Startale Group today announced the second close of its Series A round, securing $50 million from SBI Group, Inc. ("SBI Group"). Combined with the first close of $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund announced in January 2026, Startale has completed a $63 million Series A round.

Payy Network, the only stablecoin blockchain where transactions are private by default, announced today it has raised $6 million in a seed round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto. The new funding will support continued product development, team expansion and growth as Payy scales its privacy-preserving infrastructure for institutional stablecoin payments.

ING and UniCredit have structured a €375 million mini-perm project financing for Retelit Datacentre, the data centre arm of leading Italian telecommunications and ICT operator Retelit.

Allegro Finance Limited (“Allegro”), an alternative lending platform for the media sector, today announced a strategic joint venture and senior funding line with entities advised by Elliott Advisors UK Limited (“Elliott”), a leading global investment manager. The partnership establishes a new institutional-scale credit platform for the global film and television industry.

littlefish, the merchant operating system powering the relationships between Africa's biggest banks and the merchant class, announced the close of a $9.5 million Series A

Eunice, the London-based company building institutional-grade due diligence AI infrastructure for regulated markets, raised $8 million in seed and pre-seed funding

London based, FCA regulated travel fintech Vuelo, (https://getvuelo.com) has raised £56 million in seed funding to expand its AI-native travel booking platform, enabling customers to discover, book, finance, and plan through a single intelligent experience.

Apis Partners Group (UK) Limited (“Apis”), a global private equity firm specialising in financial infrastructure and technology, today announced that cumulative portfolio realisations across funds managed by the firm surpassed US$1 billion during Q1 of this year. Achieving this milestone in a challenging exit environment underscores the strength of Apis' approach to portfolio construction and its track record on exits.

Talino, the award-winning fintech foundry, announced the successful closing of its $7.5 million Series A funding round

Obin AI, an enterprise AI company building an agentic workforce for financial institutions, announced it has raised $7 million in seed funding

Theo, a tokenization platform built by former traders from Optiver and IMC, today announced the successful close of its Genesis Vault, raising over $100 million within 24 hours. The capital will back thUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin powered by thGOLD – Theo's tokenized gold product backed by the world's deepest and most liquid commodity market.

SuperSeed Fund III has secured a cornerstone commitment of up to £50 million from the British Business Bank to invest in B2B AI and SaaS startups. The Bank has made its commitment through the Enterprise Capital Funds programme, with the fund also having the benefit of being accredited by the UK's National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF) as was SuperSeed’s prior fund.

TransFi Inc., a global payments infrastructure company on stablecoin rails,, focused on emerging markets, today announced the closing of a $19.2 million financing round, comprising $14.2 million in Series A equity and a $5 million committed liquidity facility.

Upvest today announces a $125 million financing round to accelerate the modernization of legacy banking systems across Europe and the UK