Sector:
Fintech
Country:
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Short Description
IVM Markets is an AI-native platform powering the next generation of equity derivatives and structured products portfolio construction and analytics. Helps brokers, asset managers, private banks, and advisors design better risk-reward outcomes using derivatives — before execution.
Founders
Volodymyr Gubskyi
,
Co-founder & CEO
Ildar Farkhshatov
,
Co-founder & CTO
Why we invested
IVM aligns with our conviction that capital markets infrastructure is overdue for modernization. Structured products are still built through slow, manual workflows that limits transparency, customizazion, without maximizing the potential returns. By turning product desing into a software, IVM lays the groundwork for a more systematic, outcome-driven investing. This is deep fintech infrastructure, exactly where we like to support current market disruption and helping build long-term exposure.
Founder Story
Volodymyr Gubskyi
,
Co-founder & CEO
Vlad grew up in Ukraine and left for boarding school at Rugby in the UK, then studied at the London School of Economics. He joined Merrill Lynch straight out of university, drawn to a version of investment banking where small teams could create entirely new markets. Early on, he watched colleagues design the first inflation-linked derivatives in Kazakhstan and saw, up close, how a few people with the right expertise and tools could open a multibillion-dollar market from scratch.
At Merrill, then RBS and Deutsche Bank, he lived the tension between what banks wanted and what clients needed. Large institutions pushed standardized, high-margin products; clients wanted outcomes tailored to their actual goals.
At Merrill Lynch, competing with far larger structured products desks, he began asking clients to describe the concrete outcomes they were targeting, then used the modeling tools typically reserved for traders to test alternatives one by one. That work showed him that, across many situations, it was possible to find structures with more upside and less risk than what was being routinely offered.
That experience made IVM Markets feel necessary. Derivatives are not a niche corner of finance but the hidden machinery behind most investable assets, and they should be in the hands of the people designing portfolios, not traders at a few banks. According to Vlad and cofounder Ildar, who met while in Deutsche Bank, IVM exists to give the buy side a practical way to design and compare portfolio outcomes using derivatives, so that investing decisions start from desired risk and return profiles rather than from whatever product happens to be on the shelf.
Vlad grew up in Ukraine and left for boarding school at Rugby in the UK, then studied at the London School of Economics. He joined Merrill Lynch straight out of university, drawn to a version of investment banking where small teams could create entirely new markets. Early on, he watched colleagues design the first inflation-linked derivatives in Kazakhstan and saw, up close, how a few people with the right expertise and tools could open a multibillion-dollar market from scratch.
At Merrill, then RBS and Deutsche Bank, he lived the tension between what banks wanted and what clients needed. Large institutions pushed standardized, high-margin products; clients wanted outcomes tailored to their actual goals.
At Merrill Lynch, competing with far larger structured products desks, he began asking clients to describe the concrete outcomes they were targeting, then used the modeling tools typically reserved for traders to test alternatives one by one. That work showed him that, across many situations, it was possible to find structures with more upside and less risk than what was being routinely offered.
That experience made IVM Markets feel necessary. Derivatives are not a niche corner of finance but the hidden machinery behind most investable assets, and they should be in the hands of the people designing portfolios, not traders at a few banks. According to Vlad and cofounder Ildar, who met while in Deutsche Bank, IVM exists to give the buy side a practical way to design and compare portfolio outcomes using derivatives, so that investing decisions start from desired risk and return profiles rather than from whatever product happens to be on the shelf.
Sector:
Fintech
Country:
United Kingdom
Year
2024
Short Description
IVM Markets is an AI-native platform powering the next generation of equity derivatives and structured products portfolio construction and analytics. Helps brokers, asset managers, private banks, and advisors design better risk-reward outcomes using derivatives — before execution.
Founders
Volodymyr Gubskyi
,
Co-founder & CEO
Ildar Farkhshatov
,
Co-founder & CTO
Why we invested
IVM aligns with our conviction that capital markets infrastructure is overdue for modernization. Structured products are still built through slow, manual workflows that limits transparency, customizazion, without maximizing the potential returns. By turning product desing into a software, IVM lays the groundwork for a more systematic, outcome-driven investing. This is deep fintech infrastructure, exactly where we like to support current market disruption and helping build long-term exposure.
Founder Story
Volodymyr Gubskyi
,
Co-founder & CEO
Vlad grew up in Ukraine and left for boarding school at Rugby in the UK, then studied at the London School of Economics. He joined Merrill Lynch straight out of university, drawn to a version of investment banking where small teams could create entirely new markets. Early on, he watched colleagues design the first inflation-linked derivatives in Kazakhstan and saw, up close, how a few people with the right expertise and tools could open a multibillion-dollar market from scratch.
At Merrill, then RBS and Deutsche Bank, he lived the tension between what banks wanted and what clients needed. Large institutions pushed standardized, high-margin products; clients wanted outcomes tailored to their actual goals.
At Merrill Lynch, competing with far larger structured products desks, he began asking clients to describe the concrete outcomes they were targeting, then used the modeling tools typically reserved for traders to test alternatives one by one. That work showed him that, across many situations, it was possible to find structures with more upside and less risk than what was being routinely offered.
That experience made IVM Markets feel necessary. Derivatives are not a niche corner of finance but the hidden machinery behind most investable assets, and they should be in the hands of the people designing portfolios, not traders at a few banks. According to Vlad and cofounder Ildar, who met while in Deutsche Bank, IVM exists to give the buy side a practical way to design and compare portfolio outcomes using derivatives, so that investing decisions start from desired risk and return profiles rather than from whatever product happens to be on the shelf.
Vlad grew up in Ukraine and left for boarding school at Rugby in the UK, then studied at the London School of Economics. He joined Merrill Lynch straight out of university, drawn to a version of investment banking where small teams could create entirely new markets. Early on, he watched colleagues design the first inflation-linked derivatives in Kazakhstan and saw, up close, how a few people with the right expertise and tools could open a multibillion-dollar market from scratch.
At Merrill, then RBS and Deutsche Bank, he lived the tension between what banks wanted and what clients needed. Large institutions pushed standardized, high-margin products; clients wanted outcomes tailored to their actual goals.
At Merrill Lynch, competing with far larger structured products desks, he began asking clients to describe the concrete outcomes they were targeting, then used the modeling tools typically reserved for traders to test alternatives one by one. That work showed him that, across many situations, it was possible to find structures with more upside and less risk than what was being routinely offered.
That experience made IVM Markets feel necessary. Derivatives are not a niche corner of finance but the hidden machinery behind most investable assets, and they should be in the hands of the people designing portfolios, not traders at a few banks. According to Vlad and cofounder Ildar, who met while in Deutsche Bank, IVM exists to give the buy side a practical way to design and compare portfolio outcomes using derivatives, so that investing decisions start from desired risk and return profiles rather than from whatever product happens to be on the shelf.