CyberTech funding rounds dominated this week’s deals, accounting for 14 of the 32 FinTech deals to close.
In terms of countries, the US proved to be the driving force of FinTech funding rounds, with it housing 20 of this week’s FinTech deals.
Total FinTech funding this week just scrapped past the $1bn mark, with $1.1bn raised across all FinTech deals. The biggest deal of the week was secured by US-based CyberTech company Chainguard, which netted $356m in its Series D funding round. The investment round, which was co-led by new investor Kleiner Perkins and existing backer IVP, valued the company at $3.5bn.
There were three other deals to exceed $100m, these were wealthTech platform Altruist, sustainable data analytics solution Ocient and real-time artificial intelligence provider Dataminr, which raised $152m, $132m and $100m, respectively.
As mentioned, the CyberTech sector was the most popular of the week. The sector also accounted for six of the biggest deals this week.
The CyberTech companies raising funds were Chainguard, Dataminr, Endor Labs, Exaforce, Sentra, Cynomi, Reco, AuthMind, Miggo, VanishID, Cy4Data Labs, Terra Security, Kenzo and Glasswall.
Recent research from RegTech Analyst found that the CyberTech sector is growing in the US. Total funding reached $7.2bn in 2024, up 15% from $6.3bn in 2023 and slightly surpassing the $7.2bn recorded in 2020. However, while the total funding has grown, the number of deals saw a drop of 36% on 2023 and 53% on 2020.
California maintained its position as the most active state for US CyberTech deals in 2024, completing 86 deals (35% share).
In terms of other sectors, ESG, WealthTech and marketplace lending each saw four deals. The four ESG companies were Ocient, Crux, GreenFi and 51toCarbonZero, while the WealthTechs were Altruist, Alpaca, WineFi and Kaira Technologies. Finally, the lending firms were FundThrough, LendMN, Froda and Hokodo.
Finishing off the deals were two deals for infrastructure & enterprise software (Salsa and PayToMe.co), data & analytics (Bloom Credit and LenderLink) and InsurTechs (Steadily and 1Fort).
Not only did the US dominate the deals, it also made up the majority of the big deals. It accounted for the nine biggest deals of the week, with Israel taking the tenth spot.
The US FinTechs to secure capital this week were: Chainguard, Altruist, Ocient, Dataminr, Endor Labs, Exaforce, Alpaca, Crux, Sentra, Steadily, Reco, Salsa, AuthMind, GreenFi, Bloom Credit, VanishID, Cy4Data Labs, 1Fort, Kenzo and PayToMe.co.
UK-based FinTech companies were the second most populous, with Hokodo, 51toCarbonZero, WineFI and Glasswall each securing funds. There were three Israel-based companies to close rounds (Cynomi, Miggo and Terra Security) and two Canadian businesses (FundThrough and Kaira Technologies).
The final countries represented this week were Mongolia (LendMN), Sweden (Froda) and the Philippines (LenderLink).
Here are this week’s 32 FinTech deals.
Chainguard, a cybersecurity firm providing secure-by-design infrastructure for software development and deployment, has raised $356m in a Series D funding round.
The investment was co-led by new investor Kleiner Perkins and existing backer IVP. Additional support came from new participants Salesforce Ventures and Datadog Ventures, along with all other existing investors. The round brings Chainguard’s total capital raised to $612m and values the company at $3.5bn.
Chainguard develops tools and platforms that allow organisations to build and maintain secure software supply chains. Its core offerings include Chainguard Containers, a secure container image product; Chainguard VMs, minimal virtual machines with no known vulnerabilities; and Chainguard Libraries, a Java-based secure language library suite.
The fresh capital will be used to enhance Chainguard’s entire product portfolio, scale its go-to-market operations, and fuel its international expansion in the EMEA and APAC regions. The company aims to continue meeting growing demand for secure open source solutions as it targets $100m in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by the end of fiscal 2026. In fiscal 2025, Chainguard’s ARR increased sevenfold to reach $40m.
The business has already attracted over 150 customers, including prominent global organisations such as ANZ Bank, Canva, GitLab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oceaneering International, Snap Inc., Univar Solutions, VPBank, and Wiz.
Altruist, a modern WealthTech company serving independent registered investment advisors (RIAs), has raised $152m in a Series F funding round.
The latest round was led by GIC, the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Baillie Gifford, Carson Family Office, ICONIQ Growth, and a number of additional strategic partners. The new investment values the company at approximately $1.9bn.
Altruist operates as a fully integrated custodian for RIAs, offering a self-clearing brokerage platform alongside digital tools for account management, trading, reporting and billing. Its solution enables advisors to build and manage client portfolios more efficiently, with capabilities including fractional share trading, automated rebalancing, and performance tracking via a modern mobile app.
In 2024, Altruist launched high-yield cash accounts, tax management tools, and a digital-native fixed income trading platform. These offerings helped drive triple-digit increases in revenue, brokerage accounts, and advisors served.
The firm now supports over 4,700 advisors and has tripled assets under management for two consecutive years
Ocient, a Chicago-based software company delivering high-performance solutions for complex data and AI workloads, has announced the close of its $132m Series B funding round, marking its entry into the growth stage.
The latest round, which closed in autumn 2024, saw $42.1m contributed by new investors including Allstate Strategic Ventures, Blue Bear Capital, Solidigm, Massive, Zelkova, and Northwestern Mutual, meaning that Ocient has now raised $159.4m in total invested capital.
Ocient develops data analytics software designed for handling the world’s most complex and operationally intensive workloads.
Its solutions are built on its proprietary Compute Adjacent Storage Architecture® (CASA) and Megalane™ technology, providing users with unified data processing tools that are efficient, scalable and environmentally sustainable.
The newly secured funds will be channelled towards advancing the company’s portfolio of energy-efficient analytics solutions, particularly aimed at customers dealing with costly and burdensome data and AI operations.
Dataminr, a global leader in real-time artificial intelligence solutions, has closed a $100m convertible financing deal with funds managed by Fortress Investment Group.
The latest investment comes from Fortress, joining previous backers like NightDragon and HSBC, and will support Dataminr’s next phase of growth.
Dataminr’s AI platform detects real-time events, risks, and critical information by fusing data from millions of public sources across text, image, video, sound, and sensors in over 150 languages. It helps businesses and governments react faster to emerging threats.
The funding will fuel product innovation in Gen AI and Agentic AI, broaden Dataminr’s customer base across enterprises and governments, and support its international expansion plans.
Exaforce, a cybersecurity and AI company specialising in agentic solutions for enterprise SOC environments, has raised $75m in Series A funding.
The round was led by prominent investors Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, and Thomvest Ventures, and will support the development and expansion of the company’s Agentic SOC Platform.
Founded by experienced technology leaders with backgrounds at Google, F5, and Palo Alto Networks, Exaforce has developed what it describes as the industry’s first multi-model AI designed specifically for security and operational challenges. Its platform combines large language models (LLMs) with semantic, behavioural, and statistical models to deliver more accurate, consistent, and scalable SOC performance.
The newly secured funding will be used to scale the development of its Agentic SOC Platform, known as Exabots, which aims to drastically reduce the human workload in SOC environments. Exaforce plans to continue collaborating with enterprise partners while enhancing its platform’s ability to automate and streamline security operations.
The company’s mission is rooted in solving the persistent challenges facing SOC teams—namely the overwhelming volume of alerts, prevalence of false positives, and shortage of skilled security professionals. By integrating AI agents with advanced data exploration, Exaforce aims to not only reduce noise but also empower security analysts to focus on high-value tasks.
Alpaca, a US-based self-clearing broker-dealer and provider of brokerage infrastructure APIs, has raised $52m in a Series C funding round.
The round attracted capital from both new and returning investors, including Derayah Financial, 850 Management, National Investments Company (NIC), Unbound, and Portage Ventures.
Alpaca provides infrastructure that enables companies to offer trading and investing capabilities through APIs. Its services support the management of over 5 million brokerage accounts for more than 200 partners in over 40 countries. The platform allows access to stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income products, with a roadmap to introduce 24/5 trading to meet growing demand for continuous access to markets.
The latest funding will fuel Alpaca’s continued international expansion, with a particular focus on supporting enterprise institutions and FinTech firms across the US, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm aims to become the global de facto standard for investing infrastructure.
In 2024, Alpaca marked significant growth milestones, including the rollout of US options trading, instant funding support, and the launch of High-Yield Cash and IRA accounts.
Crux, a capital markets technology company focused on clean energy and manufacturing, has raised $50m in a Series B funding round.
The investment was led by Lowercarbon Capital, with participation from new investors Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures. The round also saw continued backing from existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Ardent Venture Partners, CIV, New System Ventures, and The Three Cairns Group, alongside Acrew Capital and Giant Ventures.
Having launched in 2023, Crux operates a platform that facilitates financing solutions for the clean economy. It enables developers, manufacturers, investors, and lenders to navigate capital formation through features such as tax credit transfers and debt product marketplaces. The platform has attracted more than 630 participants and helped close over 70 tax credit transactions across sectors including battery storage, geothermal, and solar energy.
The newly secured funding will help Crux scale its software platform, expand its team, and deepen the functionality of its financial ecosystem.
Cynomi, a cybersecurity company on a mission to revolutionise how service providers deliver cybersecurity and compliance services, has secured its Series B.
The firm has secured $37m in Series B funding, a round co-led by Insight Partners and Entrée Capital. Existing investors Canaan, Flint Capital and S16VC also returned to back the company in this latest round.
Cynomi provides a virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) platform powered by agentic AI. The platform is designed to help managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), and consultancies scale their cybersecurity offerings with reduced manual effort.
With the new capital, Cynomi plans to enhance its AI capabilities and deepen its suite of cybersecurity, compliance, and business intelligence tools. The company also aims to improve its partner enablement functions, equipping service providers with features that support not only service delivery but also sales and differentiation. Part of the funding will support Cynomi’s geographical expansion in both the U.S. and European markets.
Steadily, a landlord-focused InsurTech based in the United States, has raised $30m in a Series C funding round as it looks to accelerate its national expansion and enhance its technology platform.
The investment round was led by Two Sigma Ventures and brings the company’s valuation to $355m. Other participants in the round included Clocktower Technology Ventures, Belfer Investment Partners, Nine Four Ventures, and Matrix Partners.
Founded in 2020, Steadily is a digital insurance provider tailored specifically to the needs of the 18 million individual rental property owners across the US. The company has quickly gained popularity for offering fast, affordable landlord insurance to real estate investors and now reports over $250m in annualised gross written premium.
The fresh capital will be used to enhance Steadily’s service speed and claims processes, further invest in technology, and deepen integrations with property technology platforms.
Reco, a dynamic SaaS security company based in the cybersecurity sector, has announced the successful close of a $25m funding round as it looks to capitalise on explosive growth and address emerging risks in the enterprise software landscape.
The investment was backed by Insight Partners, Zeev Ventures, boldstart ventures, Angular Ventures and new backer Redseed. This round brings Reco’s total raised capital to $55m.
Reco offers an AI-native platform designed to secure the growing and increasingly complex SaaS environments that dominate modern enterprise IT ecosystems. The company’s core product supports rapid application discovery and integration, automating security across a wide array of authorised and unauthorised apps.
The fresh capital will be used to accelerate platform development, expand channel partnerships, and build on Reco’s recent momentum. With a strategy focused on speed and proactivity, the firm plans to grow its SaaS App Factory to support more integrations, introduce Reco AI Agents, and continue scaling globally.
The round follows a year of notable growth for Reco, which saw a 5x increase in ARR and a 3x expansion in customer numbers. The company has gained a strong foothold across sectors including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and technology.
FundThrough, a FinTech platform specialising in invoice factoring for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has acquired Ampla, a leading financial technology provider supporting consumer brands with working capital, business banking, corporate cards, and analytics.
The strategic acquisition comes alongside a $25m Series B equity investment led by Klister Credit Corp., a long-time backer of FundThrough and an early investor in Shopify. This dual move aims to strengthen FundThrough’s digital-first ecosystem and further scale its reach across key growth verticals.
Headquartered in Houston and Toronto, FundThrough offers SMBs flexible, real-time financing solutions by leveraging AI and predictive analytics. The platform addresses the cash flow challenges small businesses face when selling to larger companies that delay invoice payments—effectively enabling SMBs to access funds tied up in receivables.
With the acquisition of Ampla, FundThrough plans to enhance its AI-powered credit underwriting and monitoring capabilities, accelerate product innovation, and invest in user experience improvements.
Swedish FinTech company Froda, a leading provider of embedded finance solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised €20m in a Series B funding round.
The investment was led by Incore Invest, with strong support from Froda’s existing backers.
Founded in 2015, Froda enables SMEs to access instant financing directly through banking, neobank, and payment platforms. By streamlining the loan process from months to minutes, Froda aims to remove traditional friction from business lending and empower entrepreneurs with easier access to growth capital. The firm operates across the Nordics, UK, Ireland and Germany, and holds a credit market licence from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.
The fresh capital will be used to expand Froda’s embedded finance partnerships and accelerate its European market entry. With demand from new and existing partners rising, the company is focused on extending its reach and continuing to address the continent’s estimated €400bn SME funding gap.
LendMN, a Mongolia-based digital lending platform and subsidiary of AND Global, has secured a $20m debt investment in a funding round advised by Delphos.
The funding was provided by Lendable, a prominent provider of debt financing to technology-led companies across emerging markets. This investment marks a significant milestone for Mongolia’s FinTech sector, positioning LendMN as a key player in expanding access to credit for underserved populations.
LendMN has emerged as Mongolia’s first digital lending FinTech, focused on delivering AI-driven credit services to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The firm’s flagship offering, the Flexi Business Loan, provides instant, collateral-free financing using automated credit scoring technology, making it easier for small business owners to secure capital.
The newly secured capital will be used to scale LendMN’s digital financial services, with an emphasis on supporting Mongolia’s underserved MSME sector.
Salsa, an embedded payroll infrastructure provider based in the US, has raised $20m in a Series A funding round aimed at simplifying payroll integration for software platforms.
The funding was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from Greycroft, SemperVirens, Definition, and Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). The latest investment brings the company’s total raised to $30m.
Salsa provides the underlying infrastructure that allows software providers to embed fully integrated payroll products directly into their platforms. Its offering is designed to handle the complexities of payroll—from onboarding and compliance to tax filings—allowing partners to launch and scale payroll solutions without extensive in-house resources.
With the new capital, Salsa plans to invest in further automation, expand its platform’s flexibility, and deepen support across industries where payroll is particularly complex. The company has identified sectors such as healthcare and beauty and wellness as key areas for growth, where traditional payroll systems often fall short due to irregular hours, tipping, commissions, and regulatory hurdles.
In 2024, Salsa experienced rapid growth, expanding its business more than tenfold. This momentum continued into early 2025, as the firm doubled again and extended its services across all 50 US states and Canada. The platform is now powering payroll for a growing number of high-demand sectors, positioning itself as a go-to infrastructure provider for embedded payroll.
AuthMind, a cybersecurity company specialising in identity protection, has raised $19.3m in a seed funding round aimed at accelerating its product and market expansion.
The round was led by Cheyenne Ventures, with additional backing from Black Opal Ventures, K2 Access Fund, the Jefferies Family Office, Silver Buckshot Ventures, and Blu Venture Investors. Existing investors Ballistic Ventures and IBM also participated.
AuthMind focuses on identity protection for modern enterprises navigating complex, multi-cloud, and AI-driven environments. Its observability-based platform is designed to secure human, non-human, and agentic AI identities across SaaS, on-prem, hybrid and cloud setups.
The company said the funding will be used to expand go-to-market activities and further enhance the capabilities of its Identity Protection Platform. The platform, which can be deployed across an enterprise in minutes, aims to offer real-time detection and prevention of identity-based threats using contextual observability.
GreenFi, a newly launched FinTech company offering climate-friendly banking and investment services, has officially opened its doors with a focus on aligning financial health with environmental sustainability.
The company has secured $17m in seed funding to fuel its launch and growth. The investment was led by Mission Financial Partners (MFP), and the round supports GreenFi’s spin-out from Aspiration’s former consumer finance division.
GreenFi provides a suite of environmentally conscious financial products, aiming to give consumers the ability to make a positive impact on the planet through their everyday banking and investment choices. These offerings include checking and savings accounts, impact investing options, and a commitment to ensuring that all deposits steer clear of fossil fuel financing.
The capital raised will accelerate the development of new financial products under the GreenFi brand, including high-yield savings accounts, eco-friendly credit cards, sustainable loan offerings, and expanded investment opportunities focused on climate-positive outcomes.
AppSec company Miggo, which specialises in real-time ADR technology, has announced the close of a $17m Series A funding round.
The round was led by SYN Ventures, with participation from existing backer YL Ventures. The capital injection will support Miggo’s growth as it scales its ADR platform to meet increasing global demand for resilient security solutions.
Miggo offers a plug-and-play ADR platform designed to protect modern applications from AI-powered threats that can exploit vulnerabilities faster than teams can patch them. Unlike traditional tools that focus on networks or endpoints, Miggo’s solution provides in-application defence by monitoring behaviour and blocking threats instantly—without the need for code changes or patching cycles.
The new capital will be used to expand Miggo’s customer base across critical industries such as financial services, SaaS, and e-commerce, while advancing the firm’s mission to deliver real-time security for enterprise applications. The funding will also accelerate product development, enhance DeepTracing™ technology, and support global go-to-market initiatives.
Miggo’s proprietary DeepTracing™ technology maps application behaviour in real-time, simulates attack paths, and deploys targeted defences automatically. This approach allows organisations to maintain development speed without sacrificing security. The company’s effectiveness was highlighted during its discovery of the “ALBeast” vulnerability in AWS’s Application Load Balancer (ALB), earning recognition from AWS, HashiCorp and the UK’s GCHQ.
Hokodo, a European provider of digital trade credit solutions for B2B transactions, has raised €10m in fresh equity funding to accelerate its growth and product development.
The latest investment round was co-led by French venture capital firm Korelya Capital and Opera Tech Ventures, the corporate VC arm of global banking group BNP Paribas. Existing Series B investors Mundi Ventures and Notion Capital also participated in the round.
Founded in 2018, Hokodo has positioned itself as a key player in the digital trade credit space—often referred to as B2B BNPL (buy now, pay later)—with services designed to make B2B payments simpler and safer. The company was the first of its kind to be regulated as an electronic money institution (EMI), it claimed.
The newly raised funds will be channelled into product innovation and scaling operational capacity. Hokodo aims to build out its suite of solutions tailored to omnichannel sales environments and roll out its in-store offering across Europe. Its first deployment is with French professional supplies merchant RÉTIF, with additional partnerships set to be revealed soon.
Hokodo has been expanding its product reach beyond e-commerce to support offline and traditional sales processes.
Bloom Credit, a FinTech company specialising in modern credit data infrastructure and consumer permissioned data services, has secured a major partnership with Navy Federal Credit Union, the largest credit union in the United States.
The company has also raised $10.5m in a growth investment round led by Crosslink Capital. Existing backers Allegis Capital and Commerce Ventures returned for the round, alongside new investor CT Innovations.
Founded to modernise the infrastructure behind credit reporting, Bloom Credit offers platforms that make alternative credit data more accessible and actionable. Its flagship product, Bloom+, allows banks and credit unions to report a consumer’s recurring payments—such as rent, utility, and telecom bills—as tradelines to major credit bureaus, helping build credit profiles beyond traditional credit usage.
Navy Federal Credit Union has chosen to embed Bloom+ as a new feature within its checking accounts, offering more than 14 million members a path to improved credit reporting through their existing financial activity.
VanishID, a cybersecurity firm specialising in agentic AI-powered executive protection for enterprises, has announced its rebrand from Picnic Corporation alongside the launch of its new CEO Protection service.
The company also revealed it has secured $10m in funding. The round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from notable investors including Mark McLaughlin, former CEO and chairman of Palo Alto Networks, as well as continued support from Crosslink Capital, Rally Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Bright Pixel, and LockStep Ventures.
VanishID is positioned as a pioneer in the digital security landscape, offering an enterprise-grade, fully automated solution that protects executives and their families by removing personally identifiable information (PII) from the internet. The platform requires no effort from users, no internal integration, and does not rely on PII input from end-users—distinguishing it from traditional consumer solutions.
With this latest funding, VanishID plans to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and enhance its AI-driven capabilities. These advancements aim to provide seamless, scalable protection for high-profile individuals and key personnel in corporate environments.
Cy4Data Labs, a cybersecurity firm specialising in next-generation data protection, has secured $10m in a first funding round aimed at redefining how data is secured—even while in use.
The funding round was led by Pelion Venture Partners, a prominent technology venture capital firm. The investment will be used to accelerate Cy4Data Labs’ expansion in sales and marketing, as it pushes to bring its technology to a wider customer base.
The company offers a novel approach to data protection by keeping information encrypted at all times—not only at rest and in transit, but uniquely while it is in active use. This eliminates exposure risks, thwarts insider threats, and ensures that even stolen data remains unusable. Cy4Data Labs’ solution integrates easily into existing IT systems without sacrificing performance or accessibility.
With the newly raised funds, Cy4Data Labs intends to enhance its go-to-market strategy and rapidly scale its customer reach. The company already counts Fortune 100 clients and is generating revenue with production-ready products. The funding aims to further accelerate adoption as the cyber threat landscape evolves with AI, quantum computing, and cyber warfare.
Terra Security, a cyber start-up specialising in AI-driven penetration testing, has raised $8m in seed funding to accelerate development of its agentic AI platform.
The round was led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures, with additional backing from Underscore VC and several notable angel investors. These include former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelbeck, Talon Security founders Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, and security experts Travis McPeak and Itamar Friedman.
Terra Security has developed a service-as-software platform that delivers continuous, agentic AI-based penetration testing. The company’s technology is designed to replicate the thinking of white-hat hackers by deploying dozens of AI agents customised to a client’s specific environment and risk profile. The system adapts in real time and integrates human experts in the loop to maintain high accuracy and reliability.
The fresh capital will be used to enhance the capabilities of Terra’s AI agents, further develop its platform, and grow its customer base, which already includes several Fortune 500 clients. The firm also plans to extend its offering to include AI-driven red teaming and broader network security coverage.
While traditional penetration testing methods remain slow, resource-intensive, and difficult to scale, Terra Security aims to overcome these limitations by merging AI scalability with human-like adversarial behaviour. Its platform enables clients to continuously test for vulnerabilities rather than relying on infrequent manual exercises.
AI-powered InsurTech platform 1Fort, which focuses on streamlining commercial insurance processes for brokers and agents, has announced a $7.5m oversubscribed funding round.
The investment was led by Bonfire Ventures, with contributions from Draper Associates—founded by noted investor Tim Draper—alongside Karim Atiyeh, co-founder of Ramp.
Existing backers including Village Global, Operator Partners, 8-Bit Capital, Character VC and Company Ventures also participated in the round. The latest funding brings 1Fort’s total capital raised to $10m.
1Fort offers an AI-powered solution designed to help insurance brokers bind top-tier business insurance policies faster and more efficiently.
The platform automates several key workflows such as autofilling insurance applications, sourcing quotes from carriers, comparing coverage options, and integrating payments and financing tools.
Brokers leveraging 1Fort can save up to two hours per submission and potentially boost their policy bind rate by as much as 20%. The platform also includes risk management software to help businesses proactively prevent claims or losses.
The newly secured funds will support 1Fort’s plans to enhance its AI capabilities, recruit additional talent, and grow its network of partnerships with A-rated insurance carriers and leading brokerages.
The company also aims to build on its strong momentum, which includes a nearly 200% month-over-month revenue growth in 2024 and collaborations with carriers such as Arch, Tokio Marine HCC and Markel.
Brokers using the platform can quote directly through appointed markets or gain wholesale access to policies in areas like Cyber, Tech E&O, Professional and Management liability. 1Fort is currently licensed in all 50 U.S. states.
Kenzo Security, a cybersecurity startup specialising in AI-powered security operations, has emerged from stealth with $4.5m in seed funding aimed at accelerating its platform development and team expansion.
According to Silicon Angle, the investment round was led by The General Partnership, with participation from Michael Coates, former chief information security officer at Mozilla and Twitter.
Founded in 2024 by Harish Singh and Partha Naidu, Kenzo delivers a platform powered by a network of domain-specific artificial intelligence agents that work autonomously to support security teams. The co-founders, both veterans of the cybersecurity industry, launched the firm in response to what they saw as a growing demand for data-driven tools that reduce the burden of alert triage and manual incident response.
The platform deploys a proprietary data mesh architecture that allows its swarm of AI agents to collaborate in real time. These agents are tailored to different tasks in the security lifecycle, providing contextual, scalable, and consistent analysis across an organisation’s digital environment. This approach is designed to help security teams focus on high-priority issues by automatically managing routine investigations and responses, reducing both alert fatigue and operational costs.
Kenzo plans to use the capital to expand its engineering and sales teams, while continuing to enhance its AI platform’s capabilities. The goal is to offer security teams a more effective solution that delivers meaningful risk reduction without the need to increase headcount.
51toCarbonZero, a UK-based climate-tech company focused on driving measurable corporate progress toward net zero, has secured £3m in new funding to accelerate its international growth and enhance its AI-powered emissions platform.
The investment round was led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from angel investors. Fuel Ventures had previously backed the company and increased its stake in this latest round, reflecting growing confidence in 51toCarbonZero’s trajectory and its expanding commercial impact.
The company offers a real-time emissions intelligence platform that helps businesses understand and reduce their carbon footprints. Designed for enterprise use, the platform provides end-to-end carbon accounting and actionable sustainability insights, consolidating carbon data across operations.
The new capital will support the platform’s further development, particularly its AI capabilities, to make carbon tracking and reduction more seamless for enterprise users. The funding will also fuel expansion into new geographies, including markets in Europe and North America, and support broader industry adoption beyond its current client base.
51toCarbonZero currently works across diverse sectors such as advertising, sport, entertainment, food and beverage, logistics, automotive and financial services. Its ambition is to support clients in reducing 500m tonnes of CO2e globally, by making emissions management a core business function rather than a reporting obligation.
WineFi, a London-based FinTech company specialising in fine wine investment, has reportedly secured £1.5m in a seed funding round.
The round was led by Coterie Holdings, a British fine wine group, with participation from SFC Capital, Founders Capital, and several angel investors, according to a report from Tech.eu.
Founded by Oliver Thorpe and Callum Woodcock, WineFi provides a data-driven platform that enables high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and funds to access fine wine investment opportunities. Traditionally, this asset class has been dominated by merchants, often lacking transparency and standardised data, but WineFi aims to change this by offering structured, transparent wine portfolio investing.
WineFi has also partnered with Lympid, a digital asset platform, to enable fractionalised fine wine investments. Through this collaboration, the company leverages blockchain technology to improve transparency and liquidity, aiming to attract a new generation of investors to the fine wine sector.
LenderLink, a pioneering FinTech based in the Philippines focused on improving credit data infrastructure, has successfully closed its first external funding round.
The company secured $1.25m in an oversubscribed pre-seed round, with investments from Kaya Founders, Iterative, Founders Launchpad, and local business angels including Manila Business Angels.
LenderLink is developing the first high-tech, real-time credit bureau in the Philippines. Its mission is to modernise the country’s consumer lending market by enabling lenders to access and report credit risk data instantly. Through its API-first platform, the firm aims to lower borrowing costs by tackling high default rates and advancing financial inclusion.
The newly raised funds will be used to enhance LenderLink’s technology, expand its market presence, and establish partnerships with key lenders and financial institutions. These efforts are intended to help reshape the Philippine lending landscape, offering better credit risk assessment tools for lenders and fairer access to credit for consumers.
Already integrating over 25 million records across five ecosystems, LenderLink is building an exclusive network where early adopters benefit from improved lending terms and access to high-quality real-time credit data.
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