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

By Cindy Taylor · Mar 17, 2025 Views: 1

Our top 5 VC deals for the week in digital wealth came to us from Omni, Axelar Foundation, Trust & Will, Synctera & August (3/17/25)

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 Backing – Axelar Foundation’s $30M+ investment underscores the continued push for decentralized finance and blockchain infrastructure.
Embedded Finance and Business Intelligence Scale Up – Omni ($69M) and Synctera ($15M) demonstrate the growing need for integrated analytics and banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms.
Estate Planning and Secure Payments Gain Traction – Trust & Will ($25M) and LiquidTrust ($4M) highlight increasing demand for digital solutions in wealth management and payment security.

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
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
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
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
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