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Crux Analytics Secures $2.2 Million in Seed Funding

Crux Analytics Secures $2.2 Million in Seed Funding
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Crux Analytics, Funding
  • New York-based Crux Analytics has raised €1.9 million ($2.2 million) in seed funding.
  • The investment in the relationship intelligence platform was led by Castle Creek Launchpad and also involved three credit union investment funds, Chartway Ventures, One Washington Financial, and Curql.
  • Crux Analytics made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025. The company was founded in 2023 by Jacob Bennett (CEO) and Nathan Bennett (CTO).

Relationship intelligence platform Crux Analytics has raised €1.9 million ($2.2 million) in seed funding, bringing the company’s total capital raised to €2.8 million. The round was led by Castle Creek Launchpad, a joint venture fund with 35 community banks as limited partners. Chartway Ventures, One Washington Financial, and Curql, three credit union investment funds, also participated in the round. Crux said that it will use the additional capital to grow its team and accelerate product development.

Crux combines workflow automation and business-specific insight to enable bankers to focus their energy on driving proactive engagement instead of the administrative and logistical work behind those relationships. The company’s technology relieves bankers of this logistical burden, providing them with a sales execution engine that helps users identify, research, and prioritize prospects with the greatest potential. Crux then enables them to execute targeted, personalized outreach to these prospects and monitor those relationships as they grow and expand.

“We built Crux for community banks and credit unions, and what we learned there is that the same relationship problem exists across the small business economy,” Crux Analytics CEO and Co-Founder Jacob Bennett said. “Alternative lenders, commercial insurers, and real estate operators all win on relationships, and they all lose time to the operational work that sits behind them. We’re giving those teams the infrastructure to act on what they know about their clients, so growth comes from deeper relationships rather than bigger headcount.”

Because serving small businesses is a relationship-driven process, it typically demands a significant amount of human capital. Larger financial institutions meet this challenge simply by hiring more people, but smaller financial institutions are often more constrained. For these banks and credit unions, technology that can boost the productivity of their existing employees is key, enabling them to focus on building their relationships as trusted advisors without needing to significantly add to headcount.

“Having worked closely with community banks through our strategic limited partners, we’ve seen how these institutions are built for relationships but lack the operational tools to deliver on that promise at scale,” Castle Creek Launchpad’s Jurgen van de Vyver said. “Driving outbound sales has always been a challenge for community banks, which historically have relied on referrals from their local networks. More banks are now looking for new ways to chase organic growth, and their business relationships are crucial to achieving that. Crux Analytics unlocks that potential by automating the manual work so community banks can focus on what matters most, building meaningful relationships with local business owners.”

Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York, Crux Analytics made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025 in San Diego. At the conference, the company unveiled its flagship platform that sources, qualifies, and engages small business leads with personalized outreach on behalf of the bank. Crux then monitors every relationship in the portfolio, delivering a complete picture of which businesses to prioritize, when to engage them, and which products are best suited for their specific needs.

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Numeral Raises $100 Million for Sales Tax Solution

Numeral Raises $100 Million for Sales Tax Solution
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Funding
  • Numeral raised $100 million in Series C funding, bringing the tax compliance platform’s total funding to $157.5 million since its 2023 founding.
  • The company will use the capital to accelerate product development, expand into additional industries, and grow its team, while launching a new accounting partner program.
  • Numeral is using agentic AI to automate more of the tax compliance workload while keeping humans in the loop, as businesses face growing complexity across markets and jurisdictions.

Sales tax compliance platform Numeral has raised $100 million in Series C funding, boosting its total raised to $157.5 million since it was founded in 2023.

Insight Partners led the round, which saw participation from Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator, and Uncork.

San Francisco-based Numeral aims to simplify sales tax compliance details such as nexus tracking, registrations, filing, rate calculation, remittance, exemption certificate management, and virtual mailbox services. In addition to sales tax, the company works with VAT and GST compliance in more than 90 countries. Numeral has recently recorded a 327% year-over-year increase in total transaction volume and expects to process more than 80 million transactions via its tax engine.

“Sales tax has become a much bigger operational challenge as companies grow across markets, systems and business models,” said Numeral Co-Founder and CEO, Sam Ross. “Businesses need infrastructure that can keep pace as rules and requirements change across jurisdictions, without adding more manual work for their teams. We’re building Numeral to provide that foundation, backed by tax expertise and service that customers can rely on.”

Numeral will use today’s funding to accelerate product development, expand its offering for industries, and grow its team. The company is also launching its accounting partner program that will allow partnering firms to refer clients, resell the platform, use it to deliver their own services, or advise clients through implementation to stay closely involved in their clients’ tax decisions. Overall, Numeral’s technology leverages agentic AI while keeping humans in the loop.

“Our customers want to know that their tax obligations are being handled accurately while still having access to a person when a complex issue comes up,” said Ross. “That expectation shapes how we build the platform and how we support each customer. As Numeral moves into additional industries and serves larger businesses, we’ll continue investing in both the technology and the tax expertise behind it.”

As tax compliance is becoming more complex for businesses operating across multiple markets, Numeral is using AI to automate more of the work traditionally handled by internal tax teams and accounting firms. Rather than simply using AI to help employees complete compliance tasks, Numeral’s technology aims to take on more of the operational burden itself, while keeping tax professionals available for complex cases.

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Baselayer Raises $35 Million for its Agentic Identity Technology

Baselayer Raises $35 Million for its Agentic Identity Technology
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Baselayer, Funding
  • Identity network and fraud intelligence platform Baselayer has secured $35 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by M13, and featured participation from Torch Capital, Picus Ventures, Afore Capital, and Matt Thompson of fellow Finovate alum Socure.
  • Along with the investment announcement, Baselayer unveiled its Agentic Identity Suite, an interoperable trust layer that helps institutions verify autonomous AI agents.
  • New York-based Baselayer made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2026.

Business identity network and fraud intelligence platform Baselayer has raised $35 million in Series A funding. The round was led by M13 with participation from Torch Capital, Picus Ventures, Afore Capital, and Matt Thompson of fellow Finovate alum Socure.

In addition to the investment, Baselayer announced the launch of its Agentic Identity Suite, an interoperable trust layer and agentic fraud consortium for the global agentic economy.

“Every era of commerce has required a new trust layer, but historically that infrastructure gets built only after fraud and abuse make the problem impossible to ignore,” Baselayer Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Awad said. “Agentic commerce is moving too fast for the industry to repeat that mistake. We already help one in five US financial institutions answer, ‘Can I trust this business?’ Now we’re building the infrastructure they need to answer, ‘Can I trust this agent, who does it represent, and what is it allowed to do?”

Agentic commerce is growing rapidly. According to Stripe, 70% of the commands used to access its data through its API now come from AI agents. Major card networks like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have launched agent commerce protocols, and Shopify has activated agentic sales channels by default for approximately one million merchants. At the same time, agentic commerce is moving faster than the trust infrastructure necessary to ensure safe and secure transactions. Current financial infrastructure is built to recognize individuals and companies, not autonomous AI agents operating for them. This means that banks, merchants, and platforms need to know who an agent represents, what it is authorized to do, and whether the party the agent is acting on behalf of can be trusted.

Baselayer already answers these questions for businesses, providing identity verification and risk infrastructure to more than 2,300 financial institutions and payments companies. Now, the company is extending that same identity and risk infrastructure to autonomous AI agents.

“Agents don’t carry ID, and the infrastructure built to verify humans and businesses simply doesn’t recognize them,” Baselayer Co-Founder and CTO Timothy Hyde said. “Static fraud controls end up blocking good customers while sophisticated attacks walk through. We built the Agentic Identity Suite so any institution can know, cryptographically, which agent it’s dealing with, who that agent represents, and whether its own agent can safely proceed with any transaction.”

Baselayer was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in New York. In its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring earlier this year, the company demonstrated its Portfolio Monitoring solution that continuously monitors current business customers for material changes. These include Secretary of State status updates, dissolutions, officer changes, new UCC/tax liens, bankruptcy filings, litigation, adverse events, fraud signals, and sanctions list additions. Portfolio Monitoring integrates with the full Baselayer platform and delivers configurable alerting via API or email notification to enable proactive risk management and early warning of customer deterioration without requiring manual periodic reviews.

Baselayer’s funding and product launch announcements follow news that the company has partnered with agentic payments infrastructure company Nevermined. The partnership brings Baselayer’s identity and risk infrastructure into Nevermined’s delegated payment environment, enabling agents to acquire Baselayer API access autonomously while the companies work toward establishing trusted identity for agents and their counterparties.

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Go.AI Secures $85 Million in Series A Funding

Go.AI Secures $85 Million in Series A Funding
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Funding, Go.AI
  • AI infrastructure provider for regulated industries, Go.AI, has secured $85 million in Series A funding in a round led by Updata Partners. The investment takes the company’s total funding to $90 million.
  • The capital will enable Go.AI to grow its engineering team, accelerate development of its key solutions, and scale go-to-market efforts beyond regulated industries.
  • Go.AI made its Finovate debut earlier this year at FinovateSpring 2026 as Go Abacus. The Chicago-based company returned to the Finovate stage for FinovateFall 2026 in September.

Go.AI, an AI infrastructure provider for regulated industries, has raised $85 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Updata Partners with participation from existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH. The investment takes Go.AI’s total funding to $90 million. In a statement, the company said it will use the funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate development of both its operating system, Go.OS, and its hardware line. The company will also scale its go-to-market efforts, expanding beyond regulated industries such as financial services and defense into a broader range of compliance-oriented organizations.

“When Lisa Gillespie and I co-founded the company, we were two people with a big idea,” Moscatelli said. “Today, we have over 50 team members, and the company we’ve built is doing exactly what we said it would do for the institutions that trust us most. This funding lets us keep building at that pace, but the thing I’m most proud of isn’t the growth number, it’s the education. AI doesn’t have to be something people fear or don’t understand. Done right, it works alongside the people who use it. That’s what this round lets us prove, at scale.”

Go.AI offers an on-premises AI appliance that puts enterprise-grade AI inference directly into a bank’s or financial institution’s own environment. Featuring zero cloud dependency and zero data egress, Go.AI’s Go1 is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliant, making it purpose-built for regulated industries. This allows institutions to run AI on sensitive data while remaining compliant and auditable. Go1 is paired with Go.AI’s operating system, Go.OS, which automates model management, GPU allocation, and serving without any cloud connection. Go1 provides full model lifecycle governance, including versioning, rollback, and real-time monitoring. Go.AI’s customers are currently running on-premises AI deployments that are processing more than 12.5 million queries a day.

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Go.AI made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2026. The company returned to the Finovate stage earlier this month for FinovateFall. Go.AI’s funding news comes just a few weeks after the company announced its rebrand from Go Abacus to Go.AI. In a statement, Moscatelli said the company’s work in on-prem AI, security, and safety “has matured into a category-defining position” and that the company has succeeded in making “that complexity feel simple, without ever compromising trust or control. Go.AI is the name that finally matches that ambition.”

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Cross Border Money Transfer Outfit Félix Raises $200 Million

Cross Border Money Transfer Outfit Félix Raises $200 Million
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Félix, Funding
  • Cross-border money transfer and top-up firm Félix Pago (Félix) has raised $200 million in combined equity and debt funding.
  • The equity component, in the amount of $87 million, was led by Andreessen Horowitz. The General Catalyst Customer Value Fund provided a $113 million credit facility.
  • Félix will use the funding to scale its existing remittance business and to support the expansion of its product suite to include lending and savings. The Miami, Florida-based company made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025 in San Diego, California.

Cross-border money transfer startup Félix Pago has secured $200 million in Series C funding for its technology, which leverages WhatsApp to offer a conversational remittance experience for Latinos and Hispanics living in the US. The round consists of $87 million in equity funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and a $113 million credit facility from the General Catalyst Customer Value Fund. The equity portion also featured participation from QED Investors, Castle Island Ventures, Switch Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, and Endeavor Catalyst.

The investment will help Félix scale its remittance and mobile top-up services, as well as add new team members in engineering and AI. The funds will also enable Félix to expand its offering into lending and savings via third-party solutions. Félix currently offers transfers from the US to 11 countries in Latin America including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Reporting revenue growth of 2.5x over the previous year, Félix has processed more than $8 billion in transactions since inception and served more than six million customers.

“We started Félix with remittances because sending money home is one of the most important financial needs our community has,” Félix CEO and Co-Founder Manuel Godoy wrote on his LinkedIn page. “Since then, we have processed more than $8 billion in transactions and impacted over six million people. But remittances were always the beginning. Now, we are building Félix into a Cognitive Financial Companion: a financial experience that begins with what someone wants to accomplish, rather than with a product, a form, or another app.”

Operating without a physical branch network, Félix relies on a financial infrastructure layer supported by partners such as Stripe, Mastercard, Checkout, and dLocal, and enhances its cross-border capabilities through partnerships with USDC stablecoin issuer Circle, Latin American cryptocurrency exchange Bitso, UniTeller and zerohash. It is this constellation of partners that enables Félix to operate: the company uses a WhatsApp-based AI chatbot to manage transfers and leverages USDC on the Stellar blockchain for settlement. Bitso serves as the on/off ramp for getting funds into the hands of recipients.

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, Félix made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025. At the conference, the company demonstrated its Félix Send solution, which allows financial services firms to embed cross-border remittances into their apps with a simple integration. Félix Send enables users to initiate remittances via WhatsApp with a single tap: funds are debited through the partner platform and recipients receive their money in seconds. Félix Send helps financial services companies generate new revenue streams, boost engagement, and deliver greater value to their customers.

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Socure Secures New Investment, Acquires Fraud Platform Fravity

Socure Secures New Investment, Acquires Fraud Platform Fravity
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Fravity, Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions, Socure
  • Trust infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, Socure, has secured a strategic growth investment of $156 million, boosting the firm’s valuation to $5.2 billion.
  • In addition to the funding announcement, Socure announced that it is acquiring Fravity, an agentic AI platform for risk and compliance.
  • Socure has been a Finovate alum since 2013. Fravity made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2025 in New York.

Socure, which offers trust infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, has received a $156 million strategic growth investment that gives the firm a valuation of $5.2 billion. The investment was led by Summit Partners and included participation from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo, and Docusign, among others. The funding also included both primary capital and an existing employee secondary tender offer.

“What stands out to us about Socure is the combination of durable growth and disciplined execution at this scale. We have followed this market closely for years, and we believe Socure is well positioned to bring identity, fraud, and compliance workflows onto a single platform,” Summit Partners Managing Director Matt Hamilton said.

The numbers for Socure are strong. The company closed Q2 2026 with $364 million in total ARR, 63% year-over-year ARR growth, 1.3x net dollar retention, and 0.01% logo churn. The company also noted that its international volume now represents a “double-digit” share of Socure’s network, up from two years ago.

In addition to the investment, Socure announced that it is acquiring agentic AI platform Fravity, which automates fraud, risk, and compliance operations. A Finovate alum that made its debut at FinovateFall 2025, Fravity provides AI agents that power deep investigations and execute workflows for onboarding, business due diligence, dispute resolution, and AML compliance. Founded in 2024, Fravity will add a native, first-party agent development platform and agentic operations layer to Socure’s RiskOS, an orchestration and decisioning platform that serves the firm’s 3,000+ customers. Integrating the two firms is expected to be relatively straightforward; Socure and Fravity share many enterprise clients, and the founding teams of both companies have collaborated across multiple companies for more than ten years. Fravity’s agentic AI capabilities will be delivered through Socure’s RiskOS platform as “RiskOS_Agents.”

“Stopping financial crime in the age of AI is getting harder every day, and there is no version of this where institutions hire their way out of it,” Socure Co-Founder and CEO Johnny Ayers said. “The solution will come from the infrastructure with the platform, proprietary data, first-party agents, and vertical domain expertise. Fravity, now as RiskOS_Agents, gives us the agent-building and ontology layer, wired into the nucleus of RiskOS, on top of our proprietary data and models, providing the complete loop to maximize customer decisioning accuracy. We are grateful for the support of Summit Partners and our other investors as we deliver on our vision for the future.”

Socure’s funding and acquisition come at a time when banks are spending significant amounts of time and money fighting fraud. Intelligence platform Liminal reported that organizations in the US spend $100 billion a year staffing internal and outsourced fraud, compliance, and risk management teams. Nevertheless, Liminal also noted that AI-powered fraud attacks have increased 8,000% over the last year, creating alert volumes that are increasing faster than fraud teams can staff for. Add to this the time spent on reviews—Liminal noted that 53% of banks spend at least an hour reviewing each alert, and 37% manually review more than 40% of their alerts—and the challenges facing banks and other organizations become all the more clear.

In contrast, Fravity has reduced cost per case by 80%, accelerated case resolution by up to 5x, and reduced false positives by as much as 70% across its current deployments. With its capabilities delivered as RiskOS_Agents, the technology will be wired directly into Socure’s proprietary datasets, purpose-built models, and downstream decision outcomes to maximize accuracy. Furthermore, RiskOS_Agents can learn from approximately 10 billion decisions a year and millions of resolved cases across the Socure network, creating a closed feedback loop that standalone agentic AI vendors cannot be easily replicated.

Socure serves customers in 190+ countries across financial services, e-commerce, government, healthcare, telecom, and gaming. The company’s clients include the top five US banks, four of the Magnificent Seven, 160 organizations throughout the public sector, and more than 600 fintechs.

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10x Banking Raises £40 Million from AshGrove Capital

10x Banking Raises £40 Million from AshGrove Capital
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: 10x Banking, Funding
  • Core banking platform 10x Banking has raised £40 million ($53.8 million) in funding from AshGrove Capital. The UK-based fintech will use the capital to drive sales and go-to-market activity.
  • The investment comes in the wake of the pair of major announcements from 10x Banking: becoming EBITDA-positive and topping the 10 million live account milestone.
  • Based in London, 10x Banking won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2023. Antony Jenkins is Founder, Chair, and CEO.

SaaS core banking platform 10x Banking has secured £40 million ($53.8 million) from AshGrove Capital. The funding will fuel the UK-based fintech’s sales and go-to-market efforts and comes as the company reports becoming EBITDA-positive and surpassing the 10 million live account milestone. Additionally, in the last 12 months, 10x Banking has onboarded 10+ new financial institutions and boosted annual recurring revenue (ARR) by more than 30%.

In the company’s statement, the firm underscored that its recent positive financial outcomes are the result of growing demand from financial institutions seeking to modernize legacy infrastructure, drive continuous product innovation, or develop the data and flexibility necessary to support AI-enabled banking.

“Financial institutions have a clear ambition to innovate, but many remain constrained by infrastructure that was not built for real-time, digital banking,” 10x Banking Founder, Chair, and CEO Antony Jenkins said. “We created 10x to remove those constraints, enabling financial institutions to launch products faster, serve customers in real time, and compete more effectively. Our platform is now proving its value at significant scale. AshGrove’s investment is a strong endorsement of the progress we have made and will help us meet growing demand from banks around the world.”

10x Banking offers a cloud-native, core banking platform that enables banks to deliver new hyper-personalized products, services, and experiences to both retail and corporate customers faster, more efficiently, and more cost-effectively. The platform processes more than 10,000 transactions per second and runs at 99.99% uptime. Leveraging fourth-generation core banking, 10x Banking features a microservices architecture, real-time data screening, an API-first design, and a managed core that allows banks to configure rather than rebuild for each new offering.

“10x Banking has built one of the most compelling technology platforms in core banking today,” AshGrove Capital Co-founder and Managing Partner Phil Fretwell said. “Delivering a cloud-native platform at enterprise scale is exceptionally difficult, yet 10x has already proven its capabilities across millions of live accounts and with some of the world’s leading financial institutions. We believe the company is well positioned to benefit from powerful industry tailwinds as banks continue replacing legacy systems with more flexible, real-time, and AI-ready infrastructure.”

10x Banking won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2023 in London. At the event, the company demonstrated its 10x SuperCore Cards solution that enables banks to create a card proposition in minutes using the 10x Bank Manager interface. The technology empowers financial institutions to build and launch an enterprise-grade, full-stack, functional cards business solution in as little as 12 weeks. Founded in 2016, 10x Banking counts leading financial institutions such as Westpac and Chase UK among its customers.

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EnFi Secures $15 Million to Bring Agentic AI to Commercial Lending

EnFi Secures $15 Million to Bring Agentic AI to Commercial Lending
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Categories: EnFi, Funding
  • AI-native lending platform EnFi has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by FINTOP and the investment brings the firm’s total capital raised to date to $22.5 million.
  • The funds will be used to enable the Boston, Massachusetts-based fintech to scale its offering, grow its team, and boost its go-to-market efforts.
  • EnFi made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2025 in New York. Co-founder Joshua Summers is CEO.

Here’s some Finovate alumni funding news from earlier this year that slipped beneath our radar: EnFi, which leverages agentic AI to complete end-to-end commercial lending workflows, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The Massachusetts-based fintech will use the capital to scale its technology, grow its team, and accelerate go-to-market efforts.

The investment takes the company’s total funding to $22.5 million. The round was led by FINTOP, and featured participation from Patriot Financial Partners, Commerce Ventures, Unusual Ventures, and Boston Seed Capital. In its statement, the company noted that these investors collectively span more than 150 financial institutions. FINTOP’s network of strategic investors consists of approximately 90 community and regional banks. Patriot Financial Partners has invested in 66 banks through its three active funds. Commerce Ventures has more than 20 strategic enterprise limited partners (LPs), including seven of the largest banks in the US.

EnFi enables commercial lenders to rapidly scale their portfolios while enhancing risk management. The firm’s AI agents can be deployed across the full commercial credit spectrum and loan lifecycle to boost the capacity of lending professionals by completing a range of end-to-end tasks, from deal screening to portfolio monitoring. Readily deployable and productive within 60—90 days, EnFi’s agents help lenders originate and manage more loans efficiently, leading to greater profitability and lower rates of loss.

An under-discussed challenge for lenders in the US is what EnFi referred to as a “growing talent crisis.” Noting that “tens of thousands of credit analyst positions remain unfilled at any given time”—despite $112 billion spent annually on credit labor—many institutions have been compelled to make tradeoffs that undermine their potential as lenders. These include processing fewer loans, lowering underwriting standards, and overworking existing lending teams.

This point was underscored by both FINTOP Partner John Philpott and Citadel Credit Union Chief Lending Officer Michael Desimone. Philpott warned that “the human talent pool cannot scale at the rate credit demand is growing.” Desimone highlighted the importance of being able to “respond to rising demand more efficiently without increasing … our risk profile, by extending the capacity of our credit teams.” Citadel Credit Union went public about its deployment of EnFi’s technology in February, when the funding announcement was made.

“We have seen this consistently across hundreds of conversations with lenders,” EnFi Co-founder and CEO Joshua Summers said. “Our investors have wide exposure to the challenge through their banking LP networks and portfolio investments. They are investing in agentic human infrastructure, not just software. EnFi enables commercial lenders to operate beyond traditional capacity limits while strengthening risk oversight and accelerating credit decisions.”

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, EnFi made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025. At the conference, the company introduced its AI-native lending platform and showed how its suite of agentic AI solutions handles data ingestion and extraction, automated spreading, and relationship management. The technology also features orchestrations that combine agents into larger automated workflows such as deal screening, underwriting, and portfolio monitoring. EnFi’s agentic infrastructure delivers audit-ready accuracy with human oversight, enabling rapid deployment, full data access, and seamless legacy system integration for high-performance lending.

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Flex Raises $70 Million to Improve Payments for High Net Worth Business Owners

Flex Raises $70 Million to Improve Payments for High Net Worth Business Owners
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Daily news, Funding
  • Business banking platform Flex raised $70 million in a Series B1 round to expand its business finance, payments, private credit, and ERP offerings while doubling its workforce.
  • The company also launched Flex Global, a cross-border banking service that combines multi-currency accounts, global payments, and stablecoin infrastructure to enable faster international money movement.
  • With Flex Global, Flex is positioning itself to compete more directly with Brex and Ramp by offering globally active businesses a unified platform that blends banking, payments, credit, and wealth management.

The business banking space is heating up again. Business banking platform Flex landed $70 million in a Series B1 investment, boosting its total equity funding to $180 million and total debt funding to $300 million.

Halo Fund lead the investment, which comes seven months after Flex’s $60 million Series B round. Portage Ventures, Wellington, Crosslink Capital, 53 Stations, Titanium Ventures, Spice, Florida Funders, Spice, and others also contributed. Halo’s participation is especially notable, as its co-founders span the sports and entertainment space, bringing expertise in sports and entertainment distribution into audiences that include millions of successful middle-market business owners and entrepreneurs.

With this round, Flex plans to expand across business finance, personal finance, payments, private credit, and ERP. The company will also use the funds to double the team size from 110 employees to more than 200 by year-end.

Flex made its debut in 2022 to bring private banking to high net worth business owners. The California-based company offers banking, private credit, payments, billing, and accounting tools for businesses, as well as a business credit card that pays up to 5% cashback. The company’s average customer uses four or more of these products on its platform. Flex has crossed $10 billion in annualized total payment volume and is currently growing 4x year-over-year.

“I’ve spent my career helping entrepreneurs win, and they all have the same problem: their business and personal financial lives are completely intertwined, but every bank treats them as two different customers, missing what they’re actually trying to build,” said Halo Fund Owner Co-founder Ryan Smith. “Flex is the first team creating a real private bank around the owner and the entire household’s finances, and the gap they’re filling is just as real globally as it is in the US. Zaid and the team have built an enduring business that is becoming an institution for the world’s most ambitious owners.”

Along with today’s funding announcement, Flex is launching Flex Global, a service that brings together local currency accounts, cross-border payments, and stablecoins for always-on, fast funds transfers. The service is aimed to serve cross-border businesses by issuing global credit cards, leveraging stablecoin payment rails and wallets in 100+ countries, and offering institutional USD accounts for foreign business owners. Flex’s multi-currency accounts support 32 currencies across 76 countries, enabling busineses to hold, send, and receive funds in the currencies they actually operate in.

Flex’s goal is to make the underlying payment rails invisible to customers by embedding stablecoin settlement into its private banking experience. Rather than requiring businesses to manage crypto wallets or navigate blockchain technology, Flex uses stablecoins behind the scenes to make international payments feel as seamless as domestic ones.

“Middle-market business owners are one of the most important and underserved customers in finance globally,” said Flex CEO and Founder Zaid Rahman. “Depending on the type of owner, they’ll tell you their vendors are spread across the US, Poland, Brazil, etc; their accounts hold currency outside of just USD; and they have to oscillate across 2-3 vendors and layers of fees just to do business outside their country.”

Flex Global raises the competitive stakes for Brex and Ramp by expanding Flex beyond domestic banking, credit, and expense management into global financial infrastructure. Both rivals already support international cards and vendor payments, while Brex has also been developing stablecoin-based global transfers. Flex differentiates itself with its focus on middle-market business owners and its effort to combine cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, credit, banking, and personal wealth management within a single private-banking relationship. That approach could help Flex compete less as another spend-management platform and more as the primary financial institution for globally active entrepreneurs.


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Thought Machine Secures $41 Million in Funding; Tops $100 Million Revenue Milestone

Thought Machine Secures $41 Million in Funding; Tops $100 Million Revenue Milestone
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Categories: Alumni News, Funding, Thought Machine
  • Core banking technology firm Thought Machine has raised £30 million ($41 million) in funding from an unnamed Tier 1 bank. The bank, which is both a client and an investor, made its investment in May of this year.
  • The funding will help support Thought Machine’s R&D expansion, including a pledge to hire more than 100 new engineers in 2026.
  • The funding announcement comes as the company reported surpassing the $100 million revenue milestone for the year ending December 2025.

According to multiple reports, core banking technology firm Thought Machine has secured £30 million ($41 million) in funding from an unnamed Tier 1 bank that is also a Thought Machine client. The reports indicate that the investment was made in May of this year; Fintech Futures noted that the funding consisted of £9 million in primary funding and a £21 million secondary market transaction.

The investment will help power the company’s R&D expansion, including support for the firm’s new engineering office in Lisbon, Portugal, and the hiring of more than 100 new engineers. The capital will also help Thought Machine pursue its expansion in the US, having opened a new office in Miami to complement its regional headquarters in the US.

Word of Thought Machine’s spring investment comes as the firm announces that it has surpassed $100 million in total revenue for the financial year ending December 2025. This accomplishment reflects a 57% year-on-year increase in total revenue. Thought Machine also announced that, thanks to a multi-year commitment for several tier 1 bank migrations, the company’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) surpassed the $100 million threshold as of Q2 2026.

“Crossing the $100 million revenue threshold proves that the world’s largest banks are no longer thinking of cloud-native core technology as being solely for greenfield business, they are deploying it at scale for full bank migrations,” Thought Machine CEO and Founder Paul Taylor said. “We have established clear leadership in the tier 1 market because our platform properly fulfills the needs of banks at scale. With a strong balance sheet backed directly by our customer-investors, we have the financial maturity and the technology to power any bank, of any size, anywhere in the world.”

The investment also shines a light on Thought Machine’s other funding plans, namely a London IPO. While a consideration since the company’s Series D funding round in 2022, an initial public offering in the current financial climate is “difficult” in the words of the Thought Machine CEO. As such, he has pushed back the likelihood of a London IPO until 2028 “at the earliest,” and even criticized the merit of valuation as a performance metric relative to revenue.

“We are trying to put less emphasis on valuation and more emphasis on commercial success,” Taylor said. “Funding rounds are just not where we want the attention to be. We want the attention to be on commercial growth. Hitting revenue targets is a far better indicator of success than saying ‘look how valuable we are’.”

Thought Machine introduced itself to Finovate audiences at FinovateEurope 2018 in London. The company offers modern, cloud-based core banking and payments solutions—Vault Core and Vault Payments, respectively—that give financial institutions greater flexibility in creating new banking products and the ability to offer payment options for every method, scheme, and region around the globe. Founded in 2014, Thought Machine has 68 banks around the world using its technology, including 18 of the world’s largest institutions, representing more than 10% of the international market.

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AI-Driven Investment Platform MDOTM Raises $27 Million

AI-Driven Investment Platform MDOTM Raises $27 Million
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Categories: Alumni News, Funding, MDOTM Ltd
  • AI-powered investment solutions provider for asset and wealth managers MDOTM has raised $27 million in funding.
  • The round was led by Expedition Growth Capital and takes MDOTM’s total funding to $36.5 million.
  • MDOTM made its Finovate debut earlier this year at FinovateEurope 2026, introducing its proprietary AI investment platform Sphere.

In a round led by Expedition Growth Capital, AI-driven investment solutions provider MDOTM has secured $27 million in growth equity funding. The investment takes the company’s total funding to $36.5 million, and will be used to accelerate international expansion and hiring across AI research, engineering, product, sales, and client solutions.

With clients including Morgan Stanley, Amundi, and Zurich Bank, MDOTM serves more than 60 financial institutions throughout Europe, the UK, and the US, enabling a growing number of firms to use AI-powered solutions to manage complex investment portfolios at scale. The company’s flagship offering, Sphere, analyzes market and macroeconomic data to identify market regimes and provide forward-looking insights across asset classes. Investment teams can leverage this analysis to construct their own market views, which are then translated into portfolio construction and rebalancing tools. This empowers users to create, customize, and manage investment portfolios at scale, leveraging Sphere’s generative AI capabilities to automatically create personalized portfolio commentary and client reporting.

“Asset and wealth managers are no longer asking whether to use AI in investment decisions, but how to deploy it at scale across thousands of portfolios while maintaining control,” MDOTM CEO Tommaso Migliore said. “That is exactly what Sphere was built to enable, which is why leading financial institutions are already running the platform in production. This investment will help us expand our team and meet the accelerating demand in the US and European market.”

MDOTM’s funding comes as asset and wealth managers are dealing with the twin challenges of fee compression and a demand for personalization. Further, the rising number of investment opportunities is making portfolio orchestration increasingly complex. This requires asset and wealth managers to manage a greater number of inputs, constraints, and decisions across thousands of portfolios. In response, MDOTM’s Sphere delivers an end-to-end AI workflow for investment teams, providing them with AI-driven insights, automated portfolio construction, customization, and rebalancing, personalized portfolio commentary, and more. With over $100 billion in assets under management, MDOTM’s Sphere is backed by a team of 60+ data scientists, engineers, and finance experts, as well as the MDOTM LAB, an academic network of 20+ professors and PhDs engaged in research on machine learning, portfolio management, behavioral finance, and AI ethics.

“Financial institutions have spent the last decade buying back-office and front-end software, but the work in the middle still happens in spreadsheets: rebalancing, keeping portfolios aligned with house views, and generating client commentary,” Expedition Growth Capital Partner Steve Twomey said. “MDOTM has built the AI infrastructure that finally scales that work, with the explainability and governance institutional buyers demand.”

Founded in 2015 in London, MDOTM made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2026. At the conference, the company demonstrated its proprietary AI platform, Sphere, which enhances investment processes and decision-making for banks, insurers, asset managers, and wealth management firms.

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13 Finovate Alums Raised More than $208 Million in H1 2026

13 Finovate Alums Raised More than $208 Million in H1 2026
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Categories: Alumni News, Funding

Due to the changing nature of both fintech funding and Finovate alums—a growing number of which are younger, smaller firms—we are presenting our latest alum funding report based on the entirety of the first half of 2026, rather than a single quarter. This year, we are proud to announce that a baker’s dozen of Finovate alums have raised more than $208 million in funding for H1 2026.

We should note that there were companies that secured funding shortly before becoming alums. For example, AAZZUR raised more than $2 million less than a month before making its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2026 in London. Zocks raised $45 million ahead of its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2026 in San Diego. And while these sums cannot be considered as part of the total presented here, they still reflect the level of interest that investors have when it comes to the kind of companies that demo their innovations on the Finovate stage.

Top equity investments from the first half

  • Jump: $80 million
  • Saris AI: $28.8 million
  • Paysend: $25 million
  • Eisen: $18.5 million
  • Lyzr AI: $14.5 million

While there were three investments of undisclosed amounts in the first half of 2026, the $80 million raised by Jump, the AI-powered meeting assistant for financial advisors that made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025, represents the top equity investment from any Finovate alum so far this year. Used by more than 16,000 advisors and leading enterprise IBDs, RIAs, and FIs, Jump saves advisors up to 15 hours per week by putting meeting administration and other tasks on “AI autopilot.”

After Jump, the next largest investments were secured by Saris AI ($28.8 million) and Paysend ($25 million). Saris AI, which made its Finovate debut this year at FinovateSpring 2026, offers an agentic AI solution with AI agents that automate back-office workflows. The San Francisco-based fintech was founded in 2023. Paysend, by contrast, has been a Finovate alum since its debut at FinovateEurope 2016. Supporting more than 25 billion digital endpoints across 170+ countries, Paysend operates a payment infrastructure that features a full stack of proprietary systems, from processing and FX to orchestration and settlement. London-based Paysend was founded in 2015.

Here is our detailed alum funding report for the first half of 2026.

January 2026

February 2026

March 2026

April 2026

May 2026

June 2026

If you are a Finovate alum that raised funding in the first half of 2026 and do not see your company listed, please drop us a note at [email protected]. We would love to share the good news! Funding received prior to becoming an alum is not included.

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