Signature Ventures

Jul 2021 • Portfolio, Thesis

Blockchain Technology Partners Raisees £2M in Seed Round

We have invested in the British startup Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP). We are excited to back BTP’s enterprise blockchain experts on their mission to bring the benefits of distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and information security to businesses.

Jun 2021 • Portfolio, News

Unchained Capital Raises $25M Series A

The Texas-based startup has closed a $25M Series A, bringing its company valuation to $125M.

Apr 2021 • Portfolio, News

Finoa Closes $22 Million Series A to Accelerate Its Growth

We are thrilled to announce that we continue to back our portfolio company Finoa as part of their Series A round led by Balderton Capital.

Mar 2021 • Portfolio, Thesis

Celestia: The General-Purpose Data Availability Layer of the Decentralized Internet

Read our Investment Thesis on why Celestia and its general-purpose data availability layer is a paradigm shift for scalable Blockchain architecture and a catalyst towards a decentralized Internet.

Mar 2021 • Portfolio, News

Celestia (previously LazyLedger) Closes $1.5M Seed Round

We are thrilled to be a major part of the $1.5M seed round of Celestia alongside Blockchain-native heavyweights such as Binance Labs, Maven 11 and KR1.

Mar 2021 • Portfolio, News

Unchained Capital Raises $5.5M Seed Round

Unchained Capital raised a $5.5 million equity seed round led by institutional Bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG. Congratulations to the entire team on reaching this major milestone.

Dec 2020 • Portfolio, Thesis

Unlocking the Potential of Bitcoin-Native Multisignature Capabilities

Unchained Capital provides financial services on top of its highly secure and innovative collaborative custody infrastructure tailored to the needs of long-term Bitcoin holders.

Nov 2020 • Portfolio, News

Notabene Raises Seed Round of $1.77M

As Notabene's first institutional investor in their pre-Seed stage, we are happy to be accompanied by well-known names from the Blockchain and FinTech space: our network partners at Castle Island Ventures led the Seed round, joined by Green Visor Capital, among others.

Nov 2020 • Portfolio, Thesis

Embracing Regulation within the Blockchain Space

Notabene is building a Blockchain-focused compliance platform to provide crypto businesses with the tools to implement regulatory compliance in a simple way. Their diverse founder team follows a Blockchain-first approach combining decentralized-identity technology with the highest compliance standards.

Oct 2020 • Thoughts, Bitcoin

Bitcoin Is Adopted by Corporate Treasuries

Seemingly overnight, Bitcoin has become popular as a reserve asset among public companies. There are signs that this is only the beginning.

Sep 2020 • Research

Wie Blockchain und KI zum Internet der kollektiven Intelligenz konvergieren

Schönes neues World Wide Web

Sep 2020 • Thoughts, Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s Next Bull Run?

How do institutional investors prepare for a next Bitcoin bull market

Jul 2020 • Portfolio, Thesis

The Next Stage in the Evolution of Drug Development

Molecule aims to disrupt the pharmaceutical drug discovery and development industry. Their outstanding team is building a trust-less open platform for the efficient management of pharmaceutical intellectual property (IP) between researchers and investors.

Apr 2020 • Thoughts

What Blockchain Founders Can Do in Times of COVID-19

This article was originally written and published in collaboration with dGen for their two-part series, which surveyed some of the top blockchain investors in Europe.

Mar 2020 • Thoughts, Bitcoin

Doing It for the Money

The fight against the Coronavirus causes companies and scientists to collaborate closer, which accelerates the evolution towards open knowledge and data ecosystems and is bound to reshape the financial landscape

Feb 2020 • Thoughts

Early Blockchain Projects Are Starting to Scale

Recent VC-driven financing rounds within the blockchain industry indicate that an increasing number of companies are reaching important milestones and that company growth is gaining momentum.

Jan 2020 • Portfolio, News

We Are Backing Finoa

Happy to announce that Signature Ventures joined the seed round of Finoa GmbH. Looking forward to supporting Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing in building the leading custody solution for digital assets in Europe.

Nov 2019 • Thoughts, Adoption

The Path to Blockchain Adoption Is Not Paved Yet

Ideas of decentralization might be concrete for those who cope with them on a daily basis, but highly abstract for those who are still living in the mostly centralized reality.

Sep 2019 • Research, Defi

The Promises and Perils of DeFi

The advent of Ethereum along with its flexible smart-contract language that provides developers with a broad toolkit to build decentralized applications has led to a slew of ambitious projects ranging from decentralized exchanges to trading and insurance.

Jul 2019 • Research, Banking

Banking the Un(der)banked: Opportunities and Limits of Blockchain Technology

Recently, Facebook released their specification for the Libra project, a global currency to connect the world. In this piece we take a closer look at the unbanked and underbanked and the role Blockchain technology could play to accelerate progress towards resolution.

Jun 2019 • Research, Identity

Decentralized Identity: The Dawn of the Self-Sovereign Individual

In recent years, decentralized identity has regained attention due to numerous data breaches and the advent of blockchain technology. In this piece we take a look at the evolution of digital identity, Microsoft’s Identity Overlay Network (ION), and how decentralized identity could contribute to the digital transformation.

May 2019 • Research

Global Blockchain VC Study

In our Global Blockchain VC study, we analyzed the portfolios of 172 venture capital firms based in the US, Europe and Asia. By categorizing 881 portfolio companies according to clearly defined Blockchain sectors, we compiled a comprehensive overview of the Blockchain VC landscape.

Apr 2019 • Research, Gaming

Why Blockchain is a Game Changer

Blockchain has the potential to redefine gaming in terms of ownership of digital assets, interoperability of games and governance. A number of gaming publishers have already been dipping their toes into blockchain games. But gamers should not hang their hopes up too high, at least in the short to medium term.

Mar 2019 • Research

Enterprise Cryptocurrencies: A Corporate Attack on Crypto?

Our team dug deeper into the news of a potential Facebook cryptocurrency and JP Morgan's JPM Coin. We explored what these coin projects could potentially look like and how they compare to traditional cryptocurrencies.

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