Fundraises

How many fintechs do you think hit billion-dollar valuations this week? (TWIF 9/6)

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Venture Financing

ID.me hit a $2 billion valuation after raising $340 million to expand its digital identity wallet service that helps users securely prove their identity online and combat AI-enabled fraud.
Lead Bank hit a $1.47 billion valuation by closing a $70 million Series B round while serving fintechs and digital-asset companies as an industry-leading bank partner.
Kapital doubled its valuation to $1.3 billion, becoming Latin America’s first AI unicorn by leveraging its fintech platform that uses AI to power its financial services.
Allocate raised $30.5 million in Series B to enhance its modular, AI-powered operating system for private-market investing used by wealth advisors, family offices, and institutions.
ModernFi strengthened its role as foundational infrastructure for the U.S. banking system by raising $30 million in a Series B, empowering banks and credit unions with on-demand deposit management tools.
Reggora secured $18 million from to launch a 24-hour appraisal solution, accelerating and modernizing residential real estate valuation for mortgage lenders.
Dispatch raised $18 million in Series A to deliver data orchestration software that enabled financial advisory firms to connect and streamline client data across systems.
TransBnk secured $25 million in Series B funding (including $4 million in secondary) to scale its API-driven banking infrastructure platform that streamlines corporate banking transactions and reconciliation for businesses.
Utila closed a $22 million Series A extension—bringing its total A funding to $40 million and tripling its valuation—to expand its digital asset operations platform that powers stablecoin infrastructure for enterprises.
Kite received $18 million in Series A funding from PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst (bringing cumulative funding to $33 million) to build agentic-web infrastructure—including identity, governance, and programmable payments—to enable AI agents to transact autonomously.
Flex raised $15 million in Series A financing to help online retailers accept HSA and FSA payments at checkout—unlocking pre-tax healthcare funds and improving conversion and sales for merchants.
Treasury B.V. secured $14.7 million (€12.6 million) in private funding to build Europe’s largest publicly traded bitcoin treasury company focused on accumulating and holding bitcoin as its primary asset.
Pave Finance raised $14 million in seed funding to launch its AI-powered, institutional-grade wealth management software that helps advisors personalize and automate portfolio construction.
Tangany closed a €10 million Series A to scale its BaFin-regulated digital-asset custody infrastructure across Europe ahead of MiCA rollout, already holding over €3 billion in assets across 700,000+ accounts.
Obita raised $10 million in an angel round to further develop its Hong Kong–based stablecoin-powered cross-border payments infrastructure for enterprise clients.
Kite secured $18 million in PayPal Ventures–led funding to advance its trust infrastructure for AI-driven autonomous payments, bringing its total funding to $33 million.
Advisor.com raised $9 million in a seed round to expand its online marketplace that connects consumers with financial advisers, particularly those underserved by traditional channels.
Plural closed a $7 million (oversubscribed $7.13 million) seed round —bringing total funding to nearly $10 million—to scale its tokenized asset-management platform that transforms distributed energy infrastructure (like solar, batteries, and data centers) into structured, investable digital assets.
MEGA raised $2 million in a pre-seed round to expand its AI-voice-agent platform for order-to-cash management—designed to automate compliance-heavy customer interactions across Europe.
Spinwheel received strategic growth investment from Citi to accelerate its agentic AI–powered credit data and payments platform—rewiring how real-time credit information integrates into payments infrastructure for consumer finance.
Q6 Cyber received strategic growth investment to enable the threat intelligence provider to accelerate its product development, expand geographically, and pursue acquisitions to strengthen its capabilities in preventing fraud and financial crime.
Revolut is prepping a secondary share sale at a $75 billion valuation—up from $45 billion—by pricing shares at $1,381.06, offering early liquidity to employees.