Illuminate Financial

Pliant is a European fintech that specializes in B2B payment solutions through an API-first platform designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and embed payments into financial workflows. It serves industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet, by enabling greater efficiency, control, and profitability. The company targets two primary segments: businesses seeking operational automation and extended credit lines, and financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks seeking to offer embedded finance and white-label credit card solutions. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 3,500 businesses and more than 20 partners, and operates as a licensed e-money institution issuing Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries. The platform provides customizable credit card management, automated transaction tracking, and real-time spending control to enhance financial oversight, reduce administrative workload, and optimize cash flow while maintaining security compliance.

N5 specializes in customer engagement software and IT services, primarily serving leading banks in Latin America. The company's core offering is a digital platform that facilitates customer interaction, optimizes information flow, and provides strategic consulting. This platform helps financial institutions enhance efficiency, meet business targets, and deliver value to customers and shareholders. Currently, N5 is expanding its services to the U.S. market.

N5 specializes in customer engagement software and IT services, primarily serving leading banks in Latin America. The company's core offering is a digital platform that facilitates customer interaction, optimizes information flow, and provides strategic consulting. This platform helps financial institutions enhance efficiency, meet business targets, and deliver value to customers and shareholders. Currently, N5 is expanding its services to the U.S. market.

Copper provides secure infrastructure and custody for institutional digital asset investments, offering portfolio management and protection for institutional clients. Its secure wallet architecture is available as a standalone product, a mobile app, and a browser extension for smart contract signing. The company is complemented by the ClearLoop network, enabling off-exchange trading and settlement at tier-1 digital asset exchanges, and it supports uncollateralized lending options. Copper also operates affiliated advisory firms that deliver wealth management, financial planning, and investment advisory services, including support for credit unions and their members as broker-dealer and registered investment adviser activities. The combined platform serves institutional and select client segments by integrating custody, trading, settlement, and advisory capabilities under a unified digital asset ecosystem.

Baton Systems Inc., established in 2015 with headquarters in Fremont, California, specializes in developing an on-demand platform for clearing, settling, and managing financial transactions. This platform enhances efficiency within the payments infrastructure across capital markets, serving global banks, custodian banks, and exchanges. The company operates under the name Baton Systems since its founding, having previously been known as Ubixi, Inc.

CloudMargin Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in a cloud-based collateral and margin management platform tailored for financial institutions of all sizes. Founded in 2014 by a team with extensive experience in collateral management and capital markets, CloudMargin aims to enhance efficiency and reduce costs for its clients, which include banks, asset management firms, brokerage firms, and insurance companies. The platform operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, providing real-time reports on collateral positions and automating workflows to facilitate streamlined processing and settlement. By addressing the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional collateral management solutions, CloudMargin seeks to make effective collateral management accessible to all market participants while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

CloudMargin Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in a cloud-based collateral and margin management platform tailored for financial institutions of all sizes. Founded in 2014 by a team with extensive experience in collateral management and capital markets, CloudMargin aims to enhance efficiency and reduce costs for its clients, which include banks, asset management firms, brokerage firms, and insurance companies. The platform operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, providing real-time reports on collateral positions and automating workflows to facilitate streamlined processing and settlement. By addressing the inefficiencies and high costs associated with traditional collateral management solutions, CloudMargin seeks to make effective collateral management accessible to all market participants while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.