The seed round was led by United Ventures with participation from Fabrick and existing backers.
"Open banking has laid the groundwork to reduce payment costs by creating the necessary conditions, but most A2A payment companies haven't been able to leverage this potential. At Volume, we've cracked the problem. We're solving the adoption challenges of account-to-account payments by focusing on the user experience for both businesses and consumers, offering a faster, more secure solution that puts both parties first. Our traction shows that pay-by-bank can be a scalable business model, and we're close to profitability with a clear product-market fit in cross-border payments. Like Stripe did with the shift from cash to card, we're leading the transition from debit cards to bank payments in open banking, while growing sustainably. If widely adopted, Volume could save businesses up to $44 billion per year."
Seaya led the Series A investment to help the workforce platform expand its product suite and grow in North America.
"We started our business because we believed that the next generation deserved a new way to operate their professional lives, and we realised that if we could reimagine career infrastructure end-to-end for the 21st century, businesses would also be enabled to operate in a more agile way, one that drives more efficient growth."
The seed round was led by Accel with participation from several prominent institutional funds and angel investors.
"The vast majority of marketers’ time is spent on work other than copy generation, so we see significant potential in augmenting and automating these tasks. To do this, we’ve combined the latest AI technologies (retrieval augmented generation, autonomous agents and multi-modal models) to chain together workflows that capture more of marketers’ repetitive activities, giving them time back to focus on higher impact tasks. We’re excited to continue on this mission with this new investment round and having the Accel team join us on this journey."
Mercia Ventures led the Series A round to support product development and industry partnerships.
"Risk Ledger provides us with a more holistic, real time view of our complex supply chain, helping to identify and remediate potential vulnerabilities and issues early."
— David Malkin, former Divisional Information Security Officer at the UK Health Security Agency
The pre-seed round was led by Firstminute Capital with backing from a16z, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, and Atomico.
"We are thrilled to back Klu as they enable the next generation of AI-powered software. With Klu, knowledge workers can spin up AI-based internal workflows to automate repetitive tasks and embed AI workflows into their products for customers to experience. This is a major product challenge which is why Stephen and Stefan with their prior roles at Productboard and Skyscanner are the right duo to solve this problem,"
