SignSplit raises $400M seed round at $1B valuation from W Group

TLDR

• SignSplit, a Delaware-based "signed data" startup, emerged from stealth on 5 October with a $400 million strategic seed round at a $1 billion valuation.¹
• The round's sole investor is W Group, a fintech and technology conglomerate that says it serves more than 40 million users, which becomes SignSplit's anchor strategic partner.²
• SignSplit lets people and institutions license consent-verified data, creative work or likeness to AI, robotics and media buyers, with a verification layer meant to track provenance and compensation.¹
• Independent reporting found the $1 billion valuation was negotiated on future market expectations rather than current revenue, and neither company has disclosed a customer or sales figures.³

SignSplit PBC, a Wilmington, Delaware-based startup, said Monday it has raised a $400 million strategic seed round at a $1 billion valuation, with the entire commitment coming from W Group, a global fintech and technology conglomerate.¹² The package combines capital with a multiyear strategic resources commitment; neither company has disclosed how much of the $400 million is cash or when it will be paid out.³

Founded in 2024 by co-founder and executive chairman Glib Denisov and led by chief executive Alessandro Monterosso, SignSplit builds a platform that lets people and institutions license or contribute their data, creative work and likeness to AI, robotics, research and media buyers under defined consent and compensation terms.¹ Buyers specify the human data they need, SignSplit recruits contributors and manages consent, provenance and payment, and a verification layer is designed to let downstream AI systems and other digital services check a piece of content's consent and rights history.¹³ Captables, citing an interview with Monterosso in Forbes Italia, reported the model is structured so the requesting organisation pays while individual contributors do not, making it principally a business-to-business sale even though people supply the underlying data.³

W Group framed the deal as a bet that "consent and compensation" will become core AI infrastructure in the way authorisation and settlement became core infrastructure for digital finance, according to founder and president Volodymyr Nosov.² W Group's own public investments to date centre on crypto and digital banking infrastructure, including its hashbank unit, which combines fiat banking with external crypto wallet transfers across more than 150 digital assets; no earlier W Group investment in AI data licensing or consent infrastructure specifically was found in current reporting.⁴ Captables also reported that the $1 billion valuation is not tied to disclosed current sales: Monterosso told Forbes Italia the figure reflects expectations for the technology's future market opportunity rather than today's business, and neither company has named a customer.³

Why it matters: a fintech conglomerate with no prior disclosed investment in AI data rights just made one of 2026's largest seed-stage bets that proving consent, not just sourcing data, becomes its own piece of AI infrastructure, right as regulators start asking AI companies to show their work.