SettleMint NV
Founded 2016 · 32 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
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SettleMint provides digital asset infrastructure deployed in production for regulated institutions and sovereign entities. The company offers this infrastructure at scale across multiple regions.
Also known as SettleMint
Founders & leadership
SettleMint NV was founded in 2016 by Roderik Van Der Veer and Matthew Van Niekerk.




Investors · 9
How we know: Allusion's portfolio page · globenewswire.com · Not right? Tell us
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries ANov 2022Source ↗
- Undisclosed amountSeries AOct 2022 · 2 sources
Molten Ventures (lead), OTB (lead), OTB Ventures (lead), Allusion, Bloccelerate, Fujitsu Ventures, Medici Ventures, L.P.
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026SettleMint operates a Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) aimed at regulated financial institutions that are moving tokenized asset programs from pilot stage into production. The platform organizes functionality around five lifecycle pillars: issuance, compliance, custody, settlement, and servicing. Issuance supports six asset classes — fixed income, equity, funds, cash, real assets, and structured products — using 24 system product templates or a configurable asset starter, with reusable business rules, metadata, and compliance controls. Compliance validates each transfer against eligibility rules, identity claims, and jurisdictional constraints before execution, enforced by 12 on-chain compliance module types. Custody provides key management with maker-checker approvals, HSM compatibility, and bring-your-own-custodian integrations. Settlement supports atomic delivery-versus-payment and cross-value settlement with T+0 finality, and servicing automates post-issuance lifecycle events such as coupons, dividends, redemptions, maturity, and distributions.
The company frames every digital asset as an assembly of four building blocks: a base token smart contract handling ownership, transfers, and ledger functionality; programmable features such as maturity, yield, fees, conversion, fractionalization, payout schedules, governance rights, and custom transaction rules; embedded compliance covering KYC/AML controls, investor eligibility, jurisdiction rules, limits, and transfer restrictions; and metadata linking on-chain tokens to asset details, underlying agreements, valuation data, reporting fields, and ownership records. Within these classes the platform covers instruments including corporate, sovereign and green bonds, commercial paper, convertible notes, syndicated loans, treasury bills, tokenized bank deposits, certificates of deposit, fiat-backed stablecoins, mutual funds, ETFs, money market funds, private equity funds, common/preferred/employee equity, commercial real estate, gold-backed tokens, carbon credits, tokenized art, principal-protected notes, autocallable notes, and asset-backed tokens.
Business model
SettleMint sells access to its Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform to regulated institutions, positioning it as a single platform under one SLA that spans issuance, compliance, custody orchestration, settlement, and servicing. The platform is composable and integrates with third-party custodians rather than replacing them, and customer engagement begins with personalized demos and direct contact with the company's team.
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Market position
The company positions itself as a provider of digital asset lifecycle infrastructure for regulated institutions, citing more than ten years focused on blockchain infrastructure and more than seven years of continuous production deployments at regulated institutions.
SettleMint's stated differentiation is coverage of the full digital asset lifecycle beyond issuance on one platform with a single SLA, with production controls kept in the path of every transfer so operations and risk teams work from a shared live record. It emphasizes composability, pre-built asset and compliance templates rather than bespoke builds, atomic settlement that eliminates reconciliation gaps and counterparty risk, and custody orchestration that layers policy over an institution's existing custodian.
Technology
The platform is built on smart-contract-based tokenization with on-chain compliance modules that validate transfers pre-execution, enterprise key management with maker-checker approvals and HSM compatibility, integrations with external custodians including Fireblocks, Ripple Custody/Metaco, DFNS, Luna HSM and local HSM models, and atomic delivery-versus-payment and cross-value settlement mechanisms providing T+0 finality.
Go-to-market
Regulated institutions running digital asset programs, including banks and financial institutions across transaction banking, capital markets and fund management, as well as market infrastructure providers.
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Key figures
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Frequently asked questions
- What does SettleMint NV do?
- SettleMint runs a Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform for regulated institutions issuing, servicing and settling tokenized assets.
- Who founded SettleMint NV?
- SettleMint NV was founded by Roderik Van Der Veer, Matthew Van Niekerk in 2016.
- Who are SettleMint NV's investors?
- SettleMint NV's investors include Allusion, Bloccelerate VC, Curiosity VC, Fujitsu Ventures, KPN Ventures, Molten Ventures, OTB Ventures, Medici Ventures.






