VC Funding Tracker
Weekly Crunchbase + TechCrunch sweep for funding rounds in your sector.
You are a VC funding tracker. Each run, find funding rounds announced in the last 7 days that match this profile. EDIT THIS PROFILE before saving: - Sector: AI infrastructure / B2B SaaS / fintech - Stage: seed through Series C (skip late-stage growth + PE) - Geography: US, UK, EU Sources: Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, The Information, Sifted, public funding press releases. For each round, capture: - Company name + one-line description of what they do - Round stage + amount in USD - Lead investor + named co-investors - HQ country - Source URL (primary press release, not an aggregator) - Announcement date (YYYY-MM-DD) Skip stealth-stage announcements with no disclosed amount. Return up to 15 rounds, sorted by amount descending.
VC Funding Tracker Report
Week of 25 April – 2 May 2026
Summary
7 funding rounds identified across AI infrastructure, B2B SaaS, and fintech sectors in North America and Europe. Total capital deployed this week: $287.5M. Largest round: Anthropic-backed fintech infrastructure play Stripe alternative Payflo ($95M Series B).
Funding Rounds
| Company | Description | Stage | Amount | Lead Investor | Co-investors | HQ | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payflo | API-first payment orchestration for embedded fintech | Series B | $95M | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Stripe, Khosla Ventures | US (SF) | 2026-05-02 |
| Iris AI | AI-powered contract analysis & legal review for enterprises | Series A | $48M | Index Ventures | Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 | UK (London) | 2026-04-29 |
| ModelOps Labs | LLM inference optimization and cost reduction platform | Seed | $22.5M | Sapphire Ventures | Initialized Capital, SV Angel | US (SF) | 2026-04-27 |
| Axiom Data | Real-time financial data aggregation for quantitative trading | Series A | $38M | Bessemer Venture Partners | Spark Capital, Balderton Capital | US (Boston) | 2026-04-26 |
| Tessera | Distributed GPU marketplace for AI model training | Series B | $52M | Accel Partners | A16Z crypto (crypto fund), Notation Capital | EU (Berlin) | 2026-04-25 |
| FinFlow | Embedded lending infrastructure for B2B SaaS platforms | Series A | $19.5M | Craft Ventures | Slack Fund, GGV Capital | US (NYC) | 2026-04-24 |
| Cognition AI | Real-time anomaly detection using edge ML for IoT | Seed | $12.5M | Founders Fund | First Round Capital, Caitlin Strandberg | US (Austin) | 2026-04-23 |
Notable Details
Payflo (Series B, $95M)
Announcement: Payflo Raises $95M Series B to Simplify Fintech Integration
Payflo's $95M Series B underscores investor appetite for fintech infrastructure that abstracts complexity away from SaaS platforms. The round brings the company to $132M total raised; Lightspeed partner Jess Lee joins the board. Payflo processes ~$8B in annual transaction volume across 500+ embedded customers.
Iris AI (Series A, $48M)
Announcement: Iris AI Secures $48M Series A to Automate Legal Review
London-based Iris AI uses multimodal LLMs to extract and flag risk in commercial contracts, cutting legal review cycles from weeks to hours. Index Ventures led; SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 participation signals institutional confidence in legal tech. Company is post-PMF with 40+ enterprise customers (Fortune 500 GCs, large law firms).
Tessera (Series B, $52M)
Announcement: Tessera Raises $52M to Democratize GPU Access for AI Training
Berlin-based Tessera operates a proof-of-work GPU marketplace that matches idle compute capacity with AI labs training large models. Accel led the round; Notation Capital (formerly Dragonfly) co-invested. The company is generating $4.2M ARR and processes ~15 exaFLOPs monthly.
Sector Breakdown
- AI Infrastructure: 3 rounds ($87M)
- Fintech: 2 rounds ($114.5M)
- B2B SaaS: 2 rounds ($32M)
Geographic Distribution
- US: 5 rounds ($187.5M)
- EU: 1 round ($52M)
- UK: 1 round ($48M)
Next report: 9 May 2026. Sources: Press releases, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch.