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Didit
Didit is a San Francisco-based identity and fraud infrastructure company building one API for KYC, KYB, AML, biometrics, liveness and transaction monitoring across 220+ countries and 14,000+ document types. Founded by identical-twin brothers Alberto and Alejandro Rosas, it offers 500 free verifications per month forever and pay-as-you-go pricing from $0.33 per KYC check, aiming to become the identity layer for an internet where telling humans from bots is getting harder.
Dojah
Dojah is a Lagos-based identity verification and anti-fraud infrastructure company that helps digital businesses onboard users, verify identities, and stay compliant through a single API and no-code tools. It aggregates KYC, KYB, AML, biometric, document and address checks across Africa and beyond, letting fintechs, banks, and marketplaces confirm who they are dealing with in seconds. A Y Combinator W22 company, Dojah serves customers including OPay, FCMB, Cowrywise and Fincra.
Fenrock AI
Fenrock AI is a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch building AI agents for the banking back office, starting with financial crime compliance. Its AI workspace helps compliance analysts investigate AML and fraud alerts at roughly 20x their normal volume while keeping bullet-proof audit logs and human oversight. Founded by repeat entrepreneur Charu Sharma and ex-Apple/Google machine-learning engineer Michael M, the company overlays on a bank's existing stack to automate investigations, loan processing, and complaint resolution.
Plutto
Plutto is a Santiago-based KYB (Know Your Business) and due diligence platform for Latin America. It lets financial services, procurement, legal and compliance teams verify and continuously monitor the businesses they work with - vendors, clients and partners - by pulling legal, financial, tax and labor data from 15+ official sources, screening against sanctions and PEP lists, and producing auditable, AI-summarized risk reports. What once took lawyers weeks and cost about $100 per client now runs in minutes for a few dollars per check.
YC World
YC World is a counterparty and corporate network risk investigation platform built by Ukrainian open-data developer YouControl. It consolidates official company records, ownership networks, sanctions lists, politically exposed persons and other risk signals across 80+ jurisdictions into a single searchable, graph-based workspace, helping compliance teams, investigators and law enforcement run AML, KYC and KYB checks and expose hidden ownership and sanctioned connections.
Mozn
Mozn is a Riyadh-based enterprise AI company founded in 2017 that builds AI for high-stakes decisions in the Arabic-speaking world. Its flagship platform, FOCAL, unifies fraud prevention and anti-money-laundering (AML) compliance for banks, fintechs and governments, while its OSOS platform delivers Arabic natural-language understanding and enterprise knowledge intelligence. Backed by a $10M Series A, Mozn has served more than 100 organizations and, in 2025, became one of only ten vendors worldwide named a Category Leader by Chartis Research in both AML transaction monitoring and KYC solutions.
TransFi
TransFi is a Dubai-headquartered payment infrastructure company that moves money across borders on stablecoin rails. Its platform lets businesses and Web3 apps collect, convert and pay out funds across fiat and stablecoins, spanning 100+ markets, 40+ currencies, 250+ local payment methods and 130+ digital assets. Founded in 2022 by former McKinsey payments partner Raj Kamal, TransFi targets high-friction emerging markets across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, replacing slow correspondent-banking and SWIFT flows with near-instant settlement.
Cape.ai
Cape.ai (formerly Cape Privacy) is a New York-based enterprise AI company building an agentic automation platform purpose-built for financial services. Founded in 2018 by Che Wijesinghe and Gavin Uhma, Cape lets banks, asset managers and insurers automate document-heavy back-office work - enhanced due diligence, SOC-report and third-party risk analysis, KYC/AML onboarding and regulatory reporting - using AI agents that are fully cited, auditable and deployable on-premise or in a private cloud so sensitive data never leaves the customer's environment.
Elementus
Elementus is a New York-based blockchain intelligence company that adds an identity layer to raw on-chain data, letting banks, regulators, government agencies and investigators trace crypto transactions, score risk, detect sanctions exposure and follow the money across multiple chains. Founded in 2018 by data scientist Max Galka, the company pairs proprietary attribution data with forensic algorithms and became widely known for mapping the flow of funds in the Celsius and BlockFi bankruptcies.
Footprint
Footprint is a New York-based identity and risk-operations company that unifies KYC, KYB, fraud detection, authentication, and secure data vaulting into a single platform for banks, fintechs, and marketplaces. Founded in 2022 by Eli Wachs and Alex Grinman, it aims to make verified identity portable across the internet - so a person proves who they are once and reuses that verification everywhere - while using AI agents (its Percy product) to automate manual fraud and compliance review.
Merkle Science
Merkle Science is a blockchain analytics and predictive risk intelligence company that helps crypto exchanges, financial institutions, government agencies and Web3 businesses detect, investigate and prevent illicit cryptocurrency activity. Founded in Singapore in 2018 by Mriganka Pattnaik and Nirmal Ak, it uses behavior-based machine learning rather than static blacklists to power its two core products - Compass for real-time transaction monitoring and compliance (AML/KYC/CFT), and Tracker for cross-chain forensic investigations across 10,000+ assets and 200+ bridges.
Silent Eight
Silent Eight is a Singapore-headquartered regtech company that builds purpose-built artificial intelligence for financial crime compliance. Its Iris platform automates name screening, transaction screening, transaction monitoring, investigation and case documentation for banks, producing decisions with written, auditable narratives instead of black-box scores. The company is used by Tier 1 institutions including HSBC and Standard Chartered, and has raised roughly $55 million to date, including a $40 million Series B in 2022.
Solidus Labs
Solidus Labs is a New York-based crypto-native risk monitoring and market surveillance company founded in 2018 by former Goldman Sachs engineers. Its flagship HALO platform combines trade surveillance, transaction monitoring and threat intelligence to help crypto exchanges, brokers, custodians, stablecoin issuers and regulators detect market manipulation, fraud and money laundering across onchain and offchain markets. HALO monitors over one trillion events daily, deploys 50+ crypto-native abuse typologies, and in 2025 was selected by the EU's ESMA as a trade surveillance provider under MiCA.
Taktile
Taktile is an AI decision platform for banks, insurers and fintechs. Its Agentic Decision Platform lets risk and engineering teams combine AI agents, business rules, third-party data and human oversight to automate high-stakes decisions - approving customers, underwriting credit, flagging fraud and processing claims - using low-code building blocks, 200+ data integrations, and built-in testing and monitoring. Founded in 2020 by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, the company operates across New York, Berlin, London, Sao Paulo and Iasi, and raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026.
Trustap
Trustap is an Irish fintech that provides escrow-style, milestone-based payment infrastructure for online marketplaces, ecommerce platforms and individuals. Acting as the merchant of record, it holds a buyer's funds until goods or services are confirmed as delivered, then releases them to the seller - reducing fraud, chargebacks and disputes for high-value and peer-to-peer transactions. Founded in Cork in 2017 by Conor Lyden after he was scammed buying football tickets, the company now works with 250+ partners across roughly 27 countries and is building Trustap Index, a product that makes marketplace listings machine-readable and transactable by AI shopping agents.
Feedzai
Feedzai is an AI-native platform that helps banks and financial institutions detect and prevent fraud and financial crime in real time. Founded in Portugal in 2011, its RiskOps platform unifies fraud detection, anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, identity verification and scam prevention across the customer lifecycle. Feedzai screens transactions for institutions such as Citi and Lloyds Banking Group, and in 2025 was selected by the European Central Bank to help safeguard the forthcoming digital euro. The company reached a $2 billion valuation in October 2025.
AiPrise
AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance platform that helps businesses verify individuals and companies across borders. It unifies 100+ data sources and 50+ KYB/KYC vendors into a single orchestration layer for identity verification (KYC), business verification (KYB), and fraud and risk scoring, letting companies onboard customers, vendors, and partners in more than 200 countries in minutes rather than weeks. Founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator, AiPrise serves 150+ global customers and closed a $12.5M Series A led by Headline in October 2025.
AmMax Bio., Inc.
AmMax Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Redwood City, California, developing first-in-class cancer therapeutics built on a CSF1R-targeting antibody platform. Founded in 2020 by pharmaceutical veteran Larry Hsu, PhD, in partnership with Amgen, the company advances a pipeline that spans a monoclonal antibody for tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT), a therapy for colorectal cancer minimal residual disease (in partnership with MD Anderson), and a lead antibody-drug conjugate, AMB-104, for acute myeloid leukemia. AmMax's strategy is to de-risk development by combining clinically validated antibodies with established linker-payload technology.
Bretton AI
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite AI, builds an AI-native platform for the financial back office - deploying audit-ready AI agents that run compliance, risk and fraud operations for OCC-, FDIC- and Federal Reserve-regulated banks and fintechs. The agents ingest alerts and policies, consolidate evidence across systems, auto-resolve low-risk cases and escalate complex matters with cited, traceable narratives. Founded in 2023 by Will Lawrence and Alex Jin, the company rebranded from Greenlite to Bretton in February 2026 alongside a $75M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures.
Variance
Variance builds investigative AI agents that automate risk and compliance work for banks, fintechs, and Fortune 500 platforms - handling KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, and fraud investigations that would otherwise take teams of analysts days to complete. Founded in 2023 by ex-Apple fraud engineers Karine Mellata and Michael Lin (originally as the trust-and-safety startup Intrinsic), the company raised a $21.5M Series A in March 2026 led by Ten Eleven Ventures.
Arva AI
Arva AI builds enterprise-grade AI agents that do the manual grunt work of financial crime compliance - screening, KYB/KYC onboarding, and transaction monitoring - for regulated banks and fintechs. Its agents autonomously resolve the majority of alerts and reviews (roughly 91% of screening alerts, 87% of KYB/KYC assessments, and 86% of transaction-monitoring alerts), cutting onboarding times from days to seconds and compliance operations spend by up to 80%. Founded in 2024 by Rhim Shah and Oli Wales and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, the New York-based company raised a $3M seed round led by Google's Gradient Ventures in January 2025.
Consilient
Consilient is a New York- and Washington, D.C.-based financial technology company that applies federated machine learning to anti-money laundering and financial crime detection. Its models learn from behavioral patterns across multiple banks and share the algorithms - not the underlying customer data - so institutions can collaborate on catching illicit activity while preserving privacy. Founded in 2020 as a joint venture between K2 Integrity and Giant Oak, the company's Dozer platform has demonstrated in bank trials that it can sharply cut false positives while improving true-positive detection.
Parcha
Parcha is a San Francisco AI company building enterprise-grade AI agents that automate compliance and operations work for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2023 by former Brex leaders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios-Berrios, its Agent Hub platform lets compliance teams create, test, and deploy agents in minutes to run KYC/KYB reviews, enhanced due diligence, AML screening, and document verification - work that traditionally requires large operations teams. Backed by $5M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Initialized Capital, Parcha counts fintechs like Bridge, Airwallex, Flutterwave, and Pipe among its users.
Pastel
Pastel builds agentic AI for banking operations, aimed at the regional, mid-tier, and community banks that most fintech innovation skips over. Its flagship platform, Sigma, deploys AI agents across customer onboarding, due diligence, fraud detection, anti-money laundering, screening, and executive reporting - trained on local data and regulations rather than retrofitted Western systems. Founded by Stanford graduate students and rooted in African markets, Pastel started as a small-business bookkeeping tool called Sabi before pivoting into compliance infrastructure for financial institutions.
Roe AI
Roe AI builds agentic AI that investigates fraud, disputes, and anti-money-laundering (AML) cases end to end - reading documents, images, websites, and structured data to produce cited evidence and audit-ready dispositions. Founded in 2024 by ex-Snowflake and ex-Meta engineers and backed by Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator, the company started as an AI-powered data warehouse for querying unstructured data with SQL and sharpened into a financial-crime investigation platform used by teams at Affirm, eBay, and a Global Systemically Important Bank.
Satschel, Inc.
Satschel, Inc. is a Whitefish, Montana-based financial technology company building frictionless compliance and investment infrastructure with blockchain, biometrics, and AI. Its Simplici platform compresses KYC, KYB, AML, accreditation, and e-signature into a mobile-first onboarding flow that runs in about four minutes, while its subsidiary Liquidity.io operates an SEC-regulated Digital Alternative Trading System for tokenized, traditionally illiquid assets.
Sphinx
Sphinx builds browser-native AI agents that do the work of a human compliance analyst - running AML, KYC, KYB and enhanced due diligence reviews inside the case-management tools banks and fintechs already use. Every decision is logged and explainable, producing a regulator-ready audit trail. Founded in 2024 by Alexandre Berkovic and Chrisjan Wust and backed by Y Combinator, Sphinx raised a $7.1M seed round in early 2026 and now runs in production across banks, fintechs, crypto platforms and public companies in eight countries.
Trulioo
Trulioo is a Vancouver-based global identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, marketplaces and crypto firms verify both people and businesses in seconds. Through a single API it combines KYC, KYB, AML watchlist screening, document and biometric verification, and credit decisioning, drawing on data sources that reach billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses worldwide. The pitch is simple: prove who - and what - you are dealing with, anywhere on earth, without stitching together a dozen regional vendors.
AvenCell Therapeutics
AvenCell Therapeutics is a clinical-stage cell therapy company building switchable, universal CAR-T treatments that can be turned 'off' and 'on' even after they are inside a patient. By pairing this controllable switch with a CRISPR-engineered, off-the-shelf allogeneic platform, AvenCell aims to widen the narrow safety window of conventional CAR-T while cutting the cost and wait time of manufacturing, targeting hard-to-treat blood cancers like AML, B-cell malignancies and, increasingly, autoimmune disease.