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Cedar Hill Capital

445 Park Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, 10022, United States

Overview

Cedar Hill Holdings was formed in the 1970’s as a family office to focus on the preservation and appreciation of capital through investments in commercial real estate debt and other value-oriented investments. While real estate is our foundation, we have interests in other diversified investment assets. With a foundation across real estate investment, management and structuring, our core business of real estate bridge loans was started in 1976. Since then, Cedar Hill has focused primarily on originating commercial real estate bridge loans, purchasing non-performing real estate debt, and investing in other asset classes. Cedar Hill has successfully invested in cycles of growth and recession, with significant investment experience in economies undergoing turmoil, such as: the Savings and Loan crises in the early 1990’s, the bond crises in 1998, the financial distress in the wake of September 11, 2001, and most recently in the “Great Recession.” Consequently, we have developed an expertise in high yield commercial real estate debt origination, portfolio and asset due diligence & valuation, asset management, restructuring and workouts.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Real Estate
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Sign3

    Led · Equity · Apr 2026

    Founded in 2022 and led by CEO Arvinder Singla, Sign3 provides an AI-native fraud prevention and identity intelligence platform that combines device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and alternative data signals to generate predictive risk insights. The platform is designed to detect fraud patterns such as money mule accounts, synthetic identities, and multi-account abuse. Sign3’s solution is already deployed by over 20 banks, fintechs, and marketplaces. The company plans to use its $1.5M funding to strengthen product capabilities, enhance its AI models, expand go-to-market efforts, and scale engineering and analytics teams. Its legal entity is Shruhani Technologies Private Limited and it is headquartered in Gurugram, India.

  • Fireblocks

    Participated · Series B · Nov 2020

    Fireblocks provides a SaaS-like custody platform that lets financial institutions run their own secure wallets and custody across 25 blockchains while enabling peer-to-peer transactions between clients. Its customers include Bank of New York Mellon, BlockFi and eToro, and the company also offers strategic consulting and DeFi custody integrations such as Aave Arc. Fireblocks scaled rapidly in 2021, growing its client base from 100 to 800, doubling assets secured on its platform to $2 trillion, and growing revenue roughly 600% to a year-end figure between $50 million and $100 million. About 200 of its 800 clients use its DeFi extensions, and DeFi accounted for roughly 10% of its transaction volume in the past month. The company plans to use new proceeds to double its 300-person team by the end of 2022 with hiring focused on engineers and customer success, and to expand into regions including Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa as regulations permit. Fireblocks was founded in 2018 and positions itself as a broad digital-asset infrastructure provider differentiated by security, multi-chain support and a customer network for inter-client transactions. Fireblocks provides an all-in-one platform that lets financial institutions store, transfer, issue and tokenize digital assets, including custody services secured with multiparty computation. The company’s platform supports issuance of asset-backed tokens and can be white‑labeled so banks and businesses can implement direct custody without third parties. Fireblocks says it has secured the transfer of over $1 trillion in digital assets and serves over 500 financial institutions, up from about 150 in January. Its ARR grew roughly 350% year-to-date in 2021 versus 2020 and the company expects to end the year up 500%; total capital raised since its 2018 inception is $489M. Fireblocks operates offices across the UK, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and the DACH region and counts customers including Revolut, BlockFi, Celsius, Galaxy Digital and crypto.com. The company plans to use new funding to expand engineering and customer-success teams and to grow geographically in the Asia‑Pacific region while remaining independent. Fireblocks provides institutional crypto infrastructure including custody, transfers, token issuance, staking and DeFi integrations. The company does not have a consumer-facing product and sells to banks, fintechs and other financial institutions seeking crypto custody and balance-sheet diversification. It uses multi-party computation to manage private keys, generating cryptographic secrets on both client devices and servers to avoid a single point of failure. Fireblocks stores $400 billion in cryptocurrencies and has built a network of liquidity partners with direct connections to 30 exchanges to support OTC desks and market makers. The platform also supports token issuance across multiple blockchains, staking via partners such as Staked and Blockdaemon, a DeFi API, and AML integrations with Elliptic and Chainalysis. Financially, Fireblocks has raised $179 million to date and says it has not yet reached a valuation of $1 billion. Fireblocks provides infrastructure that enables enterprises and institutions to adopt, move and manage digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Since launching in June 2019, the company has facilitated the transfer of over $150 billion in digital assets for customers including Revolut, Celsius, BlockFi, PrimeTrust, Genesis and Nexo. CEO Michael Shaulov said Fireblocks saw a 533% increase in customer growth in Q3. The company was founded in Tel Aviv and is headquartered in New York City, and has opened offices in Germany, the UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. The new capital will be used to grow the team and expand into other fintech products. Over the next year Fireblocks plans to explore innovations in digital payments, banking, transactions and the security of the digital-asset ecosystem. Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform that secures digital assets in transit for financial institutions. It streamlines digital asset trading operations without sacrificing security, using patent-pending chip isolation security and MPC technology. The platform can securely transfer assets across exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties while keeping them readily available. Customers include large institutional digital asset trading operators such as Galaxy Digital and Genesis Global Trading. Fireblocks is integrated with 15 digital asset exchanges and supports over 180 cryptocurrencies, tokens, and stablecoins. The company launched out of stealth with a $16M Series A financing.

Team

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