SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 6, 2026 -- FoundersX Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on AI-driven innovations, today announced its 2025 year-in-review, showcasing extraordinary growth momentum across its portfolio. Companies raised more than $360 million new capital at up rounds, fueled by the rise of agentic AI — autonomous systems that plan, reason, and execute tasks independently.
This penetration of agentic AI has dramatically accelerated scaling across key sectors, including enterprise cybersecurity, fintech, and healthcare. By harnessing vast, high-quality datasets for real-time intelligence, predictive analytics, and automated decision-making, agentic AI is enabling startups to achieve revenue milestones in months rather than years.
Helen H. Liang, PhD, founder and managing partner of FoundersX Ventures, stated:
"2025 marked the rise of agentic AI as a fundamental driver of business transformation. Our portfolio's strong revenue growth and successful up-rounds highlight unprecedented scaling speed, especially in data-rich fields like fintech — where massive datasets enable predictive analytics, fraud prevention, and hyper-personalized services, reshaping global finance accessibility and efficiency."
Fintech emerged as the portfolio's top performer, with agentic AI powering rapid growth via real-time analysis of transactions, user behavior, market signals, and regulations. This data abundance allows lean teams to acquire users quickly, achieve multimillion-dollar revenues, expand globally, and challenge incumbents.
Key fintech portfolio highlights include:
Kapital: An AI-powered fintech platform for SMBs in Latin America. It raised $100 million in Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation. Now profitable, Kapital manages a $3 billion balance sheet and serves over 300,000 customers with agentic AI for risk assessment, compliance, and lending. It earned World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer status in 2024 and 2025, also a spot on CNBC's 2024 Disruptor 50 list.
Jeeves: A global all-in-one fintech platform offering expense management, corporate cards, cross-border payments, and financial operations in over 30 countries. Features include AI-powered bill payments, invoice automation, smart alerts, and constant AI support. In 2025, Jeeves introduced stablecoin solutions and secured a $100 million credit line for expansion. Total funding exceeds $500 million, valued at $2.1 billion at C round.
Kontigo: A fast-growing stablecoin neobank serving Latinos in the U.S. and LATAM. It raised $20 million in seed funding in 2025, hitting $30 million ARR and over 1 million users in under a year — with a team of only seven. Kontigo uses AI agents for autonomous operations, ensuring 24/7 blockchain uptime, AI private bankers, and alternative data analysis for USDT credit lines and risk management. CEO Jesus Castillo calls it a "full-stack AI stablecoin bank," automating processes for instant, permissionless global transactions without per-country licenses.
Alinea Invest: A New York-based platform for Gen Z investors. It raised over $10 million in Series A. With 1.6 million registered users (mostly women and young adults), Alinea employs agentic AI for personalized investment strategies, market analysis, and an upcoming AI financial coach to make wealth-building accessible to Gen Z.
Bitstack: A France-based Bitcoin-native neobank. It raised over $15 million in Series A, driving strong ARR growth through AI-automated savings, round-ups, and crypto integration features that make Bitcoin accessible for everyday users.
These successes underscore agentic AI's transformative role in fintech: where financial data flows abundantly, autonomous systems deliver proactive intelligence — detecting fraud instantly, personalizing offerings at scale, and enabling small teams to operate with the efficiency of much larger organizations.
Beyond fintech, FoundersX Ventures' portfolio companies made significant strides in cybersecurity, where agentic AI enhances continuous threat detection through global data learning, and in healthcare, where it accelerates diagnostics and personalized treatments via deep patient data analysis. The firm's early and strategic bets on agentic AI have attracted top investors and positioned its companies as frontrunners in this paradigm shift.
Looking ahead in 2026, "We expect agentic AI adoption to expand dramatically, reaching mass-market levels in consumer and enterprise applications. As generative AI models evolve toward AGI capabilities, the acceleration in speed to scale will intensify, unlocking even greater innovations in personalized finance, decentralized systems, and beyond. FoundersX is excited to continue backing founders who will shape the future," said Helen H. Liang, PhD.
FoundersX Ventures remains steadfast in partnering with visionary entrepreneurs harnessing AI to tackle real-world challenges. With a proven track record including multiple unicorns and dozens of high-growth companies, the firm is well-positioned to deliver strong investment returns in the GenAI era.
About FoundersX Ventures
FoundersX Ventures is an AI-first venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA, with offices in Cambridge and NYC. With over 100 early-stage investments, including nine unicorns and 30-plus companies each valued over $100 million, the firm drives innovation in enterprise AI, fintech, and digital health. FoundersX leads seed-stage deals and co-lead A round deals. Helen H. Liang, PhD, is the founder and managing partner of FoundersX Ventures. She has been featured in WSJ Venture Capital Pro and Business Insider and serves on boards of high-growth tech startups. She is an invited speaker at TechCrunch and a guest lecturer at Stanford.