March had no shortage of big funding rounds, but size doesn’t equal signal. Here are 10 startup raises from March 2026 that caught our.
These 10 stood out for what they tell us about where markets are heading.
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@Uala_arg ($195M) — Pierpaolo Barbieri's Argentine neobank embedding insurance into the product. $3.2B valuation, led by Allianz X.
2.
@uzum ($131.5M) — Djasur Djumaev and Nikolay Seleznev built Uzbekistan's first unicorn in 4 years. Oman sovereign wealth funds just led this round at a $2.3B valuation.
3.
@Zeno ($25M Series A) — Michael Spencer's battery-swap electric motorbikes in Kenya and Uganda. 25,000 customers on the waitlist. Led by Congruent Ventures.
4.
@sistema_bio FarmCarbon ($53M) — Alexander Eaton's system closed a carbon finance vehicle, not an equity round. Farmers get biodigesters subsidised by carbon credits.
@BNPPAM_COM leads.
5. littlefish ($9.5M) — Brandon Roberts and Neha Kumar have built the merchant OS for Africa's tier 1 banks. 30x MRR growth since seed, and
@partechvc leads this round.
6.
@silverflow ($40M Series B) — Anne Willem De Vries and team are replacing legacy payment rails with cloud-native infrastructure. Nearly 1B transactions annually. Picus Capital leads.
7.
@kastxyz ($80M Series A) — Raagulan Pathy (ex-Circle Singapore CEO) raised $80M for stablecoin payments in 18 months from launch. QED Investors and Left Lane Capital co-lead. $600M valuation.
8. Wonderful (€129.3M Series B) — Founded by Bar Winkler and Roey Lalazar in 2025 and already Series B, Wonderful provides enterprise AI agents in 30 countries and has raised €284M in under a year. Insight Partners leads.
9. Candela (€30M) — Gustav Hasselskog's hydrofoiling electric ferries backed by the World Bank's
@ifc_org and
@eqtventures. Building a second factory in Poland.
10.
@PAVESpace (€34.4M seed) — Julie Böhning and Jérémy Marciacq. Swiss EPFL engineers are building orbital transfer vehicles that move satellites between orbits in under 24 hours. Creandum and Visionaries Club co-lead. One of the largest seed rounds in the space sector globally.
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