Web3 & crypto startups in Singapore

Michael Wu, Tiantian Kullander (+ co-founders)

Founded 2017 as a crypto trading/financial-services firm; peaked around a US$3B valuation (2022). FLAG: founded in Hong Kong and relocated its HQ to Singapore — now a SG-headquartered digital-asset group. Re...

Kris Marszalek, Rafael Melo, Gary Or, Bobby Bao

Global crypto exchange/app founded 2016. FLAG: founded in Hong Kong; operated via Singapore-based Foris DAX Asia (a Malta-holding subsidiary) and headquartered in Singapore, where it holds an MAS Major Payme...

Jihan Wu, Daniel Yan, John Ge (Yuesheng Ge)

Founded 2019, Matrixport is a digital-asset financial-services firm (trading, custody, structured products, wealth management) headquartered in Singapore with a bespoke parametric-designed HQ. Reached unicor...

Mathias Imbach, Gerald Goh

Founded 2017 on Swiss–Singaporean heritage; the world's first regulated digital-asset bank (2019). FLAG: dual-hubbed in Zurich and Singapore (also Luxembourg, UAE) — the SG entity (Sygnum Singapore, CMS-lice...

Sailor Zhong (Zhong Gengfa)

Founded 2017, HQ'd in Singapore since 2019, ChainUp is a blockchain/Web3 infrastructure provider — digital-asset exchange systems, wallets, custody, KYT, liquidity and tokenization — serving 1,000+ clients a...

Yusho Liu, Gerry Eng

Founded 2014 by two Singaporean 'army buddies', Coinhako is a homegrown MAS-licensed crypto exchange (on/off-ramp) for retail, HNW and institutional clients. Among the first exchanges to receive MAS in-princ...

Tianwei Liu, Aymeric Salley

Founded within Fazz/Xfers, StraitsX is Singapore's stablecoin and digital-asset payments infrastructure — issuer of XSGD (the first SGD stablecoin) and XUSD/XIDR. An MAS Major Payment Institution, it powers ...

Danny Toe, Darius Liu

Founded 2017 (as iSTOX), ADDX is a MAS-regulated digital-securities exchange and B2B tokenization-infrastructure platform that fractionalizes private-market assets (pre-IPO equity, PE/hedge funds, bonds), cu...

Future-culture / designer-collectibles company producing digital and 'phygital' collectibles with global IP partners (Netflix, Disney, F1, Warner Bros, Hasbro). Raised a US$20M Series A+ led by East Ventures...