Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

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Puzzle, an AI-powered accounting solution, has successfully secured $30m in new funding. This significant investment round was led by S32 and XYZ Capital, with notable...

Banking and payments API platform Sila has netted $7.7m in its seed funding round to support the development of new products.

Indonesia-based staff management platform Vara raised $4.8m in seed funding from Go Ventures, the investment arm of super app Gojek, as well as RTP Global, Alpha JWC Ventures, Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, FEBE Ventures and Taurus Ventures.

Spending into critical infrastructure cybersecurity to surpass $105bn this year, according to new research.

Crezco, which claims to be the UK’s first open banking payment solution aimed at b2b invoice payments, has netted £3m in its seed round.

Italian lender illimity has launched a payment initiation service (PIS) that enables customers to make payments from accounts with other banks, consolidated in the illimity platform.

Almost a quarter of professionals working from home have used unauthorised devices, which has increased the risk of breaches, according to new research from CybSafe, the London-based cybersecurity software platform.

Northstar, a financial wellness benefit platform, has secured $24.4m in a funding round led by GGV Capital.

DailyPay, an on-demand payment platform to help America’s workforce have more control of their finances, has netted $260m in funding.