Lerian, a Brazilian start-up building open-source financial infrastructure for FinTechs and digital institutions, has announced fresh funding as it looks to scale its platform at home and start laying the groundwork for international expansion.
According to Finextra, the company has raised R$30m in a seed round led by MAYA Capital, with participation from Norte Ventures, Supera Capital, Crivo Ventures, Blustone, and individual investor Kevin Efrusy, a partner at Accel. Lerian said the round was oversubscribed and came in above its initial target of about US$3m.
Lerian develops modular, cloud-native infrastructure aimed at institutions that need modern building blocks for operating financial products. At the centre of the offering is Midaz, an open-source ledger designed to give customers greater transparency and flexibility, including the ability to audit and customise code while reducing the risk of vendor lock-in.
Around that core ledger, the start-up has been adding tools that it says can be combined depending on a client’s needs. These include Flowker, which it positions as an orchestration layer for processes such as onboarding and compliance, Tracer for real-time transactional risk assessment, Reporter for regulatory reporting and operational analytics automation, and Matcher, a transaction reconciliation engine. Lerian says the wider platform is built to support everyone from early-stage FinTechs to regulated institutions processing high transaction volumes.
The new capital will be directed primarily towards technology investment, with a particular focus on applying artificial intelligence to the platform. Lerian also plans to build out sales and customer success capabilities and step up marketing as it seeks to consolidate its footprint in Brazil while improving international positioning.
The company has also pointed to the experience of its founding team as it competes with both incumbent infrastructure providers and global open-source alternatives. Alongside CEO Fred Amaral—who previously founded Dock, which later became a unicorn in its segment—the team includes Maísa Amaral and Jefferson Rodrigues from Dock’s founding group, and Marilyn Hanh, one of the founders of Bankly, a banking-as-a-service provider acquired by BV. Lerian says its integrations with Brazil’s regulatory ecosystem, including PIX, Open Finance, and central bank requirements, are a further differentiator, and it has set out ambitions to expand first across Latin America and then into the United States over the next 24 to 36 months.
Lerian CEO Fred Amaral said, “This round validates our vision that financial infrastructure needs to be more open, modern, and aligned with the economic reality of fintechs and digital institutions. The capital allows us to accelerate platform development, expand our product portfolio, and sustain consistent growth in Brazil, while we begin preparing the company for international markets,”
MAYA Capital founder Monica Saggioro Leal said, “Lerian operates in one of the most critical and least resolved areas of the financial system: infrastructure modernization. We saw a combination of technical maturity, a well-executed open-source model, and a team with a proven track record in building mission-critical platforms. It is a company well positioned to capture structural demand that goes beyond economic cycles,”
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