#Startups

Decentralized finance participants Resolv Labs and Centrifuge announce a structured deployment of up to $100 million of tokenized institutional credit (JAAA) into Aave Horizon lending markets.

Indian B2B cross-border payments fintech Xflow closes a $16.6 million Series A round led by General Catalyst and secures a full Payment Aggregator-Cross Border (PA-CB) licence from the RBI.

Morocco-based retail fintech WafR has closed an oversubscribed $4 million seed round to expand its network of neighborhood merchants acting as last-mile financial access points across the region.

Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup ToneTag secures $3.8 million from Qualcomm Ventures to accelerate its edge AI-enabled, sound-based proximity commerce technologies.

Kolkata and Gurugram-based fintech startup Roopya raises ₹4 crore in seed funding led by Inflection Point Ventures to scale its no-code lending infrastructure and expand its market footprint.

London-based FYLD secures €34 million in Series B funding led by Energy Impact Partners to accelerate the deployment of its AI-powered operational intelligence platform across global infrastructure sectors.

Bedfordshire-based biotech company Tozaro raises £6 million led by Mercia Ventures to advance its Smart Polymer technology, aimed at lowering the astronomical costs of viral vector production for cell and gene therapies.

London-based digital health startup Nul announces a €840,000 Seed funding round led by dmg ventures and BYVP to support its alcohol consumption reduction platform.

Indian fintech startup Olyv secures $23 million in a Series B round led by The Fundamentum Partnership to broaden its financial product suite and scale operations for India’s underbanked population.

Decentralized finance platform Resolv Labs shifts its strategic emphasis in 2026 toward institutional integration, diversified asset exposure, and stablecoin-as-a-service infrastructure.

New York-based fintech Vestwell secures $385 million in a Series E round co-led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street Growth, doubling its valuation to $2 billion to expand its digital savings infrastructure.

AlphaTON Capital (ATON) pivots to deploying AI compute infrastructure for Telegram's TON ecosystem, raising $44M for GPU-based build-outs and AI-driven tools.