BlackFin Tech Weekly — March 30th, 2026
Every Week, we publish a short digest which sums up last week’s Fintech activity.
Hello FinTech Friends,
Welcome to another week of fintech insights. Let’s explore the news and trends shaping the industry!
Over the last week, there were eight fintech deals in Europe, totaling €66.9m in disclosed funding, including four transactions in the UK, one in France, one in Germany, one in Ireland and one in Sweden.
Congratulations to the three largest rounds announced last week:
Origin, a UK-based AI-powered global employee benefits platform, has raised €27.1m in a Series A+ round led by Notion Capital.
Interloom, a Germany-based enterprise AI platform for operational knowledge and automation, has raised €14.3m in a Seed round led by DN Capital.
Eunice, a UK-based AI-driven due diligence platform for alternative assets, has raised €6.9m in Seed and pre-Seed funding led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest.
Let’s dive!
Origin, a UK-based fintech providing AI-powered global employee benefits management infrastructure, raised €27.1m in a Series A+ round led by Notion Capital, with participation from Felix Capital, Acadian Ventures, existing investors, and additional growth financing from HSBC Innovation Banking UK. The company offers an AI-native platform that aggregates and structures fragmented global benefits data into a unified system, enabling organizations to analyze coverage, control costs, and optimize benefits across multiple countries. The funding will support product development and ecosystem expansion, as Origin aims to improve transparency and efficiency in one of the largest areas of enterprise spending.
Interloom, a Germany-based enterprise AI platform capturing operational knowledge for AI agents, raised €14.3m in a Seed round led by DN Capital, with participation from Bek Ventures and existing investor Air Street Capital. The company provides an enterprise operations platform that transforms tacit knowledge from emails, tickets, and workflows into a persistent “memory layer” for AI agents, enabling organizations to automate complex processes based on real-world decision-making. The funding will support further development of its Context Graph technology and expansion across enterprise customers, as Interloom aims to address the growing need for scalable, knowledge-driven automation in global operations.
Eunice, a UK-based RegTech company providing AI-powered due diligence infrastructure for alternative assets, raised €6.9m in Seed and pre-Seed funding led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest, with participation from Openspace Ventures and a group of angel investors. The company offers a platform that standardizes and automates due diligence and disclosure processes through AI-driven, audit-ready asset assessments, enabling institutions to document and defend investment decisions across regulated markets. The funding will support product development and market expansion, as Eunice aims to become a core infrastructure layer for transparency and accountability in alternative assets.
And finally, we bring you four news stories that caught our eye last week:
The European Investment Fund (EIF) is launching a €15bn fund of funds to back growth-stage investors across Europe, the largest of its kind. It aims to support 100 mid-size funds (€300m-600m) and mega funds (€1bn+), with a first close expected by summer. This is the second iteration of the European Tech Champions Initiative, launched in 2023 to bridge Europe’s estimated €70bn late-stage funding gap versus the US. The first fund raised €3.9bn and backed 14 €1bn+ funds from VCs including Atomico, Headline and Eurazeo. ETCI 2 will raise from a broader investor base including insurers, banks and pension funds. The EIF and EIB have committed €1.25bn, with the goal of unlocking up to €80bn in scaleup funding across Europe.
Solaris, headquartered in Germany, is a Banking-as-a-Service provider that has announced plans to transform into one of Europe’s first AI-native banks, less than three months after new CEO Steffen Jentsch took office. The strategy is backed by majority shareholder SBI Group, Japan’s financial conglomerate. The transformation builds on Solaris’ German full banking licence and its API-based embedded finance platform. The company will rebuild banking processes using artificial intelligence, with AI agents handling operations while humans retain control and governance oversight. Solaris will focus on existing partnerships including ADAC and Boerse Stuttgart Group. SBI’s CEO described Solaris as SBI’s central European building block for EEA access.
Revolut reported record pre-tax profits of $2.3bn (£1.7bn) for 2025, a 57% increase year-on-year and its fifth consecutive year of profitability. Group revenue rose 46% to $6bn, with 11 product lines each exceeding $135m in revenue. The neobank secured its full UK banking licence in March 2026 and filed for a US bank charter, committing £10bn over five years to international expansion. Revolut plans to base 40% of its global workforce in India by end-2026, adding 1,600 roles to reach 5,500 employees. The company committed £500m to its India Global Capability Centre, with hires spanning product development and fraud investigations.
Mastercard is looking to divest the real-time payments business it acquired from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019 for $3.2bn, which would unwind its largest ever acquisition. The company has engaged investment bankers to lead a sale expected to attract private equity interest. The unit, which facilitates account-to-account payments across Europe, generates approximately $370mn in annual revenues and around $100mn in EBITDA. Mastercard is likely to receive significantly less than its original purchase price. The acquisition aimed to make Mastercard a “multi-rail” payments group beyond pure cards, but the unit has dragged on growth. Mastercard has since pivoted, recently acquiring stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn.
Have a great start into the week!
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