Harrogate and London-based Grateful - the automated tip pooling and tronc platform - has raised £1.5 million ($2m) seed funding from Calculus Capital.

Tenora Financial Group Ltd, a platform empowering businesses to take control of foreign exchange (FX) risk, today closes a major initial funding round led by Macquarie Group. The significant institutional backing, raised through Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets group, will accelerate Tenora’s development of technology aimed at bringing transparency to an opaque market reliant on legacy systems and manual workflows.

HDFC Bank, India's leading private sector bank, today announced that it will provide seed funding to WalkAbout, a premier community platform for active agers. The investment will enable WalkAbout to enhance its community platform and scale its curated experiences for active agers.

Happy Money, a leading consumer finance company dedicated to empowering individuals through responsible lending, today unveiled upgraded capabilities to its proprietary lending platform, Hive, which powers its borrower and funding partner ecosystem. Since enhancing the platform, Happy Money has driven faster credit decisions, reduced borrower friction and increased monthly loan originations more than 400% year to date.

Falcon Finance, the next-generation synthetic dollar protocol, today announced a comprehensive $10 million strategic investment from M2 Capital Limited (M2 Capital), the proprietary investment arm of M2 Group (M2), which is a UAE-headquartered conglomerate with a diversified portfolio in digital asset solutions. The partnership marks a major milestone in Falcon’s mission to redefine stability and capital efficiency in decentralized finance.

Block Street, a startup building an execution and lending layer for tokenized equities, said it raised $11.5 million in strategic funding to deploy its intent/RFQ-based trading infrastructure on Monad and major EVM networks. The round was led by Hack VC with participation from Generative Venture, DWF Labs, StudioB, and Bridge34, alongside angels from fintech unicorns and operators at Jane Street, Point72 and HRT, according to the company.

In the last 18 months the VCT has reported four exits, including selling breast cancer scanner Endomag to US listed Hologic, fraud detection business Ravelin to Worldpay and retail investment platform Freetrade to IG Group. While the portfolio still contains a handful of legacy holdings, the vast majority of the VCT’s money is now in the high growth tech companies typical of Molten Ventures.

Agio Ratings, the premier source of risk insights in digital assets, has closed a $6 million funding round led by AlbionVC, bringing the total raised to over $11M. The round, which also saw participation from Portage Ventures and MS&AD, will enable Agio Ratings to expand its research and engineering teams, broadening the scope of its risk ratings and supporting major banks as they enter the digital asset market.

PEAK:AIO, the data infrastructure pioneer redefining AI-first data acceleration, today announced that the company has raised over $6.8M in Seed Round funding led by Pembroke VCT with a $5 million investment, with participation from Praetura Ventures, and also joined by a Silicon Valley investor. PEAK:AIO will use this funding to continue investing in AI to grow its groundbreaking solution for the data storage sector and further expand its global presence.

The Maven VCTs are also notable for the diversification they offer. Spread an investment across all four Maven VCTs and an investor will be invested in over 130 private and AIM quoted companies. A diverse portfolio helps ensure individual failures, inevitable when investing in small companies, don’t sink the whole VCT.

Baselane, the banking and financial platform purpose-built for real estate investors, today announced it has raised a total of $34.4 million in new funding, including a recently closed $20 million Series B led by Thomvest Ventures and a previously unannounced $14.4 million Series A led by Matrix Partners. The funding milestone coincides with the launch of Baselane Smart, a subscription-based suite of AI-powered automation tools designed to give landlords greater control, efficiency, and insight into their rental property finances.

Teylor, one of Europe’s leading technology-driven SME financing platforms, has secured €150 million in new financing from Fasanara Capital, a leading fintech-focused structured credit asset manager. The facility will be used to scale Teylor’s factoring business across seven European countries.

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.