MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital co-lead $3M investment in Oro to scale agentic finance
THE SO WHAT
Agentic finance is moving from chatbots to execution—tools that can actually move money, place orders, and rebalance without a human click. If you run a financial product, you need a view on which actions you’re willing to delegate to agents and how you’ll supervise them.
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