Stripe tenders an offer at $65B (TWIF 3/2)

Avail, a modular blockchain project aiming to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27 million seed.

Helcim, a payments provider that charges the cost of interchange plus an 8 cent margin, raised a $20 million in Series B.

Backpack, a crypto exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, raised a $17 million Series A.

Qapita, a Singaporean equity management provider, raised a $17.2 million pre-Series B.

Embat, a Spanish treasury management platform, raised a €14.7 million Series A.

Slice, an Israeli equity management platform, raised $7 million in seed funding.

Superfluid, an Ethereum-based platform to provide real-time crypto transfers, raised $5.1 million.

NayaOne, a Sandbox-as-a-Service platform that helps to match financial institutions with fintechs, raised $4.7 million.

MoneyHash, an Egyptian payments orchestration platform built for MENA businesses, raised $4.5 million.

ProCredit, a Filipino small business lending platform, raised a $4.1 million pre-seed.

Campfire, a provider of accounting software for startups and midsize companies, raised a $3.5 million seed round.

Bfree, a Nigerian startup enabling lenders to recover debt ethically, raised $3 million.

Singularity, a startup developing a protocol to provide institutions with compliant and confidential access to DeFi, raised $2.2 million.

Reset, an employer-agnostic earned wage access platform, raised a $2.3 million seed.

BlueBean, an all-in-one procure to pay solution, raised $1.3 million.

United Fintech, an umbrella outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets, wealth management and wholesale banking vendors, raised funding from Citi and BNP Paribas.

Payment facilitator Stripestruck a tender offer deal to provide its employees liquidity at a $65 billion valuation, down from its $95 billion venture round but up from its last round at $50 billion.

The Financial Times launched its own £30 million venture fund.