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Please find another week of fintech financing events below.

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Stat of the Week

The ACH Network reached new highs in 2025, as full year ACH Network volume totaled 35.2 billion payments, up nearly 5% over 2024. Business-to-business volume grew ~10% in 2025, with close to 8.1 billion B2B payments. Healthcare claim payments from insurers to medical and dental providers neared the 548 million mark, up 7.3% from a year earlier. These stats point to "businesses...turning their backs on checks."

Venture Financing

• Tether announced a $200 million strategic investment in Whop, the world's largest internet marketplace, to extend stablecoin infrastructure for millions of creators and users. 
• Allica Bank raised $155 million in Series D to enhance its digital business banking beyond the UK, at a $1.2 billion valuation. 
• Basis raised $100 million in Series B at a $1.15 billion valuation to expand its AI-powered accounting platform. 
• Jump raised $80 million in Series B to scale its AI platform for financial advisors. 
• Rowspace raised $50 million across seed and Series A to accelerate financial services firms' decision making based on their proprietary data. 
• Harper raised $47 million across seed and Series A to expand its AI-powered commercial insurance brokerage. 
• Stacks raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed to provide an agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting teams. 
• xFlow raised $16.6 million in Series A led to grow its cross-border payments infrastructure for SaaS companies, goods exporters and IT service exporters.
• Inscope raised $14.5 million in Series A to modernize financial reporting.
• Hypercore raised $13.5 million in Series A to accelerate rollout of its loan management platform for private credit funds. 
• Cicada raised $13.5 million to digitize Latin American bond markets.
• Secfix raised $12 million to automate European compliance for SMBs and mid-market businesses.
• NEWITY raised $11 million in strategic investment led by CMT Digital to scale its AI-driven lending infrastructure and to connect small business credit with blockchain-enabled capital markets.  
• Lupiya extended its Series A to $11.25 million to scale its AI-powered digital bank offering loans across Southern and East Africa.
• General Magic raised $7.2 million in seed to build an AI agent platform for the insurance industry. 
• Rhythmic raised $4 million in seed funding to enhance its stablecoin-powered rewards platform via brand partnerships. 
• Bluprynt raised $4.25 million in seed funding from Coinbase Ventures and Robinhood to streamline crypto compliance.
• Sherpas raised $3.2 million seed to power its AI-native infrastructure platform for wealth management firms. 
• Burst raised $3 million seed to unlock FSA and HSA spending for retailers and wellness brands.
• Finanjo raised ₹1.5 crore (~$178K) to deploy a full-stack personal finance platform built for young Indians. 
• Charikaty raised $150K to accelerate its formation and compliance platform across Morocco. 

Debt Financing

• Wayflyer raised a $250 million credit facility agreement to fund its suite of cash advances, term loans, and rolling financing products. 
• Yendo raised a $200 million facility from i80 Group to expand its vehicle-secured credit card that lets consumers use their car's value instead of credit scores. 
• Bravo raised a €200 million (~$236 million) credit facility to expand its debt settlement operations in Spain. 
• Thrive Financial upsized its facility to fuel growth of its point-of-sale financing of home improvement projects.

Venture Funds

• Robinhood launched a $1 billion closed-end fund IPO, giving retail investors access to pre-IPO companies. 

Other Transactions

• Revolut is considering a share sale in H2 2026, at a $100 billion valuation. 
• Plaid completed a tender offer at an $8 billion valuation, a 31% increase from $6.1 billion in April 2025, to provide employee liquidity.
• Stripe reached a $159 billion valuation in a tender offer for employees and shareholders.

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