Left Lane Leads HIFI’s $37M Series A for Tokenized Money
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HIFI has raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital. Matt Miller of Left Lane is joining the company’s board as part of the deal, which HIFI announced on September 24, 2026.
Mo Afifi and Zach Walsh started HIFI in New York in 2022. The financial technology company builds infrastructure that other businesses use to launch new financial products on top of stablecoins and tokenized money.
HIFI now processes more than $7 billion a year. Usage among its existing customers has grown more than fourfold over the past six months, and the companies building on its platform have together onboarded more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 individuals.
The backdrop is a shift in how stablecoins are used. Once mostly a place to park dollars between crypto trades, they are now being used to pay suppliers and contractors, manage corporate cash and settle obligations between institutions. More than a quarter of a trillion dollars circulates in this form, and the GENIUS Act gave payment stablecoins a federal legal framework in July 2025. HIFI expects Treasuries, money market funds, receivables, credit and eventually most securities to follow dollars onto tokenized rails.
Some of HIFI’s most notable work has been with institutions. In July, its platform took part in DTCC’s pilot for tokenized repo. HIFI also supported a live tokenized repo trade on Tradeweb between DRW and Marex, settled on the Canton Network with USDCx as the cash leg. On the payments side, developers can combine HIFI’s stablecoin settlement with Visa Direct, including stablecoin push-to-card payouts launched this month, and the company has integrated with the Circle Payments Network.
The new capital has three jobs. HIFI plans to secure additional regulatory licenses so more of its stack runs under its own name, grow its team in New York and a small number of international markets, and extend its product from payments into cards and capital markets. It is hiring across engineering, compliance and go-to-market.
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