Author: Charitarth Sindhu

AI wealth management startup Arca has raised $64 million as it emerges from stealth. The round splits into a $48.5 million Series A and a $15.5 million seed. General Catalyst led the Series A, with backing from Index Ventures and Venrock. Venrock led the earlier seed. Arca already manages more than $1 billion in client assets with a team of 28. Arca’s AI wealth management platform pairs human advisors with purpose-built AI. Founder and CEO Rron Rexha, a former product leader at Plaid, built the firm to take manual, repetitive work off an advisor’s plate. The software handles that operational…

On-chain finance data startup Allium has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Amplify Partners led the round. The deal lands as banks and payment firms push real volume into on-chain finance. Existing backers returned. Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures joined again. Amplify’s David Beyer will take a board seat. The raise lifts total funding to roughly $61.5 million since the 2024 Series A. What Allium Builds for On-Chain Finance Allium standardizes messy blockchain data for institutions. It cleans and enriches activity across more than 150 chains. That turns raw transactions into data a bank or fintech can query. The…

AI decision automation startup Taktile has raised $110 million in Series C funding. Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round. The deal signals how fast banks and insurers are shifting from testing AI to running it on live decisions. Existing backers joined the raise. Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and Dig Ventures all returned. That lifts total funding to $184 million since the 2020 launch. The company will now expand across the United States, EMEA, and Latin America, with a new São Paulo office. What Taktile Builds for AI Decision Automation Taktile sells AI decision…

Author: Sudhanshu Dubey, Delivery Manager, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Errna AI agents in finance are about to break the assumptions that authentication was built on. As these agents gain the agency to transact for users, the old methods of verifying a human identity start to falter. The same pressure is reshaping how value moves. Stablecoins are opening a path for cross-border settlement, while consented data movement is starting to rival account-to-account transfers in some contexts. AI agents in finance, stablecoin settlement, and data-driven transactions together define the next frontier in financial operations. AI Agents in Finance: The Authentication Conundrum AI agents in…

Author: Abhinav Gupta, Founder, Profitjets Point-of-need credit is one of the most misread tools in founder finance. Picture a direct-to-consumer founder weeks out from a big inventory buy. One option is an embedded line of working capital tied to receivables, drawn only when it is time to restock. The other is a traditional term loan with a generous personal guarantee, which dangles a larger headline number. The smarter choice is usually the first. It focuses not on the money itself, but on what the money buys and when the business will no longer need it. That distinction separates credit that works…

Tokenized financial markets just gained a powerful new bridge. Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, and crypto platform OKX have formed a 50-50 joint venture to build infrastructure for digitally native financial products. The deal connects two worlds that have long run on separate tracks. The plan is direct. Subject to regulatory approval, the venture will operate as a U.S. registered broker-dealer and futures commission merchant. As a result, OKX customers in the U.S. and overseas will gain access to ICE futures and NYSE tokenized equities. What the ICE and OKX Joint Venture Delivers Notably, the…

Author: Sudhanshu Dubey, Founder, Errna Neobank profitability slipped quietly out of view while the whole sector chased one number: users. Sleek apps, low fees, and aggressive sign-up offers fuelled astonishing growth. So the headline counts climbed, quarter after quarter, and everyone applauded. However, that growth hid a problem. The relentless push for scale often buried the economics underneath. Profit became an afterthought, and the business ran on a treadmill where bigger never quite meant better. Now the bill is arriving. Growth has plateaued for several players, and investors who once cheered user charts are asking harder questions about neobank profitability.…

Stablecoin infrastructure just pulled in fresh institutional capital. Trace Finance raised a $32 million Series A led by CoinFund, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, Jump Crypto, Valor Capital, Paxos, and HOF Capital. The money funds Trace’s push to scale regulated stablecoin infrastructure across Brazil, the United States, and emerging markets. The thesis is simple. Stablecoins alone do not fix cross-border payments, but stablecoins wired into regulated local banking do. Trace builds exactly that stablecoin infrastructure layer, and investors clearly see the category as worth funding. Inside the Trace and CoinFund Round Trace earned its reputation in a hard…

AI trade surveillance just drew a major vote of confidence. Behavox secured a $175 million preferred equity investment from HPS Investment Partners, the private credit firm now part of BlackRock. The capital sets up Behavox to expand globally, widen its platform, and pursue disciplined acquisitions. The raise carries weight for two reasons. It is Behavox’s first equity funding since 2020, and it lands while demand for AI trade surveillance keeps climbing. Regulated firms increasingly need systems that watch conduct, communications, and risk in real time. Inside the Behavox and HPS Deal HPS joins a strong cap table. Existing backers include…

Embedded lending just gained fresh firepower. Parafin secured a new credit facility led by Goldman Sachs, alongside One William Street Capital Management. The deal expands the capital Parafin can route to small businesses through the platforms they already use to run their operations. The move matters because demand keeps climbing. Small firms increasingly want financing built into their everyday software, not stuck behind a separate bank application. Parafin, named to the 2026 Forbes Fintech 50, sits right at that intersection of embedded lending and everyday tools. How the Parafin and Goldman Sachs Facility Works Parafin runs an embedded financial infrastructure…