Seattle-region monetary administrations innovation startup PortX landed $16.5 million in new money.

Investors: The Series B financing round was co-driven via Seattle-region investment firm Circuit — which just raised its own $250 million asset — and Curql, an aggregate of credit associations. BankTech Adventures, EJF Capital, and the Btech Consortium additionally joined.

The tech: PortX, drove by Chief David Wexler, offers monetary administrations foundation programming to local area banks, credit associations, and fintech organizations. It means to assist clients with empowering installed banking-as-a-administration arrangements, kill seller conditions, and smooth out admittance to banking information. The organization says the new cash resolution drives including “improved artificial intelligence contributions and information computerization parts.”

New auxiliary: With the support of Curql, PortX is likewise shaping a Credit Association Administration Association (CUSO) to more readily serve its credit association clients. Curql deals with an essential venture reserve addressing 68 credit associations and credit association industry accomplices.

Background: Mercer Island, Wash.- based PortX was turned out of ModusBox last year. That startup was established in 2013 with an emphasis on plan, improvement, and backing for monetarily comprehensive, public level constant installment organizations.

Quotable: ” Their vision and innovation adjust impeccably with the business’ developing necessities,” Brendan Ribs, an establishing accomplice at Breaker, said of PortX. “This is our second interest in the organization, and it’s a demonstration of positive support in PortX, however a bet on the groundbreaking force of open banking in molding the eventual fate of trade and monetary administrations.”

Last subtleties: PortX has raised $26.5 million to date, including a $10 million Series A cycle a year prior. The organization utilizes 78 individuals.