Finverse, a rapidly growing fintech infrastructure startup based in Singapore, has announced a successful $90 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from Tiger Global, Temasek, and Stripe Ventures. The funding cements Finverse’s status as one of Southeast Asia’s top contenders in the race to build borderless financial rails for digital businesses.

Founded in 2020 by former Visa and Ant Financial executives, Finverse offers a suite of APIs and compliance tools that allow fintechs and e-commerce players to scale internationally without regulatory friction. Its real-time identity verification, payment orchestration, and embedded compliance engine now power over 120 digital businesses across Asia, the Middle East, and emerging markets in Africa.

“Global fintechs don’t fail because of ambition they fail because of compliance bottlenecks,” said CEO Rohan Mehta. “We’ve turned regulation from a roadblock into a platform.”

Powering the Next Generation of Financial Connectivity

Finverse’s key differentiator lies in its plug-and-play architecture that simplifies complex international operations for fintech startups, challenger banks, and even traditional institutions looking to modernize. It supports over 42 markets, including India, Nigeria, Brazil, and the UAE all high-growth hubs for fintech innovation.

“We see Finverse as the ‘Twilio for cross-border fintech infrastructure’ modular, scalable, and regulation-forward,” said Aarushi Kalra, Principal at Sequoia Capital India. “It’s the missing piece in the global expansion puzzle.”

Strategic Impact and What’s Ahead

• The company plans to use the new capital to scale engineering teams in Singapore, London, and Dubai, and to launch Finverse Nexus, a unified dashboard for real-time compliance and payment monitoring.
  • It has also announced partnerships with Ripple, GrabFin, and a top-5 African digital bank (undisclosed).
  • Finverse is positioning itself as a mission-critical player in cross-border B2B fintech, particularly as regulators globally tighten control over digital finance flows.
  
  “We’re building the core infrastructure layer that tomorrow’s fintech giants will depend on,”
  
  

Analyst Insight

Finverse represents a wave of infrastructure-first fintechs solving for the complex needs of digital business in an increasingly fragmented regulatory world. As the global economy becomes more digitized and decentralized, companies like Finverse are becoming the new plumbing of the internet economy quietly enabling financial fluidity across borders.