# Adi Goel

> Adi Goel is co-founder and COO of Sardine, an AI-powered fraud and compliance platform that has screened over $1.36 trillion in payments for 300+ enterprise customers across 70+ countries. Before Sardine, he scaled Revolut's entire US business from zero to millions of customers and led product strategy at Deutsche Börse managing a $200M fintech fund. A Wharton MBA and IIT Delhi engineer, Goel brings rare cross-disciplinary range across quantitative finance, product, and operations to building fintech infrastructure.

- **Role:** Co-founder & COO at Sardine
- **Organizations:** Sardine, Revolut, Deutsche Börse, PIMCO, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** MBA, Finance and Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Sardine, which has raised $145M total and serves 300+ enterprises across 70+ countries, Scaled Revolut's US business from zero to millions of customers as Head of Product and Operations, Managed Deutsche Börse's $200M+ DB1 Ventures fintech and AI investment fund

## Career timeline

- **2009-2013** — Early career in quantitative finance and asset management at PIMCO; traded fixed income securities
- **2013** — Co-founded Info Assembly, a personalized wealth management platform
- **2013-2015** — MBA at Wharton; VP of Wharton FinTech club; co-founded Penn AI Society
- **2015-2018** — VP of Product Strategy at Deutsche Börse; managed $200M+ DB1 Ventures fintech fund; led open banking, blockchain, and ML initiatives
- **2017** — Published thought leadership article on AI in asset management for Wharton FinTech Medium ('Why We Need Tony Stark's Suit')
- **2018-2020** — Head of Product and Operations (US and New Markets) at Revolut; scaled US business from zero to millions of customers
- **2020** — Co-founded Sardine with Soups Ranjan and Zahid Shaikh (all former Revolut colleagues) in February 2020
- **2022** — Sardine raises $19.5M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z); then $51.5M Series B led by a16z Growth Fund with investors including Visa and Google Ventures
- **2025** — Led Sardine's $70M Series C round (February 2025); company reaches 300+ enterprise customers across 70+ countries, $1.36T+ in payments screened

## Achievements

- Co-founded Sardine, which has raised $145M total and serves 300+ enterprises across 70+ countries
- Scaled Revolut's US business from zero to millions of customers as Head of Product and Operations
- Managed Deutsche Börse's $200M+ DB1 Ventures fintech and AI investment fund
- Co-founded Penn Artificial Intelligence Society at Wharton/Penn
- Sardine's platform has screened over $1.36 trillion in payments and profiled 5.75 billion+ devices
- Sardine achieved 130% year-over-year ARR growth leading into Series C
- Featured speaker at Identity Week America
- Named in Forbes top 25 companies in fintech innovation (Sardine)

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Sardine closes $70M Series C round led by Activant Capital, with participation from a16z, Google Ventures, Moody's Analytics, and Experian Ventures, bringing total funding to $145M
- **2025-02** — Sardine announces company now serves 300+ enterprise customers across 70+ countries and has screened $1.36T+ in payments
- **2024** — Sardine launches four new AI agents including KYC Agent with 88% auto-resolution rate; platform rebranded as Agentic Financial Crime Platform
- **2024** — Speaking engagement at Identity Week America as featured speaker

## Links

- Website: https://sardine.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goeladitya/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/adityagoeleth

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Last updated: 2026-05-27