ICYMI fintech funding round-up: Carry, Fragment, Powder, and more

ICYMI Funding Round-Up

Carry

  • Funding: $10 million Series A
  • Lead Investor: Accomplice VC
  • Valuation: $65 million pre-money
  • Purpose: Hiring, R&D initiatives
  • Additional: Opened $1 million allocation for public investment

Fragment

  • Funding: $9 million seed round
  • Investors: Angels from Adobe, Coinbase, Linear, Doordash, Uber
  • Purpose: Expand engineering team, go-to-market initiatives
  • Focus: Fintech engineers, double-entry accounting infrastructure

Powder

  • Funding: $5 million seed round
  • Investors: General Catalyst, Funder’s Club, Elefund, Litquidity Ventures, Script Capital, YCombinator
  • Purpose: Scale technology leveraging AI for wealth management
  • Focus: Generative AI for parsing financial and estate documents

Grazzy

  • Funding: $4 million seed round
  • Lead Investor: Next Coast Ventures
  • Purpose: Increase headcount, expand partnerships and integrations
  • Focus: Digital tipping, instant disbursements, inclusive banking for hospitality sector

Jarvis

  • Funding: £1.8 million seed round
  • Lead Investors: Ascension VC, Cornerstone VC
  • Purpose: Product development, ecosystem integration
  • Focus: Retirement planning solution, real-time insights, financial wellness

Archie Investments

  • First Investments: Wamo, Ekko
  • Purpose: Support fintech acceleration
  • Focus: Cross-border payments (Wamo), embedded sustainability solutions (Ekko)
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