# Peter Piatetsky

> Peter Piatetsky is the co-founder and CEO of Castellum.AI, a New York compliance-technology company that automates AML/KYC screening for banks, credit unions, fintechs and crypto firms. A former US Treasury sanctions officer who once fined banks and froze illicit assets, he started Castellum after a month of staring at 38,000 compliance alerts that surfaced exactly one real threat. The company builds its own financial-crime data pipeline, refreshes it every five minutes, and routinely corrects errors in government sanctions lists. In July 2025 Castellum raised an oversubscribed $8.5M Series A led by credit-union and bank-backed funds.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Castellum.AI
- **Organizations:** Castellum.AI, US Department of the Treasury (former), American University (former)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's, International Relations, History, Russian and Eastern European Studies, Boston University, Master's, Persian Studies, University of Maryland
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Castellum.AI, an all-in-one AI agent and AML/KYC platform, Built a proprietary financial-crime data pipeline that ingests hundreds of government and press sources and refreshes every 5 minutes, Platform reduces false positives by 94% and cuts manual review time by 83%, with guaranteed false-positive reduction

## Career timeline

- **2010s** — Investigator for Iran Sanctions at the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
- **2010s** — Senior Policy Advisor at US Treasury, advising principals on sanctions, AML and terrorist financing for Iran, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine
- **2010s** — Compliance executive at a large Asian bank
- **2010s** — Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University, teaching Sanctions, Corruption, and Terrorist Financing
- **2019** — Co-founded Castellum.AI on the premise that the hardest part of compliance software is reliable data
- **2025** — Closed an oversubscribed $8.5M Series A, bringing total funding to roughly $12.9M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Castellum.AI, an all-in-one AI agent and AML/KYC platform
- Built a proprietary financial-crime data pipeline that ingests hundreds of government and press sources and refreshes every 5 minutes
- Platform reduces false positives by 94% and cuts manual review time by 83%, with guaranteed false-positive reduction
- Runs a public 'Department of Corrections' cataloging errors reported to OFAC, Commerce and other agencies
- Castellum's AI agent passed the CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) practice exam on the first attempt
- Raised an oversubscribed $8.5M Series A in 2025 from funds backed by 130+ credit unions and a dozen banks

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Castellum.AI closed an oversubscribed $8.5M Series A led by Curql with participation from BTech Consortium and Framework Venture Partners, to accelerate AI agent and AML/KYC platform adoption.

## Links

- Website: https://castellum.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpiatetsky/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/castellumai

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Last updated: 2026-06-03