# Flagright

> Flagright is an AI-native financial crime compliance platform that gives fintechs, banks, and crypto firms a single system for transaction monitoring, sanctions and watchlist screening, dynamic risk scoring, case management, and regulatory filing. Founded in 2022 by Baran Ozkan and Madhu G. Nadig after Baran spent roughly 18 months failing to find a real-time monitoring vendor he liked, the company sells what it calls an 'AI operating system for compliance' - including an agentic investigation engine, AI Forensics, that runs alert investigations end to end. It serves 100+ financial institutions across 35+ countries and raised a $12.5M Series A in June 2026.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Baran Ozkan (Co-founder & CEO), Madhu G. Nadig (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~40-56 employees
- **Products:** Transaction Monitoring, AI Forensics (AIF), Sanctions & Watchlist Screening, Dynamic Risk Scoring, Case Management
- **Notable:** Raised $12.5M Series A in June 2026 led by Infinity Ventures., Led G2's Summer 2025 reports with 10 badges, including #1 in Transaction Monitoring., Customers report up to 93% reduction in false positives, 80% lower compliance costs, and 27% fewer operational errors.

## Products & services

- **Transaction Monitoring** — Real-time, risk-based monitoring with a no-code scenario builder and sub-second API response times, plus rule simulation and dynamic risk profiling.
- **AI Forensics (AIF)** — An agentic investigation engine that executes alert investigations by following an institution's own SOPs, gathering evidence, and reaching a defensible, auditable disposition in seconds. Spans screening, monitoring, governance, and QA.
- **Sanctions & Watchlist Screening** — Screening against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media lists integrated into the same platform.
- **Dynamic Risk Scoring** — Customer and transaction risk scoring with configurable, behavior-aware risk profiles.
- **Case Management** — Centralized investigation workspace with collaboration tools, audit-ready narratives, and automated SAR/regulatory filing.
- **KYB / Business Verification** — Onboarding and business verification tied into ongoing monitoring and risk assessment.

## Achievements

- Raised $12.5M Series A in June 2026 led by Infinity Ventures.
- Led G2's Summer 2025 reports with 10 badges, including #1 in Transaction Monitoring.
- Customers report up to 93% reduction in false positives, 80% lower compliance costs, and 27% fewer operational errors.
- Serving customers across three continents within six months of launch; now 35+ countries.
- HitPay reduced false positives 83.8% and halved investigation times across six APAC markets.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Closed a $12.5M Series A led by Infinity Ventures to expand explainable AI use cases and grow US market presence.
- **2026-01** — Expanded the AI Forensics product family from screening into monitoring, governance, and QA.
- **2025-04** — Raised $4.3M seed round led by Frontline Ventures to advance AI-native AML compliance.

## Links

- Website: https://flagright.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flagright
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FlagrightHQ
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FlagrightHQ

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Last updated: 2026-07-12