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This is a guest post by Daniel Liechtenstein, Co-Founder & CEO @ Hypercore. Private credit has grown into a $2+ trillion asset class. The capital is there. The deals are there. What hasn't kept pace is how firms actually run their operations once the money is deployed. That gap is becoming harder to ignore. The Hidden Operational Problem. Most private credit firms run loan servicing through a combination of spreadsheets, legacy systems, and manual workflows. Payment waterfall

spektr , building AI agents that handle the manual work behind compliance, led by Mikkel Skarnager , Ciprian Florescu , Jan-Erik Wagner , and Jeremy Joly , has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by NEA , with continued participation from Northzone , Seedcamp , and PreSeed Ventures . The new capital will go toward expanding our AI platform and accelerating adoption across financial institutions globally. The Problem Being Solved Compliance teams at banks and finan

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,

ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU  and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures .  For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima

Bretton AI , helping the $30T financial services market move faster while protecting against financial crimes that fund terrorism, human trafficking, and other serious threats, led by Will Lawrence and the team, has raised  a $75M Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures , with continued investment from all existing institutional investors, including Greylock , Y Combinator , Thomson Reuters Ventures , and Canvas Ventures, and new investor TIAA Ventures . The company u

Sapiom , giving AI agents trusted access to the API economy, led by Ilan Zerbib, has raised  a $15.75M Seed round, led by Accel , with participation from Gradient , Array Ventures , Okta Ventures , Menlo Ventures , Anthropic , Coinbase Ventures , Formus Capital , and Operator Collective . For two decades, the internet economy has been built for humans; interfaces, authentication, payments, and risk models all assume a person is present to sign up, manage access, and approve s

Bound , making managing currency risk simple, transparent, and predictable, led by Seth Phillips, Dan Kindler, Marita Cavalcanti, and Gerard Hurley, has secured  $24.5M in Series A funding, led by AlbionVC . Existing investor Notion Capital and other investors, including Album VC , Moonfire , GoHub Ventures , and others, participated in the round. The platform enables businesses to automate FX hedging, protect margins, and manage international cash flow with minimal effort. C

Axiology , simplifying access to digital fixed-income instruments by providing infrastructure that connects businesses and retail investors, led by Marius Jurgilas , Andrius Košuba , Andrius Mamontovas , and Algirdas Neciunskas , has raised €5 Million in seed funding led by Exponential Science, e2vc , and Coinvest Capital . It was joined by new investors TIBAS Ventures  and Plug and Play . The seed round is also supported by the previous round investors like  BSV Ventures , N

Artificial Labs , building the foundations of modern specialty (re)insurance, led by Martin Reith, David King, Johnny Bridges, Artur Kisiolek, and Ed Howkins, has raised  $45 million Series B funding round led by CommerzVentures , a leading European Fintech investor, with support from Move Capital  Fund I, a leading European B2B Tech investor, and continued backing from existing investors, including Augmentum Fintech , 6 Degrees Capital , FOM, and TrueSight Ventures . “This r

Taxnova , giving finance and engineering teams a faster, safer, and more controlled way to claim what they’re entitled to, led by George Nichkov and Maria Malykh, has raised  $1 million in pre-seed funding from a16z speedrun , s16vc , Karaoke Club , and 20 operators from tech companies. R&D tax relief lowers tax bills or provides cash for qualifying innovation. In 2023–24, UK companies claimed £7.6B, while the US federal government issues $32B annually, with 30+ states offeri

Bits Technology , the growth engine for the entire compliance lifecycle, led by Fredrik Eriksson, Jonatan Klintberg, Robin Lantz, and others, has raised  €12 million in Series A funding led by Alstin Capital , with participation from Cherry Ventures , Unusual Ventures , and Alliance Ventures . Haval van Drumpt, Chief Executive of Tre Sweden, also invested. The round will fast-track product development and European expansion, helping regulated businesses enter new markets more

Rogo , the AI-platform purpose-built for finance, led by Gabriel Stengel, John Willett, and Tumas Rackaitis, has raised  a $75 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital , with participation from Henry Kravis and Wells Fargo , and continued support from previous investors Thrive Capital , Khosla Ventures , Tiger Global , and J.P. Morgan , bringing the total funding to more than $165 million. The funding will be deployed to scale the world’s first fully agentic end-to-end AI plat

Slice , making it easy and safe for finance, legal, and HR teams to manage equity globally, led by Maor Levran , Yoel Amir , and Samuel Amar , has raised  $25M in Series A funding, led by  Insight Partners , with continued support from  TLV Partners , R-Squared Ventures , and Jibe Ventures . The funding represents a key milestone for Slice and signals a broader shift in how modern companies approach equity management, compliance, and global scale. Equity operations have not k

Concourse , AI agents for corporate finance teams, led by Matthieu Hafemeister and Ted Michaels, has raised  a $12M Series A led by Standard Capital , with participation from Andreessen Horowitz , CRV , Y Combinator , SV Angel , FOG Ventures , and Ritual Capital ; CFOs from companies like Cursor, Vercel, and Carta, 1Password; and executives at OpenAI, Brex, Mercury, Color, and more. A year after emerging from stealth, Concourse AI agents are deployed at Fortune 500 companies,

Zocks , the AI assistant for financial advisors, led by Mark Gilbert and Ákos Ratku, has secured  $45 million in Series B funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners  and QED Investors , along with participation from Illuminate Financial and all existing investors, including Motive Partners , Expanse Venture Partners , Entrée Capital , and 14Peaks Capital . The round brings total funding for Zocks to $65 million, and follows its $13.8 million Series A in March 2025. With ne

Mysa , building the future of  Finance & Banking, led by Arpita Kapoor, Mohit Rangaraju, Ashutosh Panigrahi, and Mohit Jain, has secured  $3.4 million in Pre-Series A funding co-led by  Blume Ventures  and  Piper Serica , with participation from new investors Ikemori Ventures, Raise Financial Services , QED Innovation Labs, and existing investors Antler , IIM A Ventures  & Neon Fund .  Mysa helps regulated, multi-entity organizations manage auditability and payment controls a

Juspay , the global payments operating system, led by Vimal Kumar, Sheetal Lalwani, Ramanathan RV, Magizhan Selvan, and others, has raised  $50 million in a Series D follow-on round from WestBridge Capital . The transaction is a mix of Primary and Secondary investments, which values Juspay at $1.2 billion.   The secondary component provides liquidity to early investors and employees holding ESOPs, the second such opportunity Juspay has enabled within a year. Juspay has contin

Sinpex , the AI-powered platform for KYB / KYC lifecycle management, led by Dr. Camillo Werdich, Dr. Philipp Eska , Werner Krahe , and others, has secured a €10 million Series A financing round led by BlackFin Capital Partners , Europe’s largest financial services investor, with strong participation from existing investors ACE Ventures  and TX Ventures .  The new capital will accelerate growth, solidify Sinpex’s leadership in KYB automation in Europe, and support expansion in

Bluecopa , the unified finance operations management platform, led by Satya Prakash, Nilotpal Chanda, and Raghavendra Reddy, has secured  $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Singapore-based Analog Partners , with participation from existing investors Blume Ventures  and Dallas Venture Capital , bringing the total funding to $11.6 million. “This funding fast-tracks our vision of autonomous finance, where routine processes run themselves, and teams focus on strategy

Rain , the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, led by Farooq Malik and Charles Naut, has secured  a $250 million Series C funding round led by ICONIQ , with participation from Sapphire Ventures , Dragonfly , Bessemer Venture Partners , Galaxy Ventures , FirstMark , Lightspeed , Norwest , and Endeavor Catalyst , bringing the total funding to $338 million and valuing the company at $1.95 Billion. Stablecoins have shifted from a speculative niche to

PowerUp Money , India's trusted Mutual Fund Advisory App, led by Prateek Jindal, Harshil Sharma, Navdha Khera, Mridul Mimansa, Gaurav Singh, and Arush Kapoor, has secured  $12 million in a Series A round led by Peak XV , with support from existing backers Accel , Blume Ventures , Kae Capital , 8i Ventures , and DeVC . India today has nearly 60 million mutual fund investors, with SIP participation at an all-time high. Yet many working professionals struggle to make prudent fin

Nodu , a compliant platform bridging fiat and stablecoin payments, led by Alex Novozhenov , Vladislav Nikolayev , and  Daria Dubinina ,   has closed a $1.45 million pre-seed round led by  Digital Space Ventures . Nodu provides banks, fintechs, and businesses with a ready-to-use global compliance and payments framework for stablecoins, enabling services to be launched without the need to build internal infrastructure. The platform enables sending, receiving, and holding stable

Cache , building the best brokerage to manage your large stock positions, led by Srikanth Narayan  and others, has crossed $1 billion in total platform assets. For more than fifty years, exchange funds have operated largely out of the spotlight, addressing a specific need for a narrow group of investors, primarily ultra-wealthy families with private banking relationships. While the structure proved effective, the overall experience saw little innovation. High minimums, elevat

Finny , the organic growth engine for financial advisors, led by Eden Ovadia, Victoria Toli, and Theodore Janson, has secured $17 million in Series A funding led by Venrock , with participation from Activant , Altruist’s Jason Wenk, and continued support from Y Combinator , Maple VC, and Crossbeam Ventures . Nick Beim from Venrock and Bill McNabb, the former Chairman and CEO of Vanguard, will join the Board. Financial advisors play a critical role in helping Americans navigat

Flex , empowering business owners with a new approach to finance, led by Zaid Rahman, Hadi Solh, Robbie Figueroa, Vishal Saxena, David Toro, Luciano Arango, and others, has secured  $60 million in Series B equity funding, led by  Portage , and additional participation from  Titanium Ventures ,  Wellington ,  Crosslink Capital , Companyon Ventures ,  Spice Expedition ,  Florida Funders ,  FirstLook Partners ,  MS&AD Ventures ,  Restive  and others, bringing the company's total

CoinMENA , Headquartered in the Kingdom of Bahrain and licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) as a crypto asset service provider (category-3), led by Talal Tabbaa, Dina Sam'an, and Yazan Barghuthi, has officially joined  forces with Paribu , Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform and one of the few to receive authorization from the Turkish Capital Markets Board (CMB), in a transaction valued at up to USD 240 million. This strategic acquisition unites two regional lea

Bitstack , helping users invest and save in bitcoin, led by Kabir Sethi & Alexandre Roubaud, has secured  a $15 million Series A funding round led by 13books Capital  and including existing investors AG2R LA MONDIALE, Plug and Play Ventures , Serena, Stillmark , and Y Combinator . Eurozone prices have climbed 23.4% since 2020, eroding purchasing power, according to the ECB. With its capped supply of 21 million, Bitcoin is gaining traction; nearly 4 million people in France no

Sokin , streamlining cross-border accounts payable, receivable, and treasury operations, led by Vroon Modgill, Gaurav Modgill, Tom Steer, and Malcolm Leach, has secured $50 million in Series B funding led by Prysm Capital  (“Prysm”) and joined by Watershed Ventures , with continued participation from investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Aurum Partners, Gary Marino, former Chief Commercial Officer at PayPal and Mark Britto, former Chief Product Officer

Nevis , the first unified AI platform built for wealth management, led by Mark Swan, Philipp Burda, and Ivan Chalov, has secured  $35 million in Series A from Sequoia Capital , ICONIQ , and Ribbit Capital , bringing the total funding to $40 million in under a year. Nevis enables advisors to complete operational work end to end, covering meeting preparation, client follow-ups, account openings, and ongoing service. The goal is straightforward: remove administrative burden so a

BKN301 , a fintech architecture provider, led by Stiven Muccioli, Federico Zambelli Hosmer, and Luca Bertozzi, has secured a credit facility from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, and acquired  Planky , a UK-based tech company specialized in AI-driven financial analytics and open banking. The credit facility goes alongside its latest Series B round, taking the total amount raised to €33 million. The new financing will accelerate BKN301’s roadmap, supporting the expansi

Arrived , helping you build wealth through modern real estate investing, led by Alejandro Chouza, Kenny Cason, Ryan Frazier, Sue Korn, and others, has raised  $27 million in new funding, led by Neo  and supported by Forerunner Ventures , Bezos Expeditions , Core , and others. The company has officially launched the Arrived Secondary Market, a first-of-its-kind platform that allows investors to buy and sell shares of individual rental homes across the U.S. with just a few clic