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Sygnum

Uetlibergstrasse 134a, Zürich, CH-ZH, 8045, SWITZERLAND

Overview

Sygnum is an international digital asset banking organization, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. The company provides professional and institutional investors, banks, corporations, and DLT foundations with the means to invest in digital assets with utmost confidence. Sygnum's team facilitates this through our top-tier security, personalized expert service, and regulated services in digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B offerings.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Asset Management
  • Banking
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • Bluwhale

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

    Bluwhale offers a consumer-first platform that matches a user’s financial health score with an AI agent marketplace, enabling enterprises and developers to launch always-on financial services for a digitally native Gen Z audience. The company’s Layer-3, multi-chain infrastructure supplies data, storage, and compute to hundreds of AI agents that recommend assets and execute transactions securely on blockchains. Bluwhale’s ecosystem now serves more than 3.6 million users worldwide, positioning it as a leading real-world application of AI and blockchain convergence. On October 21, 2025 the firm conducted a Token Generation Event for $BLUAI, the native token that fuels its decentralized AI network. Management plans to direct new capital toward broadening institutional partnerships and integrating AI agents into everyday financial applications. By targeting the forthcoming wealth transfer to Millennials and Gen Z, Bluwhale aims to modernize financial services that remain reliant on physical branches and manual processes. Backing from both global banks and leading blockchain foundations underpins the company’s strategy to build secure, scalable, and interoperable AI for traditional and Web3 markets.

  • P2P Validator

    Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

    P2P.org is a staking service provider whose existing offering focuses on direct holders and is developing a new infrastructure platform aimed at intermediaries. The company raised $23 million from Jump Crypto, Bybit, and Sygnum. It says it will use the funding to develop blockchain infrastructure that enhances the user experience in staking and to research and develop expansion initiatives. P2P.org is positioning its product roadmap to capitalize on the Shanghai (Shapella) upgrade to the Ethereum network, which enables withdrawals of staked assets. The upgrade is expected to increase liquidity and heighten institutional interest in Ethereum, which P2P.org aims to capture with its institutional-focused offering.

  • Staking Rewards

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2021

    StakingRewards operates StakingRewards.com, an independent data aggregator and research platform focused on crypto interest rates for Proof-of-Stake protocols. The platform reports over 4.7 million page views per month and serves investors and asset managers seeking independent data on staking yields, service providers, and staking-related products. The company plans to use new funding to develop a suite of products and services for the staking space, including investable staking index products. StakingRewards was established in 2020 and is operated by Finrate AG in St. Gallen. The business positions itself to capture demand as staking generates an estimated $9 billion of revenues and the staking industry grew over 1,550% in the prior 12 months. Its strong brand and rapid user growth in 2021 have driven interest from leading digital-asset firms. Staking Rewards is an independent data aggregator and research platform focused on crypto interest rates and Proof-of-Stake protocols, operated by St. Gallen–based Finrate AG. It tracks 217 yield-bearing assets with an average reward rate of 14.95% and catalogs 9,315 qualified providers, serving close to 500,000 unique monthly users and over 3 million page views recently. The company emphasizes neutrality—having sold its previous Hotstake platform to Stake Capital in 2019 to avoid conflicts, and states neither the site nor team members are affiliated with any cryptocurrency or staking service. Using seed financing, Staking Rewards plans to scale the platform, add novel features and launch a Staking Provider Registry that verifies staking providers and lending platforms to reduce counterparty risk. The registry lets visitors explore and engage with providers on the site, while active users earn native HEARTS tokens for valuable reviews and answers. Future plans include rolling out more user-focused features via a native token concept, scaling the API business for staking data, and expanding the platform’s reach to China and other regions.

Team

  • Mathias Imbach

    Co-Founder & Group CEO

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  • Luka Muller

    Co-Founder

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  • Gerald Goh

    Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

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  • Luca Burlando

    Head of Ventures & Partnerships

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