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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Binance Launchpad.The Cambridge-based blockchain company has secured £14.8m in equity investment to date, across two funding rounds, the latest of which took place in March 2021. Its backers include GDA Group and Outlier Ventures. 18. Cobalt DL Sector: Business banking & financial servicesLocation: LondonEmployees: 25-49 Founded in 2015, Cobalt DL is using blockchain technology to make processing trades in the FX and Digital Assets markets more efficient. Its decentralised network technology automatically creates a single version of each trade, streamlining the otherwise-complex trade processing required by legacy systems. Cobalt serves several big-name financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, and Citi—and in March 2022, announced a partnership with Pure Digital, a leading trading platform for the wholesale digital asset market. In total, the company has raised £13.5m in equity fundraisings, across nine rounds with investors such as HS Markit and Singapore Exchange (SGX). 19. Agora Sector: Business banking & financial servicesLocation: LondonEmployees: 25-49 Fintech startup Agora operates in digital capital markets, developing an online platform with a range of services in fixed capital markets. Working with smart contract and distributed ledger technology, it claims to be the world’s first end-to-end digital platform for the full life-cycle of bonds. Since being founded in 2018, Agora has raised £12.5m worth of equity investment, in 3 funding rounds. Its investors include IPGL and angels. The company is also currently piloting its Syndicated Bond platform, with early users now able to trial the software for live transactions. 20. Argent Sector: CryptocurrenciesLocation: LondonEmployees: 25-49 Argent has developed a blockchain-powered mobile app which acts as a secure, non-custodial wallet (i.e. no third parties) for Ethereum. The company’s technology is built on the Ethereum blockchain, a blockchain network (like Bitcoin) for trading digital currencies. Argent supports over 240 different Ethereum-based tokens, including Ether or ETH (Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency), DAI, MKR, BAT, and Wrapped Bitcoin. To date, it has secured £12.3m in equity investment, across two funding rounds. Argent’s backers include Index Ventures, Firstminute Capital, and Atomico. 21. Coinfirm Sector: RegtechLocation: LondonEmployees: 50-99 Coinfirm is a London-based regtech startup, specialised in analytics and compliance of blockchain-based transactions. It aims to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism, as well as to help clients meet other regulatory requirements regarding cryptocurrencies. Coinfirm attended the Tech Nation Fintech accelerator programme in 2018 and, in February 2022, partnered with the digital asset platform Taurus. The company has raised £12.0m, across four
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