# Sardine

> Sardine is a San Francisco-based AI risk platform that helps banks, fintechs, and crypto companies stop fraud, automate compliance, and underwrite credit using device intelligence, behavior biometrics, machine learning, and a growing fleet of AI agents.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Soups Ranjan (Co-founder & CEO), Aditya Goel (Co-founder & CTO), Zahid Shaikh (Co-founder & Chief Product Officer)
- **Team size:** ~300
- **Products:** Fraud Prevention, AML & Compliance, AI Agents, Sardine Network, Credit Underwriting
- **Notable:** Profiled 2.2B+ devices through the Sardine Network, 130% YoY ARR growth in 2024 with a near-doubling of customer base, Raised $170M total to date across Seed through Series C extension

## Products & services

- **Fraud Prevention** — Real-time device intelligence, behavior biometrics, and machine-learning risk scoring to block account takeovers, payment fraud, and synthetic identities.
- **AML & Compliance** — KYC, KYB, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and SAR/UAR filings with a no-code rules engine.
- **AI Agents** — A growing roster of autonomous agents that triage alerts, draft SAR narratives, and assist investigators.
- **Sardine Network** — A consortium dataset built from 2.2B+ profiled devices that lets customers share fraud signals.
- **Credit Underwriting** — Risk decisioning and signal enrichment for lenders and BNPL providers.

## Achievements

- Profiled 2.2B+ devices through the Sardine Network
- 130% YoY ARR growth in 2024 with a near-doubling of customer base
- Raised $170M total to date across Seed through Series C extension
- Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Activant Capital, Google Ventures, Visa, Experian, Moody's, and FIS
- Operates in 70+ countries

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Closed $70M Series C led by Activant Capital at a $660M valuation.
- **2025** — National Bank of Canada led a $25M Series C extension, lifting total funding to $170M.
- **2026-04** — Announced partnership with Modulr to bring real-time AI fraud detection to automated payments.

## Links

- Website: https://sardine.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sardineai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sardineai
- GitHub: https://github.com/sardine-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sardineai

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Last updated: 2026-05-23