Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in Fintech (3/17/25)

Digital Wealth News Continues our Weekly Series Covering the Largest VC Deals of the Week Worldwide in Fintech

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Happy St Patty’s Day …. 

Friends, this past week saw funding flowing into blockchain interoperability, embedded finance, and digital estate planning. 

What a pot of gold these companies found at the end of the rainbow!!

 

Key Trends from This Week’s Fintech & Digital Wealth Fundings:

  • Blockchain and Interoperability See Strong Institutional BackingAxelar Foundation’s $30M+ investment underscores the continued push for decentralized finance and blockchain infrastructure.
  • Embedded Finance and Business Intelligence Scale UpOmni ($69M) and Synctera ($15M) demonstrate the growing need for integrated analytics and banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms.
  • Estate Planning and Secure Payments Gain TractionTrust & Will ($25M) and LiquidTrust ($4M) highlight increasing demand for digital solutions in wealth management and payment security.

2Top 5 Funded Deals:

  1. Omni

    • Location: San Francisco, CA
    • Description: Omni provides a business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that enables organizations to streamline data-driven decision-making.
    • Funding Amount: $69M
    • Funding Round: Series B
  2. Axelar Foundation

    • Location: Decentralized (Global)
    • Description: Axelar Foundation supports the Axelar Network, a decentralized blockchain interoperability platform that facilitates secure transactions across multiple blockchain ecosystems.
    • Funding Amount: Over $30M in strategic investments into AXL token
    • Funding Round: Not specified
  3. Trust & Will

    • Location: San Diego, CA
    • Description: Trust & Will is a digital estate planning platform that modernizes and simplifies the process of creating wills, trusts, and probate documentation.
    • Funding Amount: Over $25M
    • Funding Round: Series C
  4. Synctera

    • Location: San Francisco, CA
    • Description: Synctera is a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) and embedded finance company that enables fintechs and enterprises to integrate financial services seamlessly.
    • Funding Amount: $15M
    • Funding Round: Funding round not specified
  5. August

    • Location: Geneva, Switzerland
    • Description: August provides an on-chain prime brokerage and execution platform designed to improve efficiency and liquidity for institutional crypto investors.
    • Funding Amount: $10M
    • Funding Round: Series A

This post was written by DWN staff with the assistance of ChatGPT, utilizing data from FinSMEs