Securitize to acquire warehouse financing platform River One

Securitize has signed a definitive agreement to acquire River One, a warehouse financing platform for asset-backed lending. The price and other terms were not disclosed, and closing is expected in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to customary conditions.

River One is based in New York, was founded in 2025 and was incubated by Framework Ventures, which backs it together with Maple Finance. It provides warehouse financing against income-generating assets such as small business loans and receivables, combining AI-powered origination, facility structuring, borrowing-base reporting and collateral monitoring, with bankruptcy-remote special-purpose vehicles. Braham Mehta is co-founder and CEO.

Securitize, led by Chairman and CEO Carlos Domingo, has about $5 billion in assets under management as of September 2026. The release sizes the private asset-backed finance market at $6 trillion and the stablecoin market at about $321 billion, and says River One is building relationships with stablecoin-ecosystem capital providers.