Our Story

Redefining Compliance

Founded in 2021 by Cara Hennessy, Ruan Botha, and Petri Basson, Provenance specializes in compliance services for virtual asset service providers; VASPS, Crypto Funds, Tokenized Offerings, DAOs and NFT projects,  Provenance’s co-founders, joined forces due to the lack of suitable compliance solutions for crypto. Leveraging experience in blockchain, capital markets, and investment funds, Provenance provides tailored compliance solutions.

Since its inception, Provenance has expanded beyond digital assets to traditional finance and non-financial sectors, including Insurance, Company Managers, Precious Metal Dealers and Real Estate practitioners.

Our Founding Team

Provenance’s co-founders are experts in digital assets and compliance, each bringing unique multidisciplinary insights. Their collaboration was driven by the lack of adequate compliance solutions for clients. With years of experience in blockchain, capital markets, and investment funds, they craft tailored solutions for the evolving digital asset landscape.

Ruan Botha

Provenance Co-founder,
Co – COO

Cara Hennessy

Provenance Co-founder,
Co – COO

Petri Basson

Provenance Co-founder (and co-founder of HASH)

Company Values


Support 

We prioritize our team’s wellbeing, continuous learning, and collective growth to ensure they are equipped to meet your unique business needs. This investment in our team translates into stellar performance and exceptional support tailored specifically for you.  

By empowering our people, we empower your business

Trust

Trust In the fast-evolving landscape of digital assets, trust is the foundation that holds everything together. At Provenance, we place trust at the core of our relationships, ensuring your assets and operations are handled with the utmost care and precision. Our rigorous compliance standards are designed to protect you from regulatory uncertainty, instilling confidence in every transaction and decision.

Trust isn’t just given—it’s earned through consistency, integrity, and a commitment to safeguarding your future in digital finance.

Integrity 

We pride ourselves on operating with integrity. We approach our work without ego, always prioritizing what is best for our clients. Our goal is to guide you in operationalizing your vision while ensuring full compliance with regulations. 

Guided by integrity and authenticity, we prioritize our clients’ best interests.

Resilience 

Our agility allows us to pivot swiftly to meet regulatory shifts and emerging technologies. We are committed to supporting our clients through both challenges and opportunities with tailored, future-proof solutions.  

Provenance delivers bespoke, future-proof solutions, guiding our clients through regulatory changes and technological advancements.

Our Partners and Associations

Our partners play a vital role in shaping our solutions and services, helping us deliver the best possible outcomes to our clients. Together, we forge a path towards mutual success and innovation.

Technology Collaboration

Chainalysis

Chainalysis is a blockchain data platform. Chainalysis data powers investigation, compliance, and market intelligence software that has been used to solve some of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Chainalysis works with Government and Industry.

TRM Labs

TRM enables risk management and compliance for a global community of financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses and government agencies.

Elliptic

Founded in 2013, Elliptic pioneered the use of blockchain analytics for financial crime compliance. They are the leading provider of crypto compliance solutions globally.

Sumsub

At Sumsub, we believe in a safe, accessible, and inclusive digital future for users and businesses alike. By eliminating fraud and verification hurdles, we aim to create a world where anyone—regardless of age, location, or computing skills—can securely access and use any service.

Fume

Fume is an on-chain protocol to simplify and automate fund administration. It allows fund managers to:
– onboard investors via crypto/fiat without manual efforts
– automatically extract management, performance, entry, and exit fees
– tokenize fund shares and calculate NAV

ChainComply

ChainComply is a SaaS platform that bridges the gap between crypto-asset activity and traditional financial compliance. Designed for banks, VASPs and wealth managers, it automates source-of-fund investigations, on-chain + off-chain analytics, and enhanced due-diligence processes – helping you serve crypto-holding clients with confidence while staying ahead of AML and regulatory risks.

Recoveris

We empower individuals and businesses to take back control of their digital assets through expert blockchain tracing, investigations and recovery. As an experienced team of blockchain investigators, former law enforcement agents and lawyers with a deep understanding of blockchain technology and digital assets, we provide effective prevention and aftercare support for digital asset linked crime.

Shore Labs

Shore Labs is a boutique incubator built for founders operating at the edge of markets, governance, and frontier tech. We’re not a VC, not an agency, and not a studio.
We’re the strategic brain and operating system behind ventures that demand more than capital — offering integrated support across:
 
• Compliance: Regulated infra and legal architecture
• Intelligence: AI systems and cognitive tooling
• Brand: Narrative, naming, and visual identity
• Development: Product, prototype, and technical build
• Strategy: Business architecture and capital design
• Execution: Rollout, traction, and operational scale

Community Collaboration

Our Global Footprint

We operate all around the globe, with x clients across x countries

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