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Juno , the tax prep automation platform built by CPAs for tax professionals, led by Dave Hasse, has announced $12 million in seed funding led by  Bonfire Ventures , along with  Impression Ventures  and X Fund .  Juno automates tax return preparation, review, and advisory workflows, reducing time spent per return by up to 50% while keeping humans actively involved in the process. Tax preparation remains highly manual, while opaque AI tools introduce unacceptable risk in regula

Modus , the right partner for ambitious accounting firms, led by Arush Jain, Vinay Kasat, Pranav Pillai, and the team, has raised  $85 million in Seed & Series A funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners , with participation from Comma Capital  and Garry Tan. The capital will accelerate Modus’s technology development and support its strategy of investing in and partnering with audit-first accounting firms. Modus is building an AI-native accounting platform that combines pro

INXY , your bridge to crypto payments, led by Ruslan Zholik and the team, has raised $4 million in a new funding round led by Flashpoint Capital , following a $3 million raise  in 2025, bringing its total seed funding to $7 million. The capital will support product expansion, secure additional regulatory licences, and scale presence across key international markets. In 2026, demand for stablecoin payment infrastructure increased fivefold year-on-year, with active usage rising

Midas , the standard for onchain investment products, led by Dennis Dinkelmeyer, Fabrice Grinda, Romain Bourgois, and the team, has announced  a $50M Series A led by RRE and  Creandum , with participation from  Framework Ventures ,  HV Capital ,  Ledger Cathay ,  North Island Ventures ,  Coinbase Ventures ,  Franklin Templeton , GSR, and others across crypto-native, institutional, and venture capital. Alongside this, Midas is launching Midas Staked Liquidity (MSL), the core

Zalos , automating repetitive finance workflows, without having to change your finance systems, led by William Fairbairn and Hung Hoang, has raised a $3.6 million in seed led by 14 Peaks  with participation from Cohen Circle , 20VC , and notable angels. Finance teams rely on complex ERPs, yet still manage manual, repetitive work across disconnected systems. Zalos automates these workflows using computer agents, without requiring system replacement. Modern finance teams operat

Shepherd , smarter underwriting powered by data and technology, led by Justin Levine, Mo Mahallawy, and the team, has raised  a $42M Series B, led by Intact Private Capital , the venture arm of one of the world's largest commercial insurers, with continued participation from Spark Capital , Costanoa Ventures , and more, bringing the total funding to $67M. While much of the AI boom focuses on compute, models, and software, a critical challenge lies in insuring the physical inf

Spade , the data and AI platform for modern finance, led by Oban MacTavish , Tess Bloch , and the team, has raised  a $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT , with participation from Andreessen Horowitz , Flourish , Gradient , NAventures  (National Bank of Canada’s corporate venture arm), and Y Combinator . While transaction volumes have surged, the underlying data infrastructure has remained largely unchanged for decades, leaving key details incomplete or inaccurate due to misaligne

Finfinity , a bootstrapped digital lending marketplace, led by Pradeep Chauhan, Mohit Jain, Vijay Kadam, Saaurabh R Pradhaan, and the team, has USD 2.4 million in a seed funding round led by the Mankind Pharma Promoter’s Family Office. The round also saw participation from Vi-John Group, Sanjay Singhvi, Bavadeep Reddy, Malani Ventures Pvt Ltd (Sanjay Shah Family office), Gurshant Singh Bhatia, Sunny Bhatia, Upkaran Singh Chawla, Harbir Dhingra, and employees of the company. 

Cleavr , an AI-powered cash collection platform, led by Antoine Grenard , Baptiste Nassoy , and Arthur Guerin , has raised  a pre-seed funding of €1 million, alongside  Kima Ventures ,  Better Angle ,  Another VC ,  Aonia Ventures ,  Super Capital , and business angels from Pennylane, MyUnisoft, Convelio, and others. A persistent challenge 94% of French companies face late payments, forcing finance teams to spend hours on manual accounts receivable tasks. Despite advances in

Upvest , enabling businesses to build great investment experiences for their end users, seamless, secure, and across international borders, led by Martin Kassing, Tobias Auferoth, Dr. Til Rochow, and the team, has announced  a $125 million financing round to accelerate the modernization of legacy banking systems across Europe and the UK. The $90 million equity round is led by Sapphire Ventures  and Tencent , with strong backing from existing investors including Bessemer Ventu

Fuse , the AI-native loan origination and account opening platform trusted by more than 100 financial institutions, led by Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa, has announced  the Fuse Rescue Fund: a $5 million initiative to liberate credit unions from long-term contracts with legacy technology vendors. The company also announced that it has raised a $25 million in Series A led by Footwork , Primary Venture Partners , NextView Ventures , and Commerce Ventures . The first 50 qualifyi

KAST , the global money app powered by stablecoins, led by Raagulan Pathy, James Butland, Sam Kerrins, Reto Wolf, Sameera Nilupul, and Ryan Parsons, has raised  $80 million in Series A funding co-led by QED Investors  and Left Lane Capital  with participation from Peak XV Partners , HSG , and DST Global Partners . KAST’s Growth and Vision The latest funding fuels KAST’s next growth phase, supporting product expansion, licensing and compliance, and team growth. The stablecoin-

Orca Fraud , a real-time fraud intelligence platform, Thalia Pillay , Carla Wilby , and the team, has raised $2.35 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Norrsken22 , with participation from OneDayYes , Enza Capital , and CV VC Africa. The funding follows 16 months of rapid enterprise growth driven by increasing demand from banks, fintechs, telcos, and payment providers operating in complex, high-velocity payment environments. “Rarely do you see the mix of technical b

Silverflow , the cloud-native payment processing company, led by Anne Willem de Vries, Paul Buying, Robert Kraal, and the team, has raised   $40 million (€37 million) in a Series B funding round led by Picus Capital , with participation from Rabo Investments  - Corporate Venturing, and existing investors, Inkef , GPT, Crane , and Coatue . This European-led investment will strengthen the global expansion of Silverflow, accelerate development of its payment processing platform,

Rowspace , the best way for investors to scale their edge with AI, led by Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling, has announced  its launch with $50M in backing from Sequoia , Emergence , Stripe , Conviction, Basis Set , Twine, and angels from across finance. Top investors build an edge over the years through institutional knowledge, memos, models, committee notes, emails, deal histories, and trading data, which captures what worked, what didn’t, and why. At most firms, this knowledge

Basis , building the next era of accounting with agentic AI, led by Matt Harpe, Mitchell Troyanovsky, and the team, has raised  $100 million led by Accel  alongside GV  (Google Ventures). Basis was founded on the belief that AI agents will soon become central to knowledge work, with accounting emerging as one of the first and most critical domains. Structured, high-stakes, and essential to every business, accounting remains one of the most underbuilt areas in technology. Thre

Hypercore , the company on a mission to modernize loan administration, led by Daniel Liechtenstein, David Yahalomi, Tomer Moshe, and Eitan Frailich, has announced  $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. The investment will support the launch of Hypercore’s AI Admin Agent, introducing a new category of loan servicing that integrates established loan management technology with AI agents to provide end-to-end operational infrastructure for private credit fund

Stacks , helping reinvent the financial close, led by Albert Malikov  and the team, has raised  $23M Series A led by Lightspeed , with EQT Ventures , General Catalyst , and S16VC  doubling down. The round comes less than a year after Stacks’ $12 million seed financing led by General Catalyst, underscoring the company’s rapid traction and momentum. Finance is becoming the next major enterprise function to be rebuilt with AI, following multibillion-dollar transformations in cus

Unicity Labs , building Agentic marketplaces for machine-speed commerce, led by Mike Gault and the team, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal Al Kaleej , a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures , a leading Web3 early-stage investor. The funding aligns with the emergence of AI agents as economic participants, with the global agentic AI market projected to exceed $100 billion by 2032. Unici

Sphinx , the company building browser-native compliance agents for financial institutions, led by Alexandre Berkovic and Chrisjan Wust, has raised a $7.1 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures , with participation from Y Combinator , Rebel Fund , Deel Ventures, and Singularity Capital. Unlike traditional RegTech platforms, Sphinx does not require teams to adopt a new system. Its AI agents operate directly within existing tools, case management systems, third-party portals,