Startups

Cost discipline and AI-assisted engineering help Iress UK more than offset a 1% revenue dip in a consolidating wealth-management market.

UK mortgage consolidator Pivotal reports specialist lending growth at ten times the market rate, backed by AI-powered workflow investment.

Crypto-native travel infrastructure startup targets mainstream fintech platforms after powering booking for Kraken and MetaMask.

A $5bn raise at a $190bn valuation confirms Databricks as the default data infrastructure layer for enterprise AI agents.

A four-way public-private coalition targets Africa's 90%-SME economy with finance, digital tools and logistics to unlock cross-border trade.

LatAm fintech VC surged to $1.05bn in Q2 2026, with Mexico and Brazil claiming nine of the region's ten largest deals.

Gulf sovereign capital joins a16z and Tiger Global to back Colombia-founded Yuno as it targets $100bn in annual transaction volume.

Defacto's SEPA integration with Mambu Payments automates SME receivables financing, signalling a shift in how fintechs plug into institutional banking.

Robinhood's UK crypto launch via Bitstamp pairs zero-fee digital assets with a generative-AI analysis layer and a Layer 2 blockchain already at

Abu Dhabi and Dubai's largest public parking operators are merging data systems, signalling a new phase in Gulf urban mobility convergence.

A Saudi construction-tech startup closes its second seed round as Vision 2030 megaprojects drive procurement digitalisation demand.

A 1,764% year-on-year surge in notional volume signals prediction markets are no longer a fintech curiosity but a macro-scale asset class.

Swiss payments provider Payrexx moves into branded hardware, extending its all-in-one SME platform from online to in-store.

ABB's minority stake in the world's largest clean energy marketplace signals industrial electrification converging with sophisticated PPA deal infrastructure.

The New York fintech's Series A backs custom AI agents that automate equity research workflows for hedge funds and long-only managers.

The AI-native startup's Costco-style membership targets a £180bn UK utilities market ripe for cross-sector disruption.

Mubadala leads a Series C that bets sovereign capital on fleet ops, not vehicle tech, as autonomous mobility shifts to scaled deployment.

The integration brings agentic underwriting automation to Empower's lender base, adding AI decisioning to one of the US mortgage market's established origination

The Israeli defence tech firm's minority buy-in targets electric motor validation, a chokepoint in the fast-scaling UAV supply chain.

A European defence giant's strategic bet on a Canadian missile startup signals accelerating cross-Atlantic capital flows into sovereign air defence.