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June 5, 2026 · 1 min read

Ledgerbird crosses $1B processed, raises Series A

The embedded-finance company built inside Founders Catalyst has crossed a billion dollars processed in 18 months.

Ledgerbird, the embedded-finance infrastructure company co-founded through Founders Catalyst, has raised a Series A and crossed $1.2 billion processed in its first eighteen months.

Ledgerbird lets any company launch banking features — accounts, cards, payments — in weeks rather than years. What began as an in-house thesis about the plumbing of the modern economy is now processing real money for real businesses at scale.

“We got a year of runway and a founding team the day we said yes. We spent it building the product, not the company.” — the Ledgerbird founding team

The round was led by a top fintech investor, with participation from Founders Catalyst. The company will use the capital to expand its platform to new markets and deepen its compliance infrastructure.

It’s the kind of outcome the studio model is built to produce: a hard, infrastructural idea, matched with the right founder, funded and staffed from day one — and compounding into the next company we build.

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