Synctera raises $24.5M to expand banking infrastructure for fintechs

The San Francisco BaaS platform raised about $9.5M in equity and the remainder in venture debt; its CEO says it could break even in early 2027.

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Synctera's round tests whether BaaS can return after the Synapse collapse with the middleware provider taking direct responsibility for ledgers, reconciliation and continuous compliance testing.

A Synctera sign stands beside stacks of cash and papers as two suited people shake hands, with a bridge and skyline behind them.

Peter Hazlehurst has seen the hard version of embedded finance from inside Uber. Even with Uber's engineers, lawyers and bank relationships, building financial products took multiple teams and years. The experience led Hazlehurst to conclude that smaller companies had no practical way to launch such products, he said in interviews about Synctera's founding thesis.…

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