We originate venture studios for the financial industry.
xcube.co is an institutional asset originator. We design, capitalise and govern one venture studio for each systemic challenge we address. Each studio serves the whole ecosystem it is built for, from the investors who back it to the institutions that adopt the industry infrastructure it builds.
Some challenges in finance are larger than any one institution.
These challenges have causes that span institutions, sectors, jurisdictions and technology layers. A venture that tackles one part of them depends on complementary innovations that do not exist yet. It stalls, however good its product.
Meeting these challenges takes industry infrastructure that every participant can adopt, but none of them has the incentives to build alone. Such infrastructure falls between those who could build, finance and regulate it, and is left without a sponsor.
A venture studio for each systemic challenge.
We originate a venture studio for each systemic challenge we take on. Each studio builds, launches and scales the infrastructure its industry requires, and is composed of two elements.
Venture Building Funds combine the strategic capital of corporations with the scale of institutional investors to shape, fund and secure adoption.
The Venturing Platform tests, develops and rolls out the innovative solutions required to address each challenge.
Each studio is managed as an institutional-grade asset. It combines infrastructure returns with venture upside, and serves the strategic objectives of the institutions that adopt its solutions.
Industry infrastructure, designed and governed to be adopted.
Neutral
No single institution owns it, so that participants can adopt it on equal terms.
Complementary
Each solution complements the others to fill the gaps, so that the infrastructure changes the system as a whole.
Open
Participants develop their own solutions on it, so that it serves the strategic needs of each.
Compliant
It meets the regulation and standards of each jurisdiction, so that institutions can adopt it without exception.
Each studio is aligned with the interests of the ecosystem it serves.
Corporate investors and corporate venture capital arms
We provide corporations with a stake in the infrastructure their industry will depend on, and early access to the solutions each studio builds.
Accredited and institutional investors
We provide accredited and institutional investors with exposure to venture building as a private market asset, structured and governed to the standards of any other fund.
Development finance institutions and sovereign funds
We provide development finance institutions and sovereign funds with investments in industry infrastructure that advance their strategic purpose.
Financial institutions and fintechs
We provide financial institutions and fintechs with an innovation environment to develop tailored applications on top of the infrastructure each studio operates.
Growth startups
We invest in growth startups whose technology extends the infrastructure each studio operates, and bring them the institutions that adopt it.
Regulators
We work with regulators to address the systemic challenges their jurisdiction faces, by deploying neutral industry infrastructure that local participants can adopt.
One studio originated. One in preparation.
Defy, inclusive finance
Two decades of financial inclusion opened accounts but left many people without agency. Rails do not connect, policy is patchy and initiatives die before they scale. Defy builds inclusive finance as an interoperable, safeguarded and scalable market.
Anti-financial crime
Financial crime in Southeast Asia operates as a network across institutions, payment rails and borders. Each institution defends only the part it can see. A studio is being constituted to build the region’s anti-financial crime infrastructure, for banks, fintechs and regulators.
Take part from the design stage.
Invest in a studio, or adopt what it builds as a first client.