crypto-compliance
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StarCompliance
StarCompliance built the software that a million financial-services employees answer to before they trade. Twenty-five years in, it is betting that the next compliance headache is crypto - and that explainable AI can settle the argument.
Allen Osgood
A former Coinbase product manager went looking for a neglected corner of finance. He found dormant accounts, fifty-state rulebooks, and a chance to keep customers connected to their own money.
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.
Chris Lipowicz
Chris Lipowicz is the CEO of Elementus, a New York based blockchain intelligence company that helps hedge funds, financial institutions, government agencies, and legal teams interpret what happens on-chain. An enterprise operator with more than 20 years of experience building revenue and operations teams, he came up through real estate and security technology firms including Building Intelligence and Cherre before moving into crypto data. He argues that on-chain activity is public but hard to read without the right tools, and positions Elementus as the layer that turns raw blockchain data into real-time, compliant, risk-aware decisions.
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.
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.
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.
Mriganka Pattnaik
Mriganka Pattnaik is the co-founder and CEO of Merkle Science, a blockchain transaction monitoring and forensics company he started in 2018 after seeing, from inside crypto exchange Luno, how badly banks and regulators wanted a way to track illicit crypto flows. Under his lead, Merkle Science has raised over $24 million in Series A funding from investors including Kraken Ventures, Digital Currency Group, BECO Capital, and Susquehanna's Darrow Holdings, and now sells its 'Know Your Transaction' tools to VASPs, financial institutions, and law enforcement.
Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos
Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos is the founder and CEO of Metrika, a Cambridge, Massachusetts SaaS company that measures the reliability of blockchains the way a control tower watches air traffic. A Greek-born MIT engineer who spent a decade in telecom strategy consulting, he built Metrika to answer a plain question institutions kept asking about crypto rails: how do you know it is working, and how do you prove it. He served on the U.S. CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee and helped author its landmark 2024 DeFi report, and his platform now underpins risk work with names like S&P Global Ratings, Zodia Custody, Hedera, Algorand and Solana.
Castellum.AI
Castellum.AI is a New York-based regulatory technology company that automates anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer compliance for banks, credit unions, fintechs and crypto firms. Its platform pairs in-house risk data drawn from 200,000+ global sources with explainable AI agents that screen for sanctions, politically exposed persons and adverse media, cutting alert volume by 94% and review time by 83% out of the box. Founded by a former U.S. Treasury sanctions officer, the company raised an $8.5M Series A in July 2025 led by Curql.
Rahul Raina
Rahul Raina is the Co-Founder and CTO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company that helps governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses detect and investigate financial crime on the blockchain. Born out of a failed game startup, TRM Labs now serves 600+ government agencies across 75+ countries, achieved unicorn status in February 2026 with a $70M Series C at a $1B valuation, and is recognized as a leading force in making the crypto ecosystem safer. Rahul was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.
TRM Labs
TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies investigate fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes on-chain. Its platform blends blockchain data, AI agents, and threat intelligence to trace illicit funds across hundreds of blockchains, screen wallets, and support criminal investigations from suspicious-activity alerts to courtroom-ready evidence.
Lindsey Argalas
Lindsey Argalas is the CEO of TaxBit, the leading enterprise-grade crypto tax and accounting platform, where she leads the company's mission to bring regulatory trust to the digital asset economy. With 25+ years across global FinTech, SaaS, and consumer companies — spanning Intuit, Banco Santander, and Boston Consulting Group — she brings rare cross-disciplinary depth to one of the most complex intersections in finance: crypto meets compliance. A Duke-Kellogg-Georgetown polyglot who has run businesses on four continents, Argalas took the CEO helm in June 2023 and has since positioned TaxBit as the compliance infrastructure layer for governments, enterprises, and digital asset brokers worldwide.
Esteban Castano
Esteban Castano is the Co-founder and CEO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company he built into a billion-dollar unicorn on a mission to fight crypto crime. A Dartmouth-educated, Stanford MBA dropout, Castano co-founded TRM in 2018 after recognizing that the coming wave of digital asset adoption would need a trust layer - a platform to detect fraud, trace illicit funds, and keep crypto safe for governments, banks, and legitimate users. With $279.9M raised, clients including Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, and the US Department of Justice, and the world's first FedRAMP High-authorized blockchain intelligence platform, TRM Labs now sits at the center of crypto's fight against money laundering, terrorism financing, and organized crime.