How Tangos is Scaling Financial Crime Investigations with Autonomous AI

Tangos, building investigation intelligence for risk and financial crime, led by Eyal Azoulay and the team, has raised a $20 million seed financing round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Leaders Fund, Clarim Ventures, Ventureisrael, Signal Fire, Clutch Capital, and Selah Ventures, and a strategic investment by Bright Data.

Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneur Eyal Azoulay, Tangos brings together expertise across financial crime investigations, sanctions, intelligence, banking, and AI.

As financial crime grows more sophisticated, institutions face rising alert volumes, regulatory pressure, and investigator shortages. Tangos is building an AI-powered investigation platform that helps financial institutions, fintechs, and government organizations analyze complex cases faster, more accurately, and at greater scale.

Platform Capabilities.

Tangos helps organizations investigate financial crime and compliance risks by enabling teams to:

• Analyze suspicious activity, sanctions, anti-money laundering, and fraud cases

• Identify beneficial ownership structures and hidden relationships

• Map networks of entities, accounts, and counterparties

• Validate evidence across multiple data sources

• Generate regulator-ready investigative reports with complete audit trails

Unlike traditional compliance tools that only flag potential risks, Tangos performs the investigative work itself. Combining domain-specific AI models with expert-designed workflows, the platform analyzes evidence, tests hypotheses, validates findings, and generates comprehensive case files for review.

By automating complex investigative processes, Tangos helps organizations expand compliance capacity without significantly increasing headcount while improving accuracy, consistency, and regulatory readiness.

According to Founder and CEO Eyal Azoulay, financial crime has become a complex network problem that traditional investigative processes struggle to handle at scale. Tangos aims to address this bottleneck by applying autonomous AI to make investigations faster, more scalable, and more consistent.

The company’s leadership team includes former U.S. Treasury OFAC officials, intelligence leaders, and AI infrastructure experts with experience building large-scale autonomous systems.

Tangos is already supporting financial institutions and intelligence organizations with high-stakes financial crime, sanctions, and national security investigations.

According to Red Dot Capital Partners Co-Founder and Managing Partner Yaniv Stern, while institutions have invested heavily in detection systems, investigations remain a major operational challenge. Tangos’ AI-powered platform helps organizations investigate complex cases more efficiently while maintaining the transparency, governance, and evidentiary standards required by regulators.