Ualá hits $2.45bn valuation with $350m Series D round

Encompass Corporation, the global leader in Corporate Digital Identity solutions, announced details of a financing round led by BNP Paribas

Zelo, a leading digital financing platform, and Watermelon Ecosystem, the UAE's premier F&B platform, today announced a strategic partnership that will revolutionize cash flow management for food and beverage suppliers. The collaboration provides instant liquidity by financing invoices within 24-48 hours, eliminating the traditional 60–90-day payment wait times that constrain supplier growth.

Viamericas, a leading provider of remittance and international money transfer services, announced it has raised $113.6 million to accelerate expansion of its global remittance network and enhance digital payment platforms serving families across 95 countries.

Bite Investments, a top provider of technology solutions for the alternative investments sector, today announced that it has secured $25 million in strategic growth capital from NewSpring Growth, NewSpring Capital’s dedicated growth equity strategy investing in fast-growing, industry-transforming technology companies.

Love Finance, the UK’s fastest-growing SME lender and broker, has secured £45 million in its first debt financing arrangement, enabling the company to expand its loan book and support more UK SMEs with fast and flexible business loans. The funding package comprises a £35 million Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) from FTSE 250 specialist lender, Paragon Bank, and a £10 million junior Medium-Term Note (MTN) programme from LGB Capital Markets.

Finance leaders know they should be spending more time guiding business decisions, yet their teams spend most of their time shuffling data between systems and fixing spreadsheets. Maximor wants to change that. The company today announced a $9 million seed round to expand its finance automation platform — AI agents that plug into ERPs, payroll, billing, and bank systems to take on the repetitive accounting work and produce audit-ready outputs by default.