Turnkey raises $12.5 million in round backed by Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital

Finance Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Turnkey raises $12.5 million in round backed by Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital The new capital will primarily fund the development and public launch of Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, a secure computing product for digital assets. By Francisco Rodrigues , AI Boost | Edited by Oliver Knight May 14, 2026, 1:00 p.m. 2 min read Make preferred on Turnkey raises $12.5 million (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk) What to know : Turnkey raised $12.5 million in a strategic round, bringing total funding to over $65M. Key investors include Archetype, Circle Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. The new capital will primarily fund the development and public launch of Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, a secure computing product for digital assets. Turnkey specializes in wallet and key-management infrastructure for crypto applications, including non-custodial wallets and automated onchain activity. Turnkey has raised $12.5 million in a strategic investment round backed by Archetype, Circle Ventures and existing investors, bringing its total funding to more than $65 million. Bain Capital Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Variant also participated. The raise follows Turnkey’s $30 million Series B , led by Bain Capital Crypto last year, and its $15 million Series A , led by Lightspeed Faction and Galaxy Ventures in 2024. Turnkey builds wallet and key-management infrastructure for crypto applications. The company said the new capital will support development of Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, a secure computing product for digital assets and sensitive workloads, ahead of its public launch. The New York-based firm was founded by former Coinbase Custody employees Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney. Its infrastructure is used for non-custodial wallets, automated onchain transactions and policy-controlled signing. Circle Ventures’ participation links the round to a broader push around stablecoin payments. Circle’s USDC business has become a public-market proxy for stablecoin growth, with analysts tying Circle’s rally to stablecoin adoption and AI agentic finance . Turnkey said customers include Flutterwave, Tools for Humanity’s World App, Polymarket and Anchorage Digital. The firm is positioning Verifiable Cloud for the next layer of that market. The product is meant to let companies run sensitive operations in a verifiable environment, including transaction visibility, policy decisions and agent-driven wallet activity. “Stablecoins are transforming how value moves online, and AI agents are upending traditional security assumptions,” Bryce Ferguson, Turnkey’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement. Turnkey said the new funding will go toward Verifiable Cloud and infrastructure for wallets, payments and automated onchain activity. Funding Rounds AI Disclaimer: Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to our standards . For more information, see CoinDesk's full AI Policy . More For You BlackRock, Janus Henderson tokenized funds get instant redemptions with new $1 billion facility By Krisztian Sandor | Edited by Nikhilesh De 1 minute ago A new credit facility by Grove aims to allow instant redemptions into stablecoins from BlackRock's BUIDL and Janus Henderson's money market funds, reducing settlement time from days to instantaneous. What to know : Grove launched a liquidity network offering up to $1 billion in daily stablecoin liquidity for instant redemptions for BlackRock's and Janus Henderson's tokenized Treasury funds. The facility, dubbed Basin, aims to fix a key weakness in the $15 billion tokenized Treasury market by providing instant stablecoin payouts against approved redemptions... Read full story Latest Crypto News BlackRock, Janus Henderson tokenized funds get instant redemptions with new $1 billion facility 1 minute ago Coinbase backs Hyperliquid stablecoin push as DeFi trading volumes climb 47 minutes ago Strive’s SATA to become first U.S. listed security to pay daily cash dividends 1 hour ago Bank of England ready to water down 'overly conservative' stablecoin proposals: FT 1 hour ago Bitcoin’s recent $80,000 breakout was led by something other than U.S. spot buyers, data show 1 hour ago Clarity Act markup leaves bitcoin unstirred 1 hour ago Top Stories Cerebras, OpenAI, SpaceX: The IPO pipeline that could drain crypto 2 hours ago Clarity Act amendments would remake key parts of crypto bill but have doubtful future 21 hours ago Solana drops 5%, bitcoin below $80,000 as Xi warns Trump on Taiwan conflict 8 hours ago Bullish misses first-quarter revenue estimates on weaker crypto trading activity 1 hour ago Moody’s assigns Aaa-mf assessments to Fidelity and BlackRock tokenized money market funds 4 hours ago Claude helps recover $395,000 in bitcoin trapped on a computer for years 7 hours ago