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Funding Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 10:33 AM

Flagright raises $12.5M Series A to expand AI-powered financial crime compliance

Berlin-based Flagright, founded by CEO Baran Ozkan and CTO Madhu G. Nadig, closed a $12.5 million Series A round led by US VC Infinity Ventures, with participation from Italy's Sella Direct Ventures and existing backers including Frontline and Y Combinator. The startup builds software helping financial institutions combat money laundering and financial crime, serving banks, fintechs, and regulated entities across 35+ countries.

Flagright bundles transaction monitoring, watchlist screening, risk scoring, case management, and AI-powered investigation tools into a single platform designed for compliance teams. The round reflects growing demand for unified compliance stacks as financial institutions grapple with increasingly sophisticated fraud, tighter regulatory scrutiny, and pressure to process growing transaction volumes efficiently. Legacy systems and patchwork specialist tools create operational friction that Flagright targets with explainability and auditability.

For practitioners, this signals accelerating consolidation in the fintech-compliance stack: a single unified platform replaces multiple point solutions, reducing integration overhead and improving audit trails. Compliance teams moving from legacy to modern AI-driven architectures should evaluate Flagright's explainability guarantees and case-management workflows as they evaluate infrastructure modernization.

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“Flagright raises $12.5m Series A round led by Infinity Ventures”