The companies have provided a combined total of $1.6 million of new investment in Tallarium to fund Tallarium’s ongoing expansion as the ‘single source of truth’ for pricing in the opaque energy trading markets. This brings the total raised by Tallarium to date to $7 million.

Tallarium is helping to digitise the energy trading markets

Based on the energy clearing house and exchange data from ICE and CME, as well as Tallarium’s own calculations, over 90% of energy contracts, representing over $7 trillion per annum, are traded off-exchange (actively transacted via messenger chat and over the phone). The industry has been one of the slowest to digitise, with energy traders still using Microsoft Excel as the primary tool used to record and analyse data. Some of the world’s largest energy firms are forced to rely on these highly manual methods for risk management and valuation processes.

Using proven, robust and reliable methodologies, Tallarium’s platform automatically gathers and structures pricing information from broker chat messenger and voice conversations to create the industry’s first, definitive price discovery platform for the entire market. Its advanced data analytics provides a step-change in off-exchange energy trading, making manual data-entry and analysis obsolete, increasing efficiencies and helping traders to maximise the potential of every trade.

Commenting on the investment, Stanislav Ermilov, Founder and CEO of Tallarium, said: “Tallarium will help bring all the benefits of digitisation to energy traders, such as centralised pricing and access to increased liquidity, without asking traders to change the way they trade. Our technology empowers energy traders to trade more profitably by capturing more opportunities and helping them to manage and respond to market risk more effectively.”

He added: “We’re delighted to have secured the backing of key strategic partners such as XTX and Reciprocal Ventures, who bring with them deep domain expertise in data and capital markets. They will contribute their experience and invaluable advice to our team as we continue to grow and this additional funding will allow us to accelerate our development and scaling even further. We look forward to a long and successful relationship with our new investors.”

Mike Irwin, COO at XTX Markets, said: “As innovators in trading ourselves, we are always looking for partnership and investment opportunities in exciting companies making a real contribution to financial markets. We were impressed by Tallarium’s technology, its people and its focus on solving a real problem in energy market trading, by providing definitive product pricing information where none has existed before.”