[New Fundraising] Limited Completes $18.5 Million Seed Round Led by Third Prime and Others

Limited is a multi-currency fintech platform offering global banking services for both individuals and businesses. It provides US bank account opening, multi-currency wallets, virtual/physical cards, cross-border payments, and FX conversion. The platform emphasizes compliance and fund security, catering to freelancers, remote workers, and SMEs.

More about Limited：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Limited?k=MTgxMzk%3D

Source: https://x.com/limitedgrouphq/status/2103182827898675625

[New Fundraising] Raven Completes New Round of Funding at a Valuation of 90 Million; Coinbase Ventures Participates in the Round

Raven is a high-frequency algorithmic trading firm focused on digital assets, specializing in market making for CeFi (centralized exchanges) and liquidity provision for DeFi (decentralized finance). It operates proprietary low-latency, high-throughput trading systems to maintain market depth, tighten spreads, and improve trading efficiency for exchanges and projects. Users or partners can access its liquidity network for better quotes and more stable execution. Its mechanism is technology-driven, using algorithms to respond to market changes in real time, ensuring price discovery and a healthy order book.

More about Raven：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Raven?k=MTI3MzE%3D

Source:https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/coinbase-ventures-and-cmcc-global-close-strategic-funding-round-with-raven.html

[New Fundraising] Jeeves Closes $110 Million Series C Funding Round Led by CoinFund

Jeeves is a global financial platform that helps companies streamline everything from corporate payments and credit cards to expense management. Its cutting-edge technology is built to adapt to businesses of all sizes, making financial operations faster, smarter, and more efficient.

More about Jeeves：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Jeeves?k=MjQ2NDU%3D

Source:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/jeeves-raises-110-million-from-a16z-coinbase-for-crypto-push

[New Fundraising] Multicoin Capital announces an investment in Grass, the read layer for machine intelligence

Grass is a decentralized AI data network where users share idle bandwidth via browser extensions or node apps to scrape and verify public web data, providing traceable datasets for AI model training. Its core mechanisms include distributed data collection using residential IPs, recording metadata such as source, timestamp, and region on a Layer 2, generating zero-knowledge proofs to ensure data integrity, and selling cleaned data to AI companies. Users earn Grass points for contributing bandwidth, which can be exchanged for tokens.

More about Grass：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Grass?k=ODUzNQ%3D%3D

Source: https://multicoin.capital/2026/09/29/the-read-layer-for-machine-intelligence/

[New Fundraising] Walapay raised $4.6M in seed funding, led by Generative Ventures

Walapay is global money movement infrastructure for businesses and platforms. Through its API, developers can collect, hold, and move fiat and stablecoins on behalf of customers, onboard them with compliance checks, and create named multi-currency virtual bank accounts and digital asset wallets.

More about Walapay：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Walapay?k=MjYwODM%3D

Source: https://x.com/walapay_io/status/2105675240344789401

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[This Week's Funding Roundup]

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[New Fundraising] HyperLink Raises $2.5 Million in Funding; Alliance and Others Participate

HyperLink is a broker on Hyperliquid.

More about HyperLink：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/HyperLink?k=MjI0Mzk%3D

Source: https://x.com/hyperlink_xyz/status/2106729908693266755

[New Fundraising] Umia Raises $6M via $UMIA Token Auction

Umia is a full-stack operating platform for token-native ventures, integrating project launch, community fundraising, and on-chain governance. It provides infrastructure for legal entity formation, token issuance, and treasury management, and pioneers a "decision market" mechanism: key proposals are turned into prediction markets where participants express views by trading conditional tokens on different outcomes.

More about Umia：https://x.com/umia_finance/status/2107153949451288729

[New Fundraising] Xverse has closed a strategic funding round led by Draper Associates

Xverse is a non-custodial Bitcoin Web3 wallet supporting Bitcoin mainnet and Layer 2 networks such as Stacks and Starknet. Users can securely store, send, and receive Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes, BRC-20 tokens, and swap tokens via built-in exchange。

More about Xverse：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Xverse?k=NjM2NA%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/xverse/status/2107078372769816704?s=20

[New Fundraising] Spiko Raises $90M Series B Led by NEA to Make Yield Universal

Spiko is a French-regulated tokenization platform that issues UCITS-compliant money market funds, tokenizing risk-free assets such as U.S. Treasury bills into on-chain shares. Funds are held by an independent custodian bank and never sit on Spiko's balance sheet, ensuring a bankruptcy-remote structure.

More about Spiko：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Spiko?k=MTQxNDQ%3D

Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261006901425/en/Spiko-Raises-%2490M-Series-B-Led-by-NEA-to-Make-Yield-Universal

[New Fundraising] OKX Completes Funding Round at a $25 Billion Valuation; Standard Chartered Bank and Circle Among Investors

OKX is a cryptocurrency exchange that builds the next-gen financial ecosystem and provides spot, margin, futures, options, perpetual swaps trading, DeFi, lending, and mining services.

More about OKX：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/okx?k=Mzg5Nw%3D%3D&nt=transparency_disclosure

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-06/crypto-exchange-okx-raises-at-25-billion-from-stanchart-circle

[New Fundraising] Imperial Completes $1.5 Million Seed Round Led by Foundation Capital

Imperial is a perpetual futures trading terminal and order router on Solana. Users trade crypto, equities, FX, commodities, and pre-IPO price-linked perpetuals from one interface with a Solana wallet.

More about Imperial：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Imperial?k=MjYxMTc%3D

Source: https://x.com/ImperialPerps/status/2107471045406187963

[New Fundraising] Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

Anvil is an Ethereum-based collateral management protocol centered on the Collateral Vault and digital Letters of Credit (LOCs). It allows users to lock digital assets as collateral and issue fully secured credit instruments that are verifiable on-chain, without relying on a bilateral counterparty's balance sheet.

More about Anvil：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Anvil?k=MTU0OTk%3D

Source: https://x.com/anvil_xyz/status/2107576265611849921

[New Fundraising] SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney raises $19M for Navra

Navra is a fintech company founded by Mike Cagney, co-founder of SoFi and Figure, positioning itself as a bridge connecting traditional finance (TradFi) and the on-chain economy. It provides retail and institutional users with a single interface to access a curated selection of on-chain lending, trading, and yield protocols (annualized returns of approximately 3%-20%+). Key features include seedless key self-custody, an embedded AI agent real bank access, and a complete audit trail.

More about Navra：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Navra?k=MjYxMTk%3D

Source: https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/10/06/navra-mike-cagney-19-million-sofi-defi

[New Fundraising] Noah Closes $38 Million Seed Round, with FJ Labs and Others Participating

Noah is a stablecoin-based global payment infrastructure platform that provides API-first payment solutions for businesses and financial institutions. It supports bidirectional conversion between fiat and stablecoins, covering traditional banking channels such as SWIFT, ACH, and wire transfers, as well as on-chain stablecoin transfers. Users can create virtual accounts, initiate payments, receive funds, and automate currency conversion through a unified API or admin dashboard.

More about Noah：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Noah?k=MTg0NTc%3D

Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/07/3376327/0/en/noah-closes-38m-seed-funding-round-as-major-enterprises-move-cross-border-payments-onto-stablecoin.html

[New Fundraising] Vest Closes $13 Million Seed Round Led by Portal Ventures

Vest is a trustless, composable financial ecosystem built on zkRisk, a zero-knowledge unified risk engine. Its first product, Vest Exchange, offers perpetual futures trading: users connect an EVM or Solana wallet, deposit funds, and trade without gas fees. zkRisk uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify risk computations and solvency on-chain, and applies risk-indifference pricing—charging a Premia based on the risk a trade introduces rather than fixed fees—thereby achieving capital efficiency and risk isolation without exposing user data.

More about Vest：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Vest%20Exchange?k=NjY1OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/2026/10/07/exclusive-portal-ventures-vest-13-million-proprietary-trading-firm-traders-profits/

[New Fundraising] Nous Research Completes $90 Million Funding Round at a $1.5 Billion Valuation

Nous Research is a research collective focused on open-source language models and decentralized AI infrastructure. Its core offerings include the Hermes model series, the DisTrO distributed training framework, the Forge API, and Nous Chat. It aims to lower the barrier to AI training by reducing bandwidth requirements through DisTrO, enabling community participation in model training. It also provides a multi-model collaborative API and a privacy-friendly chat interface. Its mechanisms emphasize model neutrality, decentralized collaboration, and verifiable autonomy, seeking to reduce reliance on centralized compute.

More about Nous Research：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Vest%20Exchange?k=NjY1OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/nous-research-scores-90-million-to-bring-open-source-ai-assistant-to-enterprises-516f9208

[New Fundraising] Jumper Raises $3 Million in Funding

Jumper is a DeFi aggregation and routing interface built on LI.FI infrastructure. It is not a bridge or DEX itself and does not custody funds. It aggregates decentralized exchanges and cross-chain bridges across multiple blockchains, enabling users to swap or bridge tokens on the same or different chains, and enter yield positions from one interface. Under the hood, it uses LI.FI's Diamond modular architecture to combine swaps and bridges into a single transaction, and supports one-click Zaps into yield pools. It also offers Gas Top Up, portfolio tracking, and the Jumper Pass loyalty program.

More about Jumper：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Jumper?k=ODUxOQ%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/jumperapp/status/2107458405028049352

[New Job Dynamics] In the past one month, RootData has recorded job changes for over 100 key individuals.

Details: https://www.rootdata.com/people

[New Fundraising] Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors

Catalyst is an agent layer for financial markets, where users describe their ideas or trading logic in natural language, and the platform transforms them into monitored strategies that cover research, backtesting, and execution. It integrates the switching between banks, exchanges, securities firms, and protocols into one interface.

More about Catalyst：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Catalyst?k=MjYxMjg%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/2026/10/08/sequoia-backed-catalyst-raises-30-million-build-ai-trading-agents-everyday-investors/