Rome, Italy, June thirteenth, 2025, FinanceWire
The funding was made by way of SBI Ven Capital’s joint fund with Sygnum Financial institution and Azimut Group, which goals to speed up the rollout of Colossus Digital’s Institutional Hub, a two-sided B2B market, that connects regulated custodians with top-tier validators for staking and governance.
Strategic highlights
Funding Quantity: €1,000,000 (Seed Funding)
Lead Investor: SBI Ven Capital, by way of its joint fund with Sygnum Financial institution and Azimut
Recipient: Colossus Digital
Objective: Scale Institutional Hub, improve custody-to-staking workflows, broaden world shopper base
Institutional adoption fuels the deal
86 % of institutional buyers have already got—or plan to achieve—digital-asset publicity in 2025, underscoring rising demand for safe custody and staking rails. Staking-as-a-service platforms are forecast to surge as establishments search compliant, yield-generating methods.
Quotes
Eiichiro So, CEO & Managing Director, SBI Ven Capital: “Colossus Digital has constructed the lacking bridge between regulated custodians and the Yield Suppliers. Our €1 million dedication is a vote of confidence of their Institutional Hub and within the broader institutionalisation of digital belongings.”
Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, Co-Founder & Chief Income Officer, Colossus Digital: “SBI’s backing accelerates our mission to make staking, governance, and interplay with Yield Suppliers as seamless as a custody transaction. Collectively we are going to ship the tooling banks, asset managers, and exchanges have to seize on-chain yield, with out compromising compliance.”
About Colossus Digital
Headquartered in Rome, Italy, Colossus created the Institutional Hub, the one B2B market enabling Digital Asset Holders to entry staking, governance, and DeFi protocols natively from custody. The Hub permits native transactions in a secure, compliant and verifiable approach throughout 25+ chains and a number of validators.
Customers can go to colossus.digital for extra particulars.
About SBI Ven Capital
SBI Ven Capital, the Singapore subsidiary of Japanese monetary providers conglomerate SBI Group, by way of its joint fund with Sygnum and Azimut Group brings collectively the collective digital belongings expertise and community of the three founding companions to speed up the expansion of promising digital asset corporations.
The joint fund is an early-stage fund that goals to again best-in-class digital asset corporations throughout Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and Europe.
Customers can go to sbivencapital.com.sg for extra particulars.
Ahead-looking statements
This launch could comprise forward-looking statements. Precise outcomes may differ materially attributable to market situations, regulatory adjustments, and different threat components.
Key takeaway
SBI Ven Capital’s €1 million seed funding positions Rome-based Colossus Digital to turn into the institutional normal for custody-native staking, using a wave of document institutional crypto adoption.
Contact
Head of Advertising and marketing & Communication
Ilaria Pelosi
Colossus Digital
[email protected]
