As liquidity challenges continue to hinder growth in the cryptocurrency sector, Flowdesk. A Paris-based digital asset trading and technology firm, is stepping up with a solution — and serious financial backing.
The company has secured $102 million in new funding, consisting of $91.8 million in equity and $10.2 million in debt financing. This is to expand its innovative Market-Making-as-a-Service (MMaaS) platform. The round was led by HV Capital, with participation from existing investors Eurazeo, Cathay Innovation, and ISAI. And debt capital provided by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
This latest raise brings Flowdesk’s total funding to $122 million and positions the company to accelerate its global growth, scale its institutional services, and meet surging demand for liquidity and OTC trading infrastructure in the digital asset space.
Flowdesk’s Market-Making-as-a-Service offering gives crypto token issuers full control over their liquidity strategies while using Flowdesk’s high-performance trading infrastructure. Unlike traditional market makers that dictate terms and hold custody of assets. Flowdesk’s model allows clients to retain control over their tokens, implement their own strategies. And benefit from real-time performance insights via live dashboards.
This approach reduces market volatility and improves price consistency across both centralised (CEX) and decentralised exchanges (DEX), making it easier for token projects to grow and scale.
“We set out to build institutional-grade trading solutions for the digital asset economy,” said Guilhem Chaumont, Global CEO and Co-founder of Flowdesk. “Tokenisation is reshaping global capital markets. This funding round strengthens our ability to serve a broader base of institutional clients and support the next phase of growth in digital finance.”
Flowdesk’s founding team—Guilhem Chaumont, Paul Bugnot, François Cluzeau, and Balthazar Giraux—launched the company in April 2020. To solve the growing problems of liquidity fragmentation and inefficient infrastructure in the crypto market. Drawing on their backgrounds in banking, algorithmic trading, and engineering, they built a scalable, secure, and transparent trading platform designed to connect token issuers directly with markets.
Today, Flowdesk powers trading across more than 140 exchanges, executing over 1 million orders every day with sub-millisecond latency. The team designed its infrastructure for 99.9% uptime, using technologies like Google Cloud’s BigQuery, Redis Enterprise, and Kubernetes. To deliver real-time processing and ultra-low latency at scale.
The platform processes billions of data points per day, offering full transparency into trading performance, spreads, and inventory. Clients benefit from a non-custodial model, enabling secure and autonomous liquidity management. A key differentiator in a market where control and compliance matter more than ever.
With fresh capital, Flowdesk plans to double its workforce, invest further in its proprietary trading systems, and expand internationally. With a special focus on the UAE as a hub for Middle East operations.
The company will also bolster its compliance and legal frameworks to align with evolving global regulations, including MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets). Europe’s upcoming regulatory standard for digital assets.
Additionally, Flowdesk will launch a dedicated crypto credit desk and scale its derivatives trading capabilities. Enhancing its full-service offering that already includes custody, brokerage, OTC trading, and treasury management.
Backers like HV Capital and BlackRock believe Flowdesk’s MMaaS model is critical to unlocking the next phase of institutional crypto adoption.
“Flowdesk is a hyper-growing fintech with a transparent and scalable business model,” said Alexander Joel-Carbonell, Partner at HV Capital. “Their combination of infrastructure, proprietary trading, and institutional services is setting new standards in digital finance.”
“By improving transparency and liquidity, Flowdesk is playing a vital role in making the digital assets ecosystem more mature,” added Mårten Vading, Managing Director and co-Head of BlackRock Growth Debt. “This is essential for unlocking long-term market potential.”
Flowdesk envisions a future where digital asset services are as reliable and regulated as traditional finance. By empowering token issuers, exchanges, and institutional investors with advanced trading tools and infrastructure. The company is pushing the industry toward a more scalable, secure, and liquid future.
As tokenisation spreads and more financial services embrace blockchain technology. Flowdesk’s MMaaS model could be a cornerstone for managing liquidity in the next generation of capital markets.
