June saw fresh rounds of funding hitting the global fintech industry, with investors backing companies across payments, infrastructure, insurance and even the space economy.
Digital mortgage lender Nesto has become the latest fintech unicorn after landing its $1.4 billion valuation following a $216 million Series E funding round. Elsewhere, payments company Airwallex has reached an $11 billion valuation with a Series H funding round raising $320 million, with further investor backing across the industry.
Fintech’s latest unicorn with $1.4 billion valuation
Digital mortgage lender Nesto has hit unicorn status with a $1.4 billion valuation after closing a Series E funding round of $216 million.
Nesto operates a cloud-based platform that offers direct-to-consumer digital lending as well as white-label mortgage software to financial institutions while automating the residential and commercial mortgage lifecycle.
The company plans to expand beyond mortgages to bring its AI-powered solutions to broader financial services industries. The capital will be used to accelerate the development of Nesto’s technology and AI capabilities to enable faster onboarding and scale its platform across the industry.
Payments continue to lead investment
High-growth paytech BR-DGE has secured a £10 million funding round to boost its international strategy. With a 15-fold increase in platform volumes, the company is expecting to exceed 100 million transactions per month by year-end.
With its established position in gaming payments, this latest funding round sees specialist US-Based gaming industry investor Bettor Capital join as a new growth owner alongside continued backing from existing investors.
Looking to accelerate their global expansion, the paytech is now expanding into enterprise sectors beyond gaming payments, with recent customer wins including e-commerce business The Hut Group and betting operator Betfred.
Airwallex has reached an $11 billion valuation with a Series H funding round raising $320 million led by returning investor Addition, as it develops a consumer wallet that would let AI agents make purchases within agreed limits.
Airwallex plans to use the capital to develop products for what it calls autonomous finance and agentic commerce, as well as expanding its infrastructure, teams and licenses into additional markets.
AI-enabled services continue to grow
Alan, a prevention insurance company, announced an agreement for a Series G financing round of $550 million led by Prosus, one of the world’s largest technology operators and investors based in the Netherlands.
The funding marks a major milestone in Alan’s journey, bringing their company valuation to $6.3 billion as it enters a new phase of growth to transform healthcare through prevention, technology and AI. The company has big goals to make prevention insurance the preferred model for healthcare, planning to expand its model in new countries and deepen its presence in existing markets.
Believing AI will transform healthcare through personalised prevention and support, Alan hopes to improve the outcomes for millions of people and reduce the long-term cost of care with its integrated healthcare platform.
Governed communication intelligence company, LeapXpert, hopes to accelerate enterprise conversations on modern channels with a $180 million growth investment, led by Riverwood Capital.
Claiming “messaging is where business happens now”, the LeapXpert communications platform brings enterprise grade governance to consumer messaging channels used by employees and their clients. The company is moving forward into its next phase of growth, focusing on bringing AI to enterprise communications that have found themselves on channels like WhatsApp, iMessage, and WeChat, turning data into valuable company intelligence and assets.
It plans to use the funding to deepen the platform’s ability to understand and act on governed conversations and accelerate growth across financial services, the public sector and the broader enterprise market – as well as adding to its senior leadership team.
Regtech company Kalipso has raised $3.2 million in a round led by Varsity. Founded in 2025 by lawyers Pierre Ferran and Virginia Debernardi, Kalipso uses AI to help financial institutions monitor and implement regulatory change. It monitors more than 100 regulatory sources across over 40 jurisdictions and processes more than 3,000 updates a day.
Fintech is still trying to make things better for consumers
Indian fintech rewards platform CRED will raise $900 million in its latest Series H round led by Meta, who joins as a minority investor.
Building a platform that boosts financial progress for creditworthy Indians with products across payments, lending, insurance, wealth and lifestyle. It processes over 40 per cent of credit card bill payments in India, with 1.7 million members engaging with its services every month.
The funding will be used to accelerate CRED’s growth plans, build institutional muscle and extend its leadership across categories. Founder Kunal Shah steps away from his operating role as CEO to transition to the global leadership team at Meta, with Miten Sampat taking over as interim CEO after driving strategy and finance for CRED since 2020.
Financial Infrastructure continues to modernise
Ramp, an expense management company, announced a $750 million primary financing round led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, valuing the company at $44 billion.
Ramp’s mission is to save companies time and money through financial infrastructure that streamlines approvals, processes payments and closes books.
The round comes as Ramp extends its capabilities into managing the fastest-growing cost in business: tokens. Growing TPV over 170 per cent year over year in March 2026, the company’s highest growth rate in three years, the company is growing into new AI categories like token spend management.
Nebex, a market infrastructure platform for the global space economy, has announced a $30 million seed investment led by GV (Google Ventures). The capital raise and a new banking relationship with J.P. Morgan will help Nebex grow its platform and connect sovereign space programmes with companies building new technologies to serve the space industry.
Lack of capital markets infrastructure that supports revenue and cash flow has been a significant challenge for the space industry. However, this support gives Nebex the additional leverage and financial infrastructure to build the global space economy at the scale needed to accelerate access and innovation across the ecosystem.
