Global FinTech funding surged past $1.45bn this week, on a surprisingly busy week for deals, as activity remained high despite the incoming festive period.
The week was marked by a trio of headline-grabbing rounds, with US identity-security platform Saviynt leading with a massive $700m Series B, followed by global financial platform Airwallex at $330m, and cybersecurity innovator 7AI, which raised $130m in the largest Series A ever recorded in the sector.
Other notable financings included Australian–New Zealand accounting platform Hnry, which closed for more than $30m, UK-based logistics-embedded finance platform CapRelease at $36m, US AI-native tax automation firm Cynch AI with $9m, Italy’s Equixly raising $10m, and US-based Resemble AI and Helmet Security, which secured $13m and $9m, respectively.
Revenue integrity, indirect tax compliance, and alternative home equity also drew investor interest, with Safebooks at $15m, Yonda Tax $15m, Lumia $18m, and Hometap $50m.
Subsector activity was led by Infrastructure & Enterprise Software, which saw nine deals across the US, UK, Italy, and Singapore, highlighting a week of strong investment in AI-first enterprise tooling, identity governance, and autonomous security.
RegTech followed with four rounds, including Safebooks, Cynch AI, Yonda Tax, and Lumia, demonstrating continued appetite for compliance and finance automation solutions.
PayTech contributed three deals with CapRelease, Fibe, and Airwallex, while WealthTech and InsurTech each recorded two and one deal respectively.
On the national front, the United States dominated, accounting for twelve deals spanning nearly every subsector, from AI security to enterprise software to home equity and RegTech.
The UK contributed three deals, while New Zealand, India, Italy, and Singapore each had one deal.
Here are this week’s FinTech funding rounds:
Saviynt lands $700m as new AI identity platform launches
Saviynt, the identity security specialist, has raised $700m in a Series B growth equity round led by KKR, alongside Sixth Street Growth, TenEleven and existing investor Carrick Capital Partners.
The raise reflects rising demand for identity security as enterprises deploy AI tools at scale.
Saviynt provides an AI-powered identity platform that manages and governs access for human users, machine identities and AI agents across applications, data and infrastructure.
The new funding supports expansion of Saviynt’s platform, which unifies IGA, PAM, AAG and ISPM into a single identity security layer. The company said its tools help organisations meet compliance requirements, reduce risk and streamline operations as they transition to cloud and AI ecosystems.
Saviynt stated the capital will accelerate R&D, deepen integrations with hyperscalers and SaaS providers, and help customers migrate from legacy systems.
Airwallex lands $330m to boost AI finance platform
Airwallex, a global financial platform for modern businesses, has raised fresh capital of $330m strengthen its international expansion and accelerate product innovation.
Founded in Australia in 2015, the company provides services to help firms operate across borders more efficiently, and currently employs more than 2,000 people around the world.
The FinTech company has secured $330m in a Series G investment round. The funding was led by Addition, with backing from T. Rowe Price, Activant, Lingotto, Robinhood Ventures and TIAA Ventures. The new investment values the business at $8bn, marking a near 30% increase since its previous Series F round six months earlier.
Airwallex offers a unified platform for global business banking, cross-border payments, treasury, billing and spend management, built on its own proprietary financial infrastructure. The company holds more than 80 licences and permits worldwide, enabling customers to manage multi-currency operations and access financial services in over 200 countries and regions. In 2025 it widened its regulated footprint and launched local capabilities in a dozen new markets, including France, Canada, Israel, Japan, Brazil and Mexico.
Hometap launches new equity solution after $50m funding
CapRelease raises $36m to expand embedded finance offering
CapRelease, the logistics-embedded finance platform for eCommerce retailers, has secured a combined $36m funding round as it accelerates UK expansion and prepares to enter international markets.
The company raised the new capital to strengthen its footprint across the UK, deepen integrations with logistics and retail technology partners, and build momentum ahead of its planned US launch in 2026.
CapRelease provides eCommerce businesses with working capital solutions, combining multi-source AI and ML data intelligence with modern credit infrastructure to reduce loss rates and improve access to funding.
The funding round includes a $33.3m senior debt facility from global private credit firm Partners for Growth (PFG), alongside $2.7m in equity led by a global family office with existing FinTech investments, particularly in UK neobanks. A second close of the equity portion is anticipated in Q1 2026 to support CapRelease’s entry into the United States.
India-based Fibe secures $35m from IFC
Hnry raises $30m Series C and launches new sole trader tools
Hnry, one of Australasia’s largest and fastest-growing digital accounting service for contractors, freelancers and sole traders, has secured more than $30m in an oversubscribed Series C round led by Movac.
The raise lifts the company’s total funding to nearly $100m since its inception in 2018.
The company said the fresh capital will accelerate its expansion across Australia and the UK, two markets that together represent more than five million sole traders.
Hnry provides a comprehensive financial administration service for sole traders, handling tax calculations, filings, payments, levies and more in real time. Its platform is designed to remove the administrative burden traditionally associated with contracting and freelance work, enabling customers to save significant time and reduce costs compared with alternative accounting setups.
The company’s product suite includes automated tax and financial management tools as well as complementary offerings such as its debit card feature. This card links to a dedicated business account and automatically categorises transactions to provide instant tax relief. In the last four months alone, Australian sole traders have loaded $10m onto their cards and spent $6.5m on business expenses.
Parametrix raises $27m to expand parametric digital insurance
Agentic security firm Prime Security bags $20m Series A
Prime Security, a product security company building autonomous AI tools for software development teams, has raised new capital to support its expansion and accelerate development of its technology.
The company, which is behind what it calls the first Agentic Security Architect, is positioning itself at the forefront of a fast-changing security landscape shaped by AI-enabled development.
The business has secured $20m in Series A financing. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Foundation Capital, Flybridge Ventures and Ofir Ehrlich, who is the CEO and founder of Eon. The investment marks an important milestone for the company as it looks to address rising demand for solutions that can automate design-stage security across complex engineering environments.
AI security platform Lumia secures $18m seed round
Yonda Tax bags $15m to expand global compliance tech
Yonda Tax, the global tax automation platform supporting businesses with cross-border compliance, has secured new institutional backing as it accelerates its mission to simplify international tax obligations for fast-growing companies.
The company has raised $15m in its latest funding round, which marks its first institutional investment, claims Financial IT.
The round was led by Kennet Partners, with additional participation from NYO Capital and Portfolio Ventures. The new capital brings Yonda Tax’s total investment to $15m.
Yonda Tax specialises in automating indirect tax compliance for companies expanding into new markets, navigating complex rules across VAT, GST and Sales Tax. Every jurisdiction carries its own filing deadlines, formats and reporting obligations, often with frequent changes. Yonda Tax’s platform seeks to remove this operational burden by managing the compliance process end-to-end, helping businesses avoid errors and stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements as they scale internationally.
Safebooks AI raises $15m for finance data integrity tech
Safebooks has secured fresh backing as it emerges from stealth with technology designed to overhaul revenue integrity for enterprise finance teams.
The company has raised $15m in seed funding from 10D, Propel Ventures and Mensch Capital, with additional participation from Moneta Venture Capital, Magnolia Capital, Cerca Fund, Blue Moon and a number of strategic investors.
Safebooks AI focuses on automating the financial data governance processes that underpin quote-to-revenue operations. Its platform introduces an approach it calls Agentic Revenue Integrity, or ARI, which acts as an intelligent automation layer that sits across a company’s existing finance systems. Rather than replacing infrastructure, ARI works alongside it, monitoring revenue data in real time and responding to discrepancies as they appear.
The newly raised capital will help the business expand the reach of this system and support growth following its stealth period, with the company positioning ARI as a solution to the mounting pressure on finance functions to improve accuracy, speed and assurance across increasingly complex data environments.
AI threat firm Resemble AI secures $13m funding
Resemble AI, a generative AI security company focused on defending organisations against deepfake and synthetic media attacks, has secured a new round of capital to accelerate its platform development and expand its global footprint.
The business has raised $13m in strategic funding. Participants in the round include Google’s AI Future Fund, Okta Ventures, Taiwania Capital, Gentree Fund, IAG Capital Partners, Berkeley Frontier Fund and KDDI. The company said this latest raise brings its total venture funding to $25m to date.
Resemble AI specialises in securing enterprise generative AI from creation through to distribution. Its technology is designed to help organisations address an emerging category of cyber risk, where manipulated audio, video and images can enable crimes ranging from financial fraud and brand impersonation to corporate espionage.
RealVantage raises $10m as Series A round is oversubscribed
RealVantage, a global real estate investment platform regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore has announced the successful oversubscription of its $10m Series A fundraise, which places the company at a $70m valuation.
Overspill from three family offices – including the family office of integrated property group SoilBuild – was met through secondary tranches, enabling long-serving staff at the fast-growing FinTech to realise some liquidity.
Founded in April 2019, RealVantage provides investors with access to institutional-grade global real estate deals. The company has raised more than SGD 400m to date and completed over 130 transactions across seven international markets, most recently expanding into South Korea.
Equixly lands €10m to scale its autonomous API tester
Equixly, an Italy-headquartered cybersecurity company specialising in automated API testing, has closed a €10m Series A round to expand its proprietary agentic AI hacking platform.
The investment was led by 33N Ventures, with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, as well as existing backers JME Ventures, 360 Capital and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, according to a report from tech.eu.
Equixly develops an AI-powered API security system that replicates the behaviour and reasoning of real-world attackers. Its continuous, autonomous and scalable testing environment supports both development and security teams, helping uncover hidden weaknesses early and reduce overall remediation costs.
Delivered as a cloud-based SaaS, the platform includes KPI-led dashboards, flexible scheduling, a subscription model based on the number of endpoints, and endpoint discovery that identifies shadow APIs and classifies sensitive data. Its interface provides a holistic assessment of API posture, while dedicated panels guide users through onboarding, vulnerability review and architecture visualisation through an AI-driven Smart API Graph.
Helmet Security bags $9m to secure AI-to-AI links
Helmet Security, a US-based cybersecurity company focused on securing emerging agentic AI systems, has secured $9m in backing as enterprises race to connect AI agents across their technology stacks.
The funding was led by SYN Ventures and WhiteRabbit, who together backed the company’s development as demand grows for oversight of Model Context Protocol (MCP) communications. MCP has become a core integration layer for linking AI agents with software and data, with more than 17,000 servers deployed since its introduction in November 2024.
Helmet Security, developed in partnership with several Fortune 500 CISOs, focuses on discovering, monitoring and applying policy controls across MCP servers and other emerging forms of agent-to-agent connectivity. The business claims this addresses a visibility gap traditional security platforms cannot resolve.
The fresh capital will be used to strengthen the company’s platform and expand its capabilities to secure future AI-to-AI communication patterns as they evolve. The business intends to extend beyond MCP oversight and serve as foundational infrastructure for securing dynamic agentic systems.
Cynch AI secures $9m as True Global Ventures leads investment
True Global Ventures, an international venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies, has invested $9m in Cynch AI, an AI-native tax automation company, to accelerate its acquisition-led expansion strategy.
True Global Ventures (TGV), a global venture capital fund with a track record of backing innovative technology companies, has led a $9m equity round into Cynch AI, alongside existing investors including Permanent Capital, AI Capital, Clear Ventures and Factory HQ.
The new investment aims to support Cynch AI’s mission to address the growing shortage of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) by modernising and consolidating tax and accounting services through an AI-first model.
Cynch AI, which specialises in automating complex and time-consuming tax processes, is tackling a structural issue facing the industry: the retirement wave among CPAs that is leaving millions of SMEs without adequate support. The company’s platform applies deterministic, non-hallucinatory AI to reduce errors while allowing firms to maintain trusted client relationships at scale.
AI finance platform Bags secures $2.75m investment
Presidio backs Realm.Security with $2m strategic round
Realm.Security, the cybersecurity company developing an AI-native security data pipeline platform, has secured a $2m strategic investment to support the next stage of its global growth.
The funding was supplied by Presidio Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation. Sumitomo, which is headquartered in Japan, operates a wide range of subsidiaries worldwide, including SCSK, a major systems integrator offering managed IT and cybersecurity services to more than 8,000 enterprise clients.
Realm.Security’s platform is designed to help security teams reduce data noise, handle spiralling storage and compute requirements, and better understand the vast volumes of information passing through modern Security Operation Centres. Its Security Data Pipeline Platform gives enterprises the tools to manage, filter and normalise security data at scale, a capability the company argues has traditionally only been accessible to the largest global organisations.
Barclays backs United Fintech with strategic investment
