Venture Investors Log $133 Million; Corporate Deals Lag, CeFi Draws Focus

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  • Incrypted tracked nine investment and M&A deals between Nov. 7 and 14, 2026.
  • Five companies disclosed funding amounts totaling about $133 million.
  • Blockwall and Polychain Capital were the most active investors, backing two startups each.

Incrypted’s editorial team tracked nine investment and M&A deals between Nov. 7 and 14, 2026. Five companies disclosed funding amounts totaling about $133 million, while other transactions included undisclosed investments and an acquisition agreement.

Venture funding

Index Industries raised $50 million. The company secured seed funding in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Polychain Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute Ventures and other institutional investors. The startup is building infrastructure intended to make the U.S. residential real estate market an accessible investment asset class. Its platform combines a home price index with daily reporting, tokenization technology and tools for real estate and capital markets.

Alta raised $47.5 million. The developer of a blockchain for international payments completed a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from GV, Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg and Capital49. Alta is building a network with integrated privacy and compliance tools designed to help banks and large companies process transactions under regulatory requirements in different countries. The round brought its total funding to $80 million.

Griffin raised $20 million. The U.K. bank secured Series B funding led by Octagon Partners, with participation from Notion Capital, A+ Ventures, Nordic Ninja and Breega. The deal valued Griffin at more than $100 million. The company plans to use the funds to develop reserve services that allow businesses to integrate stablecoins and to launch cross-border onchain payments through its banking platform.

Marble raised $11 million. The fintech company announced its launch and a seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Ripple, Susquehanna Crypto, Lattice, Blockwall and other investors. Marble Compute is developing private-credit infrastructure for the artificial intelligence sector by connecting lenders with GPU operators and compute providers. Marble Markets is building a trading platform for digital and real-world assets, prediction markets and computing resources.

Seva Money raised $5 million. The fintech startup completed a pre-seed round led by Blockwell and Revent. Seedcamp, which backed the company at its founding stage, also participated. Seva Money enables money-transfer operators to connect their existing payment infrastructure with financial services for recipients. The platform supports fiat currencies and stablecoins and covers everyday spending, savings and healthcare services.

Undisclosed investments

LitVM announced a strategic investment in Lithium, a developer of a non-custodial lending protocol being built on its network. Lithium will allow users to lend USDC for yield or use tokenized LTC, known as zkLTC, as collateral for USDC loans. The project is live on the LiteForge testnet. The investment is intended to support its development and expand Litecoin’s use cases in decentralized finance.

Ondo invested in lending platform Spout, which allows users to use Ondo tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans on Solana. Borrowers do not pay interest to Spout under the platform’s model. Lender yield comes from premiums earned by selling covered-call options on the underlying shares.

Asset manager Kailash raised seed funding in a round led by UTXO Management. The startup is working to bring real-world assets and traditional investment strategies to onchain capital markets. The partnership with UTXO is expected to broaden investor access to institutional-grade blockchain yield instruments.

Mergers and acquisitions

Securitize, which specializes in real-world asset tokenization, signed a definitive agreement to acquire River One, an institutional asset-backed finance platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. River One’s technology connects stablecoin capital with traditional credit markets. The acquisition is expected to add collateralized lending for tokenized assets to Securitize’s infrastructure.

Other activity and investor focus

No token sales, corporate placements or other corporate deals were reported during the week. Ecosystems and decentralized autonomous organizations also did not allocate accelerator, grant or DAO funding.

Blockwall and Polychain Capital were the week’s most active investors, with each backing two startups. Investor activity focused primarily on the centralized-finance sector and the development of blockchain services.

Source: Incrypted

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