The blockchain start-up led by former JP Morgan executive Blythe Masters has acquired two smaller firms and is preparing for its first Series A funding round in the coming months, the firm’s chief executive said Thursday.

Masters said her firm, Digital Asset Holdings, was to acquire San Francisco-based ledger platform HyperLedger and blockchain software company Bits of Proof. Speaking to a room of fintech start-ups and venture capital investors at an event run by Accenture and economic development group the Partnership Fund for the City of New York, Masters said that her company would conduct its first Series A funding round in "the coming months".