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Fintech Duqu raises €1.5 million from Curiosity VC and No Such VenturesProprietary AI engine automates 95% of credit assessment
Amsterdam, 24 September 2026 – Duqu has raised €1.5 million in a pre-seed round from Curiosity VC and No Such Ventures. The Amsterdam-based fintech gives businesses immediate access to money they have already earned but that remains tied up in outstanding invoices. The company has also developed its own AI underwriting engine, automating 95% of […]
SEED Capital Closes €130M Fund V as Its Danish Seed Model Goes Nordic
The Copenhagen venture firm, SEED Capital has closed €130 million to back 15-17 startups across the Nordics, with initial checks of €3 million to €6 million. Sweden becomes a strategic priority, while cybersecurity and resilience join FinTech and AI-driven B2B as core investment areas. That makes the important change less about how much capital SEED […]
Blue Machines AI Launches Aurora, a BFSI-Native Speech-to-Text Model That Outperforms Leading ASR Models
Built for multilingual and code-mixed Indian financial conversations, Aurora records 1.51% English Semantic WER, 2.43% Hindi BFSI Semantic WER and 236 ms P50 latency in internal benchmarks Bengaluru, September 7, 2026: Blue Machines AI, an advanced agentic CX operating system for enterprises, today announced the launch of Aurora, a multilingual speech-to-text model purpose-built for the […]
AI Beyond the Model: The Funding Deals Shaping Tech This Week
AI funding did not belong to one layer of the stack this week. Large checks went into enterprise agents, inference infrastructure and AI governance, while capital simultaneously moved into batteries, medical imaging, defense lasers, space launch systems, quantum computing and renewable-energy finance. The pattern is becoming harder to ignore: investors are financing not only better […]
Apate.AI Raises $8.15M to Scale AI Scam Prevention Globally
Somewhere inside a scam operation, a fraudster can spend two hours persuading a victim to hand over money. For Apate.AI, the useful part is that the “victim” may never have existed. The Sydney-born company has built thousands of conversational AI agents designed to behave like believable scam targets. They answer calls and messages, keep fraudsters […]
Blue Machines AI Launches Project Icebreaker Ahead of GFF 2026: A Sovereign AI Co-Innovation Program for Indian BFSI
Blue Machines AI will partner with five most ambitious CX AI initiatives from Indian financial institutions and invest its multi-crore platform, proprietary technology, engineering and deployment capacity to take them into production Bengaluru, 31 August 2026: Blue Machines AI, an advanced agentic CX operating system for enterprises, today announced Project Icebreaker, a sovereign AI co-innovation program for […]
This Week in Funding: AI Capital Spreads Into Everything Around the Model
AI still commanded the biggest checks this week, but the more interesting pattern appeared underneath them. Capital moved into GPUs, physical AI, healthcare workflows, accounting, robotics, grid storage and quantum software. The model race is increasingly creating investment opportunities in everything models need to become useful. 🤖 AI & AI Infrastructure Alibaba raises HK$80B for […]
Fasset Reaches $1B Valuation as Its Stablecoin Network Goes Global
Fasset’s $1 billion valuation tells a bigger story than another fintech reaching unicorn status. The company says it is trusted by more than 2 million people across 125 countries, while its latest Series C announcement reports 3 million+ wallets, over 1,000 enterprise customers, more than 100 banking corridors, and over $40 billion in annualized transaction […]
Rillet Raises $100M at $1B Valuation to Rebuild Accounting
Rillet is building for a finance problem that has survived decades of software upgrades: accountants still spend too much time reconciling what already happened. The company’s answer is to redesign the ERP around a continuously updated general ledger where finance teams and AI agents work from the same data, accounting policies, controls, and audit trail. […]
Kita Raises $4.5M to Make Credit Underwriting Smarter With AI
Kita is building for borrowers whose financial lives do not fit neatly inside a credit bureau. Bank statements, payslips, invoices, e-wallet records and photographed documents can contain the evidence lenders need, yet reviewing them manually can turn a credit decision into days or weeks of paperwork. Kita is building an AI-native underwriting stack that converts […]
Centricity Raises ₹280 Crore to Scale India Wealthtech Platform
India’s wealth-management opportunity is expanding beyond the number of people investing. Portfolios themselves are becoming harder to manage. Mutual funds increasingly sit beside bonds, PMS strategies, alternative funds, insurance, offshore assets and GIFT City products, while many advisers still have to stitch together technology, reporting and product access themselves. Centricity was founded around the belief […]
Exclusive : Axle Raises $17.5M to Make Insurance Data Programmable
New York-based Axle is trying to make insurance behave less like paperwork and more like infrastructure. Mortgage lenders, rental companies, auto dealers, and employers depend on policy information every day, yet verifying coverage can still mean navigating carrier portals, reading documents, or making repeated phone calls. Axle is building an AI-native clearinghouse designed to make […]