Synapse Analytics, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered AI company that builds agentic decisioning infrastructure for regulated financial institutions, has raised $13m in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by global investment firm Partech, with additional participation from Algebra Ventures and Silicon Badia, bringing Synapse Analytics’ total funding since inception to $17m.
The fresh capital will go toward scaling the team, speeding up product development and pushing further into international markets.
Synapse Analytics’ technology addresses a core tension facing financial institutions as they automate more of their operations: capturing the sophistication of AI-native models typically means routing sensitive data to infrastructure outside the institution’s control.
The company’s decisioning platform is designed to sidestep that compromise, deploying within a client’s own environment, whether on-premise, in private, public or sovereign cloud, or fully air-gapped, so that onboarding, credit, fraud and anti-money laundering decisions can be automated without institutions giving up ownership of their data, policies or the intelligence those decisions generate.
Its proprietary models operate entirely inside client infrastructure, supporting regulatory compliance without limiting capability, the company said.
The platform also lets risk and credit teams amend policies directly and simulate the effect of those changes against historical data ahead of deployment, giving institutions a route to introducing AI at scale while preserving the governance regulators in the sector require.
Synapse Analytics co-founder and CEO Ahmed Abaza said, “Our mission is to give financial institutions the intelligence and decision infrastructure they need to make faster, more secure decisions to reduce risk, unlock growth and build stronger customer relationships. Partech’s investment reflects the momentum we have built and gives us the backing of a leading global technology investor to pursue the next stage of that ambition.”
Synapse Analytics co-founder and COO Galal Elbeshbishy said, “We built Synapse Analytics to help financial institutions make better underwriting decisions. Today, we’re taking that a step further by working with banks, fintechs, and other firms to enable intelligent agents that actively work alongside their teams — helping them build and refine credit policies, continuously enhance underwriting criteria, and monitor portfolios in real time.
“These agents identify emerging opportunities and risks, help institutions grow their portfolios while reducing risk, and allow them to react quickly as market conditions and borrower behavior change. Our vision is to create the AI operating system for the new age of finance.”
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