ThetaRay Raises $30 Million to Tackle Financial Crime

The new round will help meet the demand for machine learning solutions to combat financial crime and boost operational efficiency, the company said in a release

ThetaRay Raises $30 Million to Tackle Financial Crime

Mark Gazit, ThetaRay CEO (PR photo) 

ThetaRay, an Israel-based cybersecurity company specializing in AI and big data analytics that offers solutions for crime prevention, operational efficiency, and threat detection, has completed a fund-raising round of over $30 million. With the latest investment, the company has raised more than $60 million. Investors include Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), GE, Bank Hapoalim, OurCrowd, SVB Investments and others.

The company said it would use the capital to expand its presence in Europe, Asia, and the US, significantly increase its workforce and scale operations to meet the growing demand for systems that fight financial crime and money laundering.

ThetaRay's machine learning and artificial intelligence technology helps financial institutions identify the earliest signs of money laundering, the company said, adding it and can detect anomalies in real-time, radically reduce false positives, and uncover “unknown unknowns.”

Mark Gazit, CEO of ThetaRay, said: “In this era when criminal activity and money laundering are increasing and becoming more sophisticated and also regulation is on the rise, there is a greater demand for our solutions. As the amount of digital information grows, you just can’t protect it without artificial intelligence systems. ThetaRay offers the most advanced and mature solutions to detect threats before they happen. We thank the existing investors, especially JVP, for their confidence in ThetaRay, and welcome the new ones joining in this round.”

“Financial crime, money laundering, fraud and advanced integrated cyberattacks on financial institutions pose a growing systemic risk that has already put banks out of business,” stated Yoav Tzruya, General Partner at JVP and founding investor of ThetaRay. “Existing systems fall short of addressing the agility and innovation of rogue organizations, fraudsters, and hackers. ThetaRay is uniquely positioned to address this significant market pain, through its no-rules, holistic, AI-driven solution to identify such events, while significantly reducing the operating cost for banks.”

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