Digital-asset custody and off-exchange settlement infrastructure for institutions.
copper.co ↗BTC structured finance platform offering cash-and-carry financing against Bitcoin collateral.
syntropyx.com ↗Single-API infrastructure for regulated institutions to run compliant payments, wallets, stablecoin settlement and identity.
crymbo.com ↗Yield-as-a-Service infrastructure: an API that lets fintechs and funds embed automated, risk-managed DeFi yield for their customers.
coinchange.io ↗Blockchain compliance and investigations platform: wallet screening, transaction monitoring and crypto intelligence across 70+ chains, for VASPs, banks and law enforcement.
nominis.io ↗Enterprise AI interpretability: explains what models do and why, for teams deploying AI under regulatory and risk constraints.
Instant account-to-account (Pay by Bank) payments and identity services built on open banking, for regulated sectors including iGaming and eCommerce.
yaspa.com ↗Agentic stablecoin treasury OS for SMBs: operating cash earns yield in the background while staying available for payroll, suppliers and day-to-day spend.
systm.xyz ↗Verifiable data availability layer and intent-based multi-chain protocol giving apps access to users and liquidity across 10+ chains.
availproject.org ↗Tokenised private-credit vault backed by real-estate collateral, co-developed with VanEck.
manifest.finance ↗Institutional DeFi vault layer for corporate treasuries, family offices and wealth managers.
byzantine.fi ↗FTSE-250 trading platform, two million client accounts across nineteen markets.
ig.com ↗API-first cross-border payments infrastructure for remittance, merchant and institutional disbursement.
bluechain.com ↗Mobile money and digital-wallet platform for telecom operators and financial-service providers, 115M users across 24 markets.
ericsson.com ↗Institutional-grade due diligence on any onchain vault, in machine time. Defensible at IC, agent-readable, every claim sourced.
templewood.io ↗Multi-family office and asset manager running a regulated multi-jurisdiction trading and fund platform.
Romania's largest payment processor: card, SMS and mobile payments for 25,000+ merchants, plus the mobilPay digital wallet.
netopia.ro ↗NYSE-listed technology services group with a private-equity practice covering due diligence and post-acquisition value creation.
endava.com ↗Plus fifteen years on credit desks at Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Crédit Agricole and ING.
Engineer by training. Fifteen years trading credit at bulge-bracket banks, then founder of a consumer finance app with an exit, then operator inside payments, custody and structured-finance companies from seed to FTSE-250. I have been the buyer, the builder and the seller.
Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, ING. Market-making through the crisis with risk to €3B; three failing books merged into one performing portfolio. I sat on the committees your story has to survive.
Funda, zero to acquisition: 3,000 customers, £20M monthly flows, the first Open Banking pilot with the FCA, a CMA/Nesta prize. I know what it costs to own the number.
Copper, SyntropyX, Crymbo, Coinchange, IG. $8B a month and 350 institutional clients on one product, $50M of commitments pre-product on another, pipelines tripled twice. I know how institutional deals close because I have closed them, and sat on the other side when they were pitched to me.
Who buys, who blocks, where the money moves, mapped per target.
I sit with the buyer, map the workflow, find the problem worth solving, and design the use case before I sell it.
Packaging, tiers, term sheet and MSA that legal signs without a three-month redline.
The custodians, venues, banks and integrators the deal has to pass through, and co-sell where it shortens the path.
What has to exist, and be approved, before go-live.
A number the board trusts, handed to whoever runs it next.
Not included: paid ads, SEO programmes, webinar funnels. Institutions don't buy that way.
What the problem is, what you've tried, what's at stake. Reply inside 24 hours.
Against your numbers, in your meetings. Not a report about your business.
Everything is written down as it's built. The test is whether it runs after I've gone.
Full attention or none. If I'm full I'll say so and tell you when.
Three sentences. What it is, what you've tried, what's at stake.