Talos announced a Series B funding round in which Robinhood participated with a $45 million contribution. This brings Talos’ total valuation to $1.5 billion. The funding, along with new strategic backers, will be used to expand Talos’ institutional-grade trading and settlement products.
Talos announced a Series B funding round, raising $150 million from all participants, with Robinhood leading the way with a $45 million investment. Other participants included Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP, and Karatage.
In addition to these new investors, Talos also secured participation from a16z crypto, BNY, and Fidelity. This round surpasses Talos’ previous Series B funding of $105 million raised in May 2022, which valued the company at $1.25 billion.
The company announced it will use the funds to expand its platform in portfolio construction, risk management, trade execution, treasury, and settlement tools. In other company transactions, Talos announced the acquisition of Coin Metrics for an estimated $100 million, in addition to its previous acquisitions of D3X Systems, Cloudwall, and Skolem.
For Robinhood, the investment fuels a multi-pronged expansion in crypto infrastructure. The broker has been developing on-chain capabilities and deploying tokenized stock trading, staking, and perpetual futures in Europe. Integrating Talos’s lifecycle technology is seen as a way to deepen crypto liquidity and add institutional-grade execution to its product suite.
Market expectations and path forward for Talos
The participation of a major retail platform in an institutional infrastructure funding round reinforces a trend toward convergence between traditional brokers and specialized crypto technology companies. This move only validates the demand for capacity, execution, and settlement.
Operationally, Talos’s expanded capital base should accelerate integrations that matter to institutional counterparties, including consolidated market data, lower-latency execution paths, and more robust settlement infrastructure.
For Robinhood, the trade-off is strategic: faster product deployment versus the complexity of integrating enterprise-grade systems into a consumer-oriented stack.
