Foresight Ventures Participates in Series C Funding of Matrixport, Asia's Leading Cryptocurrency Financial Services Platform
On August 2, 2021, Matrixport, Asia's leading cryptocurrency financial service platform, completed its C round of financing at a valuation of more than one billion U.S. dollars two years after its establishment. Foresight Ventures participated in the round as a long-term partner. This round of financing was co-led by DST Global Partners, C Capital and K3 Ventures. Other investors include Qiming Venture Partners, CreditEase Fintech Industry Fund, Tiger Global, Zen Zhuo Group, Palm Drive Capital, Foresight Ventures and A&T Capital, As well as Matrixport's early investors Lightspeed, Polychain, Dragonfly Capital, CMT Digital and IDG Capital, among others. The Singapore-based startup has raised a total of US$129 million to date.
Matrixport provides a full range of cryptocurrency financial services to individual investors and institutional clients, including institutional-grade custody, trading, lending, structured products and asset management. As of March 2021, Matrixport managed and hosted client assets in excess of $10 billion, with an aggregate monthly transaction volume of approximately $5 billion across all product lines.
"I always believe that an open and decentralized blockchain ecosystem is the cornerstone of the financial network in the new era, and it will benefit a considerable number of people in the world. Therefore, the data created, stored and transmitted on this new financial network The value will be measured in trillions of dollars,” said Jihan Wu, co-founder and chairman of Matrixport.
About Foresight Ventures
About Foresight Ventures
Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology. It was established in 2020 and was formerly an international venture capital institution with ten years of investment experience. Foresight Ventures has established a global network of experts, including members from top Internet companies, IT companies and financial institutions.
Foresight Ventures is the largest shareholder of Bitget and Bitkeep. It is also engaged in primary market, secondary market and fund of funds investment, with a management scale of nearly 80 million US dollars.
Foresight Ventures consistently seeks out disruptive innovation opportunities that can change industries over a 20-year cycle and beyond. Adhering to transparency, interdisciplinarity, internationalization and long-termism, we provide a full range of support to accompany projects from 0-1, from 1-100.
Email: fv@foresightventures.com
About Matrixport
Matrixport is one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrency financial service platforms in Asia, with $10 billion in assets under management and custody, one-stop cryptocurrency financial services, and an average monthly transaction volume of over $5 billion. Matrixport provides customers with Cactus Custody™ custody services, spot OTC transactions, fixed income products, structured products, lending and asset management.
Matrixport is headquartered in Singapore with the vision of "making cryptocurrency accessible to everyone". Matrixport holds financial services licenses in Hong Kong and Switzerland, and has over 220 staff across offices in Asia and Europe serving institutional clients and individual investors.
Official website: www.matrixport.com
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