Flagright announced that it has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding to expand its AI operating system for financial crime compliance. The round was led by Infinity Ventures, with participation from Sella Direct Ventures and continued backing from existing investors, including Frontline and Y Combinator.
The funding will support Flagright as it expands explainable AI use cases across compliance operations and grows its presence in the U.S. market. The company is focused on becoming an enterprise standard for financial crime compliance across banks, fintechs, credit unions, payments companies, lending platforms, brokerages, and other regulated financial institutions.
Flagright said financial crime compliance is entering a platform shift as institutions face higher transaction volumes, rising regulatory expectations, faster operating requirements, and increasingly sophisticated financial crime threats. At the same time, AI is moving from experimentation into daily compliance workflows.
The company said many institutions still rely on rigid legacy systems or fragmented point solutions that are difficult to adapt and can increase operational complexity. Flagright aims to address this challenge by combining transaction monitoring, watchlist screening, risk scoring, case management, AI forensics, and governance workflows into a unified platform.
The platform is designed to help financial crime teams improve recommendations, optimize systems, investigate alerts, support decisions, and maintain auditability while keeping transparency and human oversight at the center of compliance operations.
With the new funding, Flagright plans to expand AI across investigations, alert intelligence, rule optimization, decision support, and audit-ready workflows. The company will also continue growing its enterprise go-to-market efforts among regulated financial institutions looking to replace fragmented or legacy compliance infrastructure.
Flagright is trusted by more than 100 fintechs and banks across over 30 countries. The company said its unified, risk-based platform helps financial institutions centralize compliance operations and deploy modern financial crime compliance programs in as little as two weeks.
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“The financial crime compliance stack is being rebuilt, and Flagright is the company to define the operating system layer for this category. Regulated financial institutions need a system that gives them speed, control, explainability, and auditability in one place.”
“This round helps us accelerate our position as the enterprise standard for financial crime compliance by expanding explainable AI use cases across compliance operations and increasing our US market presence, while we continue serving sophisticated clients with the reliability and depth they expect from a mission critical software.”
Baran Ozkan, Co-Founder and CEO of Flagright
“AI in compliance only matters if it is explainable, governable, and useful in real operations. The market does not need another black box tool. It needs an operating system that brings monitoring, screening, investigations, governance, and explainable AI together in one place.”
“We are building the system of choice for sophisticated institutions that need AI they can trust, audit, and operationalize at scale.”
Madhu Nadig, Co-Founder and CTO of Flagright
“At Infinity Ventures, we back founders building best-in-class modern financial infrastructure. Flagright stood out because sophisticated financial institutions are increasingly choosing the platform for its combination of enterprise readiness, explainable AI, operational flexibility, and product maturity.”
“We believe Flagright is defining the AI operating system layer for financial crime compliance, and we expect the company to become the market leader in this category over the next five years.”
Jeremy Jonker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Infinity Ventures
