Maestro, an enterprise-grade infrastructure provider designed from the ground up for Bitcoin DeFi, announced the closing of its $3 million seed funding round. Co-led by Wave Digital Assets and Draper Associates—with participation from UTXO Management, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Draper Dragon, and Necto Labs—the capital injection will accelerate Maestro’s mission to enable businesses, financial institutions, and even nation-states to interface seamlessly with the emerging Bitcoin financial system.
Maestro stands at the forefront of Bitcoin Defi, developing UTXO-based infrastructure services that simplify the complex process of building Bitcoin-native financial applications. Maestro provides high-performance APIs, powerful developer tooling, and innovative solutions, such as mempool metaprotocol indexing, enabling real-time on-chain insights. Maestro lays the foundation for a decentralized financial ecosystem reminiscent of cloud providers like AWS’s transformative impact on the Web2 technology sector.
How Maestro is fueling a financial transformation by empowering the Bitcoin ecosystem:
1.) An All-In-One Blockchain Infrastructure Platform—Last year, Maestro released a state-of-the-art UTXO indexing platform tailored for the needs of Defi on Bitcoin. This year, Maestro is onboarding top protocols across all Defi segments: crypto wallets, decentralized exchanges, and lending protocols that will onboard millions to Bitcoin.
2.) Bridging Traditional and Decentralized Finance – Maestro’s technology overcomes longstanding barriers, such as poor developer tooling, delivering a user experience that empowers innovative startups and enterprises to build scalable financial products directly on Bitcoin’s base layer.
3.) Ecosystem Partnerships – The company is signing strategic alliances across the Bitcoin landscape. For example, it collaborated with Arch Network to enable Bitcoin contract programmability via a parallel execution layer. Saturn, leveraging Maestro, launched the first AMM DEX on Bitcoin L1, enabling a trustless high-frequency trading experience.
Maestro’s technology is making inroads into the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. And by providing the blockchain infrastructure needed to catalyze what many are calling the first DeFi Summer on Bitcoin. The company’s innovative approach not only enhances Bitcoin’s utility but also paves the way for traditional financial institutions to leverage Bitcoin’s $2 trillion market cap to power a new generation of financial services.
The $3 million raised in this seed round validates the investment community’s support for Maestro’s vision and technological expertise. With the backing of industry-leading investors, Maestro is well-positioned to accelerate Bitcoin’s transition from a mere store of value to a vibrant, blockchain-native financial ecosystem that is secure, scalable, and accessible to all communities around the globe.
KEY QUOTES:
“I believe the Bitcoin economy will be a catalyst for global economic empowerment, transforming how people interact with money on every level. Maestro provides the critical infrastructure needed for this digital financial revolution. I’m thrilled to lead this seed round and support a future where Bitcoin empowers communities worldwide.”
- Tim Draper, Founder of Draper Associates
“With this seed round, we’re not just raising capital—we’re igniting a movement to unlock Bitcoin’s full potential as a financial system. Our vision is to redefine how tech companies and enterprises interact with Bitcoin, moving it beyond a digital store of value to a dynamic, programmable platform for decentralized finance. We are running the infrastructure that will power the blockchain economy of tomorrow. ”
- Marvin Bertin, CEO at Maestro
“Saturn and Maestro are redefining what’s possible on the base layer of Bitcoin, delivering a user experience that feels like sub-1-second transactions. It’s about bringing unparalleled efficiency and usability to Bitcoin’s foundation, setting a new standard for decentralized trading.”
“At Wave, we like to invest in critical infrastructure that powers the future of blockchain adoption. Maestro is solving one of the biggest bottlenecks in crypto—building developer-friendly infrastructure for UTXO chains like Bitcoin and Cardano. Their platform provides scalable APIs that dramatically accelerates development for dApp builders. This is the kind of foundational innovation that moves the entire ecosystem forward. We’re excited to back Maestro as they continue to push the boundaries of blockchain infrastructure and enable the next generation of builders.”
- David Siemer, CEO at Wave Digital Assets
