UAE-based financial AI platform Oro has raised $3 million in a strategic funding round co-led by MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital, with participation from M2M Capital, Archer Capital and X21 Digital, and follow-on backing from Disrupt.com and ZIGLabs.

Founded in 2024 by Varun Choudhary, Oro uses natural-language AI to translate users’ financial instructions into multi-step transactions across decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, while maintaining a non-custodial, user-authorised model.

The latest round brings Oro’s total funding to $4 million. The company says it has onboarded more than 350,000 active users and supports over 80 languages.

The funding will be used to advance Oro’s AI and agentic technology, expand its engineering and business development teams, strengthen regulatory and compliance frameworks, drive user acquisition and support B2B integrations.

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