DeFi risk management and asset allocation platform Gauntlet has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Japanese financial group SBI Holdings, significantly surpassing its Series B round in 2022, which raised nearly $24 million at a valuation of approximately $1 billion.
SBI, a Tokyo-listed financial group with a total market capitalization exceeding $10 billion, has invested in multiple crypto companies, including Ripple, Circle, and Morpho.Gauntlet was founded by former Wall Street quantitative analyst Tarun Chitra. Initially, it provided stress testing and risk analysis for DeFi protocols; in recent years, its business has shifted toward “vault curation,” assessing the risks of various DeFi yield vault strategies. Its current clients include Apollo, Coinbase, and stablecoin issuer Circle.[ChainCatcher]