Vinyl Equity, a financial technology infrastructure company and SEC-registered transfer agent, announced a $20 million Series A financing led by Jump Capital, with participation from MUFG Innovation Partners and continued support from existing investors including Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Infinity Ventures, and Cambrian Fintech.
The company provides infrastructure for capital markets and corporate transactions, supporting both public and private companies through shareholder recordkeeping, equity operations, paying agency services, and transaction workflows. Vinyl aims to replace legacy systems and manual processes with technology designed to deliver real-time accuracy, auditability, and operational control.
The platform offers integrated payments capabilities that include document collection, KYC and KYB controls, tax filing, audit trails, and fraud prevention, helping issuers execute distributions without relying on additional intermediaries. Vinyl is also expanding integrations with equity plan administrators to automate the issuance and reconciliation of vested and exercised shares, reducing manual processes and settlement delays.
Among Vinyl’s customers is Neptune Insurance Holdings, where the company served as transfer agent following the insurer’s listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Vinyl managed shareholder onboarding, recordkeeping, and transaction processing associated with the public market debut.
The company believes its infrastructure is positioned to support the evolution of capital markets, including emerging ownership models such as tokenized securities. The new capital will be used to expand engineering, compliance, and go-to-market teams while accelerating development of systems supporting both current and future regulatory frameworks.
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“The frustration we hear from issuers is consistent. The systems they use to interact with the capital markets were built for a different era, and the workarounds that held things together no longer scale. We’re delivering adaptable infrastructure that solves immediate needs for issuers and their shareholders to ensure they’re prepared now and for the next evolution.”
Rob Schoder, CEO and Co-Founder, Vinyl Equity
“We made deliberate architectural choices to ensure Vinyl could operate reliably in regulated, high-stakes market environments. That meant prioritizing consistency, auditability, and system integrity across the entire issuer lifecycle from the start so that core workflows function predictably under real market conditions—and the foundation is already in place for what comes next.”
Poornaprajna Udupi, CTO and Co-Founder, Vinyl Equity
“Vinyl’s technology-forward approach gave us confidence we had a partner built for where capital markets are going, not where they’ve been. As we entered the public markets, we needed a partner that could handle complexity without introducing operational risk, and that’s exactly what Vinyl delivered.”
Jim Steiner, Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer, Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc.
“Core infrastructure in capital markets has remained largely unchanged for decades, even as the demands on those systems have grown significantly. The tokenization of securities is not a future scenario, it is an active development that most of the existing infrastructure is unprepared for. Vinyl’s platform is already operating in today’s markets while positioned to support how capital markets will continue to evolve.”
Yelena Shkolnik, Partner, Jump Capital
