Capitolis to acquire eSecLending in $200M, all-cash deal
eSecLending is an independent securities lending business working with large asset owners, including pension funds, insurance companies, and asset managers, to lend securities to major global banks.
The acquisition lets Capitolis add securities lending as a complementary capability to its existing financial resource optimization solutions.
Capitolis is acquiring eSecLending from Parthenon Capital and the company’s management team. As part of the transaction, Parthenon Capital is investing in Capitolis.
Ascerta changes name, raises $18M for enterprise AI management
Formerly known as Pay-i, Ascerta unveiled the new name alongside an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, BGV, Wipro Ventures and earlier investors. The round brings total funding to $22.9 million and will help Ascerta scale what it calls Enterprise AI Management, giving companies a single view of AI cost, adoption and business value across the organization.
Autoheal raises $7.9M for self-improving software, AI agents
The round was led by Innovation Endeavors, with Harpinder Singh joining Autoheal’s board, alongside participation from Emergent Ventures, U&I Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Batch Ventures, and Param Hansa Values.
Autoheal’s software factory connects existing coding agents, code repositories, CI/CD, observability, cloud runtimes, and issue trackers, giving all worker agents in the factory a shared engineering context graph.
Elio Mortgage announces $5.1M pre-seed
The round was led by Motive Partners and Social Leverage, with Jeff Horing, co-founder and managing director of Insight Partners, participating as an angel investor.
Elio is building its proprietary AI-native platform from inside a working mortgage operation, where engineers and loan officers work side by side. That live environment allows the company to redesign origination from within the workflow rather than trying to solve it from the outside with point solutions.
Paytech Walapay confirms $4.6M seed round
Walapay provides payments infrastructure for account issuance, collections, FX, and payouts. The round was led by Generative Ventures, with participation from Commerce Ventures, Polygon, Verda Ventures, NGC Ventures, FGV Capital, AAF, Jsquare, Knollwood, Big Brain Holdings and others.
Walapay gives enterprises, fintechs, payment service providers (PSPs), and financial institutions a single API to move money across currencies and geographies, with direct local rail integrations across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.