Here's the pitch deck Trumid, a Wall Street trading startup backed by George Soros and Peter Thiel, used to raise $53 million

Dakin Campbell,Madeline Shi

Mar 1, 2019, 01:41 IST

Here's the pitch deck Trumid, a Wall Street trading startup backed by George Soros and Peter Thiel, used to raise $53 million

Trumid, a fintech startup, has announced a new round founding totaled $53 million

Electronic-trading startup Trumid Financial landed $53 million from stock exchanges in Germany and Singapore in a fundraising round last year.
Business Insider got a look at Trumid's investor presentation, which gives an inside look at what it's like to start a venue that matches bond buyers and sellers using technology.

Wall Street electronic-trading startup Trumid Financial went out hat in hand last year for more money to fund its expansion plans.

Business Insider got a look at Trumid's investor presentation, which gives an inside look at what it's like to start a venue that matches bond buyers and sellers using technology. As you can see from the slides, it's not easy. Volumes, at least in the beginning, can be hard to find.

Nonetheless, Trumid landed $53 million from stock exchanges in Germany and Singapore in last year's fundraising round. The Asia exchange signed on as the lead investor to help fuel the startup's push into that region.

Already backed by Peter Thiel and George Soros, the company declined to comment on whether the billionaire investors participated in this round. A person close to the startup said it continues to enjoy financial support from its early investors.

Trumid looks to be one of the survivors in what has been a multiyear period of expansion and consolidation among dozens of electronic trading startups. Many were started by Wall Street traders disrupted by new technologies and shrinking trading desks.

The startup specializes in a type of corporate bond trade that's bigger than $5 million, which can be difficult for investors to execute on electronic platforms, according to a March 2018 report from research firm Greenwich Associates. While these large trades only make up 1% of the total orders in the market on a given day, they make up over 40% of the notional traded.

While we obtained the pitch deck without Trumid's help, the company provided some updated figures.

Here, Trumid explains how it fits into the market.

An overview of how the corporate bond market is changing and why that presents an opportunity for electronic venues like Trumid.

A rundown of Trumid's user base, which looks like it has grown substantially since 2015. By yearend 2018, the company had over 400 users.

Trumid boasts about its tech prowess.

In this slide, Trumid discusses its trading venue, which tries to mirror the way that bond traders work on other platforms. It also includes artificial-intelligence techniques.

A rundown of how 2017 went.

And the outlook for 2018. A reminder that this deck was prepared in April 2018.

All sorts of numbers going in the right direction.

Trumid describes its flywheel effects, where more daily trades lead to better user engagement which leads to more orders and more trades.

This slide shows how Trumid's growth looks to be picking up steam.

Here, Trumid says it expects annualized net revenue to go from $8 million in February 2018 to $121 million in 2022.

This slide shows how Trumid's enterprise value may increase to $3.1 billion on net revenue of $163 million in an environment where at least 40% of corporate bonds trade electronically.

A nice chart showing the areas where Trumid sees future growth.

Emerging market debt gets a special call out, with Trumid expecting a 1% market share within the first two years.

One of the key promises of electronic trading is the amount of data it produces and the ability to deliver analytics that can come up with new insights.

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