Inveniam Capital Partners announced plans to acquire MANTRA and its affiliated entities. The move would expand its institutional blockchain infrastructure for private markets, real-world assets, and AI systems. The MANTRA acquisition is expected to close by June 30, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
The deal comes after Inveniam had strategically invested $20 million in MANTRA in August 2025. That deal provided both companies with a foundation for deeper collaboration on blockchain. The MANTRA acquisition now turns that partnership into a wider ownership structure.
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MANTRA Acquisition Follows NVNM Chain Test
Both companies worked on the May 13 launch of NVNM Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain on MANTRA Chain. The network secures cryptographic evidence of private market asset information for finance and AI systems. It stores data off-chain and provides a verifiable source of truth.
Inveniam’s 2025 investment is a wager on AI and real-world asset tokenization, it said. The firm indicated that these markets are becoming one, and the connecting infrastructure is yet to be scaled up. The MANTRA acquisition comes after the production test developed using NVNM Chain.
Interchain Security is used to transfer security from MANTRA Chain to NVNM Chain. Provides AI systems and institutional counterparties with asset provenance records, without the need to navigate confidential data rooms. It has demonstrated its production-scale compatibility with its successful mainnet genesis block on May 13, 2026.
Regulated blockchain infrastructure and AI-ready private market data should run on one stack, said Patrick O’Meara, Chairman and CEO of Inveniam.
NVNM Chain enhanced that approach for global private markets. He added that the MANTRA acquisition helps accelerate delivery across markets.
Acquisition Formalizes MANTRA Integration
The deal also aligns with Inveniam’s roadmap for building a digital private markets ecosystem, O’Meara said. This ecosystem is targeting the market operators, asset owners, and institutional investors. It is also looking for connections with the global DeFi markets.
The MANTRA brand will continue to be a central theme of the merged organization. Inveniam will own the MANTRA team upon closing of the transaction. MANTRA Chain, MANTRA gas token, MANTRA Finance, and mantraUSD will continue to be the pillars of the infrastructure.
Inveniam said the MANTRA acquisition is a formalization of integration that has been ongoing since the end of 2025. The transaction is subject to normal closing conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Both companies have developed a relationship since Inveniam’s investment in 2025, said John Patrick Mullin, CEO of MANTRA. He explained that they are both passionate about real-world assets and AI. Following successful collaboration efforts, they raised the question of the necessity of separate organizational boundaries.
The MANTRA acquisition puts Inveniam one step closer to becoming part of the private market data rails, blockchain rails, and AI systems. It also maintains the core infrastructure of MANTRA in the merged institution. The deal represents the latest move in the company’s blockchain expansion.
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