
New York's Birch Hill has raised a $4 million seed round to structure and distribute US credit on public blockchains. Its live vault business is still tiny, which is what the money is for.
Marvin Evans·October 30, 2026

Cognitive Credit raised $40 million to expand its corporate credit data and AI tools. On the same day, LSEG agreed to pay $3.535 billion for Octus, a credit data rival.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 26, 2026

ScribeUp raised $13 million to put subscription and bill controls inside banking apps. It is a small round in a quarter when mega-rounds took 61% of fintech venture dollars.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 26, 2026

Lumina Markets has launched a US prediction market app backed by Thomas Peterffy, with no sports contracts. It routes to one exchange, ForecastEx, where Robinhood uses four venues.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 21, 2026

CarbonAI raised $12 million to sell AI agents that underwrite commercial real estate loans. Fintechbits' Q2 data puts the average US fintech deal near $36 million, so this is a modest bet on a hard market.
Marvin Evans·October 19, 2026

Investors priced Ramp at roughly 40 times its June revenue run rate. The round sells about 3% of the company and looks like a war chest for acquisitions and the UK push.
Marvin Evans·October 11, 2026

Mike Cagney's new company has raised $19 million and named Figure, the lender he chairs, as its first blockchain partner. The custody claim at the centre of the pitch has no named custodian yet.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 9, 2026

Mike Cagney's new company has $19 million from Figure's early backers to bring retail and institutional money onchain. So far its only blockchain partner is Figure, which he chairs.
Marvin Evans·October 9, 2026

NEA has led a $90 million round in Spiko, the Paris and London issuer of onchain money market funds. Distribution through other platforms' APIs matters more than the tokens.
Marvin Evans·October 8, 2026

Elio Mortgage has raised $5.1 million to run a licensed, AI-native mortgage brokerage rather than sell software to lenders. The bet is that owning the operation is the only way to prove the economics.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 1, 2026

Angle Health raised $600 million at a $2.7 billion valuation, but two thirds is a tender offer. Only $200 million is primary capital for the business.
Marvin Evans·September 22, 2026

Spectrum Equity led Xapien's $56 million round. The company's AI builds due-diligence reports from web, filing, sanctions and media data, and it plans to push further into the US.
Marvin Evans·September 13, 2026