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💸 Venture Financing

1. Payit, a government services payment platform, raised $90 million.
2. Parafin, a provider of growth capital to small businesses, raised a $60 million Series B at a $520 million valuation.
3. Savana, a builder of financial software for banks and fintechs, raised a $45 million Series A.
4. Geopagos, an Argentinian payments infrastructure builder, raised $35 million.
5. Grasshopper, a small business-focused neobank and banking-as-a-service provider, raised $30.4 million.
6. Mosey, a payroll compliance platform, raised an $18 million Series A.
7. Ben, a workplace benefits and payroll platform, raised a $16 million Series A.
8. Kompliant, which began as a payments service for medical marijuana but has evolved into a compliance platform, raised a $14 million seed round.
9. ZayZoon, a Canadian earned wage access startup, raised $12.5 million.
10. Leapfin, a financial data consolidation and reporting tool, raised a $12 million Series A.
11. Twid, an Indian startup operating a rewards-based payment platform, raised $12 million.
12. OneLoad, a Pakistani non-banking digital payments service for merchants, raised $11 million.
13. Mudafy, a real estate brokerage focused on Latin America, raised a $10 million Series A.
14. NG.CASH, a Brazilian investment platform, raised a $10 million seed round.
15. Nada, builder of a set of real-estate investment products called ‘Cityfunds,’ raised an $8.1 million seed round.
16. Kontempo, a Mexican business-to-business buy-now-pay-later startup, raised $6.5 million in equity and $25 million in lending debt.
17. Nano, a Vietnamese earned wage access provider, raised $6.4 million in pre-Series A funding.
18. Footprint, a bank KYC and identity provider, raised $6 million in seed funding.
19. Compliance.ai, a finance and insurance regulatory tech provider, raised $6 million.
20. Infima, a predictive tool for fixed-income markets, emerged from stealth with a $5 million seed round.
21. Revolv3, a recurring billing platform for merchants, raised a $4.5 million seed.
22. Tartan, an Indian payroll management startup, raised $4.5 million.
23. MakersHub, a manufacturing cash flow and order management provider, raised a $4.5 million seed round.
24. Galoy, which is building bitcoin-native banking software, raised $4 million.
25. Debt DAO, a crypto credit protocol, raised a $3.5 million seed round.
26. Stackwell, a digital investment provider, raised $3.5 million in seed funding.
27. B9, a payroll advance provider to underbanked consumers, raised a $2.6 million seed round.
28. Youverify, a Nigerian KYC and identity verification provider for banks and fintechs, raised $2.5 million in seed funding.
29. Bluecopa, an Indian finance operations automation platform for high-growth companies, raised $2.3 million.
30. Coinfeeds, which is building a Bloomberg-like price tracking product for crypto, raised a $2 million seed round from FTX and Coinbase.
31. Ledger, the builder of a crypto hard wallet, is looking to raise $100 million above its last $1.5 billion valuation.

💵 Debt Financing

• Tabby, the Dubai-based buy-now-pay-later provider, raised $150 million in lending capital.

💰 Venture Funds

• Fintech venture capital firm Portage is raising a $1 billion fund focused on late-stage startups.
• Cambrian Ventures, started by Rex Salisbury (a good friend of the publication), raised $20 million for its inaugural fintech fund.

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