– Metrika is a Cambridge, Mass.-based operational intelligence source for blockchain.
– Company raised $14M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Neotribe Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Nyca Partners and SCB 10X, and previous investors, among others.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s platform and broaden its customer base across numerous industries.

– Peach Finance raised $20m in Series A funding.
– Canapi Ventures led the round with participation from existing and new investors, SciFi VC, Caffeinated Capital, Nyca Partners and Moore Specialty Credit.
– The funding will support Peach’s continued expansion within the massive and growing loan management and servicing market, including through new credit product launches, customer growth initiatives and increased hiring.
Peach is the first all-in-one SaaS platform addressing the full range of evolving needs of fintech companies and established financial institutions like banks and credit unions through its loan management, servicing and Compliance Guard™ product offerings.
– Peach’s third-generation system places an emphasis on maximum configurability and superior borrower and customer service experiences, features that are increasingly demanded by digital lenders and expected by today’s consumers.

– Ribbon, the homeownership company, announces today it has secured $150 million, inclusive of $75 million in Series C equity financing and $75 million in additional working capital.
– The Series C was led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from existing investors Greylock, Bain Capital Ventures, NFX, Nyca, Thomvest and Jake Seid.
– This investment will enable more than $10 billion in home transactions annually, and fuel Ribbon’s swift expansion into new states.

– SentiLink announced a $70m Series B funding round led by David Sacks of Craft Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and NYCA.
– This brings SentiLink’s total funding raised to $85m.
– David Sacks and Victoria Treyger from Felicis will be joining SentiLink’s board as observers.
– SentiLink works with over 100 financial institutions, and has verified several hundred million applications to date.
– SentiLink takes a different approach than other companies in the space. Instead of spewing buzzwords like “Artificial Intelligence,” SentiLink focuses on deeply understanding fraud and identity, and then using technology to productionalize these insights.

– Catch, a health insurance and retirement savings company, raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Crosslink and joined by earlier investors Khosla Ventures, NYCA Partners, Kindred Ventures and Urban Innovation Fund.
– The company plans to use the funding to increase its headcount to service those partnerships and go after more.

– Blooma, the leading AI-powered digital underwriting platform for commercial real estate (CRE), announced the close of a $15 million Series A investment round.
– Canapi Ventures led the round with participation from existing investor Nyca Partners.
– The Series A funding will be used to drive continued execution of Blooma’s product roadmap and support the hiring of key personnel to enable Blooma to better serve its quickly-growing base of commercial bank, private bank and broker customers in the CRE segment.
– Founded in 2018, Blooma brings together best-in-class technology and a seamless workflow to significantly improve loan origination and portfolio monitoring processes for operators in the CRE space.

– Trellis Technologies, Inc. from San Francisco CA raised $10M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by QED Investors with participation from existing investors NYCA Partners and General Catalyst.
– Trellis intends to use the funds to accelerate hiring, expand partnerships and develop new products.

– Railz is a developer of an API that enables financial institutions and fintechs real-time access to their customers’ accounting data.
– The company raised $12m in Series A funding.
– Nyca Partners led the round and was joined by Susa Ventures, Vestigo Ventures, Entrée Capital Global Founders Capital, Plug and Play Ventures, N49P, and Hack VC.

– Informed.IQ, a San Francisco, CA-based technology company used by financial institutions to verify income, assets, residence, and other loan origination data and documents, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was co-led by Nyca Partners and US Venture Partners with participation from angels such as Manuel Bronstein, former VP of Product at Google and Dan Romero, former VP of Coinbase.
– The company intends to use the funds to expand its business reach.

– FinLync is a privately held global fintech company, which transforms corporate finance and treasury offices through its renowned products.
– The company raised $16m in Series A funding.
– Point72 Ventures led the funding round and included investments from Nyca Partners, former CFO of Palantir and Founding Partner of Friends & Family Capital Colin Anderson, and Plaid Founder William Hockey.
– FinLync is essentially bringing speed, simplicity and greater transparency and control to finance and treasury professionals globally.
– The company’s technology enables corporate finance and treasury departments to have greater control and visibility over their data than legacy treasury management systems provide while also benefiting from financial institution-grade security.
– FinLync’s global bank partners include J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered, among other leading banks.

– Gr4vy, a cloud-native payments company, raised $11.1m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Nyca Partners (a VC with a bench of partners who are ex-Visa), with participation from Activant Capital (a fintech investor), Global Founders Capital and Firestartr, bringing its total funding to $12.2m.
– Gr4vy is tackling the problem of payments orchestration.

– Ethic Inc. (“Ethic”), the tech-driven asset management platform that powers personalization for advisors, today announced that it has closed $29 million in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors including Fidelity Investments, Nyca Partners, Sound Ventures, ThirdStream Partners, Urban Innovation Fund and Kapor Capital.
– This new capital will support Ethic’s continued rapid growth, in addition to further investment in the company’s technology platform.
– The funding follows a strong period of growth for Ethic, which saw the company increase the number of assets on its platform by over 10x since its prior round of funding in 2019.

– Trace, a startup that wants to bring a taste of SaaS to the finance side of the house, announced an $8m seed round.
– The round was led by Greylock and Uncork Capital with participation from Nyca Partners, Redpoint Ventures and various individual angels.
– The company launched in 2018 and debuted the service in 2020.
– Trace currently works with Sage Intacct, Netsuite and QuickBooks ERP financial systems.

– Personetics is a global provider of data-driven personalization and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers.
– Warburg Pincus made the investment, joining Viola Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Nyca Partners.
– The new investment will enable Personetics to further expand its global footprint and scale its business.