M10
Founded 2019 · 17 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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M10 offers a cloud-based platform for banks and central banks to tokenize regulated liabilities (TRLs), enabling instant transfer, settlement, and programmable payments of digital currency. It provides shared ledgers and services such as directory, FX, and compliance tools, supporting use cases like CBDCs, RTGS modernization, DvP/PvP, and treasury management.
Founders & leadership
M10 was founded in 2019 by Marten Nelson.
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Marten NelsoninCEO & Co-founderMarten Nelson has held product and business development roles at startups and large software companies, with experience spanning product management, business planning, and cross-functional team leadership across enterprise software and cloud platforms.
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Chae AninCTO
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Richard CharinSVP Business DevelopmentRichard Char has held roles as a lawyer, investment banker, and CEO of a technology company before joining M10 as Senior Vice President of Business Development, where he works on a platform for tokenizing regulated liabilities for financial institutions.
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Investors · 4
Also in the syndicate · 1
Sui Foundationlead
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$3M disclosed across 1 round · 2025
- $3MraisedMar 2025 · 2 sources
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Competitors · 6
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Pantera4 shared keywordsPantera Capital is a US-based institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain and digital asset investing, offering venture, token, and liquid/hedge fund strategies. It backs early- and growth-stage crypto companies and protocols for institutional investors.
EquityZen4 shared keywordsEquityZen operates an online marketplace that gives accredited individual investors access to shares in late-stage private companies through secondary market transactions. Now part of Morgan Stanley, the platform provides private market data, offering documents, and guided investment processes for buying and selling pre-IPO equity.
Forge Global3 shared keywordsForge operates a secondary marketplace where accredited investors can buy and sell shares in private, pre-IPO companies, backed by real-time pricing data, historical valuation trends, and market signals. It provides pricing insights on private companies (including its proprietary Forge Price metric) and offers optional specialist support to facilitate transactions.
Wormhole3 shared keywordsWormhole offers Native Token Transfers (NTT), an open framework for token issuers to create, transfer, and customize tokens across multiple blockchains without relying on pooled liquidity. It serves crypto and DeFi projects seeking to make tokens natively multichain while retaining issuer control over governance and compliance.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does M10 do?
- M10 offers a cloud-based platform for banks and central banks to tokenize regulated liabilities (TRLs), enabling instant transfer, settlement, and programmable payments of digital currency. It provides shared ledgers and services such as directory, FX, and compliance tools, supporting use cases like CBDCs, RTGS modernization, DvP/PvP, and treasury management.
- Who founded M10?
- M10 was founded by Marten Nelson in 2019.
- Who are M10's investors?
- M10's investors include Commerce Ventures, Digital Currency Group, GSR.
- How much funding has M10 raised?
- M10 has disclosed $3M raised across 1 round.