{"id":49477,"date":"2025-07-31T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/?p=49477"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:59:44","slug":"ce-ventures-invests-657-million-in-plaid-and-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/2025\/07\/ce-ventures-invests-657-million-in-plaid-and-mesh\/","title":{"rendered":"CE-Ventures Invests $657 Million in Plaid and Mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CE-Ventures announced its participation in two funding rounds totaling $657 million for fintech companies Plaid and Mesh.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These investments align with the platform\u2019s strategy to support the shift toward open, programmable, and digital asset-backed financial systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plaid raised approximately $575 million, while Mesh secured $82 million, with CE-Ventures joining a group of prominent global investors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>CE-Ventures, the corporate venture capital platform of Crescent Enterprises, has announced its participation in two funding rounds totaling $657 million for fintech infrastructure companies Plaid and Mesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move aligns with CE-Ventures\u2019 strategy to support the global shift toward open, programmable, and digital asset-backed financial systems. The platform aims to fund projects that lay the foundation for modern financial technology and foster innovation in digital currencies and financial infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaid, known for its technology that connects users to their bank accounts, raised $575 million in a funding round led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from CE-Ventures alongside prominent investors such as Fidelity, BlackRock, NEA, and Ribbit Capital. The company offers services that simplify lending, payments, and budgeting by aggregating financial data from multiple sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Mesh focuses on developing blockchain-based infrastructure that enables the transfer of digital assets\u2014including stablecoins\u2014between digital wallets, trading platforms, and applications. The company secured $82 million in a Series B funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from CE-Ventures, Consensys, QuantumLight Capital, Yolo Investments, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CE-Ventures, the corporate venture capital platform of Crescent Enterprises, has announced its participation in two funding rounds totaling $657 million for fintech infrastructure companies Plaid and Mesh. This move aligns with CE-Ventures\u2019 strategy to support the global shift toward open, programmable, and digital asset-backed financial systems. The platform aims to fund projects that lay the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8850],"tags":[9155,9154,9153],"class_list":["post-49477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-venture","tag-ce-ventures-en","tag-mesh","tag-plaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entarabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}