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Flex Raises $70 Million to Improve Payments for High Net Worth Business Owners

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Flex, an AI-native private banking and business banking platform for high-net-worth business owners, has raised $70 million in a Series B1 round led by Halo Fund. The new capital boosts Flex's total equity to $180 million and total debt funding to $300 million, and will power the launch of Flex Global, a cross-border banking offering. The round included investors such as Portage Ventures, Wellington, Crosslink Capital, 53 Stations, Titanium Ventures, Spice, and Florida Funders, and follows a $60 million Series B seven months earlier. The raise values Flex at about $1.2 billion according to coverage calling it an AI banking platform with that valuation.

Why it's trending

Investors are backing AI-native, cross-border private banking solutions as business banking heats up again and Flex pushes global payments capabilities.

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If you think banks, not startups, will own cross-border private banking for founders, Flex just proved you wrong, again with a $70M Series B1 led by Ryan Smith's Halo Fund that jumps its equity to $180M and primes Flex Global for launch.

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