Eventus Systems, Inc.
Austin, US Β· Founded 2014 Β· Delaware corporation Β· 7 known investors
Eventus provides enterprise risk and trade surveillance technology through its Validus platform, offering multi-asset surveillance, risk controls, algo monitoring, and a deterministic AI tool called Frank AI. It serves trading desks, compliance teams, and audit functions in the regulatory compliance space.
Also known as Eventus Β· Eventus Systems
Founders & leadership
Eventus Systems, Inc. was founded in 2014 by Travis Schwab.
Board
Investors Β· 7
Also in the syndicate Β· 2
Reported raises Β· per SEC filings
Form D private placements$56.8M disclosed across 7 rounds Β· 2015β2024
βΆ$5.3MraisedJan 2024 Β· 21 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Matthew AlfieriDirector
- Perry BarthExecutive Officer
- Krishna SrinavasanDirector
- Jeff BellExecutive Officer
- Fred HatfieldDirector
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Kim TaylorDirector
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Robert HutchinsDirector
- Offering amount
- $5.3M
- Amount sold
- $5.3M
- First sale
- Jan 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
βΆ$29.5MraisedSep 2021 Β· 27 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Jeff BellExecutive Officer
- Fred HatfieldDirector
- Benjamin CukierDirector
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Krishna SrinavasanDirector
- Kim TaylorDirector
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Perry BarthExecutive Officer
- Peter JohnsonDirector
- Offering amount
- $30M
- Amount sold
- $29.5M
- First sale
- Sep 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
βΆ$10.3MraisedFeb 2020 Β· 22 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Peter JohnsonDirector
- Krishna SrinavasanDirector
- Keith Ross, Jr.Director
- Fred HatfieldDirector
- Kim TaylorDirector
- Jeff BellExecutive Officer
- Kerry ClendinningExecutive Officer
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Offering amount
- $10.5M
- Amount sold
- $10.3M
- First sale
- Feb 2020
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
βΆ$648.8KraisedOct 2018 Β· 23 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Kerry ClendinningExecutive Officer
- Kim TaylorDirector
- Fred HatfieldDirector
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Jeff BellExecutive Officer
- Keith Ross, Jr.Director
- Offering amount
- $1M
- Amount sold
- $648.8K
- First sale
- Oct 2018
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
βΆ$5.2MraisedDec 2017 Β· 31 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Kerry ClendinningExecutive Officer
- Jeff BellExecutive Officer
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Offering amount
- $5.2M
- Amount sold
- $5.2M
- First sale
- Dec 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
βΆ$3.5MraisedMar 2017 Β· 30 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Thomas KetterhagenExecutive Officer
- Kerry ClendinningExecutive Officer
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Bailey KorellDirector
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Jeff BellExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $4M
- Amount sold
- $3.5M
- First sale
- Sep 2015
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
βΆ$2.3MraisedMar 2015 Β· 15 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Kerry ClendinningExecutive Officer
- Thomas KetterhagenExecutive Officer
- Bailey KorellDirector
- Travis SchwabExecutive Officer, Director
- Richard GorelickDirector
- Offering amount
- $2.6M
- Amount sold
- $2.3M
- First sale
- Mar 2015
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Eventus Systems, Inc. is a regulatory technology software company serving capital markets participants. Its flagship product, the Validus platform, delivers trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, algorithmic trading monitoring, market risk and risk controls across equities, equity options, futures, foreign exchange, fixed income and digital asset markets. Validus is offered as a cloud-based service or as a real-time on-premise enterprise deployment, and the company positions the product as covering all three lines of defense β trading desks, compliance teams and audit functions β with real-time procedures and custom reporting.
The platform includes pre-built compliance, surveillance and risk procedures (more than 150 as described in 2018), alerting and visualization tools, advanced reporting, reconciled multi-party counterparty data, and out-of-the-box integrations with third-party systems (more than 50 as of 2018). The company has stated that Validus processes billions of trade lifecycle messages per day in real time and surveils activity on more than 100 exchanges and trading venues globally. More recently Eventus introduced Frank AI, a deterministic AI capability integrated into Validus that builds on the company's normalized and contextualized data model to allow plain-English querying, automation of report generation and alert reviews, and reduction of alert noise, with on-premises deployment available.
A Bloomberg company profile describes Eventus as providing trade surveillance across asset classes, market risk and algorithm monitoring, and compliance technology to banks, trading firms, exchanges and digital asset platforms in APAC, Europe and the US.
Business model
Eventus sells enterprise surveillance and risk software to financial institutions and market venues, delivered either as a cloud-based solution or an on-premise enterprise installation, and supported by in-house implementation, client service and product development teams. Sales are supported by custom proof-of-concept demonstrations built on prospective clients' own data or on drop copies taken from supported venues.
Sources describe recurring client onboardings and year-over-year topline revenue growth from software clients, but do not disclose specific pricing or contract structures.
Traction
Eventus reported 2020 as its strongest year to date by revenue and new client onboardings, adding clients including Gemini, BitMEX, R.J. O'Brien & Associates, G.H. Financials and an expanded StoneX Group relationship, and adding more than 30 new surveillable markets to exceed 100 venues. It reported 2021 as another record year by revenue, client count and staff, increasing its client base by more than a third and adding FTX US and LedgerEdge. Staff more than tripled in 2020 and more than doubled again in 2021. In August 2026 the company announced that STX had deployed Validus for trade surveillance.
Latest developments
The company's site features 2026 content including an August 5, 2026 announcement that STX deployed the Validus platform for trade surveillance, articles on prediction market surveillance lessons and on build-versus-buy decisions in trade surveillance software, and the introduction of Frank AI, a deterministic AI solution integrated into Validus.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Eventus and its investors describe the firm as a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, with a stated leadership position in trade surveillance for major digital asset exchanges and a growing presence in fixed income and FX. Its profile is reinforced by repeated industry recognitions between 2018 and 2022, including Risk Technology, WatersTechnology, Markets Media, FOW, Regulation Asia and RegTech Insight awards, and inclusion in the RegTech100 and Chartis Energy50 lists.
The company emphasizes a platform designed by capital markets and regulatory practitioners and shaped by client input, breadth of pre-built procedures and venue integrations, rapid custom demonstrations using client data, deployment flexibility (cloud or on-premise), automation tools intended to reduce false-positive alert noise, and β with Frank AI β a deterministic, explainable AI approach grounded in a normalized and contextualized data model rather than opaque model output.
Technology
Validus is a multi-asset surveillance and risk platform supporting real-time, high-volume environments, with multi-stream data reconciliation, sophisticated alerting and visualization, trader profiling, insider trading, AML and transaction monitoring functionality (including digital asset transaction monitoring), statistical analytics, and more than 100 supported markets. Frank AI adds a deterministic AI layer over the platform's normalized data model supporting natural-language queries and task automation, with enterprise-grade security and on-premises deployment options.
Go-to-market
The company markets through direct enterprise sales and a demo-request funnel on its website, offering prospects custom demonstrations built with their own data; it has also stated that a high share of prospects who complete such demos convert to customers. It supplements this with industry award participation, press releases, thought-leadership articles on its site, and partnerships with adjacent vendors (VoxSmart in communications surveillance; TRM Labs and Notabene under 'Project TEN' for on-chain analytics, AML and Travel Rule compliance).
Tier-1 banks, broker-dealers and intermediaries, futures commission merchants, proprietary trading firms, buy-side institutions, corporates, energy and commodity trading firms, market centers and exchanges, digital asset venues, and regulators.
Geography
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with clients served globally. The company established its first on-the-ground EMEA presence in London in 2020 and expanded its Asia Pacific presence from Singapore to Hong Kong; Bloomberg describes customers across APAC, Europe and the US. Eventus has also been recognized as a remote-first employer.
History
Eventus was publicly active as a regtech software provider for capital markets by at least 2018, when it relaunched its website and reported dramatic growth over the prior two years. It raised a $10.5 million Series A growth round led by Jump Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners in February 2020, scaled internationally through 2020, and closed a $30 million Series B led by Centana Growth Partners in September 2021, bringing total disclosed funding to $48.5 million at that time, with Centana's Ben Cukier joining the board. The company continued expanding its client base and product suite through 2021 and 2022, later adding the Frank AI capability to Validus.
Risks & controversies
No controversies are described in the available sources. Sources note client concentration in digital asset trading venues, including exchanges such as BitMEX and FTX US, an area subject to shifting regulatory conditions.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 14
launches, deals, and filingsCompany news item announcing that STX deployed the Eventus Validus platform for trade surveillance.
Eventus introduced Frank AI, a deterministic AI capability integrated into the Validus platform that supports plain-English querying, automation of report generation and alert reviews, alert-noise reduction, and on-premises deployment options.
Eventus formed a strategic partnership with TRM Labs and Notabene to create Project TEN, a combined offering covering on-chain analytics, anti-money laundering, trade surveillance and Travel Rule compliance.
Eventus was recognized in Built In's 2022 Best Places to Work Awards, on its list of Best Remote-First Companies in 2022.
Eventus announced the close of a $30 million Series B round led by Centana Growth Partners, with participation from DRW VC, CMT Digital and existing investors Jump Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners, plus unnamed strategic investors. Proceeds were earmarked for scaling sales, product and engineering, expanding the Validus platform across asset classes and adding new financial risk applications.
$30M source β
In connection with the Series B round, Centana Growth Partners Partner Ben Cukier joined the Eventus board of directors.
2021 awards included the Risk Technology Award for Trade Surveillance Product of the Year, Waters Sell-Side Technology Award for Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product, Markets Media Markets Choice Award for Best in RegTech, Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence (Best Solution β Market Abuse & Surveillance), WatersTechnology Asia Award for Best Market Surveillance Tool, RegTech Insight Award APAC for Best Trade Surveillance Solution, FOW Asia Capital Markets Award for Best New Product β Market Surveillance, Canadian RegTech Award for Best Market Conduct Solution, RegTech100 and AIFinTech100.
Eventus reported 2021 as a record year by revenue, client count and staff, increasing its client base by more than a third and adding FTX US in cryptocurrencies and LedgerEdge in fixed income.
Eventus raised $10.5 million in Series A growth capital led by Jump Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners.
$10.5M source β
2020 recognitions included the FOW International Award for Market Surveillance Solution of the Year (second consecutive year), the Markets Media Market Choice Award for Best in RegTech β Surveillance and Financial Risk Management, the RegTech Insight Award for Best Trade Surveillance Solution for the Dodd-Frank Act (second consecutive year), inclusion in the RegTech100 list for a third year, a place on the Chartis Energy50 2021 list, and a Business Insider 'Breakout B2B Fintech Stars' feature.
During 2020 Eventus established its first on-the-ground EMEA presence with four team members in London and expanded its Asia Pacific footprint beyond Singapore to Hong Kong, while more than tripling global staff.
Eventus signed digital asset exchanges Gemini and BitMEX, US futures brokerage R.J. O'Brien & Associates, London-based clearing firm G.H. Financials, and expanded its relationship with StoneX Group for multi-asset market surveillance at StoneX's London-based European subsidiary.
Eventus formed a strategic alliance with communications surveillance provider VoxSmart to offer combined solutions covering pre-trade communications through execution and post-trade monitoring.
Eventus launched a new website built by Gate 39 Media, detailing Validus capabilities including more than 150 pre-built compliance, surveillance and risk procedures and more than 50 technology integrations, with on-premise and cloud deployment options.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities Β· 1
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βΈResearch sources Β· 8
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- Eventus Systems, Inc.eventussystems.com Β· web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Eventus Systems, Inc. do?
- Austin-based regtech firm whose Validus platform provides multi-asset trade surveillance, market risk and algo monitoring.
- Who founded Eventus Systems, Inc.?
- Eventus Systems, Inc. was founded by Travis Schwab in 2014.
- Who are Eventus Systems, Inc.'s investors?
- Eventus Systems, Inc.'s investors include Centana Growth Partners, Coinbase Ventures, Centana Partners, Jump Capital, LiveOak Venture Partners.
- How much funding has Eventus Systems, Inc. raised?
- Eventus Systems, Inc. has disclosed $56.8M raised across 7 rounds.
- Where is Eventus Systems, Inc. headquartered?
- Eventus Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Austin, US.
