CE-Ventures has announced investments in Silicon Valley startups Plaid and Mesh, focused on data infrastructure and digital asset movement respectively, are both critical enablers of financial interoperability.
CE-Ventures’ participation in the strategic funding rounds reflects the expectation that the future of finance will be open, programmable, and crypto-native — and that enduring, systemic value will be created by companies building the underlying rails and connectivity layers.
Plaid’s global fintech data network and Mesh’s global crypto payments network have both been significantly endorsed by their recent fundraising. For Plaid its $575 million fundraise was led by Franklin Templeton with participation from CE-Ventures alongside Fidelity, BlackRock, NEA, Ribbit Capital, and others. Mesh’s $82 million Series B funding was led by Paradigm with participation from CE-Ventures, Consensys, QuantumLight Capital, Yolo Investments, and others.
“At CE-Ventures we are investing in the financial systems of the future – and we see Plaid and Mesh as foundational platforms in a converging world of fintech and crypto,” said Sudarshan Pareek, Senior Vice President at CE-Ventures. “We are at the beginning of a systemic shift in global finance — from closed systems to open networks, from batch-based processing to real-time programmability, and from siloed fiat rails to interoperable digital assets. Plaid and Mesh are laying the technical infrastructure for that future.”
The strategic investments in Plaid and Mesh reflect the current generational transformation in financial infrastructure, driven by defining trends of interoperability, programmability, and user-centricity.
- Interoperability to ensure seamless movement of data and value across platforms, geographies, and asset classes.
- Programmability for real-time financial workflows enabled by APIs, smart contracts, and automation.
- User-Centricity to empower end-users, individuals and businesses, with control over their data, assets, and financial interactions.
CE-Ventures has a history of investing in category-defining infrastructure companies that operate at this intersection. With investments in Plaid and Mesh, CE-Ventures is positioning itself to capture the most resilient value for infrastructure providers that power broad ecosystems rather than single verticals.
