Rabo Investments and BNY Buy Minority Stake in Domyn Advances Sovereign AI

Rabo Investments Corporate Venturing (RICV), the venture arm of Rabobank, has made a minority equity investment in Domyn, a European leader in sovereign AI for regulated industries — announced on April 20, 2026. The investment is part of a broader strategic partnership that also sees BNY, one of the world’s largest financial services platforms, deepening its relationship with Domyn to accelerate AI-powered product capabilities and digital market infrastructure. Financial terms of both investments remain undisclosed.

The dual investments mark a significant milestone for Domyn, formerly known as iGenius, which has positioned itself as Europe’s go-to provider of sovereign, governable AI for financial institutions. Domyn’s platform combines large language models, domain-specific AI agents, knowledge graph reasoning, and AI Sentinel — a proprietary governance layer ensuring transparency, auditability, and regulatory compliance across mission-critical workflows. All solutions are designed to operate within the strict requirements of the EU AI Act, with air-gapped deployment options that keep data, models, and infrastructure fully within the enterprise perimeter.

Rabobank has already begun piloting Domyn’s AI solutions across selected use cases within its operations, with the partnership aimed at scaling AI capabilities responsibly while maintaining full digital sovereignty. Alexander Zwart, CITO and Managing Board Member at Rabobank, highlighted the strategic rationale: the bank recognises the importance of digital sovereignty and chose to back Domyn’s mission to scale responsibly and contribute to a robust European AI ecosystem. Carolyn Weinberg, Chief Product and Innovation Officer at BNY, noted that Domyn’s technology is helping accelerate the next generation of AI-powered data intelligence and digital market infrastructure.

For Domyn, the investments reflect growing institutional demand for sovereign AI solutions that prioritise performance alongside full transparency and control. The company’s approach allows financial institutions to build, own, and operate AI systems as proprietary assets — independent of third-party providers and aligned with evolving regulatory frameworks. Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka has framed this shift as a defining transition in AI adoption: from capability-driven deployment to trust, sovereignty, and long-term ownership.

Looking ahead, Rabobank and Domyn plan to co-develop production-grade AI systems tailored specifically for financial services, with the goal of reducing third-party dependency, lowering compliance costs, and accelerating AI integration across core banking processes. Domyn is also building one of the largest AI supercomputers in regulated industries — the Colosseum — in partnership with NVIDIA and the UAE, further underpinning its ambition to become the foundational AI infrastructure layer for Europe’s most regulated sectors.