At FinTech Futures, we know that it can be easy to let funding announcements slip you by in this fast-paced industry. That’s why we put together our weekly In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) funding round-up so you can get the latest funding news.

Cleafy raises €12m in Series B round

Cleafy, an Italy-based cybersecurity firm, has secured €12 million in a Series B round co-led by United Ventures and eCAPITAL, bringing its total funding to date to €22 million. 

Founded in 2014, Cleafy serves more than 150 financial institutions across Europe and Latin America and claims to protect more than 250 million end users with its fraud and cyberattack detection infrastructure. The start-up’s list of clients includes ING, BCC Iccrea Group, Illimity Bank, and BPS (Suisse).

In a statement, Cleafy says: “The new capital will be used to accelerate the development of its predictive capabilities, scale threat analysis globally, and drive expansion into key banking markets across Europe and Latin America.”

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The funding arrives as Cleafy launches its new Cleafy for Workforce solution. This service extends its detection tools, checking for compromised accounts and other threats within corporate systems.

Dtcpay bags $10m to boost European expansion

Singapore-based paytech Dtcpay has secured $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, with Favour Capital, a Singapore-based boutique investment bank, serving as exclusive financial advisor.

Established in 2019 by Alice Liu and Band Zhao, Dtcpay enables businesses and individuals to store and transact using stablecoins, settling transactions instantly across both digital and fiat currencies. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the firm has extended its reach into the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia, holding licences and registrations in each region. 

Dtcpay has earmarked the funds to expand its operational presence across new jurisdictions, especially in Europe, following the approval of its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence in Luxembourg last year.

The firm also adds that the new injection of capital will facilitate enhancements to its product suite, as well as “strengthen its underlying infrastructure”. 

Obin AI emerges from stealth with $7m seed round

US-based agentic AI fintech Obin AI has bagged $7 million in seed funding led by Motive Partners. The round also saw participation from various angels as well as advisors Dr Fei-Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser. 

Headquartered in New York, Obin AI provides asset managers and financial services firms with an agentic AI workforce which automates complex workflows like underwriting, continuous monitoring, and risk detection. The firm uses organisations’ historical data to embed context into the agent layer, which it says deepens “reasoning across multi-decade datasets and complex financial documents”.

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“In a regulated industry managing billions or trillions of dollars, that final margin of error determines whether AI can be trusted,” says Apoorv Saxena, co-founder and CEO of Obin AI. “We built Obin AI to solve for that ‘last mile,’ where institutions can rely on AI to support high-stakes, firmwide decisions with confidence.”

Obin AI states the funds will support the expansion of its platform.

Steward secures $5m in Motive Partners-led funding round

Steward, a provider of anti-money laundering (AML) software for investment firms, has raised $5 million in a funding round also led by Motive Partners, as the start-up looks to “bring automation to one of finance’s most persistent operational bottlenecks”, according to a company statement.

The oversubscribed round also saw investment from Outward VC, Cooley, and a group of angel investors including Shai Wininger, Tom Keiser, Mark Ransford, and others.

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Founded in 2025 by CEO Arik Oslerne and CTO Moshe Lieberman, Steward is an AI-first compliance platform that automates AML and know your customer (KYC) onboarding and ongoing monitoring for investment companies. The platform also includes features for document collection, screening, risk assessment, and periodic reviews.

In a statement, Steward says the new capital will be used to “expand product capabilities and continue to scale the team”.

OpenCFO secures $2m four months after its founding

Seattle-headquartered fintech OpenCFO has raised $2 million in its “first institutional funding round”, the company says. Led by Endiya Partners, the round also saw participation from angel investors across both the US and India. 

Founded in December 2025, OpenCFO is an AI platform that automates payables, receivables, and treasury workflows to streamline financial operations for mid-market chief financial officers (CFOs). 

With the new funding, OpenCFO states: “The company plans to onboard senior hires with enterprise treasury deployment expertise, expand its engineering team in both the US and India, accelerate development of accounts payable and receivable automation agents, and scale customer acquisition in priority cross-border corridors including the United States to India, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Canada.”

The start-up adds that it “expects to launch its full agentic financial operations platform by mid-2026”.

Nordic Capital invests in TradingHub, becoming new majority shareholder

UK-based fintech TradingHub has secured an undisclosed sum of investment from Nordic Capital as it reveals the Stockholm-headquartered private equity investor will become its new majority stakeholder.

In a statement, TradingHub says: “Existing investor Summit Partners and TradingHub’s co-founder Neil Walker will continue to hold minority positions in the company following the close of the transaction.”

Founded in 2010, TradingHub is a trade surveillance technology provider that helps financial institutions detect potential market abuse. 

Looking to the future, TradingHub states: “With the support of Nordic Capital, TradingHub will accelerate its expansion across global markets while continuing to invest in the development of its trade surveillance platform. The company plans to further strengthen its capabilities across asset classes, including equities, and continue its expansion into new markets and geographies.”