Investment supports Zaria’s pending application to charter Zaria National Trust Bank with the OCC and supports the build-out of its infrastructure for structured finance and digital asset-backed lending markets

JACKSON, Wyo., Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zaria Systems, Inc. (Zaria), which builds real-time infrastructure for mark-to-market credit and structured finance, today announced $5.2M in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The announcement follows Zaria’s recent application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Zaria National Trust Bank (“ZNTB”), a special-purpose national bank that will limit its activities to the operations of a trust company and related activities.

Structured finance has long relied on periodic, batch-based checks to monitor and verify collateral – a model that’s outgrowing itself as securities-backed, digital asset-backed, and tokenized lending demands real-time monitoring and automated margin calls. Zaria provides that infrastructure, offering loan servicing, backup servicing, collateral management, and agency services to structured finance market participants and digital asset-backed lenders. If ZNTB’s charter is approved, those services would consolidate under a single, federally regulated trustee, giving transaction stakeholders one regulated counterparty across a deal lifecycle for the first time, rather than several providers stitched together.

“This financing lets us accelerate growth and scale our existing services,” said Emily Barron, Co-Founder and CEO of Zaria. “We’re currently running servicing, backup servicing, collateral management, and agency infrastructure for structured finance and digital asset-backed loans. This investment lets us grow that team, extend the technology, and build on to a strong foundation.”

“Zaria has already built real traction with structured finance and digital asset-backed lenders,” said Aaron Frank, Partner, Fintech at Lightspeed Venture Partners. “Emily and her team have combined deep structured finance expertise with the technical rigor to build that infrastructure from the ground up, and we’re proud to have been able to back them from the earliest days.”

ZNTB’s organizers and management team bring together corporate trust, fintech, banking, ratings, and regulatory experience from organizations including BNY Mellon, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Moody’s, SoFi, Affirm, NYDIG, Block, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, among others, and its platform is live with partners such as Ledn, Maple, Galaxy, Kraken, and Figure, providing backup servicing, agency, collateral management, and node services infrastructure across warehouse facilities, forward flow loan sale programs, and securitizations.

About Zaria
Zaria builds infrastructure for modern structured finance. Through Zaria National Trust Bank (proposed), the company plans to offer corporate trustee and agency services, loan servicing, collateral management, and backup servicing to banks, lenders, and asset managers operating across traditional and digital asset markets. Learn more at zaria.xyz.

About Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm managing over $65B in assets. Since its founding in 2000, Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world, including Anthropic, Databricks, Rubrik, Snap, and Wiz, among others. Learn more at lsvp.com.

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