Monerium is a financial technology company with the mission of making digital currency accessible, secure, and simple to transact. Monerium is the first and only company authorized to issue regulated e-money on blockchains. Using e-money issued by Monerium, individuals and businesses can store and send programmable digital currency online without going through traditional financial institutions and payment providers. More information can be found at monerium.com.
Location: Iceland, Reykjavik
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Crowberry ... | crowberryc... |
| - | Foobar | foobar.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 11.01.2019 | Seed | $2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.01.2026 | Barclays Invests in Digital Money Future | Barclays made a landmark move. The UK banking giant invested in Ubyx, a US fintech startup. This marks Barclays’ first direct stake in stablecoin technology. Ubyx builds crucial clearing infrastructure. It connects diverse stablecoin issuer... |
| 08.01.2026 | Barclays Backs Stablecoin Future with Ubyx Investment | Barclays, a financial giant, made a landmark investment. The bank entered the stablecoin sector. It acquired a stake in Ubyx, a US fintech firm. This move signifies Barclays' first direct investment in stablecoin technology. It marks a dram... |
| 07.01.2026 | Barclays Enters Stablecoin Space With First-Ever Investment | Image: Unsplash The financial world is buzzing after one of the UK’s biggest banks took an unprecedented leap into the stablecoin sector. Barclays has now become a stakeholder in Ubyx, a US fintech startup creating clearing infrastructure f... |
| 23.06.2025 | Ubyx: $10 Million Seed Funding Closed For Stablecoin Clearing System | Ubyx, a stablecoin clearing system that enables regulated banks and fintechs to redeem stablecoins at face value, announced a $10 million seed round led by Galaxy Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Founders Fund, VanEck, Mi... |
| 27.06.2024 | EU's Restrictive Stablecoin Rules Take Effect Soon and Issuers Are Running Out of Time | The stablecoin rules from the European Union's Markets in Crypto Assets legislation will take effect on June 30. The rules ban stablecoins from having over 1 million daily transactions that pay for goods or services settled off- and on-chai... |
| 22.05.2024 | Iceland's legacy banks face being "disrupted into oblivion" unless embrace fintechs, says top fintech boss | Iceland’s legacy banks face being “disrupted into oblivion’ unless they embrace digital change and work with the country’s fintechs, according to a leading Icelandic fintech professional. Gunnlaugur Jónsson, the CEO of Reykjavik Fintech Clu... |
| 18.03.2024 | Tether's USDT Gets Delisted on Crypto Exchange OKX for EU Users | Crypto exchange OKX has ceased support for cryptocurrency trading pairs with Tether's USDT stablecoin for users based in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA), the exchange confirmed to CoinDesk. As of Monday, OKX's platfo... |
| 17.07.2023 | Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong | The world of cryptocurrency has often been criticized for being exclusive, catering primarily to speculators and crypto-savvy individuals. Despite this, many advocates believe that the underlying decentralized technology has the potential t... |
| 14.06.2019 | Iceland's Currency Will Be First in Europe to Be Traded as E-Money | The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland (FME) has approved Reykjavik-based Monerium as its first electronic money institution. The designation, announced Friday, means that Monerium has regulatory approval to provide fiat payment ser... |
| 11.01.2019 | Icelandic crypto fintech startup Monerium raises $2 million | Reykjavik-headquartered fintech startup Monerium has raised $2 million in a seed funding round led by Crowberry Capital, with the participation from ConsenSys and Hof Holdings. The company has also applied to become a licensed financial ser... |
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