About Finsyncio

Built for the platforms that built for everyone else.

In 2022, Laura Petrov was VP of Product at a vertical SaaS company building payment features for property managers. The engineering work — the interesting part — kept getting blocked by a different kind of problem: 14 months of bank partnership negotiations, state licensing applications, CIP program reviews, and AML policy drafts that had nothing to do with the product she was trying to ship. The compliance and banking layer was consuming the whole team.

She looked across the embedded finance landscape and saw the same problem at every vertical SaaS she talked to. The banking infrastructure didn't exist in a form that a non-bank company could actually consume. You either built it yourself — 18 months minimum — or you didn't ship the feature. Finsyncio is what should have existed in 2022. One API, one compliance wrapper, zero bank-partnership headaches. We founded the company in 2023 and operate from San Francisco.

Laura Petrov, CEO of Finsyncio, at the San Francisco office
Values

How we work

Infrastructure, not features

Our job is to be invisible infrastructure — reliable, compliant, and out of the way. We don't add product features that dilute the core.

Compliance as a feature

Compliance is a hard problem that vertical SaaS teams shouldn't have to solve. We maintain it so our customers can market it.

Developer-first — not a middleware company

An API that requires a 90-minute onboarding call is not an API. Documentation, SDKs, and sandbox testing let engineers self-serve from day one. We are not a service bureau that routes your requests through a human ops team.

Team

Leadership

Laura Petrov, CEO and Co-Founder of Finsyncio

Laura Petrov

CEO & Co-Founder

Previously VP Product at a payments infrastructure company and Senior PM at a major card network. Six years building and shipping embedded payment products in fintech infrastructure.

CTO and Co-Founder of Finsyncio

David Shin

CTO & Co-Founder

Previously infrastructure engineer at two fintech infrastructure companies. Designed ACH origination systems and core ledger architecture handling billions in annual payment volume.

Head of Compliance at Finsyncio

Ana Costa

Head of Compliance

15 years in financial services compliance. Former BSA Officer at a federally chartered bank. Expert in multi-state money transmission licensing.

Head of Banking Partnerships at Finsyncio

Marcus Webb

Head of Banking Partnerships

Led bank and card network partnership development at two program management and sponsor bank firms. Deep relationships across the FDIC-insured BIN sponsor and payment rail ecosystem.

Lead Engineer at Finsyncio

Jerome Okafor

VP Engineering

Previously distributed systems engineering at a major investment bank and a cloud infrastructure firm. Deep background in financial message processing, FIX protocol, and high-throughput event streaming.

Working on embedded finance for your SaaS?

Reach out to Laura directly — [email protected]