Tazapay, a leading next-generation payment infrastructure provider for emerging markets, announced the close of its Series B extension led by Circle Ventures,

Startale Group today announced the second close of its Series A round, securing $50 million from SBI Group, Inc. ("SBI Group"). Combined with the first close of $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund announced in January 2026, Startale has completed a $63 million Series A round.

Payy Network, the only stablecoin blockchain where transactions are private by default, announced today it has raised $6 million in a seed round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto. The new funding will support continued product development, team expansion and growth as Payy scales its privacy-preserving infrastructure for institutional stablecoin payments.

ING and UniCredit have structured a €375 million mini-perm project financing for Retelit Datacentre, the data centre arm of leading Italian telecommunications and ICT operator Retelit.

Allegro Finance Limited (“Allegro”), an alternative lending platform for the media sector, today announced a strategic joint venture and senior funding line with entities advised by Elliott Advisors UK Limited (“Elliott”), a leading global investment manager. The partnership establishes a new institutional-scale credit platform for the global film and television industry.

London based, FCA regulated travel fintech Vuelo, (https://getvuelo.com) has raised £56 million in seed funding to expand its AI-native travel booking platform, enabling customers to discover, book, finance, and plan through a single intelligent experience.

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.