SC Ventures
8 Marina Boulevard Tower 1 Level 17, Marina Bay Financial Centre, Singapore, 018981
Overview
SC Ventures is Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment, and venture unit. Focused on "rewiring the DNA in banking", SC Ventures aims to develop an innovation culture and mindset, deepen capabilities, and experiment with new business models through an open platform and network of people and partnerships. It runs an eXellerator innovation lab network across Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Nairobi, and San Francisco.
- Total investments
- 19
- Lead investments
- 9
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 9
Sector focus
- Business Development
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Impact Investing
- Innovation Management
Investment portfolio
- Yellow Card
Participated · Equity · Aug 2026
Yellow Card builds stablecoin payment infrastructure and Global USD Accounts that let businesses hold U.S. dollars, manage treasury operations, swap stablecoins and send or receive local-currency payments across its network. The company has processed more than $10 billion in transactions, supports over 50 currencies and holds licences, authorisations and registrations in 22 jurisdictions across North America, Europe and Africa. It counts strategic partnerships and customers including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase, Western Union and others. Yellow Card is focused on expanding its stablecoin rails to enable faster cross-border transactions and to connect banks directly to those rails. The company plans international expansion into Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Its recent financing has brought total equity funding to more than $120 million, which the company says will be deployed to scale product rollout and geographic reach.
- Keyrock
Led · Series C · Mar 2026
Founded in 2017, Keyrock began as a specialised market-making operation and has expanded into a broader institutional financial services platform for digital assets. It now operates across more than 80 centralized and decentralized trading venues and offers market making, OTC execution, options, and digital-asset-focused asset management. The firm employs over 200 professionals and has established entities in Belgium, the UK, Switzerland, France, and the United States. Keyrock positions itself as a long-term infrastructure partner connecting traditional institutions with fragmented crypto and tokenized markets. The company has pursued acquisitions to build scale, including the $27.8 million purchase of Luxembourg-based Turing Capital. Following its Series C, Keyrock is valued at $1.1 billion and is using new capital to strengthen its balance sheet, expand services, and pursue further targeted acquisitions.
- Olea Global
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
Founded in 2022, Olea Global operates a digital infrastructure platform that connects institutional capital with trade and supply-chain opportunities worldwide. The company holds a Capital Market Services licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has already delivered more than $3 billion of financing to suppliers and buyers across over 70 trade corridors. Olea’s core product blends risk-management tools with AI-driven analytics and Web3 capabilities, including tokenised and stablecoin-enabled trade flows, to streamline and de-risk trade finance. Future plans include further investment in AI, embedded finance features, and expansion of its origination network in high-growth markets throughout Europe, the United States, Latin America, and Asia. Strategic partnerships with institutions such as BBVA, SC Ventures, and XDC Network will be leveraged to build digital supply-chain solutions and advanced risk-analytics offerings. The company’s vision centres on using technology, data intelligence, and diverse liquidity pools to unlock trade financing, particularly in emerging Asian markets.
- EdenX
Led · Equity · Nov 2025
EdenX Group integrates four business units—Eden Exchange (business sales marketplace), edenX Capital (capital raising and tokenisation), Franchise Ready (franchise strategy) and Franchise New Zealand Media (media services)—into a single, end-to-end platform for SMEs and franchise brands. The company services more than 250 franchise brands and a community of over 120,000 users spanning Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Holding dual licences from Singapore’s MAS and Australia’s AFSL regime, EdenX enables compliant, cross-border fundraising and plans to introduce tokenised security issuance with secondary liquidity features in 2026. Over the past year it has completed two acquisitions, expanded into Singapore, forged regional partnerships and deployed an AI-powered deal-qualification engine to match investors with sellers and franchisees. By unifying strategy, marketplaces, marketing and regulated capital issuance, EdenX aims to streamline franchise growth, investor matching and business exits on a single platform. The company’s recent US$5 million raise supports continued product development and regional expansion.
- Furaha
Led · Equity · Jan 2025
Furaha is a Dubai, UAE–based provider of a financial services platform offering purpose-driven loans for African markets. It focuses on loans centered around education, gender and other responsible lending pillars and builds an ecosystem of data for credit scoring. Furaha enables commercial banks to channel credit toward education financing and has launched loan products in Uganda with partners Opportunity Bank, SchPay and MTN MoMo. The company is headquartered in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and was co-founded by Yustus Aribariho and Ian Fernandes. Furaha raised $10M in funding, with SC Ventures investing $7M and Yabx BV contributing through technology transfer. It intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts across local operating markets in Africa.