FinTech companies raised $1.36bn across 12 deals in the first week of September, following the end of the summer holiday season. WealthTech firms accounted for four deals, while financial infrastructure, PayTech and CyberTech companies made up two each; RegTech and InsurTech completed one deal each. US firms accounted for seven transactions, while Indonesia, India, Brazil, Israel and Mexico each contributed one. US FinTech companies raised $16.3bn across 610 deals in Q2 2026, with funding up 9% year-on-year and 47% from the previous quarter.
WealthTech company FNZ secured $450m in new equity funding from existing institutional shareholders, including La Caisse, CPP Investments, Generation Investment Management and Motive Partners. The capital will support its technology platform, people and product range as it focuses on its core wealth-management business. FNZ has introduced FNZ Select, renewed major client relationships and divested FNZ Bank in Germany, IFSAM in Luxembourg and its Swiss core banking software business. Indonesia-based Ajaib also raised $270m in a Series C led by SBI Holdings, taking its total funding above $500m and supporting expansion and hiring.
Félix raised $200m from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst to expand its conversational financial platform on WhatsApp. The company plans to add lending and savings products through partners while expanding remittances, mobile top-ups, artificial intelligence, engineering and financial infrastructure. TabaPay secured $155m from FTV Capital alongside plans to acquire Transact Bank and create TabaBank, N.A., bringing payments and banking capabilities under one holding company. Slice reportedly raised $100m at a $450m valuation, while Aquiline agreed to invest in Flourish and take a controlling interest in the WealthTech platform.
Agentic AI security company HiddenLayer closed a $100m Series B to expand protection for autonomous and generative AI applications, including its Agent Harness Security product. Corgi raised $40.7m through a securities offering, building on a previous $2.6bn valuation for its AI-native commercial insurance platform. Guardio raised $40m at a $1.1bn valuation to expand protection against scams, phishing and AI-generated fraud. These raises reflect investor interest in security and insurance platforms responding to risks created by increasingly accessible AI tools.
Fraud counter-intelligence company Apate.AI raised more than $8.15m in an oversubscribed seed round to deploy autonomous agents that engage scammers and generate intelligence for disruption. Pluggy secured $3.5m to scale its Brazilian Open Finance infrastructure, which connects financial systems with banks and institutions. Swaystack received strategic backing to expand its account-activation platform for community banks and credit unions. Together, the deals show continued investment in infrastructure, account engagement and proactive approaches to financial crime.