digital-asset-management
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Arca
Arca is trying to make crypto legible to institutions without sanding off what makes blockchain useful. Its bet is that the winning digital-asset manager will look less like a coin casino and more like a disciplined investment firm with programmable plumbing.
Babel Finance
The Hong Kong lender wanted to be the JP Morgan of crypto. It reached a $2 billion valuation in May 2022 - then froze withdrawals a month later after an unhedged trading bet lost roughly $280 million of client money.
Aspen Digital
Aspen Digital is an ADGM-regulated digital asset management platform built for private wealth. Founded in 2021 and co-incubated by Everest Ventures Group and TTB Partners, it gives family offices, external asset managers and ultra-high-net-worth investors a single regulated account to trade, custody, earn yield on and report across crypto - plus a white-label infrastructure stack that lets other wealth managers offer the same. It is backed by RIT Capital Partners (the Rothschild investment trust) and Liberty City Ventures.
1Token
1Token builds institutional back-to-front office software for crypto funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2018 and led by Damon Xu, the company runs a portfolio management system (PMS), risk management system (RMS), trade reconciliation, and T+0 shadow NAV accounting that stitch together fragmented CeFi exchanges, DeFi protocols and TradFi accounts into one book. Today it connects 80+ CeFi venues and thousands of DeFi protocols, serving 100+ institutional clients that monitor more than $20B in assets across APAC, North America and Europe.
AYC Fund
AYC Fund is an AI-native crypto hedge fund out of Y Combinator's W22 batch, founded in 2021 by MJ Kim in Seoul. It builds systematic, rules-based trading engines for digital-asset markets and now runs a private, invite-only program for qualified clients - high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and advisors - where capital stays in the client's own exchange account and the fund trades through read-and-trade API access rather than taking custody.
Dave Hendricks
Dave Hendricks is the co-founder and CEO of Vertalo, an Austin-based platform that acts as an SEC-registered transfer agent and tokenization engine for real-world assets. He has spent close to a decade building infrastructure to turn illiquid private securities into compliant, transferable digital assets. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded LiveIntent, the programmatic email advertising platform, and helped build CheetahMail into the world's largest email service provider before its 2004 sale to Experian. Earlier he ran the worldwide relationship between Arthur Andersen and Oracle and worked on large securitization projects. He is known for a pragmatic, institution-focused view of crypto and a habit of dismissing hype cycles in favor of durable financial plumbing.
ScorePlay
ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset management platform built specifically for the sports industry. It centralizes photos, videos and live broadcast content into one system, then uses computer vision and facial recognition to automatically tag athletes, sponsors and moments so teams, leagues and federations can find and distribute content in seconds instead of hours. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, ScorePlay is used by 200+ sports organizations worldwide and raised a $13M Series A in February 2025.
KeyShot
KeyShot, developed by Luxion and now operating under the KeyShot brand, is the widely adopted standard for real-time 3D product visualization. It turns CAD and 3D model data into physically accurate, photorealistic renderings, animations and interactive visuals, letting designers and engineers preview products before physical prototypes exist. Built on rendering research from co-founder Henrik Wann Jensen (an Academy Award winner for subsurface-scattering work), KeyShot is used by tens of thousands of product teams across consumer electronics, automotive, footwear, jewelry and medical devices, and is known for pairing high-end rendering accuracy with an approachable, drag-and-drop workflow.
imgix
imgix is a San Francisco-based visual media platform that optimizes, transforms, and delivers images and video in real time through a simple URL-based API. Founded in 2011 by former YouTube web developer Chris Zacharias, imgix lets developers resize, crop, compress, convert formats, and now apply AI edits such as background removal and generative fill simply by appending parameters to an image URL, offloading image infrastructure to a globally distributed CDN. The company serves tens of thousands of customers, including Unsplash, Kickstarter, Eventbrite, and Porsche, and delivers on the order of billions of image requests a day.
Playbook
Playbook is a San Francisco-based software company building a visual, AI-powered cloud storage and digital asset management platform for creative professionals. Founded in 2019 by Jessica Ko, it blends a Pinterest-style gallery with Dropbox-style storage, adding automatic AI tagging, GPT-powered search, real-time review, and workflow automation so designers and marketing teams can find, organize, and share images and video without digging through folders. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Founders Fund, Playbook has grown to millions of registered users managing hundreds of millions of assets.
It'sRapid
It'sRapid is a Palo Alto-based AI creative automation platform that turns product data and existing assets into retailer-compliant commerce content - images, videos, display ads, sell sheets and product copy - at scale. Its Optix engine scores and audits creative before and after it goes live, and the platform has helped brands like PepsiCo cut per-asset production from hours to minutes and retail media networks shrink campaign go-live from ten weeks to under two.
Perforce Software
Perforce Software builds the version control, DevOps, and quality tools that large engineering teams lean on when their codebases and binary assets grow too big for ordinary tools. Its flagship - Helix Core, rebranded P4 in 2025 - moves enormous game studios, semiconductor designers, automakers, and defense programs along, while a portfolio gathered through acquisitions (Puppet, Perfecto, Delphix, Klocwork, Gliffy and more) extends from source control into static analysis, test automation, infrastructure automation, and test data management. Founded in 1995 and now backed by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners, Perforce powers more than half of the Global 500.
Scott Bowen
Scott Bowen is the CEO of Tenovos, a New York based digital asset management and content intelligence company he co-founded in 2018 with Sal Hakimi. Often described as one of the founding fathers of the DAM category, Bowen co-founded Artesia Technologies in the late 1990s, an early DAM pioneer acquired by OpenText in 2004, where he went on to launch the company's Customer Experience Management and Cloud Services divisions. A Yale-trained electrical engineer and economist, he has spent more than two decades building software at the intersection of digital media, marketing, data analytics and the cloud, including senior roles at Vistaprint and ICX Media. At Tenovos he is pushing the idea that modern marketing teams should treat content as measurable, data-rich infrastructure rather than files in a folder.
Interlace
Interlace is a Singapore-based fintech that lets companies issue branded physical and virtual cards through a single API, connecting to 30+ card BINs and bridging stablecoins with traditional banking rails. As a Visa Hong Kong Principal Member, it offers card-as-a-service, multi-currency business accounts, banking-as-a-service and crypto on/off ramps to over 12,000 enterprise clients across 180+ countries, having issued more than 6 million cards.
Visiting Media
Visiting Media is a hospitality technology and immersive-content company that helps hotels and resorts sell their physical spaces remotely. Its flagship platform, TrueTour, turns properties into interactive 360 virtual tours, 3D models, and shareable media that sales teams use to run virtual site inspections. The newer SalesHub platform layers digital asset management, distribution, and analytics on top. Used by brands including Hilton, Hyatt, and IHG, the company exists to close the gap between what a property actually looks like and what a buyer can see before they ever arrive.
Tenovos
Tenovos is a New York-based, AI-native content intelligence and digital asset management (DAM) platform that helps global brands find, activate, and measure their content across every channel. Built on a composable, AWS-based microservices architecture, it pairs traditional asset management with usage analytics and content effectiveness insights through three products - Tenovos DAM, Tenovos Glass, and Tenovos Connect - so marketing teams can see all their content and scale what actually works.
Air
Air is a New York-based creative operations platform - a system of record purpose-built for creative work. It helps marketing and creative teams collect, organize, search, review, approve, and share visual content, layering AI-powered tagging, conversational search, and creative intelligence on top of traditional digital asset management. Founded in 2017 by Shane Hegde and Tyler Strand, Air serves tens of thousands of creatives across thousands of businesses and has raised more than $70M in venture funding.
Shane Hegde
Shane Hegde is the co-founder and CEO of Air, the New York company building a system of record for creative work. Air helps more than 100,000 creatives across 2,100 businesses collect, approve, and share visual content, managing 120M+ assets. A Stanford grad from Mangalore, India, Hegde started in TMT private equity, co-founded a fintech startup called Swap, and ran digital strategy at REVOLT before teaming up with college roommate Tyler Strand to build Air in 2017. In January 2025 the company raised a $35M Series B led by Avenir, backed by a syndicate of around 100 former CMOs and brand founders.