Artis Technologies provides modern lending solutions for businesses to offer affordable, low-friction financing to their customers at the point of need. The company has closed its first institutional investor in a seed round, $1.5 million from Fintech Ventures Fund and its affiliates. Artis has raised $3 million to date in varying forms of debt and equity financing; the company previously received angel funds from an entity controlled by Brad Friedlander, company chairman, finance entrepreneur and founder of Angel Oak Capital Advisors.