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📊 Stat of the Week

Global spend on Anti-Money Laundering / Know-Your-Customer data & services is projected to total a record $2.9 billion in 2025, according to a new research report published by Burton Taylor Consulting.

💸 Venture Financing

• Digital Asset raised $135 million to scale its privacy-focused Canton blockchain, backed by firms like BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, and Citi.
• Finom closed €115 million (approx. $123 million) to expand its SMB-focused fintech operations across Europe.
• Conquest Planning raised $80 million in a Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to advance its AI-powered financial planning tools.
• Niural secured $31 million to enhance its global payroll and HR platform.
• Spinwheel raised $30 million in a Series A to deliver real-time data and agentic AI tools to improve consumer credit infrastructure.
• Multiplier, founded by an ex-Stripe executive, secured $27.5 million to power AI-driven accounting roll-ups for SMBs.
• Veda, a DeFi vault platform, secured $18 million in a funding round led by CoinFund.
• GTE, a DeFi competitor to Hyperliquid, raised $15 million in a Series A led by Paradigm.
• Sibill closed a €12 million Series A to scale its spend management tools across Europe.
• TAC raised $11.5 million to integrate DeFi into Telegram's billion-user ecosystem.
• Quinn raised $11 million to deliver embedded financial planning tools for fintechs.
• Blueprint Finance raised $9.5 million from Polychain Capital to scale its DeFi infrastructure.
• Equivator announced an $8 million investment round aimed at accelerating its AI capabilities in the MENA region.
• Meridian Private Equity, led by a former Blackstone investor, secured $7 million to build an AI-powered operating system for private equity.
• Claira raised $7 million in a round led by Barclays and Citi to improve deal intelligence with AI.
• Project Eleven raised $6 million to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing threats.
• Naroiq, a German fintech, raised €5.8 million to build fund infrastructure across Europe.
• Foresight secured $5.5 million in seed funding to unify data and AI for private market investors.
• Jarsy raised $5 million in pre-seed funding to build a smarter money management app.
• Stackup raised $4.2 million to streamline operations for crypto-native businesses.
• YieldClub raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its web3 investment platform.
• Nook, a crypto app, received $2.5 million in backing from Coinbase Ventures, Defy VC, and UDHC.
• Castle raised $1 million to offer an automated Bitcoin treasury tool for U.S. businesses.
• Unity Partners completed a strategic investment in fractional finance platform Amplēo.
• Erebor, a stablecoin project building a de novo bank, is reportedly raising capital from Palmer Luckey at a $2.25 billion valuation.
• ProfitSolv secured a strategic investment co-led by FTV Capital and Lightyear Capital, amount undisclosed.

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