SC Ventures

SC Ventures is the venture building and investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank. Their core focus is on venture building, selectively investing in partners they have worked with directly. They believe banking has a critical role to play in society and aim to reconnect banking and society by building and scaling breakthrough business models. This involves evolving how they serve clients to meet their needs in a rapidly digitizing world, facilitating world trade in their markets (particularly for SMEs), and building digital capabilities for financial services, including digital assets at institutional grade. Their approach involves a venture building model and fund investment experience refined over the past six years, supported by disciplined portfolio management. They also emphasize co-creation and origination of original ideas through client collaboration, innovation platforms, and intrapreneurship. A key element is leveraging the institution-grade infrastructure and global network of Standard Chartered to build and scale ventures effectively. SC Ventures focuses on themes like Digital Banking & Lifestyle (creating banking & wealth solutions enabled by technology), Trade & Supply Chains (unlocking growth in new trade patterns & SMEs), and Digital Assets (enabling safe and secure digital assets products and services). They aim to build new business models adjacent to banking, providing optionality and potentially new sources of revenues for the Bank and its clients through joint ventures. Their ventures span from incubation to commercialization, with a stringent approach to screening winning ideas, validating product-market fit, and leveraging corporate assets to fine-tune business models and access clients & markets.

Digital Banking & Lifestyle, Trade & Supply Chains, Digital Assets, Fintech, SMEs

Core thematic spaces, technologies, and target market segments of interest.