Pliant, a Berlin-based fintech company, completed an $80 million Series C funding round led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, with participation from Illuminate Financial, Motive Ventures, and Molten. The capital will fuel expansion into the U.S. and Canada, entry into additional international markets, and acceleration of the company's AI payments roadmap. The company reported doubling its business for three consecutive years, with annual recurring revenue surpassing $100 million. Pliant also announced it can open its B2B payments infrastructure to external AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).