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Baran Ozkan Built the Compliance Tool He Couldn't Buy
A failed museum app, fifteen months of vendor demos and one close friendship led Baran Ozkan to a durable founder lesson: the sharpest product brief can begin with something you tried - and failed - to buy.
The Tiny Clues SEON Uses to Catch a $300 Billion Problem
Fraud rarely arrives wearing a name tag. SEON turns more than 900 digital, device and behavioral signals into decisions that risk teams can inspect, tune and act on in real time.
Flagright
Flagright is an AI-native financial crime compliance platform that gives fintechs, banks, and crypto firms a single system for transaction monitoring, sanctions and watchlist screening, dynamic risk scoring, case management, and regulatory filing. Founded in 2022 by Baran Ozkan and Madhu G. Nadig after Baran spent roughly 18 months failing to find a real-time monitoring vendor he liked, the company sells what it calls an 'AI operating system for compliance' - including an agentic investigation engine, AI Forensics, that runs alert investigations end to end. It serves 100+ financial institutions across 35+ countries and raised a $12.5M Series A in June 2026.
StandardC
StandardC is a San Francisco fintech that builds compliance and risk-management software for banks, credit unions and other financial institutions serving high-risk, cash-intensive industries - most notably cannabis-related businesses. Its AI-assisted platform bundles onboarding (ApplyC), KYC/KYB screening and continuous monitoring (MonitorC), GPS-verified virtual site inspections (VerifyC) and examiner-ready audit logging so smaller institutions can bank regulated sectors without drowning in manual BSA/AML work.
Kaiko
Kaiko is a global provider of cryptocurrency and digital asset market data, analytics, indices, and surveillance built for institutions. Founded in Paris in 2014 and led by CEO Ambre Soubiran since 2016, the company turns raw data from 200+ exchanges, 20+ blockchains, and 20,000+ digital assets into clean, regulated, institutional-grade feeds used by banks, asset managers, exchanges, and regulators. After acquiring Amberdata in June 2026, Kaiko positions itself as the only independent, globally regulated data and analytics company spanning crypto and tokenized assets.
Soups Ranjan
Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, an agentic AI platform for financial crime prevention and AML compliance headquartered in San Francisco. With a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and career stints at Coinbase (as Head of Risk) and Revolut (Head of Financial Crime), he channeled over 15 years of fraud-fighting expertise into Sardine, which has raised $145.6M and grown to 300+ enterprise customers. Sardine's behavioral biometrics and device intelligence platform now profiles 2.2+ billion devices, making it one of the most comprehensive financial crime databases in existence.
Zahid Shaikh
Zahid Shaikh is the Co-Founder and Head of Risk Products at Sardine, an AI-powered fraud and compliance platform that has raised $145.6M in total funding. Previously a top inventor at PayPal where his device intelligence product saved the company $40M+ annually in fraud losses, Zahid then led risk and security product teams at Uber and Revolut before co-founding Sardine in April 2020 alongside Soups Ranjan and Aditya Goel. Sardine now profiles 2.2+ billion devices and achieved 130% YoY ARR growth in 2024.