The investment was made through SBI Ven Capital’s joint fund with Sygnum Bank and Azimut Group, which aims to accelerate the rollout of Colossus Digital’s Institutional Hub, a two-sided B2B marketplace, that connects regulated custodians with top-tier validators for staking and governance.
Strategic highlights
- Investment Amount: €1,000,000 (Seed Investment)
- Lead Investor: SBI Ven Capital, through its joint fund with Sygnum Bank and Azimut
- Recipient: Colossus Digital
- Purpose: Scale Institutional Hub, enhance custody-to-staking workflows, expand global client base
Institutional adoption fuels the deal
86% of institutional investors already have—or plan to gain—digital-asset exposure in 2025, underscoring growing demand for secure custody and staking rails. Staking-as-a-service platforms are forecast to surge as institutions seek compliant, yield-generating strategies.
Quotes
Eiichiro So, CEO & Managing Director, SBI Ven Capital: “Colossus Digital has built the missing bridge between regulated custodians and the Yield Providers. Our €1 million commitment is a vote of confidence in their Institutional Hub and in the broader institutionalisation of digital assets.”Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Colossus Digital: “SBI’s backing accelerates our mission to make staking, governance, and interaction with Yield Providers as seamless as a custody transaction. Together we will deliver the tooling banks, asset managers, and exchanges need to capture on-chain yield, without compromising compliance.”
About Colossus Digital
Headquartered in Rome, Italy, Colossus created the Institutional Hub, the only B2B marketplace enabling Digital Asset Holders to access staking, governance, and DeFi protocols natively from custody. The Hub enables native transactions in a safe, compliant and verifiable way across 25+ chains and multiple validators.
About SBI Ven Capital
SBI Ven Capital (https://www.sbivencapital.com.sg/), the Singapore subsidiary of Japanese financial services conglomerate SBI Group, through its joint fund with Sygnum and Azimut Group brings together the collective digital assets experience and network of the three founding partners to accelerate the growth of promising digital asset companies.
The joint fund is an early-stage fund that aims to back best-in-class digital asset companies across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and Europe.
Forward-looking statements
This release may contain forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially due to market conditions, regulatory changes, and other risk factors.
Key takeaway
SBI Ven Capital’s €1 million seed investment positions Rome-based Colossus Digital to become the institutional standard for custody-native staking, riding a wave of record institutional crypto adoption.
