Stacks, an agentic AI platform for enterprise finance teams, has raised $23m in a Series A round. The Series A was led by Lightspeed, with EQT Ventures, General Catalyst and S16VC doubling down on their investments. The raise comes less than a year after the company secured $12m in seed funding led by General Catalyst. Since that seed round in February...

Banks may already have a clear view of the market forces shaping 2026, from shifting consumer expectations to mounting regulatory and economic pressures. But insight alone will not be enough. The technology decisions financial institutions make now will determine whether they can turn those forces into opportunity or risk being overtaken by more agile competitors. As banking becomes increasingly...

Avantos, an AI-native operating system designed to transform how financial institutions onboard and service clients, has raised $25m in a Series A funding round. The Series A was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from new strategic investors including The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, SEI and Vanguard. The latest raise follows a $10m seed round completed in September...

Jump, an artificial intelligence platform for financial advisors, has raised $80m in a Series B round to accelerate the development of its AI-native operating system for advisory firms. The funding round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from new investors F-Prime, Allianz Life Ventures, TIAA Ventures and Peterson Partners. Existing backers Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Citi...

Insurity, a P&C insurance firm, has announced significant enhancements to its Billing-as-a-Service platform, positioning it as a lower-cost alternative to running billing operations internally. The expansion has been driven by a persistent belief across the insurance sector that in-house billing is the most economical option for carriers and MGAs. Insurity said this assumption often overlooks hidden costs tied to staffing, reconciliation,...

Fundbox, a provider of embedded capital infrastructure for the small business economy, has renewed its existing credit facility with ATLAS SP Partners and added funds managed by Blue Owl Capital as new lenders to the facility. The renewed facility extends Fundbox’s long-standing relationship with ATLAS SP Partners, the warehouse finance and securitised products business majority owned by Apollo funds, while...

Ascent, a provider of innovative financial products and student support services, has closed a $45m Series C funding round as federal policy shifts drive increased demand for private student lending.

Qumis, a commercial InsurTech specialising in attorney-trained artificial intelligence for insurance coverage intelligence, has announced a $4.3m injection of seed capital as it looks to accelerate growth in a rapidly evolving insurance technology market. The company bagged the capital in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by MTech Capital, with participation from new strategic backer American Family Ventures alongside all...

Copla, a Vilnius-based ICT compliance platform serving regulated European firms, has raised €6m in a Series A round to accelerate product development and international expansion. The round was led by Iron Wolf Capital, with participation from Operator Stack and existing investors Specialist VC, SuperHero Capital, FirstPick, NGL Ventures and Loggerhead Partners. The company will use the funding to expand its product...

Cytora, a digital risk processing platform for commercial insurers, has entered into a strategic partnership with The Warren Group, a long-established provider of real estate and financial data, to integrate comprehensive property intelligence directly into insurers’ underwriting workflows. The partnership has been formed to address one of the most persistent challenges in commercial property underwriting: the reliance on fragmented, manually...