--- title: Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its... description: Flex has raised a $70m Series B1 led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing total equity raised to $180m. The company targets high-net-worth middle-market... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/flex-raises-70m-from-ryan-smith-s-halo-fund-to-take-its-ai-private-bank-global-4jfvuv1zq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global | daily.dev og:description: Flex has raised a $70m Series B1 led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing total equity raised to $180m. The company targets high-net-worth middle-market... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/flex-raises-70m-from-ryan-smith-s-halo-fund-to-take-its-ai-private-bank-global-4jfvuv1zq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4JfVuV1zq.png og:image:alt: Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Flex has raised a $70m Series B1 led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing total equity raised to $180m. The company targets high-net-worth middle-market business owners with an AI-native private banking platform. The new Flex Global product extends the platform internationally, offering stablecoin payment rails in 100+ countries, multi-currency accounts across 76 countries, and private credit in 20+ countries. Cross-border payments settle in minutes using stablecoin rails that remain invisible to end users. Flex reports $10bn in annualised payment volume, growing fourfold year-on-year, with revenue tripling since December. The platform bundles credit, banking, payments, expense management, and AI finance agents into an agentic back office. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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