# Hummingbird

> Hummingbird is a San Francisco RegTech company that builds an AI-powered risk and compliance platform banks, fintechs, and crypto firms use to investigate suspicious money and file the reports regulators require. Founded in 2017 by a team from Circle, Block, Plaid, and the U.S. Treasury, it treats anti-money-laundering work - historically a paperwork swamp - as a design problem, and claims it cuts investigation and reporting time by up to 80-90%. Customers include Etsy, Crypto.com, Paxos, and Grasshopper Bank.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Joe Robinson (Co-founder & CEO), Matt Van Buskirk (Co-founder & CEO, Regulatory), Jesse Reiss (Co-founder & CTO), Ryan Gerard (Co-founder & Principal Engineer)
- **Team size:** ~140-150 employees
- **Products:** Investigations & Case Management, Regulatory Reporting, Hummingbird Automations, Transaction & Risk Monitoring, Customer Screening
- **Notable:** Named Best RegTech Solution for AML & Fighting Financial Crime at FinTech Futures' Banking Tech Awards USA, Won Best Solution for Compliance & Risk at the 2021 Best of FinXTech Awards, Named a CB Insights Outperformer and featured in its RegTech Expert Collections

## Products & services

- **Investigations & Case Management** — Purpose-built case management with 360-degree customer profiles pulling identity data, alerts, prior cases, and communications into one workspace - often described as a CRM for compliance.
- **Regulatory Reporting** — Automated SAR, STR, and CTR generation and filing using patented technology, available in-platform and via API.
- **Hummingbird Automations** — No-code visual builder for automating repetitive compliance tasks with human oversight, launched alongside Hummingbird Labs.
- **Transaction & Risk Monitoring** — Financial-crime detection that runs directly on the institution's cloud data warehouse, with rules built in SQL or no-code.
- **Customer Screening** — Automated sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media screening across onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and ad-hoc checks.
- **AI Agents (Research & Review)** — A Research Agent that compiles due-diligence reports from internal and external data, and a Review Agent that applies institutional policy to close casework with adjustable autonomy and human approval.

## Achievements

- Named Best RegTech Solution for AML & Fighting Financial Crime at FinTech Futures' Banking Tech Awards USA
- Won Best Solution for Compliance & Risk at the 2021 Best of FinXTech Awards
- Named a CB Insights Outperformer and featured in its RegTech Expert Collections
- Invited to the U.S.-U.K. Financial Innovation Partnership Trade Mission
- Reports 80-90% efficiency gains for customers' investigation and reporting workflows

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Expanded the orchestration platform with two AI agents - a Research Agent for entity due diligence and a Review Agent that closes casework under human approval - with a unified audit trail.
- **2025-09** — Launched a Unified Risk & Compliance Platform, adding Transaction & Risk Monitoring and Customer Screening solutions that run on customers' cloud data warehouses.
- **2024-09** — Acquired LogicLoop to deepen data-integration and no-code automation for risk and compliance teams.
- **2024-02** — Launched Hummingbird Automations, a no-code AI automation builder, alongside the Hummingbird Labs R&D space.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hummingbird.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hummingbird-regtech
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/HummingbirdFin
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/HummingbirdRegtech/

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Last updated: 2026-08-14