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Imprint led this week’s funding activity with $2 billion in new debt capacity for its co-branded credit card platform. A regulatory filing also showed that prediction-market operator Kalshi raised roughly $1.12 billion since April, likely including its previously announced $1 billion Series F.
Among the week’s biggest equity raises, identity-verification provider Socure secured $156 million and acquired Fravity, while RQD*Clearing raised $74 million and stablecoin neobank Fasset added $68 million.
Meanwhile, Blackbird Ventures closed a A$1.05 billion ($740 million) fund and FGV Capital raised $35 million for early-stage fintech, financial-access and AI startups.
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Stat of the Week
Cash is proving resilient: it’s still the euro area’s most widely accepted payment method, accepted by 92% of businesses with physical locations, even as mobile-payment acceptance nearly doubled from 36% in 2024 to 68% in 2026, according to the European Central Bank.
Venture Financing
Kalshi, a New York-based prediction-market operator, reported raising roughly $1.12 billion since April, including its previously announced $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.
Socure, a provider of identity-verification and fraud-prevention technology, raised $156 million and acquired identity-orchestration platform Fravity.
RQD*Clearing, a New York-based provider of clearing and custody infrastructure, secured $74 million in a minority growth investment led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities.
Fasset, a UAE-based stablecoin neobanking platform, raised $68 million in a Series C.
Helcim, a Calgary-based payments and commerce platform for small and midsize businesses, raised C$53 million ($38.3 million) in a Series C led by BDC Capital.
PayRewards, a Dallas-based rewards platform for small-business payments, raised $28 million in a Series E.
Digs, a Washington-based provider of AI software and digital twins for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in a Series A.
Standard Metrics, a San Francisco-based portfolio-management platform for venture capital and private-equity firms, raised $20 million in a Series B.
Nexedge Capital, an India-based wealth-management and multifamily-office firm, raised $20 million in its first institutional funding round.
Hivemind Digital Group, an asset-management and tokenization infrastructure provider, raised $17 million in strategic funding.
NeoSoul, a provider of autonomous AI agents for on-chain trading, raised $11 million in a pre-Series A.
Payload, a Cincinnati-based embedded-payments infrastructure provider, raised $9 million in a Series A led by Fifth Third Bank.
Beldex, a Seychelles-based privacy-focused blockchain infrastructure provider, raised $8 million in an undisclosed round.
Neno, an Amsterdam-based provider of AI-native financial-management and bookkeeping software, raised €6.6 million ($7.7 million) in a seed round.
Pluggy, a Brazil-based open-finance infrastructure provider, raised $3.5 million in a Series A.
Oro, a UAE-based provider of an AI-powered conversational interface for executing DeFi and crypto transactions, raised $3 million in a strategic round.
Itoflow, a UK-based provider of an AI-native systematic portfolio-management platform, raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round.
Twyne, a DeFi lending and credit-delegation protocol developer, raised $2.5 million in seed funding.
Solace Care, a Sweden-based digital platform for legacy planning and post-loss administration, raised €2.1 million ($2.4 million) in a pre-seed round.
Botanika, a developer of a Solana-based decentralized physical infrastructure network, raised $1.5 million.
ClearPath AI, a UK-based provider of AI-native software for mortgage, property and legal transactions, raised £1 million ($1.36 million) in a pre-seed round.
Pago ASAP, a cross-border payments platform for money transfers, raised $1.15 million in a seed round.
Investly, a Poland-based digital-asset investment platform, raised $1 .1 million in a pre-seed round.
Fina, a Venezuela-based provider of AI-powered financial-management software for small businesses, raised $1 million in a seed round.
Pouchers, a Nigeria-based stablecoin-powered multicurrency payments platform, raised $500,000 in a pre-seed round.
FinTax, a provider of crypto accounting, tax and financial infrastructure, raised an undisclosed seed round.
Debt Financing
Venture Funds
Australia’s Blackbird Ventures closed its sixth fund valued at A$1.05 billion ($740 million) following investments in fintechs Airwallex and CoinJar.
Ventures Platform closed its oversubscribed $84 million Pan-African Fund II to back pre-seed through Series A startups across fintech, healthcare, SaaS and AI, with checks of up to $3 million.
Fiat Ventures rebranded as FGV Capital and closed an oversubscribed $35 million Fund II, above its $25 million target, to back early-stage fintech, financial-access and AI startups.
