Fintech funding: Bland AI bags $50M in series C round

AI-focused fintechs secured key funding rounds in June, continuing a trend of uptick in financial services. Among them were AI voice agent provider Bland AI with $50 million and mortgage lending fintech Copperlane with $4.1 million. Venture capital fintech funding rose 5% year over year in the first quarter to $12 billion, though deal count fell, according to Crunchbase News ’ April 10 report. In the first quarter, the average fintech-funding deal size was $22.5 million, up from $20.3 million in 2025, according to data analytics company CB Insights . [caption id="attachment_57385856" align="aligncenter" width="2238"] (Courtesy/CB Insights)[/caption] Other fintechs that recently raised money include banking platform Titan , loan origination platform Lama AI and data analytics firm Capsa AI. Bland AI gets $50 million Bland AI announced June 16 it raised $50 million in a series C round, bringing its total raise to $100 million since its founding three years ago.

The company provides AI voice agent products to customers, 30% of which are financial institutions. The funding round was led by Scale , Emergence , HubSpot and Dell Technologies Capital .

Its product is designed to handle 30 to 40-minute “high stakes” phone calls, Bland’s Head of Marketing Ethan Clouser told FinAi News .

With Bland’s AI infrastructure and its dedicated GPUs, agents are designed to handle 100,000 calls concurrently, Clouser said.

“There are a lot of these companies in regulated industries who care about security, who have complex phone calls that matter, and we want to be able to build a product that solves that specific use case,” Clouser said.

The $50 million will fund hiring for the company’s research and development teams.

“We are genuinely trying to take the phone calls that are high urgency, very, very important to these core businesses, and so this takes a lot of engineering practice,” Clouser said.

Clouser said that despite many AI voice models being developed and marketed, the “massive” market is not yet saturated.

“The reality is that most of the world has not yet been automating their phone calls,” he said.

In late July, the company plans to launch a new text-to-speech model that will have features like breathing and chuckling and will be harder to detect as AI, Clouser said.

Titan acquires $3M Titan , a banking-native AI platform backed by Entropy Ventures , raised $3 million in seed funding, according to a June 9 release.

The company, launched in October 2025, provides custom small language models alongside LLMs built for banking, founder and Chief Executive Arjun Sirrah told FinAi News.

Before founding Titan, Sirrah was executive vice president of digital and fintech at Key Bank and chief technology officer at digital bank Laurel Road before that.

“Titan is the platform that I wish we were sold when I was an operator in banking,” Sirrah said .

The Titan team consists of former bank CTOs and other professionals who have worked in the industry. Having a team with industry expertise helps Titan differentiate itself, Sirrah said.

“It's not just that they've built AI and worked with banks; they've literally worked at banks,” he said.

The New York-based company plans to use the money to scale the team and its platform, Sirrah said. The team builds AI agents, provides LLMs for banking and continues to improve model routing techniques. Model routing refers to directing queries to the most appropriate LLM for the task.

“If [companies] are truly building differentiated platforms that solve some of the most challenging, and for lack of a better term, kind of gnarly problems in that vertical, there's a huge demand for that,” Sirrah said.

Copperlane raises $4.1M Mortgage lending fintech Copperlane raised $4.1 million in a seed funding round led by TQ Ventures , according to a June 17 release.

Copperlane plans to use the money to “aggressively” grow the adoption of its loan officer assistant, Penny, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Brianna Lin told FinAi News .

Penny interprets the context of each loan based on the borrowers’ information, loan product and institutional guidelines, co-founder and CEO Athan Zhang told FinAi News .

“The mortgage process , on average , is a 40-day process, and a lot of things change across the entire timeline,” he said. “Penny is there for a majority of that process, while retaining the context of what has happened before.”

Copperlane’s platform is powered by “a lot of agentic systems behind the scenes to manage that memory,” he added.

Penny is an intermediary between borrowers and loan officers, handing off key information, such as income and employment history, throughout the lending process, Zhang said.

Copperlane plans to continue personalization of Penny while nailing down performance metrics, Zhang said.

“We want to adapt and be more flexible for every specific lender, every specific loan officer and ... every specific borrower,” he said.

Staying on top of industry regulations also is crucial to ensure responsible AI deployment, he said.

Lama AI secures series A funding New York-based fintech Lama AI , founded in 2022, closed a $12 million series A funding round on June 23. The AI-driven loan origination process service provider’s latest funding round, led by EJF Ventures, brings the fintech’s total funding to $21 million, according to the company. Lama AI plans to use the money to expand go-to-market efforts, co-founder and CEO Omri Yacubovich told FinAi News. In the past six months, Lama AI has seen growth in its client base, references and overall market confidence in AI. Lama AI bank clients include SouthState Bank and Colony Bank , he said. Capsa AI raises $18M in series A Capsa AI , an AI and data analytics firm serving private capital markets, raised $18 million from TX Ventures and Pivot Investment Partners in series A round on June 10. The London-based company will use the money to expand U.S. operations and develop its tech platform to better serve it private equity clients, co-founder and CEO Danyal Ozduzenciler told FinAi News . Capsa AI helps private equity companies perform due diligence on potential investments and maintain existing investments, Ozduzenciler said. The company has grown annual recurring revenue fourteenfold, holds a 100% retention rate and boasts clients like Hannover Finanz, Orion and Swiss Credit Partners, he said. The company helps PEs build dashboards for diligence tasks that are part of their existing LLM, he said. “We do not compete with these tools but rather sit alongside them,” he said. Capsa AI allows PEs to develop tools on top of their proprietary data, he said, adding that “they can connect to a lot of data sources, but connecting the data source and understanding what to do with the data are two very different things.” The company has raised $20.4 million since its founding in 2023, according to Crunchbase . Register here for the FinAi Lending Summit, set for Oct. 7-8 in Las Vegas.

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