Fintech companies Ellis, Naran, Fisent Technologies, Model ML, Traydstream, Fazeshift, Finster AI, and Tap & Go have collectively secured tens of millions in new funding rounds, with investments from major firms including First Round Capital, Landel, Fintop, HSBC Asset Management, Mashreq’s NeoVentures, Amex Ventures, UBS Investment Bank, FactSet, and Cashflows.
Ellis, a private credit operations platform, emerged from stealth with over $10 million in a seed funding round led by First Round Capital. Additional investors included Kearny Jackson, 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla Ventures, Slow Ventures, Wilshire Lane, Westbound, Collide Capital, and Gallery Ventures, alongside various angel investors. The company, founded by Ryan Williams of Cadre, consolidates fund administration, loan servicing, general ledgers, bank feeds, regulatory filings, and spreadsheets. Ellis plans to utilize the funding to expand its team and enhance platform capabilities in areas such as reconciliation, LP reporting, SBIC compliance, and document intelligence, with future intentions to extend its AI-native operating foundation across the broader alternatives ecosystem.
Dubai-based mobility fintech Naran secured $10 million in equity and debt financing from Landel to expand its vehicle fleet and rent-to-own solutions. Founded in 2025 by Bayaskhalan Alexeev and Alexander Gubarev, Naran offers rent-to-own financing for ride-hailing and delivery companies, providing underbanked workers with access to vehicles through flexible terms. The company aims to evolve into a full-stack platform offering fleet management technology and credit-building services for underbanked individuals, with plans to expand its software and financing to third-party fleet operators across emerging markets, including a September launch in Paraguay, adding to its existing presence in Côte d’Ivoire, Colombia, Senegal, and Peru. By 2030, Naran targets operations in 10 countries, generating 30,000 income opportunities and deploying 10,000 cars and 20,000 motorcycles.
Canada’s Fisent Technologies raised $4.3 million in an investment round led by Fintop, with repeat participation from Pegasystems, bringing its total funding to $6.3 million. Founded in 2021, Fisent Technologies develops the BizAI agentic suite to automate repetitive tasks. The new funding will support the expansion of its enterprise go-to-market team, strengthen customer enablement and deployment engineering capabilities, and accelerate product development, following the launch of its BizAI Studio for building automation workflows. John Philpott, Partner at Fintop, will join Fisent’s board of directors.
US-based AI-focused fintech Model ML received an undisclosed investment from HSBC Asset Management’s Venture Capital strategy, bringing its total funding to over $100 million. Founded in 2023 by brothers Chaz and Arnie Englander, Model ML specializes in AI tools that automate research, due diligence, financial analysis, and document creation workflows for financial institutions. The firm previously secured a $75 million Series A in November 2025.
UK-based trade finance fintech Traydstream secured backing from NeoVentures, the corporate venture capital arm of Mashreq. The undisclosed investment will support Traydstream’s international scaling strategy, aiming to simplify trade, reduce operational complexity, and create value for banks and businesses. Founded in 2015, Traydstream leverages AI to digitize workflows and automate document examination for international trade, having supported over $350 billion in trade volumes across more than seven million transactions. This investment extends an existing partnership that began with the co-creation of TraydFund in 2025. NeoVentures joins an investor group that includes Pivot Investment Partners, e& Capital, Spearhead Capital, AFG Partners, and several European family offices.
Fazeshift, an accounts receivable-focused fintech, received an undisclosed investment from Amex Ventures, three months after its $17 million Series A funding in May. Founded in 2024, Fazeshift uses AI to automate invoicing, payment reconciliation, and collections. The investment will support product development and team growth as the company expands its platform beyond accounts receivable towards a broader CFO suite for autonomous finance.
UK-based fintech Finster AI secured an undisclosed Series B investment from UBS Investment Bank and FactSet. Established in 2023, Finster AI is an intelligence orchestration platform designed to assist investment banks, asset managers, and institutional investors in sourcing, synthesizing, and acting on various data types within existing workflows. The investment will support the continued development of enterprise-grade AI infrastructure tailored for investment banking use cases, including expanded workflow capabilities and deeper data integrations for regulated environments, building on a partnership with FactSet’s AI for Banking platform. Finster previously raised $15 million in combined seed and Series A funding in October 2025, with participation from FinTech Collective, Peak XV, and Hoxton Ventures.
Tap & Go received an undisclosed investment from fellow paytech Cashflows to expand its product suite across various verticals, including universities, stadiums, dentistry, hotels, builders’ merchants, and the motor sector. Founded in 2022 by managing director Anna McDonald, Tap & Go provides merchants with point-of-sale (POS) solutions and business financing services. This funding enhances an existing partnership with Cashflows, which began in 2025 with Cashflows providing infrastructure and transaction settlement services for Tap & Go’s card machines. The investment will enable Tap & Go to focus on growth and broaden its solutions to include e-commerce, virtual payments, and multi-site offerings.
