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.

MetaComp announced the completion of its Pre-A+ funding round, bringing the cumulative total to US$35 million across two rounds in three months

Uzum, Uzbekistan’s leading digital ecosystem, is pleased to announce the closing of a strategic investment exceeding $130 million

Orca Fraud has raised $2.35 million in an oversubscribed seed round to advance its transaction monitoring and fraud intelligence capabilities across Africa

Ualá, the Latin American neobank, has raised $195 million in equity financing led by Allianz X

UK venture funding surged into AI in 2025, with investment increasingly concentrated in the UK’s largest and most proven scaleups

Pan African Multilateral Bank, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), has announced a major expansion of its engagement with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), increasing its regional financing limit from US$3 billion over the next four years. The enhanced commitment builds on more than $750 million already disbursed across the region and a robust pipeline of over $2 billion in transactions currently under execution, signaling a decisive scale-up of support to governments and the private sector.

Vivox AI, a UK-based technology company building regulator-ready, atomic AI agents for AML, KYB/KYC and financial crime, has raised £1.3 million ($1.6 million) in its first funding round to accelerate product development and scale its enterprise platform.

YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform for e-commerce, payment and technology platforms, today announces a multi-year financing partnership with Värde Partners, a global investment firm, to further expand its capital base in the United States. The financing is structured as a forward-flow agreement with potential for Värde to purchase up to $225 million in receivables originated by YouLend.

Propel Finance, the UK's fastest-growing asset finance lender, has announced a new strategic partnership with Onecom, one of the UK’s leading providers of business communications, connectivity and managed IT solutions, supporting thousands of SME and enterprise customers nationwide.

Vantage Capital (www.VantageCapital.co.za), Africa’s largest mezzanine debt fund manager, announced that it has made a R635m investment into Commercial Energy South Africa (“CESA”), a subsidiary of SolarAfrica Energy (“SolarAfrica”), a leading South African energy solutions provider, alongside co-investor, Greenpoint Capital. CESA holds commercial & industrial (“C&I”) solar and battery energy assets developed by SolarAfrica.

Confido, the embedded financial infrastructure platform purpose-built for law firms and legal technology, today announced it has raised $9 million in financing over two rounds, the latest of which was led by Aquiline Capital Partners.

Platinum Credit Uganda, a subsidiary of The Platcorp Group, has secured $4 million in investment from Swiss asset manager Symbiotics to expand its financing for low-income households and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across Uganda.