Dfns raised $13.5 million in a seed funding round led by White Star Capital.

Dfns, a Paris, France-based software startup developing keyless wallets across decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, announced closing the final close of a seed round at $13.5 million.

The money includes a $7 million deal announced at the end of 2020 and was raised from investors led by White Star Capital and joined by Hashed, Susquehanna and the venture arms of crypto exchange Coinbase and Dutch bank ABN AMRO.

Dfns, founded in 2020 by Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines, Clarisse Hagege, Nore Rinnesjö-Eckerberg and Thibault de Saint-Sernin, develops a secure wallet infrastructure solution that aims to help companies secure digital assets by sharding crypto wallet passwords, known as private keys, and distributing the pieces across a peer-to-peer network.