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At a glance
SBI Holdings appears in 4 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2026, leading 3. Its most frequent sector in these rounds is Fintech & Crypto, and its most recent tracked deal was Salience Labs' $125M Series B round (Oct 14, 2026).
Strategy
Geographies
Tokyo, Japan
Recent changes
- Oct 14, 2026Oct 14, 2026Invested in Salience Labs (Series B, $125M) MarketMinute
- Aug 2026Aug 2026Invested in Fasset (Series C, US$68M) Fasset
- Jul 13, 2026Jul 13, 2026Gauntlet Raises $125M Series C From SBI Holdings Pulse story
- Jul 9, 2026Jul 9, 2026Invested in Gauntlet (Series C, $125M) Gauntlet
- Jul 9, 2026Jul 9, 2026DeFi Risk Firm Gauntlet Raises $125M From SBI Holdings Pulse story
Earlier changes (1)
- Jul 7, 2026Jul 7, 2026Invested in EDX Markets (Series C, $76M) CoinDesk
Portfolio
4 totalRecent Investment Activity
4Track record: led 3 and participated in 1 of 4 tracked venture rounds · 4 in the last 12 months · led 3 Series C
| Date | Company | Event | Role | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | Salience Labs | Series B | Participated | $125M | — | Bullhound CapitalLeadunverifiedAMD VenturesunverifiedIntel CapitalunverifiedSBI HoldingsunverifiedBritish Business BankunverifiedApplied VenturesunverifiedHudson River TradingOxford Science EnterprisesCambridge Innovation CapitalSilicon Catalyst Ventures | MarketMinute |
| Aug 2026 | Fasset | Series C | Led | US$68M | US$1B | SBI HoldingsLeadFassetSpeedinvest | Fasset |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Gauntlet | Series C | Led | $125M | — | SBI HoldingsLead | Gauntlet |
| Jul 7, 2026 | EDX Markets | Series C | Led | $76M | — | SBI HoldingsLeadEDX Trust | Pulse story |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
Crypto
3 · 75%
Semiconductors
1 · 25%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series C
3 · 75%
Series B
1 · 25%
Co-Investors
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Latest Pulse
- Oct 20, 2026Fintech Funding Fell 21% To $10.6B In Q3 2026Global fintech funding fell 21.4% year-over-year to $10.6 billion in Q3 2026, with deal count dropping to its lowest level since Q1 2018, according to Crunchbase.→
- Oct 14, 2026Salience Labs Raises $125M For Photonic AI NetworkingSalience Labs has closed an oversubscribed $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital to scale its photonic optical-switching chips for AI datacenter networking, with AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joining as new investors.→
- Oct 5, 2026New VC Funds Keep Launching Despite Megaround EraEven as nine-figure AI rounds dominate headlines, new VC funds keep closing: a16z crypto raised $2.2 billion, Khwarizmi Ventures closed Fund II above $70 million, and fresh funds are launching weekly.→
- Aug 31, 2026The WealthTech Squeeze: A $389M Fintech Week, ExplainedOnly $389 million closed across 12 fintech deals last week, the slowest pace in over a month -- and WealthTech, the one bright spot, is quietly absorbing a sector-wide funding contraction happening everywhere else in fintech.→
- Aug 24, 2026Fasset Hits $1B Valuation on $68M Series CSBI Group led a $68 million Series C into stablecoin neobank Fasset, pushing it to unicorn status as it processes more than $40 billion in annualized transaction volume.→
- Jul 15, 2026Fintech Funding Rose 23% in H1 as AI Bets ConcentrateFintech venture funding rose 23% in H1 2026 even as deal count fell, per Crunchbase News, as investors concentrate bets around AI and financial infrastructure over consumer apps.→
- Jul 14, 2026What Post-H1 Funding Data Already Shows for Q3Helsing, Gauntlet and Drug Farm's rounds this week are early evidence that H1 2026's concentration pattern -- record capital, AI capturing 86%, the top five managers taking 73.1% -- is continuing into Q3, not reversing.→
- Jul 13, 2026Gauntlet Raises $125M Series C From SBI HoldingsDeFi risk-management firm Gauntlet raised $125 million in a Series C with Japan's SBI Holdings as the sole investor, its largest raise ever, to expand into stablecoins, tokenization and traditional capital-markets infrastructure.→
- Jul 9, 2026DeFi Risk Firm Gauntlet Raises $125M From SBI HoldingsGauntlet, the DeFi vault-curation and risk-management firm whose clients include Coinbase, Circle and Apollo, raised $125 million in a single-investor round from Japan's SBI Holdings -- its largest capital infusion since founding in 2018.→
- Jul 7, 2026EDX Markets Raises $76M, Files for Its Own OCC Trust BankInstitutional crypto venue EDX Markets closed a $76 million Series C led by SBI Holdings and filed to establish EDX Trust, a national trust bank -- its first disclosed funding-round size since 2023.→
SBI Holdings FAQ
What companies has SBI Holdings invested in?
SBI Holdings' portfolio includes Salience Labs, Fasset, Gauntlet, EDX Markets.
Who does SBI Holdings co-invest with most?
In the rounds Value Add tracks, SBI Holdings most often invests alongside AMD Ventures (1 shared deal), Applied Ventures (1 shared deal), British Business Bank (1 shared deal), Coinbase (1 shared deal), First Round Capital (1 shared deal).
Sources & methodologyshow
Where these figures come from
- Fassetprimary source1 fact
- Gauntletprimary source1 fact
- CoinDeskmajor outlet1 fact
- MarketMinuteValue Add VC data1 fact
Figures are labelled Reported (a source states it), Estimated, Derived (computed from other facts) or Rumored (in talks / unconfirmed). Rumors never replace a confirmed figure. Each figure keeps its own as-of date; history is preserved rather than overwritten.