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Ant International led this week’s venture financing with a $1.2 billion Series A, while Augustus raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation and Lumin Digital secured more than $115 million. Fina landed a $75 million credit facility, and Tau Ventures launched its third seed-stage applied AI fund.
Meanwhile, Parafin secured a $300 million forward-flow agreement with a New York-based alternative asset manager to expand funding for small-business loans originated through its embedded finance platform
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Stat of the Week
Bank impersonation scams identified by 14 large U.S. banks increased 150% in 2025, averaging 26,196 scams per bank, according to a Bank Policy Institute survey released this week.
Venture Financing
Singapore-based payments and financial technology provider Ant International raised approximately $1.2 billion in Series A funding to expand its cross-border payments and agentic-commerce products.
Global clearing bank Augustus raised $180 million in Series B funding at a $1 billion valuation to give international banks and fintechs direct access to U.S. dollar accounts and payment rails.
Digital banking technology provider Lumin Digital raised more than $115 million in fresh capital at a $1.6 billion valuation to expand its AI, payments, lending and customer-management products for financial institutions.
Venezuelan buy now, pay later provider Cashea raised $100 million to expand access to consumer and merchant credit across Venezuela.
Specialty insurance brokerage platform American Growth Insurance launched with nearly $70 million in committed equity funding to acquire and support independent insurance agencies.
Digital identity project World Foundation raised $52.5 million through a locked WLD token sale to expand its proof-of-human technology for enterprises and AI agents.
Indian wealth and asset management platform Veriqus raised ₹3.87 billion ($40 million) to build an integrated offering for wealthy individuals, family offices and institutional investors.
Indian banking technology provider BusinessNext raised $40 million in Series C funding from ServiceNow at a $700 million valuation to expand its autonomous-banking and private-AI products.
Payments infrastructure startup Natural raised $30 million in Series A funding to build technology that lets AI agents hold, receive and move money autonomously.
Stablecoin infrastructure startup Cyclops raised $20 million in Series A funding to help payments companies offer crypto acceptance and stablecoin settlement.
Brazilian legal technology and embedded-finance platform Jusfy raised $15 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered operating system for lawyers across Latin America.
Gaming commerce infrastructure provider Neon raised $13 million in Series A funding to expand its payments, webstore and loyalty technology for game publishers.
Real estate technology startup Uniti raised $12 million in Series A funding to expand AI agents that automate leasing, maintenance and collections for property operators.
Online brokerage startup Epic Markets raised $10 million in pre-seed funding to build an institutional-grade multi-asset trading platform for retail investors.
Canton Network developer Digital Asset added $10 million to its latest funding round, increasing the round’s total to $365 million.
Financial infrastructure startup Cordant raised $8 million in seed funding to build a real-time operations platform for banks, fintechs and payments companies.
Agentic-AI insurance startup Klaimee raised $5.5 million to develop insurance coverage for risks created by autonomous AI agents.
AI-powered finance platform Cashboard raised $5 million in seed funding to help CFOs analyze financial data from multiple business systems.
Decentralized AI infrastructure provider DGrid AI raised $5 million in seed funding to expand its unified gateway for accessing and paying for AI models.
AI infrastructure and blockchain platform Alphea raised $5 million in strategic funding to support autonomous agents with computing, storage and machine-to-machine payments.
Commercial insurance platform Coverwatch raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered risk assessment and coverage-management technology.
London-based Brazilian fintech Zeom raised £2.7 million ($3.6 million) in pre-seed funding to launch its global account and investment platform in Brazil.
AI insurance startup Corgi raised an undisclosed Series B extension at a $4 billion valuation, its third fundraise since May.
Crypto compliance provider Notabene received an undisclosed strategic investment from Ripple to expand compliant institutional stablecoin payments.
Fixed-rate on-chain lending platform Tenor raised an undisclosed seed round to develop lending markets for asset managers and large borrowers.
Members Mobile CUSO secured an undisclosed strategic investment to expand its mobile-service and digital-banking platform for credit unions.
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Debt Financing
Saudi SME lender Fina secured a $75 million Shariah-compliant credit facility to expand financing for small businesses.
Banking infrastructure provider Mbanq received an undisclosed institutional investment through a loan participation note program designed to fund its lending and earned-wage access portfolios.
Venture Funds
Tau Ventures launched Fund III to invest $500,000 to $1 million in U.S.-focused seed-stage applied AI startups across digital health, enterprise sectors including fintech and cybersecurity, and physical AI.
