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Congrats to all the stablecoin providers who announced new fundraises this week, including Conduit*, Plasma, OpenFX, and Beam!

Please find another week of fintech financing events below.

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💸 Venture Financing

• Dojo secured $190 million (€168.6M) in its first equity raise. The UK-based payments tech provider plans to expand across Europe, including Spain, Ireland, and Italy.
• CloudZero raised $56 million in a Series C round. The company offers tools to optimize cloud and AI infrastructure costs, addressing the growing expenses associated with multicloud environments.
• RevenueCat secured $50 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $100 million. The company plans to expand beyond mobile app monetization, offering tools for web-based payments and customer acquisition.
• Slash raised $41 million at a $370 million valuation to develop industry-specific banking solutions. After pivoting from serving sneaker resellers, Slash now targets sectors like e-commerce marketing and crypto businesses.
• Penfold, a UK-based digital pensions fintech, raised $39 million to enhance its platform and expand its customer base.
• Conduit*, a stablecoin infrastructure company, raised $36 million in a Series A. Conduit aims to support on-chain stablecoin issuance and banking partnerships, helping fintechs and crypto firms issue their own fiat-backed assets
• Rillet raised $25 million to automate general ledger systems using AI.
• Keep, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of a financial platform for small businesses, raised $23 million in equity and $53 million in debt.
• Palla secured $14 million to enhance its embedded cross-border payment solutions.
• Stitch, a Saudi fintech startup, raised $10 million in seed funding to develop its financial infrastructure platform.
• Velocity emerged from stealth with $10 million in funding to develop its "Velocity of Money" platform focused on real-time financial data and analytics.
• AI-powered personal finance startup Gail announced its $8.2 million seed round and launched a smart financial assistant to help users manage money more intentionally using automation and behavioral nudges.
• Sequence, an Israeli company aims to automate and optimize finances across banks, loans, credit cards, and savings, raised $7.5 million.
• Beam, a startup building a stablecoin-based payment service provider (PSP), raised $7 million in new funding.
• Asigna secured $3 million in funding to launch its Bitcoin Multisig V2 upgrade, enhancing security for digital asset transactions.
• Vault, a provider of digital private wealth platform to investors across MENA, launched and announced a fundraise.

💰 Venture Funds

• QuantumLight, a quantitative venture capital firm founded by Revolut founder Nik Storonsky, closed on a $250 million fund for backing founders across AI, Web3, Fintech, SaaS and Healthtech.
  

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