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CMT Digital

156 N Jefferson St Ste 102, Chicago, Illinois, 60661, United States

Overview

CMT Digital is a venture capital firm engaging in the crypto asset and Blockchain technology industry. The firm focuses on asset trading, blockchain technology investments, and legal and policy. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Total investments
106
Lead investments
10
Investments · 12mo
11
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • Augustus

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

    Augustus operates a platform that offers financial institutions direct, programmable access to dollar accounts and payment rails via a modern, federally chartered bank. The company targets other financial institutions globally as customers for its bank-backed rails and account access. Augustus announced a $180 million Series B led by Tiger Global, signaling a significant growth-stage financing event for the firm. Public coverage states the capital will be used to accelerate the company's mission and expand its offerings. The article does not provide revenue, user counts, founding year, location, or other operating metrics.

  • Derivio

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Derivio builds a full-stack trading terminal optimized for AI-driven or "agentic" trading, combining a high-speed data engine that ingests on-chain signals and market ticks with optimized execution routing and physical node placement. The platform emphasizes non-custodial operation, advanced risk-management features, a universal margin system for multi-asset collateral, and planned Liquidity-as-a-Service (LaaS) market-neutral setups. Derivio’s interface includes an "Agent" section (reported as "coming soon") that will let users deploy AI agents to monitor markets and execute strategies autonomously. The company aims to expand asset and chain coverage and improve capital efficiency for traders and liquidity providers. Following a $6 million financing round in March 2026, Derivio plans to accelerate development of its agentic infrastructure, data engine, and user-facing features to bring its AI-native workflows to market.

  • Tazapay

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2026

    Tazapay provides regulated last-mile payment infrastructure built on modern digital settlement rails to enable real-time, capital-efficient cross-border settlement for businesses. The platform targets enterprises, marketplaces, fintechs, neobanks, and web3 companies across high-growth corridors in Asia, LATAM, the Middle East, and the Americas. Tazapay holds licences and registrations across Singapore, Canada, Australia, and the United States and has active licensing applications in the UAE, EU, and Hong Kong. The company reports doubling revenues for three consecutive years and serves over 1,000 enterprises and fintechs across 30 countries, while stating it powers access across 70 markets globally. Future plans highlighted by the company include further licensing expansion, go-to-market acceleration in key corridors, and development of agentic payment infrastructure and a flexible rules engine to support autonomous, AI-driven payment flows.

  • STS Digital

    Led · Equity · Feb 2026

    STS Digital is a regulated principal trading company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, that specialises in digital-asset derivatives. Its unified platform—available via web UI, API, and voice channels—allows institutional clients to trade more than 400 tokens across vanilla and exotic options, spot markets, and structured products. Beyond execution, the firm provides liquidity and risk-management services to improve trading efficiency and market stability. Led by CEO Maxime Seiler, the company aims to be a one-stop shop for sophisticated digital-asset strategies. With newly secured capital, STS Digital plans to rapidly scale its spot and options platform while deepening its market-making capabilities. Although specific revenue or user figures were not disclosed, the company positions itself as an institutional-grade gateway to the growing crypto-derivatives market.

  • TBD

    Led · Seed · Feb 2026

    TBD operates an on-chain prediction market platform where every vote and trade comes from a uniquely verified human, leveraging World ID authentication to keep bots and AI-generated activity out. Its core product lets individuals and organizations post polls that immediately translate into Solana-based markets, aligning economic incentives with real-world opinion data. During a private beta, the protocol hosted over 4,000 markets and logged more than 19 million votes from 225,000+ participants worldwide, demonstrating early traction and network effects. The company was founded by Corey Miller and Taehoon Lee, who previously built products together at dYdX. By merging polling and trading into one workflow, TBD seeks to become the definitive source of large-scale, AI-resistant sentiment data for businesses, policymakers, and researchers. The public launch accompanies a fresh capital infusion that will fund further product development and scaling efforts.

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