Fitch Ventures is the equity investment arm of Fitch Group that concentrates on technologies serving institutional credit, risk management and enterprise clients, using its parent company's global credit rating and data franchise to support portfolio companies in ways most generalist VCs cannot. The fund operates with a dual mandate of generating financial returns while feeding innovation back into Fitch's businesses, often using investments as an M&A pipeline where several portfolio companies have been acquired by Fitch or integrated into its product stack.