Startups

Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.

The legaltech incumbent bets that proprietary data depth beats standalone AI wrappers as agentic platforms go enterprise-standard.

Traust Structured appoints Erin Rooney as shareholder and MD to drive consolidation across organ-transport aviation and defence drone manufacturing.

TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising

F2 Strategy adds Salesforce and data-engineering depth to its wealth-management tech stack with its third acquisition of 2026.

A J.P. Morgan-led debt package backs Bird's Agentic Harness, letting AI agents call, text and email without human intervention.

A two-week capital surge across Saudi, UAE and Egypt signals the Gulf's payment infrastructure is becoming a sovereign-grade asset class.

Hello Purple opens Purple Group's payments and trading stack to external founders, targeting the persistent infrastructure bottleneck in fintech product creation.

The Chinese facility-management integrator's five-country expansion signals where semiconductor and optoelectronic capex is flowing.

Two industrial automation firms demo an integrated robotic kitting and bagging system at Chicago's PACK EXPO in October.

UK insurtech Subcontext lets insurers sell protection products inside AI assistants, days after the FCA flagged agentic distribution as a protection-gap fix.

Klarna's summer sprint spans a US banking licence bid, AI shopping integrations, and a $36.6bn GMV quarter.

A UK crypto accounting firm joins a global accelerator to plug a structural compliance gap for Web3 founders scaling across the Gulf.

Devexperts' trading platform is now one of only two Bappebti-authorised systems, opening a path into Indonesia's fast-growing digital asset sector.

Belfast startup targets independent aesthetic clinics with a £25 flat-fee system, cutting deposit commissions to zero.

Verto's Visa-backed corporate card offers African SMEs spend across 11 currencies with zero FX markups at 150 million merchants.

Morph Payments expands blockchain network support, targeting SMEs in emerging markets where TRON-based USDT transfers dominate cross-border trade.

Sovereign and development capital backs MENA's payments infrastructure layer as GCC revenues triple and agentic commerce shapes the next product frontier.

A new integration connects driverless truck inspection data to state enforcement networks, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for nationwide autonomous freight.

A PropTech platform partners with a state-wide commercial broker association to embed property management tools at the point of deal close.