MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital co-led the round, with participation from M2M Capital, Archer Capital and X21 Digital, alongside follow-on backing from existing investors Disrupt.com and ZIGLabs.
Varun Choudhary
“We are witnessing a monumental shift toward intent-based execution,” said Varun Choudhary, Co-Founder and CEO of Oro. “This funding round proves that real, sustainable product-market fit backed by hundreds of thousands of active users will always attract top-tier institutional capital.”
Founded in December 2024 by Choudhary, Oro lets users describe their financial goals in plain language, which its AI then converts into multi-step DeFi transactions.
Every execution remains non-custodial and user-signed, meaning Oro never takes control of user funds.
Oro plans to direct the funding across four areas. These include expanding its proprietary Shield Engine and natural-language execution technology, and scaling global marketing and user acquisition.
The company will also build regulatory and compliance frameworks around what it calls policy-guarded autonomous custody.
Finally, it plans to grow its engineering and business development teams to support enterprise integrations.
The company says it has onboarded more than 350,000 active users across over 80 languages.
An educational campaign backed by Amazon Web Services drove over 250,000 verified user completions, according to Oro, while a separate initiative with Ondo Finance generated more than 50,000 completions within its first 24 hours.
Oro has live integrations with several Web3 protocols, including Morpho, Kamino, Lido, Aave, Uniswap and Raydium.
Over the next 6 to 12 months, Oro aims to grow from its current base to 10 million active users, roughly a 28-fold increase.
To get there, the company plans to launch native iOS and Android apps, expand its integration offerings, and position itself as a routing layer for both business and consumer intent-based transactions.
Keira Nesdale
“Oro is tackling one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern finance: complexity,” said Keira Nesdale, Portfolio Manager at MH Ventures. “Their ability to abstract away backend friction while maintaining rigorous, policy-guarded non-custodial security makes them uniquely positioned to lead the agentic finance transition.”
Featured image: Edited by Fintech News UAE based on an image by Oro via its Press Release.
