Standard Chartered
47 Jongno, Seoul, Jongno-gu, 03160, Republic of Korea
Overview
Standard Chartered is a banking firm that provides banking and financial services.
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 11
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- Banking
- Finance
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- Digital Asset
Led · Series F · Jul 2026
Digital Asset builds and operates the Canton Network, a public, permissionless Layer 1 blockchain that provides protocol-level privacy and confidentiality guarantees and runs applications written in its open-source smart contract language, Daml. Canton is designed to enable tokenized asset workflows across multiple parties while keeping transaction data confidential, and it has attracted marquee institutional participants including Visa, Goldman Sachs, and DTCC. The network has processed or issued more than $6 trillion in tokenized assets according to prior reporting, and Visa became a Canton Super Validator and added Canton to a stablecoin settlement pilot. The Canton ecosystem has also seen activity such as a $540 million raise by Canton Strategic Holdings (formerly Tharimmune) to build a Canton Coin treasury and a project called Zenith completing atomic swaps between Canton and an EVM-compatible environment. On the financing front, Digital Asset raised $135 million in June 2025 and $50 million in December 2025, and is now pursuing a roughly $300 million round led by a16z crypto. The company is backed by trading firms and banks including DRW Holdings and Citadel Securities.
- Digital Edge
Led · Debt Financing · May 2026
Digital Edge operates and develops campus-scale data center facilities across Asia‑Pacific, targeting hyperscale and enterprise demand. Since its formation by New York–based Stonepeak in August 2020, the company has grown via acquisitions of smaller operators to establish local footholds and by developing larger facilities for hyperscale tenants. It currently has around 25 data centers in operation and under construction and more than 1.1 GW of secured IT power across Japan, South Korea, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Digital Edge has executed over US$2 billion in green financings to date and recently completed a $575 million HoldCo debt facility that can be converted into a Sustainability‑Linked Loan subject to agreed targets. The company is using proceeds to expand its campus footprints across existing markets as AI and hyperscale demand accelerates in the region.
- GSR
Led · Equity · May 2026
GSR is a crypto capital markets and liquidity provider founded in 2013 by former Goldman Sachs traders. The firm acts as a market maker and liquidity partner and says it works with over 300 liquidity partners and has traded more than $1 trillion since inception. GSR has been expanding its tokenization services and in March announced a $57 million acquisition of Autonomous and Architech to grow that business. The company accepted its first external investment—about $150 million from SC Ventures—at a valuation above $1 billion. GSR and its new investor plan to collaborate on building regulated, scalable market infrastructure to link traditional finance and digital assets and to broaden institutional access to tokenization. This investment coincides with Standard Chartered’s wider expansion into digital asset custody and institutional spot trading services.
- Asialink
Led · Debt Financing · Oct 2025
Asialink Group of Companies is a Philippine non-bank financial institution focused on extending credit to underserved micro, small and medium enterprises. Its core offering is MSME loan financing, positioned to fill the gap left by traditional banks whose lending volumes remain below Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas quotas. The company plans to use newly secured capital to scale nationwide lending operations and broaden access to credit for small business owners. Management projects its loan book will rise from PHP 41.9 billion (US$5.79 billion) in June 2025 to PHP 48.7 billion (US$6.48 billion) by December 2025. Being the first Philippine NBFI to obtain a syndicated facility from Standard Chartered underscores investor confidence in its growth trajectory. Asialink aims to leverage this larger and more stable capital base to accelerate outreach to MSMEs across the country.
- Partior
Participated · Series B · Jul 2024
Partior is a blockchain-based fintech company providing unified ledger-based interbank rails for real-time clearing and settlement. Its network offers real-time, cross-border multi-currency payments and Payments versus Payments (PvP) settlement. The company is addressing industry inefficiencies including settlement delays, limited transaction transparency and high operating costs. It is exploring new services including intra-day swaps, Delivery versus Payments (DvP) settlement and enterprise solutions, and intends to develop capabilities like programmable enterprise liquidity management and just-in-time multi-bank payments. Partior intends to expand its international network and integrate additional currencies (AED, AUD, BRL, CAD, CNH, GBP, JPY, MYR, QAR, SAR). It is currently live with USD, EUR and SGD. Founded in 2021 and led by CEO Humphrey Valenbreder, the company aims to facilitate the movement of liquidity for financial institutions and their customers. Partior is a Singapore-based platform that uses blockchain technology to enable payments clearing and settlements. The company is described as blockchain-enabled and focuses on streamlining clearing and settlement processes. It is backed by Temasek. According to regulatory filings, Partior raised $31 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Standard Chartered, a UK-headquartered bank.