Antler doubles down on HIFI in its $37M Series A
Antler was HIFI's first institutional investor in May 2023 and backed the company at pre-seed and seed. HIFI now processes more than USD $7 billion in annualized volume across 87 countries.
NEW YORK, 24 September 2026 – Antler has participated in HIFI's USD $37 million Series A, led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Tether. Antler previously backed HIFI at pre-seed and seed.
HIFI builds infrastructure that powers new financial products with stablecoins across payments, card issuance and capital markets. Its API combines money movement, compliance and settlement across bank rails and digital assets in a single integration. HIFI supports more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 individuals, and the company says it processes more than USD $7 billion in annualized volume across 87 countries.
HIFI took part in DTCC's tokenized-asset trades in July and partnered with Visa this month on stablecoin-funded payouts. It has expanded its licensing footprint into the UAE and Japan. Its New York team is growing to more than 50 people.
Antler was HIFI's first institutional investor, backing co-founders Zach Walsh and Mo Mo Afifi in May 2023, before the company had a product. The Series A is HIFI's first priced round, according to the company.
"We backed Zach and Mo pre-product because of their work ethic and their obsession with building a foundational payments platform on stablecoins," said Chris Millisits, Principal, Antler. "Our conviction has only grown. They've built a best-in-class team, stood up a bank-grade in-house compliance program and won partnerships with top U.S. companies. Programmable money has crossed from thesis to real infrastructure, and HIFI is powering what comes next: escrow that releases on a verifiable event, treasury that rebalances itself, tokenized asset settlement and programmable credit."
The new capital will scale HIFI's tokenized capital-markets infrastructure and broaden its product suite for banks, fintechs and capital-markets participants.
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About HIFI
HIFI is a New York-based stablecoin payments and tokenized assets company. Its API infrastructure ties money movement, compliance and settlement into one integration across bank rails and digital assets. hifibridge.com
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