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Wealthsimple Raises $302 Million For Financial Platform
October 28, 2026

Wealthsimple has raised $302 million to expand its investment and digital finance platform. The new funding round, announced Tuesday (Oct. 27), values the Canadian company at $9.8 billion, or $13.8 billion CAD, and will help Wealthsimple expand its spending, checking, trading and investment offerings. “This...

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Upwind Raises $450 Million for AI and Cloud Security
October 28, 2026

Cloud and artificial intelligence security platform Upwind has raised $450 million in new funding. The company’s Series C round will allow Upwind to strengthen its product and engineering growth, Co-Founder and CEO Amiram Shachar wrote in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) blog post. “Security is a cloud and AI story now,”...

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Analysts Stand by Meta’s AI Push Despite $95 Billion Equity Plan Scrutiny
October 26, 2026

Three analysts remain bullish on Meta after the company announced plans to raise $95 billion through equity financing, though they raised questions about the company’s growing investments in artificial intelligence (AI), Seeking Alpha reported Monday (Oct. 26). Wells Fargo maintained an Overweight rating and $995 price target...

IPO
RedotPay Targets $5 Billion Valuation in Pre-IPO Funding
October 26, 2026

Cryptocurrency company RedotPay is considering filing for a confidential initial public offering in the United States by the year’s end, Bloomberg reported Monday (Oct. 26). Hong Kong-based RedotPay, which offers physical and virtual cards for crypto transactions, has been in deliberations and regulatory troubles for...

IPO
Wonder Plans IPO and Aims to Be Fully Autonomous by 2040
October 25, 2026

Food startup Wonder has reportedly set its sights on going public amid wider expansion plans. As CNBC reported Sunday (Oct. 25), the company is also eyeing an “aggressive” expansion in Texas and a subscription program that allows diners to operate their own “restaurants.” Launched in...

Fintech Investments
Cognitive Credit Lands $40 Million Investment to Expand US Operations
October 23, 2026

Cognitive Credit, a provider of specialist data, infrastructure and artificial intelligence solutions for global corporate credit markets, secured a $40 million strategic growth investment to accelerate its commercial expansion in the United States and build its next generation of products, the company said in a...

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Coast Secures $35 Million to Expand Financial Platform for Physical Economy
October 22, 2026

Financial technology firm Coast announced in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release that it has raised $35 million in a new growth equity funding round to expand its payment and expense management platform built for physical economy businesses. Thomvest Ventures led the growth round. New...

IPO
Anthropic Could File IPO Paperwork as Soon as Friday
October 22, 2026

Anthropic could make its IPO paperwork public as soon as Friday (Oct. 23). That would move the Claude developer one step closer to what could be the largest stock market debut ever. The deal is also a major test for the AI boom, as investors...

Investments
Mural Raises $15 Million to Help Companies Scale Agentic Finance
October 20, 2026

Financial infrastructure company Mural said it has raised $15 million in new funding. The Series A financing round will support the firm’s global expansion and investments in the regulatory and payments infrastructure needed to scale agentic finance, Mural said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) news...