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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.

RVRoderik Van Der Veer
Roderik Van Der VeerCTO & Co-FounderCo-founder and CTO of SettleMint, a digital asset infrastructure platform for regulated institutions. Previously spent six years leading digital transformation at Kunstmaan and built data marketplaces and developer tools.
MVMatthew Van Niekerk
Matthew Van NiekerkCo-Founder & PresidentMatthew Van Niekerk is an economist and MBA graduate who worked at KBC in various roles including COO of Belgian Consumer Finance and Head of Platform Innovation at KBC Securities before co-founding SettleMint in 2016 to provide blockchain infrastructure for regulated institutions. He spent seven years working in Tokyo in foreign exchange brokerage and online retail before relocating to Belgium in 2006.
APAdam Popat
Adam PopatChief Executive OfficerAdam Popat held multiple senior roles at Standard Chartered over 17 years, including leadership of its venture capital unit and management of major M&A transactions, before becoming Chief Executive Officer of SettleMint, a digital asset infrastructure provider for regulated institutions.
FZFabrizia Zanca
Fabrizia ZancaChief Work Officer
SFShahzad Fatmi
Shahzad FatmiFounder at SettleMint

Investors · 9

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

SettleMint 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

latest reported
Asset classes supportedJan 20266 asset classes
On-chain compliance module typesJan 202612 module types
System product templatesJan 202624 templates
Years focused on blockchain infrastructureJan 202610+
Years of continuous production deployments at regulated institutionsJan 20267+

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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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.