# Alta raises $47.5 million Series A for blockchain infrastructure for financial institutions

- Published: 2026-11-11 05:24 UTC
- Section: Industry & People › Start-ups
- Tags: Alta Series A, blockchain for financial institutions, recursive zero-knowledge cryptography, Index Ventures, Airwallex, tokenized assets, corporate liquidity management, stablecoin payments
- URL: https://realtech.media/news/rt-a5fe06a524a1e5e8d368e48b_alta_raises_47/

**Alta, which develops blockchain infrastructure for financial institutions, announced a Series A led by Index Ventures. Airwallex plans to build on its platform.**

Alta, which develops blockchain infrastructure for financial institutions, announced on the 10th, local time, a Series A round of $47.5 million, The Bridge reports [1]. Index Ventures led the round; GV (Google Ventures), Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg and Capital 49 participated [1].

The platform is meant to move financial assets and products instantly, across borders and programmatically. Unlike existing platforms built mainly for crypto applications, it is designed for the privacy, compliance, neutrality and operational requirements of regulated institutions [1].

Its core is a new architecture based on recursive zero-knowledge cryptography. It lets a transaction be checked against the required rules while balances, transactions, identities and compliance policies stay private. Disclosure can be controlled in detail, and policies apply automatically to every transaction [1].

The first product is meant to streamline corporate liquidity management and reduce funds tied up in prefunded accounts. It will use tokenized assets to supply funds when needed and to move money instantly in and out of yield-bearing tokenized assets [1].

Airwallex has decided to build on Alta and connect its global payments infrastructure to the Alta blockchain. The plan includes stablecoin deposits and withdrawals and connection to local fiat payment networks in 200 countries and 90 currencies. Airwallex co-founder and CEO Jack Zhang is also a co-founder of Alta [1].

The proceeds will go to platform development, wider partnerships and connections to global financial networks, and larger engineering and compliance teams [1].

## Sources

1. [The Bridge](https://thebridge.jp/2026/11/alta-raises-47-5m-series-a)

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