Tether leads Mural's $15 million Series A, bringing total funding to $28 million as the startup expands banking and payment infrastructure for AI agents.
Tether led a $15 million Series A funding round for Mural, a fintech startup founded by former Palantir engineers that provides infrastructure for managing payments, accounts, identity verification, and compliance across banking and blockchain networks. This round brings Mural's total funding to $28 million and supports Tether's interest in AI-powered financial services, particularly agentic finance where AI systems can execute transactions autonomously with safeguards. Mural's technology…
Phenom, the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, announced Katie King, an internationally recognised AI strategist, author and adviser on the future of work, as a keynote speaker at IAMPHENOM Europe 2026, taking place 4-5 November in Paris, France.
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