Inveniam targets growth areas in RWA infrastructure, AI private market data with MANTRA deal

Inveniam Capital Partners announced earlier today that its proposed acquisition of the MANTRA blockchain project and its affiliated entities is expected to close by June 30, 2026. The announcement did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.

The operator of the Inveniam IO platform, which has credentialed over $200 billion in private market assets, disclosed the MANTRA investment as the latest step in its expansion into digital asset rails.

Since 2025, MANTRA has remodeled itself as an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for the real-world assets (RWAs) market, currently estimated at $34 billion per rwa.xyz data.

The project also touts its native support for regulatory compliance, holding a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to operate as a Virtual Asset Exchange and provide broker-dealer, management, and investment services.

Why did Inveniam choose MANTRA?

The arrangement to take over ownership of the EVM-compatible layer 1 network and its ecosystem products builds on different rounds of investments and collaboration between Inveniam and MANTRA.

“Inveniam and MANTRA have been building toward this since Inveniam’s strategic investment last August. When you share the same conviction about where real world assets and AI are heading, and you’ve already proven you can build together, the question is, why keep the organizational boundary? We decided not to.” – John Patrick Mullin, CEO, MANTRA

The data infrastructure company first made a $20 million investment in MANTRA in August 2025. That commitment came as the project tried to stage a recovery from a dramatic 90% price crash in April that rocked the project’s reputation and wiped out millions in leveraged positions.

As the announcement teased at the time, Inveniam and MANTRA have maintained a productive relationship that was credited for the May 13 launch of NVNM Chain.

Purpose-built as a Layer 2 blockchain on MANTRA Chain, NVNM Chain has the technology to anchor cryptographic proofs of private market asset data for institutional finance and AI-driven systems, per official documentation.

Inveniam is setting up its early-mover’s advantage

Other than the show of support for MANTRA’s long-term prospects, Inveniam’s August 2025 investment was positioning the firm for the explosive growth that market observers such as Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Standard Chartered and McKinsey have projected for the RWA tokenization market, especially as it converges with the AI market.

Inveniam points to the NVNM Chain as the test of that thesis. As it was built to work, the MANTRA L2 draws from the MANTRA Chain’s native security to provide users, AI systems and institutional counterparties a reliable route to verify asset ownership and data records without accessing confidential data levels.

“We initially invested in MANTRA because we believed regulated blockchain infrastructure and AI-ready private market data belonged on the same stack. NVNM Chain, the Layer 2 we built together, adds to this proposition. This acquisition positions us to be value additive to the global private markets ecosystem faster. This is what will allow our global ecosystem to deliver digital private markets to market operators, asset owners, and institutional private markets investors alongside global DeFi markets.” – Patrick O’Meara, Chairman & CEO of Inveniam Capital Partners 

What will happen to MANTRA now? 

Inveniam clarified as part of its announcement that the MANTRA brand, including MANTRA Chain, its native gas token $MANTRA, MANTRA Finance, and mantraUSD stablecoin and the team will be carried over into the new entity operating under its ownership. 

No job losses or cuts to the MANTRA team are expected either, landing as a reprieve for a project that lost team members earlier in the year. Those cuts were due to what CEO Mullin described as a restructuring due to the “most challenging year MANTRA has faced for a multitude of reasons.“

The deal is expected to close in Q3 2026 pending customary closing conditions. 

MANTRA’s token is trading at $0.008088, in the green on the day of the announcement and up more than 12% over the past week. 

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