DST Global is an internet investment group with a portfolio including major global internet companies. The group operates from headquarters in Hong Kong alongside offices in Silicon Valley, New York, London, and Beijing.
Portfolio
6
companies
Ineffable Intelligence
Developing artificial superintelligence via autonomous superlearners.
Checkout.com
Checkout.com provides an online payments platform for global enterprise merchants.
Blockchain
Blockchain provides cryptocurrency products and services for consumers and institutions globally.
IMMO Investment Technologies
IMMO Investment Technologies digitises the sourcing and acquisition of residential real estate for institutional investors.
Impala
Impala connects hotel software providers to inventory and data through an API platform.
Zego
Zego provides flexible insurance policies for gig economy workers and emerging mobility services.
Tom Stafford
Tom brings investment and financial services experience as managing partner at DST Global and previously as an executive director at Goldman Sachs.
LinkedInRahul Mehta
Louis Bacon
Kyle Bass
The British Business Bank and the Sovereign AI Fund have backed the artificial intelligence developer in a record-setting seed round.
"David Silver is a generational talent who has consistently been on the cutting edge of AI development. Ineffable Intelligence has the potential to produce a paradigm shift in our scientific and technology landscape, and we are incredibly excited to be supporting him and his team in this endeavour."
The $1bn financing round was supported by a consortium of global investors led by firms such as Altimeter and GIC.
"At our core, we help enterprise merchants to navigate the complexity of moving money around the world, whether in fiat currency or bridging the gap to Web3,"
The Series C round was led by DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and VY Capital.
The Series C round values the cloud payments provider at $15bn and was joined by Greenoaks Capital alongside existing investors.
"Payments affect everything from the customer journey to a business’s ability to enter new markets or launch new products."
Coatue led the Series B funding round to support product development and strengthen the balance sheet.
"I’m thrilled to welcome Coatue to our cap table. As meaningful investors in late-stage tech companies such as Instacart, DoorDash, Bytedance and Chime they bring a wealth of experience in building world-class businesses driven by operational excellence. They share our vision for a future of connected payments which made them an obvious choice as partners for us."
The London-based real estate fintech startup secured equity and deployment capital from prominent backers to scale its property platform.
"Selling a property is the biggest and often most stressful transaction in our lives. It takes on average 191 viewings and many months to identify a buyer. About 40%2 of transactions still fall through at that point due to financing risk, changing circumstances and minds. When selling to IMMO, customers enjoy a chain-free, professional experience that is fast, reliable, transparent and convenient. We offer attractive prices without charging fees and enable homesellers to plan their lives around this important transaction."
The Series A round was led by Stride.VC, Kima Ventures, and Jerry Murdock to support platform expansion and new integrations.
"Travel is a $2 trillion industry that runs on technology that has been unfit for purpose for 20 years."
The round was led by Target Global and will support workforce growth and expansion across Europe.
"When we built Zego from scratch three years ago, our mission was to transform the insurance sector by creating products which truly reflected the rapidly changing world of transport"
The record-breaking Series A round was led by Insight Partners and DST Global with participation from GIC and Blossom Capital.
"We have been fortunate to have some of the world’s leading investors approach us for some time but our focus has remained on building the very best suite of products we can for our merchants on four continents. Having built a sustainable business, one hire at a time, it was crucial to find partners that share our vision of how enterprise businesses will consume financial services in the future. We have anticipated this from our early days and have designed Checkout.com’s platform from the outset so that we can easily deliver incremental services to our customers as the company expands its offering."
