Wellstreet invests in Brayns to rebuild compliance infrastructure for financial institutions

Stockholm, 23 April 2026:  Financial compliance costs the global financial sector hundreds of billions of euros every year. Yet the results remain poor, the work largely manual, and the risks still missed. Brayns was built on the conviction that this cannot be solved by scaling existing approaches, it requires a fundamentally different architecture.

Brayns was founded by three operators with deep domain expertise. Tara Abdi, CEO, is a compliance specialist and lawyer with backgrounds from Avanza and Länsförsäkringar, and was named Compliance Influencer of the Year 2024. She is joined by Sylvia Hölscher, founder and CEO of fintech company Semla, and Adnan Sporo, founder and CEO of payment services company Finshark. 

Brayns has developed a platform where compliance is no longer dependent on manual work. The result is a level of scalability and execution that has not previously been possible. The company already has pilots running with players in payment infrastructure, fintech and other regulated businesses.

Wellstreet invested in Brayns in December 2025, with the company today opening a new financing round.

"Brayns targets one of the heaviest cost lines in financial institutions and does so with an architecture that addresses the problem on a completely different level than anything the market is used to. The difference versus what exists today is fundamental, and the team has the domain expertise to make it credible," says Armando Coppola, Partner and Fund Manager at Wellstreet.

"With Wellstreet we got a partner who understands fintech infrastructure and believes that compliance can become a growth driver rather than an obstacle," says Tara Abdi, Co-founder and CEO of Brayns.