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Top Story: Checker Raises $8m Seed Funding to Scale Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure Across Emerging Markets
Stablecoin payments infrastructure startup, Checker has raised $8 million in seed funding to expand its operations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as demand grows for faster and lower-cost cross-border payment systems.
The equity round was led by Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, the venture arm linked to Morocco’s royal family investment group and Framework Ventures, with participation from a wide network of financial institutions and fintech investors spanning emerging markets.
Among the backers are DFS Lab, Bitso, Airtm, Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital, and Velocity Capital, alongside notable operators from the African tech ecosystem, including Iyin Aboyeji, co-founder of Flutterwave; Gwera Kiwana, former Vice President of Partnerships and Blockchain Payments at Onafriq; and Justin Ziegler, co-founder of Juicyway. The round also attracted unnamed investors from Stripe and Tala.
Founded in 2025 by Jack Chong, Nathan Crocker, Justin McMahan, and Michael Zaczyk, Checker provides infrastructure that allows banks, neobanks, remittance firms, and payment providers to connect to global stablecoin liquidity and payment rails via a single Application Programming Interface (API).
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On Startup Spotlight:
Check Point Unveils AI Agentic Network Security Platform to Automate Enterprise Defence Operations
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has launched its Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform, an autonomous security architecture designed to execute enterprise network security operations with minimal human intervention.
The platform marks a significant shift in how large organisations manage cybersecurity, moving away from traditional rule-based firewall administration towards AI-driven, intent-based security orchestration.
Modern enterprise environments have become highly complex due to hybrid cloud adoption, fragmented infrastructure from mergers and acquisitions, and the rapid expansion of connected devices and AI agents.
“For the first time, security teams can operate entirely at the level of business intent. With Agentic Network Security Orchestration, teams define what needs to be protected and what the policy should achieve. Everything below that, the rule creation, the policy tightening, the virtual patching, is handed to AI agents to execute autonomously, within predefined guardrails and under continuous human oversight,” said Jonathan Zanger, Chief Technology Officer, Check Point Software Technologies.
Quadri Adejumo brings you all the details. Read here.
Also Read:
Saudi HealthTech, Aumet, Bags $12M to Reinvent Healthcare Supply Chains with AI Across Markets. Yakub Abdulrasheed brings us the details, here.
Quote of the Day:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.
Thank you for joining me yet again this evening. Stay safe, and see you tomorrow for the next tech newsletter.
Best, Quadri
