OpenTrade 🇬🇧
Platform for stablecoin yield products, combining a legal framework and off-chain banking infrastructure for compliance and scale.
About OpenTrade
OpenTrade offers a technology platform that integrates a legal framework and off-chain banking infrastructure to facilitate stablecoin products for the digital economy. Their services include on-chain structured financial products backed by investment-grade assets, such as liquidity pools and supply chain finance solutions that utilize USDC payments to enhance efficiency in B2B transactions.
OpenTrade is a UK-based company founded in 2010, now around 33 people. It has raised $33.4M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as Fintech.
Founded by Adele Malkin (Founder（semi-retired）; previously Cetera Financial Group, Goldman Sachs Group Limited; Kellogg School of Management), Regina Smith (Founder; Fordham Gabelli School of Business), Jeff Handler (Chief Commercial Officer & Co-founder; previously Centre; Washington University in St. Louis), David Sutter (Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder; Washington University in St. Louis), Tom Niermann (CTO Cofounder; repeat founder; previously Engovate Technologies, Google; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Melinda A. Malkin (Founder /CEO; previously JPMorganChase; Columbia University - Columbia Business School).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Seed · B2B (120 funds), Seed · Fintech (111 funds), Seed · Healthcare & Wellbeing (87 funds).
Company facts from Harmonic and public filings; team backgrounds from public profiles. Refreshed weekly.
Seed · May 2026
- AlbionVC — Backing visionary founders with long-term capital & scale-up expertise. · cheques £1M – £10M
- Outlier Ventures — Open Metaverse Accelerator and Web3 Investor · cheques £50k – £100k