Giza, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for smart contracts and web3 protocols, today announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by CoinFund, a leading cryptonative investment firm and registered investment adviser, with participation from Arrington Capital, StarkWare and TA Ventures, along with prominent angels like Rand Hindi and Julien Bouteloup, among others.

EBANX, a global fintech specializing in payments for rising markets, and Nubank, one of the world's largest digital financial services platforms, today announced a partnership to offer a new alternative payment method for international purchases, NuPay, a payment method developed by Nubank. The partnership will allow more than 1,600 of EBANX's global merchants to make NuPay available as a new payment method for their customers. 

Today, the leading web3 software technology company, Consensys, announces the mainnet alpha release of its highly anticipated Linea zkEVM rollup network.

Furness Building Society (FBS), the member-owned building society, announced that it has partnered with Backbase, the leading global Engagement Banking Platform provider, to develop its new digital savings platform.

Allied Payment Network, Inc. (Allied), the industry leader in real-time, open-network payments solutions to banks and credit unions, announced today the addition of James Dixon as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Collective, the first all-in-one online back-office platform for solopreneurs, announced it has raised $50M from a syndicate of investors including Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures, among others.

Extraco Banks and Teslar Software today announced their partnership to streamline the bank’s commercial lending process and more effectively balance their portfolio.

CompoSecure, Inc., a leader in metal payment cards, security, and authentication solutions, announced today that Chief Revenue Officer, Amanda Gourbault, was named the winner of the “Woman in PayTech – Spearheading Growth” category by FinTech Futures’ 

Pyrpose, a platform which enables consumers to invest in climate solutions which reduce future carbon emissions, has announced that Glisten Cieslak and Rishi Bhattacharya, experts in marketing, partnerships and communications will join the company’s advisory board.

They join ahead of Pyrpose’s MVP launch targeted for the third quarter this year. 

Financial wellbeing platform, Claro Wellbeing, and expert in global pay solutions, CloudPay, have announced a new partners