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Lambda Targets $14.5 Billion Valuation in Final Pre-IPO Round
October 06, 2026

Cloud computing company Lambda is raising as much as $4 billion in a funding round that will value the company at $14.5 billion, excluding the money raised, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Oct. 6), citing unnamed sources. Lambda is raising this funding in a final round before a...

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Valon Hits $2.3 Billion Valuation as Mortgage Servicers Swap Mainframes for AI
October 05, 2026

Valon Technologies raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for mortgage servicing, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. The round doubled Valon’s valuation to $2.3 billion, according to the release....

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Nubank Alum Launches Decade to Give Money an AI Copilot
October 05, 2026

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Decade’s Vitor Olivier Vitor Olivier spent years building the infrastructure behind Nubank, the Brazilian digital bank that gave roughly 100 million people a cheaper, simpler way to handle everyday transactions. Now he is going after the part of financial life...

IPO
OpenPayd Sets Groundwork for 2027 US Stock Market Listing
October 04, 2026

Payments infrastructure firm OpenPayd is reportedly setting the stage to go public in the U.S. The U.K. company expects to list on the Nasdaq by the year’s end as it prepares to enter the America market and embark on new acquisitions, CEO Iana Dimitrova said...

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Armadin Raises $255 Million to Scale Agentic Cybersecurity Platform
October 01, 2026

Cybersecurity firm Armadin says it has raised $255.5 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Thursday (Oct. 1), values Aramdin at more than $2.5 billion and will help it scale its agentic security platform, research, training and go-to-market efforts. “Seven months after emerging from stealth, Armadin...

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Robinhood Lets AI Agents Trade Without Customer Sign-Off
October 01, 2026

Robinhood is giving retail investors new access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can trade for them. Customers approve each order by default. They can also turn approvals off and let the agent act alone. The company unveiled Robinhood Agents at its HOOD Summit in...

IPO
Zilch Looks to Take BNPL Firm Public in 2027
September 30, 2026

U.K. FinTech Zilch is reportedly in discussions with banks as it prepares to go public. The company, whose offerings include buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans, is looking to list on the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Sept. 30).  Sources familiar...

Fintech Investments
Middle Market Firms Struggle Most to Justify Financial Tech Upgrades, PYMNTS Finds
September 28, 2026

Middle market companies are the most active embedded finance upgraders, but they also report the greatest difficulty connecting those investments to business strategy. Among firms with $250 million to $1 billion in annual revenue, 45% cite strategic alignment, decision making and return on investment as...

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Bird Secures $450 Million and Extends Communications Infrastructure to AI Agents
September 23, 2026

Bird, a provider of communications infrastructure for businesses and artificial intelligence (AI) agents, secured $450 million in debt financing, Bird Founder and CEO Robert Vis said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) blog post. The financing includes a $400 million term loan and a $50 million revolving credit facility, and...