Abu Dhabi Investment Office
11th floor, Al Khatem Tower, ADGM Square, Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi, 767692, United Arab Emirates
Overview
ADIO is the government entity responsible for attracting and facilitating investment in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. ADIO enables opportunities for innovative investors and businesses of all sizes, facilitating connections across Abu Dhabi’s innovation ecosystem to help them establish and grow in the emirate. With a comprehensive range of tailored services and incentives, ADIO helps businesses achieve long-term, sustainable success in the market and across the region.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 4
Investment portfolio
- Securrency
Participated · Series A · Jan 2020
Securrency is a developer of institutional-grade blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology that centers on automated compliance for the issuance, exchange, administration, and servicing of digital assets. Its core platform is designed to provide rails for secure, real-time settlement and to bridge legacy financial systems and blockchain infrastructure. The company says it operates from multiple international hubs with a world-class development and commercial team and plans to expand its roster in 2021. Securrency intends to establish regulated financial services businesses in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) in partnership with Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners and has applied for relevant licenses. Through Securrency Labs it plans to develop DeFi products and a community-driven, low-code/no-code platform for creating blockchain-based financial instruments, and it also plans retail-focused products. The company recently completed a $30M Series B and previously raised $17.65M in a Series A in early 2020, which it says will fund expansion into new products and markets worldwide. Securrency develops institutional-grade blockchain-based market infrastructure centered on a patent-pending distributed identity and Compliance Aware Token framework that enforces multi-jurisdictional regulatory policy. Its technology is blockchain-agnostic and designed to enable ledger-to-ledger transactions and interoperability to facilitate global liquidity. The company offers its technology via SaaS and PaaS delivery models and positions itself as a bridge between legacy financial platforms and blockchain networks. Securrency’s compliance and policy-enforcement tools automate multi-jurisdictional rules to provide transparency and oversight for market participants and regulators. As part of its go-to-market approach, the company is collaborating with an ETF sponsor to demonstrate applications of its technology within the ETF ecosystem. Securrency’s recent Series A financing provides capital to advance its product and commercial efforts.