with fintech providers, AccessFintech helps organizations streamline their processes and optimize their risk management strategies.
New York Shipping Exchange
Series B in 2022
New York Shipping Exchange is a platform that unites shippers, carriers, and forwarders and revolutionizes the logistics industry. New York Shipping Exchange enables the transformation of the container shipping industry through two innovations: a new standardized freight contract and a new way to trade freight digitally. The company is supporting the transformation of container shipping by solving inefficiencies associated with booking downfalls and shipment rolling. They are determined to eliminate the distrust between shippers and carriers that has been created by the lack of accountability in ocean contracts. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
Elwood Technologies
Series A in 2022
Elwood Technologies is a prominent fintech firm that specializes in digital asset trading and portfolio management software tailored for institutional clients. The company offers a comprehensive platform that connects users to global crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, and fund administrators. With a focus on advanced execution management, portfolio analytics, and risk management, Elwood's solutions are designed to enable financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations to navigate the complexities of the digital asset market effectively. Founded by experts with extensive backgrounds in both traditional finance and digital technology, Elwood aims to deliver secure and efficient tools that enhance clients' ability to engage with digital assets.
Coin Metrics
Series C in 2022
Coin Metrics Inc. is a provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency data, offering comprehensive market and network analytics to various industries. The company delivers a range of services, including the CM Network Data Pro, which provides historical crypto network data aggregated daily for prominent assets, and the CM Market Data Feed, which standardizes trade, candle, and order book data across multiple exchanges. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers CM Reference Rates, which provide fixed pricing for various assets quoted in U.S. dollars. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Coin Metrics aims to empower institutions and individuals to make informed decisions regarding crypto assets by providing transparent and actionable data analytics.
Octaura
Seed Round in 2022
Octaura is an electronic trading solution created by the industry – for the industry. Backed by eight major US financial institutions, Octaura has reimagined the way the syndicated loan and the CLO markets trade. Efficiency, transparency and simplicity are at the heart of what we do.
Anchorage Digital
Series D in 2021
Anchorage Digital is a regulated cryptocurrency platform that offers integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions tailored for institutions. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates as the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, with an additional office in Singapore that maintains similar security and service standards. Anchorage Digital specializes in secure custody, regulatory compliance, and a variety of cryptocurrency-related services, including trading, staking, and governance. The platform emphasizes modern security engineering to ensure the safety of digital assets while facilitating streamlined participation in blockchain technology for businesses and institutions. With a valuation exceeding $3 billion, Anchorage Digital has attracted investments from prominent firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, and Visa, among others. The company also supports a remote-friendly work environment, with additional offices located in New York, Porto, and Sioux Falls.
Blockdaemon
Series A in 2021
Blockdaemon Inc. is a company that develops a blockchain node management platform, enabling businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The platform supports over 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, and Polkadot, offering tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for flexibility, allowing users to switch between networks and chains easily, thus simplifying the configuration process. The company also provides valuable dev-ops guidance to support the blockchain developer ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Blockdaemon has additional offices in New York and Ireland.
Coin Metrics
Series B in 2021
Coin Metrics Inc. is a provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency data, offering comprehensive market and network analytics to various industries. The company delivers a range of services, including the CM Network Data Pro, which provides historical crypto network data aggregated daily for prominent assets, and the CM Market Data Feed, which standardizes trade, candle, and order book data across multiple exchanges. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers CM Reference Rates, which provide fixed pricing for various assets quoted in U.S. dollars. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Coin Metrics aims to empower institutions and individuals to make informed decisions regarding crypto assets by providing transparent and actionable data analytics.
PureStream Trading Technologies
Series A in 2021
PureStream is a technology platform company with a singular focus on making institutional trading scale efficiently and securely. The trading venue prioritizes and matches orders based on their liquidity relevance with a unique focus on improving cross rates and order completion speed. PureStream was established in New York, New York in 2018.
AccessFintech
Series B in 2020
AccessFintech Limited is a fintech company that specializes in risk management services for the global financial industry, including banks and buy-side firms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the company offers a platform that aggregates data from various internal systems, vendors, and reports, providing users with a unified portal. This system enables clients to track the entire trade lifecycle, prioritize risks, and respond to market changes effectively. AccessFintech’s technology creates a comprehensive visual display of potential risks associated with financial transactions, facilitating collaboration across organizations. The platform also supports control functions that allow managers to identify bottlenecks and intervention points while tracking usage patterns to enhance operational efficiency. By connecting financial firms with fintech providers, AccessFintech helps organizations streamline their processes and optimize their risk management strategies.
MEMX
Venture Round in 2020
MEMX LLC is a member-owned equities trading platform, catering to both retail and institutional investors. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, MEMX focuses on enhancing the trading experience by offering a competitive and efficient marketplace. The platform aims to streamline the trading process and improve execution quality for its members, thereby contributing to a more transparent and accessible trading environment.
DirectBooks
Seed Round in 2019
DirectBooks is a prominent communications platform that focuses on deal data, documentation, and information exchange in primary markets, particularly for investment-grade fixed income. It aims to optimize the primary issuance process for fixed-income instruments by providing a centralized digital platform that streamlines communications among various stakeholders. The platform offers real-time updates on multiple deals through a user-friendly dashboard, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of workflows for both investors and underwriters. By promoting industry standardization and automation, DirectBooks plays a crucial role in modernizing how financial transactions are managed in the primary markets.
AccessFintech
Series A in 2018
AccessFintech Limited is a fintech company that specializes in risk management services for the global financial industry, including banks and buy-side firms. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, the company offers a platform that aggregates data from various internal systems, vendors, and reports, providing users with a unified portal. This system enables clients to track the entire trade lifecycle, prioritize risks, and respond to market changes effectively. AccessFintech’s technology creates a comprehensive visual display of potential risks associated with financial transactions, facilitating collaboration across organizations. The platform also supports control functions that allow managers to identify bottlenecks and intervention points while tracking usage patterns to enhance operational efficiency. By connecting financial firms with fintech providers, AccessFintech helps organizations streamline their processes and optimize their risk management strategies.
Allegro
Debt Financing in 2017
Allegro is a company based in Poznan, Poland, that specializes in providing a safe shopping platform accessible via computers, tablets, and smartphones. It operates online auction portals, offering users a variety of products and services. In addition to its core e-commerce activities, Allegro also focuses on solutions related to marketing, strategy, graphic design, advertising, and mobile applications. As a subsidiary of MIH Internet Europe, Allegro has established itself as a prominent player in the online marketplace.
Block
Series E in 2014
Block, Inc. is a technology company established in 2009 that specializes in financial services. It encompasses several key divisions, including Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, all aimed at increasing economic accessibility. Block provides payment services to merchants and has developed Cash App, a person-to-person payment network that facilitates financial transactions between individuals. In 2023, the company reported a payment volume exceeding $200 million. Through its various platforms and services, Block seeks to empower users and enhance their ability to engage with the economy.
Block
Debt Financing in 2014
Block, Inc. is a technology company established in 2009 that specializes in financial services. It encompasses several key divisions, including Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, all aimed at increasing economic accessibility. Block provides payment services to merchants and has developed Cash App, a person-to-person payment network that facilitates financial transactions between individuals. In 2023, the company reported a payment volume exceeding $200 million. Through its various platforms and services, Block seeks to empower users and enhance their ability to engage with the economy.
Celoxica
Venture Round in 2012
Based in London, United Kingdom, Celoxica delivers latency market data access and order execution solutions to the advanced trading community. The company’s solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main U.S. and European equities, options, futures exchanges, and FX. With clients that include trading firms who co-locate their strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading, and smart order routing, the company also offers a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check, and outbound native protocol to the execution venues. Celoxica was founded in 1996.
Paixie.net
Series A in 2012
Paixie.net is an online marketplace focused on casual and sports footwear in China, operating under Paixie (Fujian) Network Technology Co., Ltd. The platform boasts a vast inventory, with over 80,000 styles available for consumers, and has established partnerships with more than 500 renowned brands both domestically and internationally. Since its launch of an open platform in September 2013, Paixie.net has positioned itself as an early leader in the electronic business sector for footwear, contributing to the industry's transformation and upgrade within the domestic market. The website has attracted significant user engagement, with approximately 8.8 million registered members and over 3 million daily page views as of November 2013. Through its integration of footwear and clothing resources in Fujian, Paixie.net continues to enhance the online shopping experience for consumers.
Chi-X Global Holdings
Private Equity Round in 2011
Chi-X Global Holdings, a global operator of technologically advanced alternative market centers and a provider of innovative market level trading solutions
UNX
Private Equity Round in 2011
UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that specializes in providing electronic trading solutions and services tailored for institutional investors. Founded in 1999, the company focuses on enhancing trading efficiency through its innovative technology, which helps traders optimize their operations and find best execution opportunities while minimizing market impact and reducing transaction costs. UNX offers a range of products, including the Catalyst Portal, an electronic trading platform designed for equities and portfolio trading that supports both sell-side and buy-side clients. This broker-neutral execution management system streamlines multi-broker trading workflows and is built on advanced Microsoft technology for flexibility and scalability. Additionally, UNX provides various trade execution services, including direct market access and program trading, alongside trading tools like MetaBook for intelligent order routing and FLEXStream for consolidated market data.
UNX
Private Equity Round in 2009
UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that specializes in providing electronic trading solutions and services tailored for institutional investors. Founded in 1999, the company focuses on enhancing trading efficiency through its innovative technology, which helps traders optimize their operations and find best execution opportunities while minimizing market impact and reducing transaction costs. UNX offers a range of products, including the Catalyst Portal, an electronic trading platform designed for equities and portfolio trading that supports both sell-side and buy-side clients. This broker-neutral execution management system streamlines multi-broker trading workflows and is built on advanced Microsoft technology for flexibility and scalability. Additionally, UNX provides various trade execution services, including direct market access and program trading, alongside trading tools like MetaBook for intelligent order routing and FLEXStream for consolidated market data.
Dubai MercantileExchange
Private Equity Round in 2008
Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) is a leading international energy futures and commodities exchange located in the Middle East. It specializes in the trading of energy-focused commodities and is recognized as the provider of the world's third crude oil benchmark. DME aims to facilitate fair and transparent price discovery while offering efficient risk management solutions. The exchange operates under the regulation of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is acknowledged by the Dubai Financial Services Authority. This regulatory framework enables DME to meet the increasing market demand for accurate pricing of sour crude oil intended for East of Suez markets.
Derivix
Series A in 2008
Derivix is a financial services software company that provides options pricing, risk visualization, and analytics solutions to the industry's leading options traders, sales traders, and hedge funds. Founded in 2005, the company has offices in New York, Boston, and Silicon Valley. their investors include leading Wall Street firms, Goldman Sachs and Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLLP.
APX
Venture Round in 2007
APX b.V. operates an exchange for electricity and natural gas markets in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. It offers market data and a range of indices for use by traders, energy suppliers, and energy-intensive industries, as well as provides trading and clearing services for power and natural gas futures. The company also provides trading, clearing, and notification of within-day and day-ahead gas contracts at the title transfer facility, as well as trading of secondary storage capacity and gas in store at Rough. In addition, it offers third-party services for the clearing and delivery of energy or energy-related products, such as carbon trading and auctioning, as well as over-the-counter clearing services and auction results. Further, the company provides a trading platform for the trading of cleared futures contracts, as well as publishes price and volume indices on a daily basis. The company was founded in 1999 as Amsterdam Power Exchange and later changed its name to APX b.V. in 2004. The company is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in London and Nottingham, the United Kingdom. APX b.V. is a subsidiary of TenneT BV.
Japannext
Venture Round in 2007
Japannext is the operator of Japan's largest and oldest proprietary trading system (PTS) that serves both equity and bond markets. The company has introduced significant market innovations, including decimal tick sizes and extended nighttime trading, which enhance trading opportunities for participants. By enabling local and global brokerage houses to compete, Japannext fosters innovation and efficiency in the trading landscape.
National Stock Exchange
Private Equity Round in 2007
NSE is India's leading stock exchange covering various cities and towns across the country. NSE was set up by leading institutions to provide a modern, fully automated screen-based trading system with national reach. The Exchange has brought about unparalleled transparency, speed and efficiency, safety, and market integrity. It has set up facilities that serve as a model for the securities industry in terms of systems, practices, and procedures. NSE has played a catalytic role in reforming the Indian securities market in terms of microstructure, market practices, and trading volumes. The market today uses state-of-art information technology to provide an efficient and transparent trading, clearing, and settlement mechanism and has witnessed several innovations in products & services viz. demutualization of stock exchange governance, screen-based trading, compression of settlement cycles, dematerialization and electronic transfer of securities, securities lending, and borrowing, professionalization of trading members, fine-tuned risk management systems, emergence of clearing corporations to assume counterparty risks, market of debt and derivative instruments and intensive use of information technology.
UNX
Private Equity Round in 2006
UNX is an independent trading technology firm and agency broker that specializes in providing electronic trading solutions and services tailored for institutional investors. Founded in 1999, the company focuses on enhancing trading efficiency through its innovative technology, which helps traders optimize their operations and find best execution opportunities while minimizing market impact and reducing transaction costs. UNX offers a range of products, including the Catalyst Portal, an electronic trading platform designed for equities and portfolio trading that supports both sell-side and buy-side clients. This broker-neutral execution management system streamlines multi-broker trading workflows and is built on advanced Microsoft technology for flexibility and scalability. Additionally, UNX provides various trade execution services, including direct market access and program trading, alongside trading tools like MetaBook for intelligent order routing and FLEXStream for consolidated market data.
Spear, Leeds & Kellogg
Acquisition in 2000
Spear, Leeds, & Kellogg, one of the largest specialist firms on the New York Stock Exchange.
Lightspeed Trading
Private Equity Round in 2000
Lightspeed Trading offers clients access to our proprietary order execution system, Lightspeed Trader, real time risk and margin management tools, equity and option market data scanners, and a high frequency equity DMA infrastructure. Lightspeed Trading delivers cost effective equity and option order execution combined with fast and reliable market quotes through its robust quote infrastructure and proprietary order management system. In addition to Lightspeed’s proprietary products, access to ten certified third party trading platforms presents clients with the ability to build a flexible combination of trading products tailored to fit their needs. Lightspeed Institutional supports professional traders, funds, institutions, and separately managed accounts by providing a complete suite of technology, Regulation T and portfolio margin leverage, access to our agency-only trade desk, as well as execution and clearing services. Offices are located in both New York and Chicago, and remote access to all products is available. Clients have long recognized the value of Lightspeed Trading's customized approach. The client experience perfectly balances robust and flexible technology solutions with focused, experienced, and high touch service.
Petroleum Place
Series B in 2000
Petroleum Place, Inc. is one of the leading portals and marketplaces for the upstream petroleum industry. The Petroleum Place Web site (www.petroleumplace.com), which launched in 1995, seeks to bring price and process efficiencies to each stage of the oil and gas property transaction lifecycle –streamlining the discovery, evaluation, acquisition, divestiture, and processing of petroleum properties.
GoCargo
Series B in 2000
GoCargo is an online platform that connects buyers and sellers of international container shipments.
ChemConnect
Private Equity Round in 2000
ChemConnect, Inc. operates as an electronic exchange for trading midstream energy, feedstocks, chemicals, and related products. It is a third party commodity exchange, auctions provider, bulletin-board, back-end fulfillment service, and market information source for NGL's, chemicals, feedstocks, polymers, and fuel oil. The company’s products include natural gas liquids, refined and intermediate fuel products, aromatics, olefins, and commodity polymers. It also offers supply chain solutions, such as negotiation solutions and collaboration hubs. ChemConnect, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas with operations in North America, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.
Hyperchannel
Venture Round in 2000
Hyperchannel, a European business-to-business Internet trading hub company.
Alibaba Group
Venture Round in 2000
Alibaba Group is the largest online and mobile commerce company globally, primarily known for its extensive e-commerce platforms that connect buyers and sellers. It operates notable marketplaces in China, including Taobao, which focuses on consumer-to-consumer transactions, and Tmall, which caters to business-to-consumer interactions. The company's core business lies in its China commerce retail division, which is a significant source of cash flow. In addition to retail and wholesale transactions, Alibaba also generates revenue from various sectors, including international commerce, local consumer services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and logistics through its Cainiao network. Alibaba's diverse portfolio positions it as a key player across multiple industries, including retail, logistics, and technology.
Alibaba Group
Angel Round in 1999
Alibaba Group is the largest online and mobile commerce company globally, primarily known for its extensive e-commerce platforms that connect buyers and sellers. It operates notable marketplaces in China, including Taobao, which focuses on consumer-to-consumer transactions, and Tmall, which caters to business-to-consumer interactions. The company's core business lies in its China commerce retail division, which is a significant source of cash flow. In addition to retail and wholesale transactions, Alibaba also generates revenue from various sectors, including international commerce, local consumer services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and logistics through its Cainiao network. Alibaba's diverse portfolio positions it as a key player across multiple industries, including retail, logistics, and technology.
Hull Group
Acquisition in 1999
The Hull Group, a Chicago-based electronic market-maker.
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