Singapore-based startup Synthesys (formerly Equitize) has raised US$11 million in a seed and strategic funding round to accelerate its vision of bringing tokenized securities infrastructure to global financial markets.
The round was led by super angel investor Mark Pui, a long-time backer of blockchain and fintech ventures.
Synthesys is building an interoperable infrastructure layer to help institutions and markets adopt tokenization across asset classes. Its modular platform addresses issuance, trading, compliance, portfolio management, and connectivity among different ledger systems.
The logic is compelling: traditional capital markets rely on multiple intermediaries (custodians, transfer agents, administrators), which introduce friction, delay, and cost. Using blockchain and smart contracts, Synthesys aims to embed compliance and reconciliation directly into the system, enabling faster settlement, improved transparency, and lower operational risk.
In effect, Synthesys is positioning itself as the rails upon which tokenized financial markets can run bridging legacy systems and decentralized infrastructure.
The funds will be deployed to scale Synthesys’s infrastructure stack and expand its presence, especially across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
The announcement underscores the growing appetite among financial institutions for regulated tokenization platforms, as digital securities and real-world assets increasingly move onchain.
As part of its roadmap, Synthesys has introduced a set of core products:
- Network – to interconnect markets, institutions, and tokenized asset ecosystems
- One – wallet-based portfolio access to tokenized assets
- Zodiac – infrastructure enabling new financial instruments and modular plug-ins
The company sees tokenization as more than digitization it’s structural innovation. It argues that wallet-based portfolios, cross-ledger interoperability, and embedded compliance will define capital markets in the next decade.
Synthesys is also reportedly aggregating liquidity via more than 40 primary and secondary distribution channels to ensure that tokenized securities can trade with depth and access.
In sum, with this US$11M raise, Synthesys is staking a bold claim: that the next generation of capital markets will be tokenized, programmable, multi-ledger, and leaner. The road ahead will test its technological, regulatory, and risk management chops but the ambition matches the scale of change the industry is beginning to demand.
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