Checker, a global network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, announced today that it has raised $8M in funding from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures. Additional participants include strategic financial institutions, such as Bitso and Airtm in Latin America, DFS Lab in Africa, and Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital and Velocity in Asia. Additional investors include fintech operators from Stripe, Tala, Flutterwave, Mesh, ComplyAdvantage, Superstate, and more.

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.

Stitch announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

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.

Outmarket AI today announced it has raised $17 million in Series A funding to fuel the next phase of Outmarket's platform expansion

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.

Paymentology today announced a $175 million investment co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity to support Paymentology’s continued global expansion

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.

CFIT has today announced new funding commitments from both HM Treasury and NatWest Group and reinforcing its role at the centre of the UK’s financial innovation ecosystem.