{"id":38587,"date":"2021-03-09T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38587"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:32:56","slug":"billionaire-alan-howard-backs-custodian-komainu-in-25-million-series-a-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/billionaire-alan-howard-backs-custodian-komainu-in-25-million-series-a-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Alan Howard backs custodian Komainu in $25 million Series A round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The custodial service Komainu <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.komainu.com\/digital-asset-custodian-komainu-closes-25m-series-a-to-expand-institutional-custody-offering\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">has raised<\/a> $25 million in a Series A funding round. It was led by billionaire Alan Howard, with participation from Galaxy Digital, NOIA Capital and Nomura Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The firm plans to deploy the funds to expand globally, support a broader range of assets and provide prime-broker services.<\/p>\n<p>Komainu, which targets institutional investors, was founded in 2018 by Japan&#8217;s Nomura Bank, the Ledger hardware-wallet developer, and the investment company CoinShares.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, Alan Howard <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/alan-howard-and-nydig-back-bottlepays-micro-payments-service-in-a-15-5-million-seed-round\">supported<\/a> Bottlepay&#8217;s micropayments service in a seed round of $15.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/billionaire-alan-howard-backs-hedge-fund-that-invested-600-million-in-bitcoin\">invested<\/a> in the hedge fund One River Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The custodial service Komainu has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round. It was led by billionaire Alan Howard, with participation from Galaxy Digital, NOIA Capital and Nomura Research Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1156,1133],"class_list":["post-38587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38589,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38587\/revisions\/38589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}