NatWest Group has today announced a £20 billion funding commitment over the next ten years to drive economic growth across the North of England, supporting the UK’s ambitions to build stronger, more productive regional economies.

Pembroke VCT has led a funding round of up to £2.5 million in Kaizan, investing £1.5 million alongside Velocity Capital and leading industry angels.

Adfin, the London-based fintech, has raised $18 million in Series A funding to build the agentic money movement platform: starting by helping businesses getting paid on time, and ending with money that moves itself.

ThinCats, the leading alternative finance provider to UK mid-sized SMEs, has provided a significant growth funding package to specialist autism and learning disability care provider, Cedar Health and Wellbeing.

Embat, the AI-powered fintech specialising in treasury management, has successfully completed a €30 million financing round. The Series B was led by Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm based in Paris with over €2.5 billion under management. Existing investors such as Creandum, Samaipata, 4Founders, and Venture Friends also participated prominently in the funding round.

Pit, an AI-native platform that replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, inboxes, and rigid SaaS tools that run enterprise operations today, announced its public launch alongside $16 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The round includes participation from Lakestar, the Pit founders and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut, as well as the Stena and Lundin families.

Astrada, the data layer for autonomous finance, today announced the close of its $3.8 million seed funding round. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors, and Nyca Partners, with a strategic investment from Mastercard and follow-on participation from existing investor Visa.

NUVA Digital, the software development company behind the RWA marketplace NUVA, today announced the successful closing of a US$5.2 million fundraising seed round led by Morgan Creek Digital. NUVA is the non-custodial, unified distribution layer for high-quality real-world asset (RWA) vaults. It offers users one-click access, enabling them to deposit stablecoins to mint liquid, composable tokens that deliver yield. NUVA ensures transparency and seamless DeFi composability with on-chain proof of reserves, without requiring minimum deposit requirements or lockups.

Rogo, the AI platform purpose-built for finance, today announced it has raised $160 million in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, BoxGroup, Mantis VC, Jack Altman, Evantic and Positive Sum. The Series D brings Rogo’s total funding to more than $300 million and positions Rogo to accelerate the company’s global expansion, deepen its partnerships with the world’s leading financial institutions, and scale its AI agent, Felix.

Tenzo, the real-time data and analytics platform for hospitality operators, has secured a $5m first close of its Series A extension round. The round is led by Edge.vc, with participation from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and YourVC, alongside Frontive Holdings, one of Tenzo’s customers.

SolvaPay, an AI payments platform based in Stockholm, today announces €2.4 million ($2.8M) in pre-seed funding to build out its new payment infrastructure platform, built to power the emerging era of agentic commerce.

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has provided a £28.5m loan to D2 PropCo, a specialist provider of short-term supportive housing across England and Wales.

To counter the severe economic shocks triggered by the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the Board of Directors of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) has approved a US$10 billion Gulf Crisis Response Programme (GCRP) to insulate African and Caribbean economies, financial institutions and corporates from the impact of the ongoing Gulf crisis.

INXY has raised $4 million in a new funding round led by Flashpoint, following a $3 million raise in 2025, bringing its total seed funding to $7 million. The capital will be used to expand its product offerings, obtain new regulatory licences, and grow its presence in key international markets.

Keyrock, a neo investment group built for digital assets, is accelerating its growth trajectory after securing significant Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.1 billion.