CMT Digital
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
CMT Digital is a venture capital firm engaging in the crypto asset and Blockchain technology industry. The firm focuses on asset trading, blockchain technology investments, and legal and policy. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
- Total investments:
- 228
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $9.2M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries CMT Digital invests in
Stages CMT Digital invests in
Countries CMT Digital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$13M
- Series A
- $5M–$40M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.8M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 87 (38%)
- Cryptocurrency 63 (28%)
- FinTech 55 (24%)
- Financial Services 55 (24%)
- Software 38 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 84 (37%)
- Series A 43 (19%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 24 (11%)
- Series B 20 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 17 (7%)
Country
- United States 95 (42%)
- Singapore 11 (5%)
- United Kingdom 8 (4%)
- Canada 4 (2%)
- Switzerland 4 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scott Casto
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Augie Ilag
Investment Partner and Head of Asia
|
Investment Partner and Head of Asia | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jan-Dirk Lueders
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
|
Joseph Lassen
Investment Partner
|
Investment Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diameter Pay is a financial service company that provides financial inclusion, fintech, blockchain, and social entrepreneurship services. | $10M / Series A / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| City Protocol offers growth incentives and creative tools driven by AI. A portable reputation is created via City ID. | $11M / Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup. | $4M / Seed / Apr 09, 2026 | ||
| Tazapay is a global payments infrastructure platform headquartered in Singapore that enables businesses to collect, hold, and pay seamlessly across borders through a single, compliant, and scalable platform.With one integration, Tazapay provides access to local payment methods in 70+ markets, card coverage in 170+ countries, and multi-currencybusiness accounts in 35+ currencies. The platform also supports stablecoin interoperability, acting as a fiat bridge between traditional finance and digital assets, enabling businesses to adopt modern settlement methods without compromising on compliance.Tazapay’s modular offering spans checkout, virtual accounts, treasury, and payouts, with real-time routing technology for 24/7 collections and settlements in 70+ markets. Its infrastructure is built with institutional-grade compliance, fraud protection, and FX solutions, making it trusted by enterprises and platforms worldwide. | $25.5M / Series B / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| Derivio is a trading platform that helps the traders for digital options, DeFi derivative products, and provide provide quick transaction. | $6M / Seed / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| TBD is a forecasting market system that analyzes individual attitudes through integrating verifiable online polls. | $3M / Seed / Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| NEWITY is a service marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with service providers and SBA loan solutions to solve business problems. | $11M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Our products are trusted by leading companies including PayPal, Visa, FTX, Uniswap, Anchorage, and federal agencies such as the FBI and IRS. Every day, we tacklechallenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. To accomplish our mission, we have raised over $79M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Tiger Global, and Bessemer. Our team is made up of world class experts from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, US Treasury Department, McKinsey, Coinbase, and top-tier tech companies. TRM is a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and London. | $70M / Series C / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Architect gives traders customizable infrastructure that reimagines access to international markets for digital assets. Building institutional-grade infrastructure to link different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges is one of the project's goals. | $35M / Series A / Dec 23, 2025 | ||
| Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets. | $5M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| See all 228 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does CMT Digital invest in?
CMT Digital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 228 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does CMT Digital invest in?
CMT Digital typically joins rounds of $2M–$13M at Seed, $5M–$40M at Series A and $3.8M–$150M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not CMT Digital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds CMT Digital took part in.
How do I contact CMT Digital?
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Who are the partners at CMT Digital?
The team at CMT Digital includes Scott Casto (Co-Founder), Augie Ilag (Investment Partner and Head of Asia) and Jan-Dirk Lueders (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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