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💸 Venture Financing

• Zero Hash*, a crypto infrastructure provider powering stablecoin and tokenized asset operations, is closing a (reportedly) $100 million round to scale its platform, reaching close to a $1 billion valuation. (Disclosure, we're an investor.)
• Eton Solutions, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for family offices, secured $58 million to expand its technology platform and services.
• CertifID, a cybersecurity platform focused on preventing wire fraud in real estate, raised $47.5 million to enhance its fraud prevention tools.
• YetiPay, a payments startup offering a seamless checkout and payments platform, secured $35 million to accelerate product development and grow its market reach.
• Spiko, a treasury platform that helps European businesses earn yield on idle cash, secured $22 million in funding to expand its cash optimization tools.
• Heron, a startup helping traditional businesses adopt AI through user-friendly software tools, raised $16 million in Series A funding to bring modern AI capabilities to legacy industries.
• Bonus Homes, a home equity sharing startup that is building an alternative to home-selling, raised $15.5 million in seed funding.
• Murphy, a personal finance app for Gen Z, raised $15 million in pre-seed funding to launch its early product.
• Heka Global, a fraud detection and identity verification firm, secured $14 million to grow its financial crime prevention platform.
• Two, an Oslo-based B2B payments platform, nabbed $13 million to expand its operations in the U.S. market.
• Dakota, a crypto banking startup focused on global stablecoin infrastructure, raised $12.5 million to support international expansion.
• Ordio, a payroll automation platform based in Europe, secured €12 million to modernize payroll for SMEs across the continent.
• Retirable, a retirement savings platform, raised $10 million to enhance retirement planning technology.
• Function, a platform offering Bitcoin-based yield products, raised $10 million to launch its yield-generating Bitcoin investment tools.
• Covenant, an AI-powered legal platform for private markets, raised $4 million in seed funding to accelerate development.
• Juno, a business travel and spend management platform, raised $4 million in new funding to expand its specialized travel tech services.
• Mango, a construction-focused fintech streamlining subcontractor payments and cash flow, raised $3 million to help reduce financial friction in the building industry.
• Paypercut, a multi-provider BNPL infrastructure startup for emerging Europe, landed $2 million in pre-seed funding to build its payments hub.
• MoneyBadger, a South African Bitcoin savings startup, raised $400,000 to grow its user base and product offering.
• FundApps, a regulatory compliance automation platform for asset managers, announced a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital to accelerate product and global expansion.

💵 Debt Financing

• Recap, a crypto tax and accounting platform, landed a €125 million credit facility from HSBC to fuel its UK expansion.

🚦Is your fintech prepared for the next fraud attack?

Fraud is now an industry with well-structured criminal organizations and FaaS (fraud as a service) vendors.  

That’s why leading fintechs are rethinking their risk signals: the data points that help them distinguish fraudsters from legitimate users. 

Persona’s new guide to risk signals covers the fundamentals of a signals-based fraud strategy, and then some. Learn how to use risk signals to detect deepfakes, add context to fraud investigations, and improve automation during onboarding or account recovery.

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