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§ Private Profile · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sygnum is a technology company.
Sygnum operates as the world's first regulated digital asset bank, providing institutional financial services. It offers secure, compliant solutions for trading, custody, staking, and tokenization of digital assets. The platform integrates traditional finance standards with blockchain technology, creating a reliable environment for digital asset management.
The company's foundation emerged in late 2017 from discussions among co-founders Luka Müller, Manuel Krieger, and Mathias Imbach. They recognized a need to connect the unregulated digital asset space with traditional finance. This insight drove their ambition to build a regulated entity, leading to Sygnum receiving its Swiss banking license in August 2019.
Sygnum serves professional and institutional investors, enabling secure digital asset market participation. Its vision is to pioneer future finance by connecting traditional and digital assets within a regulated ecosystem. The company aims to empower investors with access to new asset classes, fostering an efficient global financial landscape.
Sygnum has raised $246.0M across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at Sygnum.
Sygnum was founded in 2017 by Mathias Imbach (Co-Founder & Group CEO) and Gerald Goh (Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer) and Luka Muller (Co-Founder).
Sygnum has raised $246.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Sygnum has raised $246.0M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $58.0M Other Equity in January 2025.
| Date | Company | Round | Lead Investor(s) | Co-Investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2024 | Bluwhale | $7.0M Seed | SBI | Amazon Alexa Fund, Artichoke Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Paradigm, Placeholder, Sequoia Capital, SOSV, The HIT Forge, Version ONE Ventures, Ameet Patel, Charles Huang, Haseeb Qureshi, Jack Mccauley, Animoca Brands, Azimut, Baselayer Capital, Cardano, Ghaf Capital Partners, Gumi, Momentum6, MZ Crypto, Nxgen, Pasaca Capital, Primal Capital, Spyre Capital |
| Nov 25, 2021 | Staking Rewards | $3.0M Other Equity | Meltem Demirors, Digital Currency Group, Galaxy Digital | 1KX |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Staking Rewards | $3.0M Series U | Coinshares, Digital Currency Group, Galaxy Digital | 1k(x) |
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2025 | $58M Venture Round | — | — | Announced |
| Jan 1, 2025 | $58M Series C | Fulgur Ventures | — | Announced |
| Jan 25, 2024 | $40M Venture Round | Azimut | — | Announced |
| Jan 6, 2022 | $90M Series B | — | — | Announced |
Key people at Sygnum.
Sygnum is a Swiss-based digital asset banking group founded in 2017, operating as the world's first regulated digital asset bank with licenses in Switzerland and Singapore.[1][2] It provides a suite of financial services including regulated digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B solutions for professional and institutional investors, banks, corporates, and DLT foundations, bridging traditional finance with the digital asset economy.[1][2] At Series D stage with $130M raised, Sygnum focuses on scalable, future-proof platforms powered by banking, investment, and DLT expertise.[1][2]
Sygnum was founded in 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland, emerging during the early boom in blockchain and digital assets to create the first fully regulated bank for this space.[1][2] Key details on specific founders are not detailed in available sources, but the company was built by an interdisciplinary team of banking, investment, and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) experts drawing on Swiss precision and Singapore's innovation heritage.[2] Its evolution centers on securing banking licenses—Sygnum Bank AG in Switzerland and capital markets services (CMS) via Sygnum Pte Ltd in Singapore—enabling global operations under strict regulation while expanding from custody to comprehensive services like tokenization.[1][2][3]
Sygnum rides the trend of digital asset institutionalization, where blockchain and DLT converge with traditional finance amid rising demand for regulated crypto custody, staking, and tokenization.[1][2] Timing is ideal post-2017 crypto surge and amid 2020s regulatory clarity in Switzerland and Singapore, countering market forces like volatility and hacks with licensed infrastructure.[2][3] It influences the ecosystem by enabling banks and corporates to enter digital assets compliantly, fostering trust and scalability in a sector projected for trillions in tokenized assets.
Sygnum is poised for expansion into emerging areas like real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and DeFi integration for institutions, leveraging its regulatory edge amid global crypto adoption.[1][2] Trends such as clearer U.S. and EU regulations, plus DLT advancements in payments, will accelerate its growth, potentially elevating its role as a bridge for trillions in traditional capital flowing into digital economies. As the pioneer digital asset bank, Sygnum's trusted platform positions it to shape a compliant, global digital finance future.[1][2]
Sygnum was founded in 2017 by Mathias Imbach (Co-Founder & Group CEO) and Gerald Goh (Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer) and Luka Muller (Co-Founder).
Sygnum has raised $246.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Sygnum's investors include Fulgur Ventures, Azimut.