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Fintech companies secured more than $700 million in financing this week across equity rounds, credit facilities and mixed equity-and-debt deals.
Ingenico, a market leader in point-of-sale terminals, raised €150 million ($173.7 million) from a PIMCO-led investor group. AI accounting platform Rillet, led by former N26 U.S. CEO Nicolas Kopp, raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, while Indian fintech Navi completed its first institutional funding round, a $100 million investment from Prosus.
Debt also contributed heavily to the week’s total. Brazilian payroll lender Kesh secured R$550 million ($110 million) in equity and debt, AI-agent payments startup Natural confirmed a credit facility of up to $100 million, and Philippine consumer lender BillEase added a ₱1 billion ($16.2 million) facility from Philippine National Bank.
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Stat of the Week
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of online merchants are actively exploring or implementing technology to process agentic AI payments, and roughly half are already implementing it, per a Merchant Risk Council report developed with Visa Acceptance Solutions and Verifi.
Venture Financing
Ingenico, a France-based payment acceptance technology provider, secured €150 million ($173.7 million) from a PIMCO-led investor group to recapitalize the company and support product development.
Rillet, an AI-native accounting software provider, raised $100 million in a Series C led by ICONIQ, with participation from Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, at a $1 billion valuation.
India-based digital lending, insurance and payments platform Navi raised $100 million from Prosus in its first institutional funding round.
Centricity, an India-based provider of a digital wealth-management platform, raised ₹230 crore (approximately $24 million) in equity.
Baselayer, a NY-based provider of AI-powered business verification and KYB technology, raised $20 million in a Series A round.
Boom, a TX-based provider of screening and leasing software for rental-property operators, landed $15 million in a Series A round.
Rezolv, an India-based provider of AI-native lending and collections technology, closed a $12.5 million Series A round.
RockRose Risk, a CA-based wildfire-focused insurance brokerage and property-risk platform, secured $12.5 million in a Series A round.
New York-based AI investment-research platform Multiplier, formerly WithAI, raised $6 million in seed funding from Lux Capital, Y Combinator, Bridgewater executives and other investors.
Entertainment financial operations platform Quantizr raised $5 million in a seed round led by TTV Capital, with participation from several music industry executives.
U.K.-based consumer lender Salad Finance secured £4.3 million ($5.9 million) through a series of retail-investor bond offerings on Ethex.
Sterling, a New Zealand-based provider of AI workflow automation for finance teams, raised NZ$3.8 million ($1.7 million).
Noggin HQ, a UK-based provider of cash-flow-based credit referencing technology, secured £2.3 million ($2.5 million) in an oversubscribed seed round.
aisot Technologies, a Switzerland-based provider of AI-powered portfolio intelligence for asset and wealth managers, raised CHF 2 million ($2.5 million) in a seed extension round.
Finley, a based provider of AI-driven financial insights for middle-market companies, raised $1.85 million in a pre-seed round led.
BLOX, a Malaysia-based issuer of the ringgit-backed MYRC stablecoin, completed a $1 million seed round led.
Memebook, a Solana-based social-media application, raised $1 million in a seed round from TOF Ventures.
VastAdvisor, a CA-based provider of AI-powered client-acquisition technology for wealth-management firms, closed a $1 million SAFE round.
VERO, a NY-based provider of multifamily screening, risk and leasing-decision technology, received an undisclosed investment.
Saturn Protocol, an on-chain structured-credit platform, secured an undisclosed strategic investment from Ondo Finance.
CGreen, an India-based provider of AI-powered loan-resolution and borrower-intelligence technology, received an undisclosed strategic investment from venture builder IndiFly.
Global payout orchestration platform PayQuicker received a strategic investment from Clearhaven Partners.
New York-based institutional DeFi infrastructure developer Blueprint Finance closed an undisclosed strategic round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX and others.
UAE-based B2B payments orchestration platform XSquare closed an undisclosed pre-seed round.
Debt Financing
Natural, a CA-based provider of payments infrastructure for AI agents, secured a credit facility of up to $100 million.
Kesh, a Brazil-based payroll-linked lending and employee benefits platform, raised R$550 million ($110 million) in equity and debt.
Philippines-based consumer lender Billease secured a ₱1 billion ($16.2 million) credit facility from Philippine National Bank, backed by its consumer-loan receivables.
Centricity, an India-based provider of a digital wealth-management platform, secured ₹50 crore (approximately $5.2 million) in venture debt.
Venture Funds
Brazil’s Pátria Investments closed its fourth venture capital fund of R$550 million (approximately $105.4 million) with a focus on Latin American technology companies.
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