Grasp, the Swedish AI startup automating investment banking and management consulting work using multi-agent systems, today announces it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investor Yanno Capital. Grasp also announces the opening of its first international office in London, in line with increasing worldwide demand for its product. The company currently employs 25 people in Stockholm and London.

Zempler, a digital bank serving start-ups and microbusinesses, has today announced a new partnership with iwoca, one of Europe’s leading SME lenders, to expand its SME offering and make business lending more accessible.

Wealth management platform Stratiphy has launched its latest crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has participated in a club loan to specialist care provider, Kisimul Group.

Velents.ai, a rising startup specializing in enterprise AI solutions, has closed a $1.5 million funding round as it unveils Agent.sa, the first fully integrated Arabic-speaking AI employee designed for companies across the Middle East.

Natural, a fintech company building the infrastructure powering agentic payments, announced its emergence from stealth driven by a $9.8 million seed round

Clerq announced that it has secured $21 million in capital to power the future of payments

Grasshopper, the client-first, full service digital bank, today announced several key lending developments, including the rollout of its Innovator Term Loan, a new unsecured loan offering built to power growth for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the innovation economy. The launch of the term loan reflects Grasshopper’s commitment to helping entrepreneurs scale, combining speed, flexibility and transparency in a digital experience.

Paygentic, which provides an all-in-one billing and payments platform purpose-built for AI-native and agent-driven products, has successfully completed a $2M pre-seed round

The Personal Investment Management & Financial Advice Association (PIMFA), the trade association representing wealth managers and financial advisers across the UK, has called on the Government to prioritise stability, fairness and long-term planning in its forthcoming Autumn Budget.

Previsico has closed its Series A funding stage enabling accelerated strategic development as it scales up with ongoing innovation

M2 Capital Limited, the proprietary investment arm of M2 Group, a UAE-headquartered conglomerate with a diversified portfolio in digital asset solutions, has announced a $21 million strategic investment in the Nasdaq-listed AVAX One Digital Asset Treasury (DAT), which is focused on AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche ecosystem. This investment reflects M2 Capital’s long-term strategy to bridge global blockchain innovation with the growing appetite for compliant digital assets in the MENA region.

Moniepoint announces it has raised over US$200 million in equity financing in a recently closed Series C funding round

Bizcap, together with its US affiliate NewCo Capital Group, is proud to announce that it has acquired 8fig and that it has become part of the Bizcap Group, marking a major step in the fintech company’s global expansion and leadership in technology-led business funding.