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Securrency delivers digital asset infrastructure solutions to market participants, enabling the secure and compliant issuance and management of tokenized securities. The company leverages blockchain technology to offer a sophisticated compliance and policy engine. This system facilitates the global movement of regulated digital assets, ensuring adherence to complex institutional regulatory requirements.
Founded in 2015 by Dan Doney and John Hensel, Securrency emerged from recognizing the transformative potential of blending traditional securities' benefits with the efficiencies inherent in digital assets. This vision guided the development of a platform bridging conventional finance with the evolving digital asset landscape, establishing a foundation for institutional-grade tokenization.
Securrency serves institutional clients and market participants engaging with tokenized assets. The company’s vision is to accelerate widespread industry adoption of digital assets, fundamentally innovating the digital post-trade infrastructure for global financial markets. It aims to digitize and automate the traditional financial ecosystem, shaping the future of regulated finance.
Securrency has raised $25.5M across 3 funding rounds.
Securrency has raised $25.5M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Securrency has raised $25.5M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Securrency's investors include Alumni Ventures, Bascom Ventures, Imaginary Ventures, Parkway VC, RRE Ventures, SNR, Stellation Capital, Team8, Sherry Coutu.
# High-Level Overview
Securrency is a blockchain-based financial markets infrastructure company that builds compliance-aware technology enabling institutions to trade, settle, and service digital assets.[1][3] The company develops white-labeled, institutional-grade digital asset marketplaces and APIs that bridge traditional financial systems with blockchain networks, allowing financial institutions to tokenize assets, automate corporate actions, and achieve near-real-time settlement.[3][5]
Securrency serves a critical gap in the digital asset ecosystem: while blockchain technology offers speed and efficiency, it lacks built-in compliance mechanisms. Securrency's patented Compliance Aware Token® Framework solves this by creating multi-jurisdictional identity and compliance portability across different networks, enabling banks, asset managers, and regulators to adopt digital assets with confidence.[1][2] The company targets institutional players—from custodian banks like State Street to asset managers like WisdomTree—rather than retail consumers, positioning itself as essential infrastructure for the financial industry's digital transformation.
# Origin Story
Securrency was founded in 2015 by George Doney and a team of blockchain innovators.[4][8] The company emerged during the early wave of blockchain enthusiasm but took a distinctly institutional approach, recognizing that widespread adoption of digital assets required solving compliance and interoperability challenges that pure blockchain protocols couldn't address.
The company gained significant validation through a Series B funding round of $30 million, which included investments from major financial institutions: WisdomTree, State Street, U.S. Bank, and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners (a joint venture between Mubadala Investment Company and Falcon Edge Capital).[6] This investor composition reflects Securrency's positioning—it attracted the very institutions it aimed to serve, signaling early market confidence in its approach. The company has raised over $100 million in total funding.[4]
# Core Differentiators
# Role in the Broader Tech Landscape
Securrency operates at the intersection of two major trends: institutional adoption of blockchain technology and regulatory maturation of digital assets. The company benefits from growing recognition that blockchain's efficiency gains—near-instantaneous settlement, reduced back-office costs, smart contract automation—are only valuable if they comply with existing financial regulations.
The timing is critical. As central banks explore digital currencies and traditional asset managers tokenize securities, the infrastructure gap Securrency addresses becomes increasingly urgent. The company's 2023 acquisition by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)—the post-trade infrastructure backbone of global finance—underscores this importance.[3] DTCC's acquisition signals that legacy financial infrastructure providers view blockchain-based digital asset processing as inevitable and are moving to control the technology layer.
Securrency influences the ecosystem by demonstrating that blockchain adoption doesn't require financial institutions to abandon their existing compliance frameworks or operational models. Instead, the company enables incremental, risk-managed digital transformation—a message that resonates with conservative institutional buyers far more than utopian decentralization narratives.
# Quick Take & Future Outlook
Under DTCC ownership, Securrency's trajectory shifts from independent startup to embedded infrastructure provider. DTCC plans to license Securrency's technology broadly and offer professional services, positioning the technology as a standard for digital asset processing across the financial industry.[3] This represents a significant validation but also a transition from venture-backed growth company to enterprise infrastructure vendor.
The key question ahead is whether Securrency's compliance-aware approach becomes the industry standard for tokenized assets and digital currencies, or whether competing approaches emerge. The company's success depends on continued institutional adoption of tokenization—a trend that remains nascent but accelerating. As regulatory frameworks for digital assets solidify globally, Securrency's multi-jurisdictional compliance capabilities will likely become table stakes rather than differentiators, but the company's early positioning and DTCC backing suggest it will remain a central player in the financial industry's digital transformation.
Securrency has raised $25.5M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $18.0M Series A in January 2020.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2020 | $18.0M Series A | Alumni Ventures, Bascom Ventures, Imaginary Ventures, Parkway VC, RRE Ventures, SNR, Stellation Capital, Team8 | |
| Nov 1, 2019 | $500K Series A | Alumni Ventures, Bascom Ventures, Parkway VC, SNR, Stellation Capital, Team8 | |
| Dec 1, 2017 | $7.0M Seed | Sherry Coutu |