Select Fintech investments and acquisitions this past week, beginning with a whopper from Deluxe.
Deluxe acquires Celero for $625 million deal. Celero offers merchant solutions for small to mid-sized businesses and strategic partners, including an all-in-one suite of omnichannel payment solutions. Learn more here.
Chronograph announces $140M+ minority growth investment
The global provider of portfolio monitoring, valuations, and analytics technology for institutional private capital limited partners (“LP”) and general partners (“GP”), secured the raise from Sixth Street Growth, the dedicated growth investing platform of Sixth Street. All existing investors – Summit Partners, Carlyle AlpInvest, Nasdaq Ventures, and Sidekick Partners – also participated.
Michael Bauer and Alex Goodman will join Chronograph’s board of directors.
Interchecks confirms $50M C round
The instant payments platform serving sportsbooks, fintechs, and financial institutions Series C was led by Bettor Capital, Commerce Ventures, Decades Holdings, and Thayer Street Partners.
Alongside the raise, the company announced the general availability of Account Funding Transactions (“AFT”) that enables businesses to fund eligible accounts using debit credentials, with transaction processing designed to support fast, secure funding experiences. This expands Interchecks’ platform to cover the full lifecycle of money movement for its clients.
Risk controls embedded in AFT include account verification, real-time duplicate card detection, customizable velocity limits benchmarked to industry standards, and proactive monitoring of suspicious activity.
Flagright welcomes $12.5M Series A
The AI operating system for financial crime compliance’s Series A was led by Infinity Ventures, with participation from Sella Direct Ventures and continued backing from existing investors, including Frontline and Y Combinator.
The round will expand explainable AI use cases across compliance operations, including investigations, alert intelligence, rule optimization, decision support, and audit-ready workflows.
RDC closes $7M round
Receipts Depositary Corporation (RDC), a depositary that can issue depositary receipts (DR) on digital and alternative assets, closed a $7 million oversubscribed funding round led by LiveOak Ventures, with participation from strategic investors including Hivemind Capital, Onigiri Capital, OTC Markets Group, GTS, and Redbeard Ventures.
The funding will support the launch of new DR products, expansion of distribution capabilities, continued investment in capital markets infrastructure, and hiring.
RDC provides the issuer services, operational infrastructure, and market connectivity required to bring DR products to U.S. investors across a range of asset classes, connecting asset issuers, intermediaries, and U.S. capital markets through regulated, securities market-eligible instruments.
Ripple invests in African fintech Futterwave
This partnership advances Flutterwave’s long-term stablecoin strategy by connecting its cross-border settlement capabilities with enterprise-grade digital liquidity. The investment is a part of Flutterwave’s Series E fundraising, which values the company at $3.2 billion.
By merging traditional fiat payment methods, including local cards, mobile wallets, and bank transfers, with Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology, the partnership eliminates the historical friction points of African cross-border payments, such as multi-day delays and inflated FX margins. Instead, businesses will experience guaranteed liquidity, predictable pricing, and real-time settlement.
Wayflyer acquires Conjura
Conjura is an AI-driven e-commerce analytics platform. The deal advances Wayfler’s existing AI product roadmap.
Wayflyer was originally incubated within Conjura in 2019 before becoming a standalone business. All of Conjura’s employees will join Wayflyer to accelerate the development of AI-enabled financial tools that integrate data directly into funding and growth decisions.
Nordic Capital to acquire Liberis
Liberis is an embedded finance platform. Nordic Capital will also invest further in Qred, a digital small-business bank.
Founded in Stockholm in 2015, Qred operates under a full banking license with a deposit-funded balance sheet and an expanding suite of financial products across Northern Europe.
The combined business aims to create an integrated platform spanning term loans, revenue-based financing, working capital lines, cards, and future financial products across both direct and embedded channels, helping to close the financial services gap facing millions of SMBs. The new entity will have approximately 600 employees, revenues exceeding EUR 250 million, and a current active customer base of more than 53,000 SMBs, with access to circa 11.5 million addressable merchants across 17 countries.