Digital Asset Financial Services Provider Babel Finance Finalizes $80M Series B at $2B Valuation

Babel Finance, the wholesale crypto financial services provider, recently announced the completion of a $80 million Series B financing round “at a valuation of $2 billion.”

The main investors in this investment round “include Jeneration Capital and 10T Holdings, as well as existing shareholders Dragonfly Capital and BAI Capital.”

Other investors “include Circle Ventures and a number of family offices in the Asia-Pacific region.”

Babel Finance claims to be “one of the largest service providers to institutions in the crypto financial markets.”

The company “limits its business to BTC, ETH and stablecoins, and serves a select clientele of about 500 customers.”

At the end of 2021, the firm “had an outstanding loan balance of more than $3 billion, an average monthly trading volume of US$800 million in derivatives, and had structured and traded more than $20 billion in options products.”

The company’s major businesses “are crypto lending and trading, with a focus on serving institutional clients, including crypto-native institutions, traditional financial institutions such as banks and investment funds, as well as ultra-high-net-worth accredited investors and family offices.”

Since its establishment in 2018, Babel Finance has “been committed to the development of crypto financial services infrastructure, and has become an important participant and builder of the crypto financial interest rate market and derivatives trading market.”

Del Wang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, said:

“The crypto financial market is full of opportunities and hidden risks. From the perspective of short-term profits, the retail market and Altcoins may have higher profit margins, but we pay more attention to the long-term development of the industry and aim to lead in institutional financial services and innovation. This not only helps to overcome the many uncertainties in the early stage of the industry, including regulatory and market uncertainties, it also protects our customers to the greatest extent.”

Wang added:

“As the crypto financial industry becomes more institutionalized, our mission at Babel Finance is to explore and participate in the building of the fundamental financial order and rules for the industry. By doing so, we contribute to its long-term development as we ourselves grow.”

Jason Tan, Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Jeneration Capital, said:

“The institutional investor market is in its early stages of participating in the crypto asset class. It requires both commitment to risk management and professionalism to build trust in the ecosystem. Babel Finance is becoming an important node in the crypto ecosystem, enabling existing and new participants to thrive in this flourishing asset class.”

10T CEO and Managing Partner Dan Tapiero remarked:

“Babel Finance has opened up a market with high barriers to entry and great value in the emerging field of institutional investor services in crypto. Babel Finance has built a laudable reputation as a highly specialized and trusted crypto financial institution, maintaining its leading position among the institutional client-focused market.”

William Zhao, Partner of BAI Capital, noted:

“Babel Finance is in the right place at the right time with the right products, serving the groundswell of demand from institutional investors and family offices for sophisticated digital asset products and services. Babel Finance differentiates itself from the competition with a focus on the corporate and wealth segments of digital assets. The firm has found the sweet spot of offering local access and knowledge of a dynamic region to globally minded institutional investors.”

Since the firm’s US$40 million Series A funding in May 2021, Babel Finance’s team “has grown from around 50 people to over 170 currently.”

The firm has “opened a new office in Singapore and applied for relevant licenses in Hong Kong, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, and other countries and regions around the world, and has obtained business qualifications in many jurisdictions.”



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