KW

Katherine Wilson

Investor at Illuminate focused on Fintech/B2B tech

United Kingdom

Overview 

Katherine Wilson is a Venture Capitalist at Illuminate Financial, specializing in Fintech and B2B tech, and has been recognized on the Women in Fintech Powerlist. With a background in equities and fixed income, she holds board positions in multiple companies and serves as a board observer for various organizations in the finance and technology sectors. Wilson's career highlights include her role as an Investment Director at Illuminate Financial and her active involvement in various companies as a board member or observer, showcasing her leadership and expertise in the Fintech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Investment Director

    2018 - Current

    Illuminate Financial is a thesis-driven venture capital firm dedicated to enterprise fintech and B2B software companies building technology solutions for financial services.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Composable Prompts helps organizations leverage LLM in their business processes and workflows. It offers an end-to-end platform to govern, secure, and orchestrate LLMs, supports a large number of execution providers (Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Replicate, Hugging Face, TogetherAI, etc.) and models (GPTx, Claude, Cohere, AI21 Labs, Titan, Llama2, Mistral, and many others), and brings a new virtualization approach to operationalize them.

  • Board Member

    2023

N5 provides customer engagement software and IT services to leading banks in Latin America and is now expanding to the US market.

Raised $9,500,000.00 from ArpexCapital, LTS Investments, Exor Ventures, Madrone Capital Partners and Illuminate Financial.

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2023

    Arteria are transforming contract management in enterprise companies with a data driven approach that doesn't disrupt existing workflows.

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2023

    d1g1t is the industry’s first enterprise wealth management platform powered by institutional-grade analytics and risk management tools.

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2023

    Cosaic provides state-of-the art software for firms that want to promote ingenuity, evolve intelligently, and improve end-user efficiency. Products include ChartIQ, the world-renowned financial charting software, and Finsemble, the smart desktop platform. I stepped back from the board after ChartIQ was sold to S&P group and Finsemble was spun out as a stand-alone entity.

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

    YvesBlue's powerful multi-asset platform allows clients to get a clear view of the ESG & Impact characteristics of their portfolios, combining both internal and external data sources.

YvesBlue distills the sustainability narrative across your entire portfolio.

Raised $2,000,000.00 from Tribeca Early Stage Partners, Illuminate Financial, SixThirty and Walter Ventures.

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