Genesis Global

Genesis is not an investment firm — it is an enterprise software company selling a development platform to banks and asset managers. Strategic and capital-allocation decisions rest with CEO James Harrison and the leadership team, which includes President & CPO Tej Sidhu. The firm has raised venture funding rather than deploying investor capital into markets.

Genesis sells directly to financial institutions through its commercial team and industry partnerships, with a heavy presence at trade-technology conferences such as TradeTech Europe. Its pipeline leans on founder relationships from prior careers at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns. Named clients include ING, T. Rowe Price, and Neptune Networks, each cited in case studies on the firm’s website.

Genesis operates exclusively as a technology platform. It is not a family office, asset manager, or trading firm. The company provides low-code tooling and pre-built agentic components that financial institutions use to build trading, risk, and post-trade applications. It generates revenue through software licensing and professional services rather than through managed capital.

Genesis has raised $246.8 million across three rounds since 2019: a £3 million Series A in 2019, a $1.8 million extension in 2020, a $45 million Series B in 2021, and a $200 million Series C in 2022 (per the firm’s timeline). The firm has not publicly named its investors.

The platform targets multi-asset coverage across fixed income, equities, foreign exchange, and structured products. Use cases published on the firm’s site include a primary bond market new-issue workflow at T. Rowe Price and a fixed-income market data hub at Neptune Networks. ING deployed the platform to reduce operational risk in cross-asset workflows.

Genesis ships with capital-markets domain logic, compliance frameworks, and asset-class templates pre-engineered into its components. The founders spent their prior careers building proprietary trading systems at tier-one investment banks, and that domain specificity — FIX protocol handling, real-time order-book performance, post-trade matching — is embedded in the platform rather than left for clients to assemble.

Headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Dublin, and Bangalore, and additional hubs across the US and Brazil (per the firm’s website). The geographic spread reflects the firm’s push into both established financial centers and lower-cost developer markets.