Hello Fintech Friends,

We were excited to announce our investment in WiseLayer* this week, who raised $7.2 million from us, Canaan, Unpopular, and K5. WiseLayer makes task-specific AI workers that automate time-consuming tasks for finance & accounting teams for 100+ firms, including mid-sized & public companies.

And if you missed it, we published Vol. 2 of our new stablecoin newsletter:

Please find another week of fintech financing events below.

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📊 Stat of the Week

5 years after launching its first product in Mexico, Nubank announced that it reached 10 million customers in the country, doubling its userbase over the past 12 months.

💸 Venture Financing

  • Leap, an Indian lender to students studying abroad, raised $65 million in funding.

  • Swan, a European banking-as-a-service provider with customers like Pennylane and Indy, extended its Series B with an additional $42 million.

  • Finoutraised a $40 million Series C round for its cloud cost management service.

  • Closinglock, a fraud prevention technology provider for the real estate industry, raised a $34 million Series B.

  • iplicit, a UK cloud accounting software platform, raised £25 million.

  • Formanceraised a $21 million Series A to develop fintech ledgering infrastructure. The startup is also working on a mass payout product for marketplaces and other companies that need to issue payments.

  • OneVestsecured $20 million in a Series B funding to revolutionize wealth management.

  • Token Security, which develops non-human identity security solutions, raised $20 million in Series A funding.

  • Humanity Protocolraised $20 million at a valuation of $1.1 billion to build a 'proof of personhood' decentralized digital identity product.

  • Anchor, an autonomous billing & collections platform, announced its $20 million Series A.

  • Neospace, a Brazilian startup building internal-use AI for banks, raised $18 million from backers including Itau Bank.

  • Signreceived a $16 million investment from Binance founder CZ for its token airdrop service.

  • Zaion, a French provider of conversational AI for banking chatbots, secured €11 million.

  • SignalPlus, a a Singapore-based provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, closed an $11 million Series B funding round.

  • 129Knots, a Singapore-based scalable liquidity provider, secured $10 million to address a $25 trillion trade gap.

  • Pod raised $10 million to build a ‘consensusless’ Layer 1 network aiming for faster transaction speeds.

  • Furaha, a purpose-driven lending platform, received a $10 million investment.

  • Cedar Moneyraised $9.9 million in a seed round to enable cross-border stablecoin payments.

  • Crowded, a startup that aids nonprofits in financial management, raised $7.5 million.

  • Ambak, an Indian fintech marketplace for home finance, secured $7 million in pre-series A funding.

  • WiseLayer*raised $7 million to develop AI finance agents.

  • Foyerunlocked $6.2 million to assist individuals in saving for home purchases.

  • Swoop, a global funding and savings platform that connects businesses with loans, grants, equity funding and savings opportunities, raised $6 million.

  • Bags, a capital provider to small businesses, raised $5 million.

  • Bizloan, a Bengaluru-based lending tech startup, raised a $4.22 million Series A.

  • Cauridorraised $3.5 million in seed funding to tackle cross-border payment issues in Francophone Africa.

  • Yavrioraised $2.4 million in seed funding for its open banking fintech solutions.

  • Kodesage, an AI startup for modernizing legacy banking systems, raised €2.3 million in pre-seed funding.

  • Wyzr, an AI CFO product for small businesses, won £400,000 from NatWest's Dragons Den.

  • NatWest also invested in Serene, an AI startup dedicated to tackling financial vulnerability.

  • RiskExec, a compliance reporting and analytics platform that helps lenders meet evolving regulatory requirements, announced a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners.

  • Leverest, a German debt marketplace, raised an undisclosed amount of funding from investors.

💵 Debt Financing

  • Forus, a Saudi debt crowdlending platforms specializing in working capital solutions for SMBs, secured a $60 million debt facility.

  • Sokin, a UK platfrom to transfer, hold and exchange over 100 currencies with its multi-currency IBAN, received $15 million in debt financing.

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