Stablecoin infrastructure platform OpenTrade has raised $17 million in new funding. The strategic round brings the U.K.-based startup’s total funding to more than $30 million and gives OpenTrade “the runway to scale at the pace the market is demanding,” as the company said in a post on LinkedIn Wednesday...
Autonomous finance data layer Astrada has raised $3.8 million in new funding. The company’s seed round, announced Wednesday (May 6), was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors and Nyca Partners, with participation from Visa and Mastercard. The company says the funding will help boost product development and...
Customer experience-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sierra has reportedly raised $950 million in new funding. That new financing values the company, which makes AI customer service agents, at $15.8 billion, CNBC reported Monday (May 6). Sierra was founded three years ago by OpenAI Chairman and...
Fun raised $72 million in a Series A funding round to expand its payments infrastructure that powers Polymarket and other internet-native capital markets. The company was founded in 2022, has operated in stealth, and now processes over $18 billion in transaction volume per year, delivering a 99.999% success rate and...
OPay Digital Services, a payments platform focused on Nigeria and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Sequoia Capital, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 1), citing unnamed sources. The company is seeking a valuation of $4 billion, which would double...
Rogo has raised $160 million for an artificial intelligence (AI) product focused on the finance world. The startup said its Series D round, announced Wednesday (April 29), will allow it to further integrate its product to new clients and expand to new regions. “Finance runs...
Hightouch raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to continue expanding the capabilities of its agentic AI marketing platform. The round valued the company at $2.75 billion, Hightouch said in a Wednesday (April 29) press release. That is up from the $1.2 billion...
The money is moving into artificial intelligence (AI) built around specific problems, and the amounts keep growing. The biggest check this week went to a research lab that has not shipped anything yet. Ineffable Intelligence, a London-based startup founded in late 2025 by David Silver,...
Manifest OS has raised $60 million for its AI-driven campaign to end lawyers’ billable hours. The startup’s new round—which it said is the largest Series A ever for a legal tech company—values Manifest at $750 million, the company announced in a news release Tuesday (April...