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.
Sigma360 is a New York-based risk intelligence company that helps banks, payment firms, fintechs and global corporations detect and manage financial crime. Its cloud-native, AI-powered platform unifies global risk data, proprietary intelligence, core screening technology and automation to surface direct and network-based risk at sub-second speed, cut false positives, and run perpetual KYC, sanctions and adverse media screening. Founded in 2017 as Sigma Ratings, the company protects more than $2 trillion in assets and company value.
Venn is a New York cybersecurity company that secures remote and hybrid work on personal, unmanaged, or contractor-owned computers. Its patented Blue Border technology installs a lightweight agent that creates a company-controlled Secure Enclave on any Windows or Mac machine - work apps run locally inside a literal blue border where data is encrypted and isolated from personal use, with no virtual desktop, no remote session, and no shipped laptop required.
Shanthi Shanmugam is the co-founder and CEO of Casap, a New York fintech that uses AI to automate payment disputes, chargebacks, and first-party fraud detection for banks, credit unions, and fintechs. A UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer science graduate, she cut her teeth as a product manager at Facebook and spent roughly five years at Robinhood, where she launched the first crypto trading feature and later ran customer-care products. Watching back-office breakdowns erode consumer trust convinced her the dispute process was broken, so she reconnected with a former Facebook colleague, Saisi Peter, and started Casap in 2023. In August 2025 the company raised a $25M Series A led by Emergence Capital, bringing total funding to $33.5M.
Vatsa Narasimha is the CEO of ComplyAdvantage, the London-based regtech building AI-native tools to detect and disrupt financial crime. A ceramics engineer turned consultant turned operator, he ran foreign-exchange platform OANDA before joining ComplyAdvantage as COO/CFO in 2018, then taking the top job in 2022. He has pushed the company past $100M in funding, 3,000+ enterprise customers, and a billion-plus searches a year, while reframing compliance as an asymmetric fight that only AI-native systems can win.
Ambre Soubiran is the CEO and chairman of Kaiko, the independent provider of institutional-grade, regulatory-compliant cryptocurrency market data and indices. After a decade structuring equity derivatives at HSBC in London and Paris, she walked away from traditional finance in 2016 to buy control of Kaiko - then a bright idea with no revenue and no staff - and built it into a global data business with roughly 130 people across New York, London, Paris and Singapore. She has raised over $80M and positions Kaiko as the trusted, neutral source of truth for crypto markets used by exchanges, asset managers and regulators.
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.
Stuart Jones Jr. is the co-founder and CEO of Sigma360, an AI-powered risk intelligence platform fighting financial crime for banks, payment providers and globally exposed corporations. A former senior U.S. Treasury official who chased illicit money through Afghanistan and the Arabian Gulf after 9/11, he turned a counterterrorism playbook into enterprise software. In March 2026 his company closed an oversubscribed $17.3M Series B, having reached profitability and the now protecting more than $2 trillion in assets.
Anduin is a private-markets fintech that digitizes the messy back office of alternative investing - turning paper-heavy fund subscriptions, data rooms, and investor onboarding into a single software workflow used by GPs and LPs around the world.
Aravo Solutions is a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company that builds cloud software for third-party risk, governance, and compliance. Its Intelligence First Platform - now wrapped with an AI agent layer called Aravo AI - helps Fortune 500 companies manage vendors, suppliers, and partners across 154 countries and 36 languages.
Eliot Hodges is the CEO of Anduin Transactions, a Silicon Valley fintech company building critical infrastructure to modernize the $14 trillion private capital markets. A Harvard and Kellogg MBA graduate fluent in five languages, Hodges came up through Palantir, Blend, and Anchorage before being recruited by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale to lead Anduin. Under his leadership, the platform has grown to serve 510+ funds and facilitate $55B+ in capital raises for 27,000+ investors globally.
Kyle Mack is the CEO and Co-founder of Middesk, the business identity platform that's modernizing how financial institutions and fintechs verify and trust the companies they work with. Founded in 2018 after Mack witnessed firsthand the painful manual process of customer credentialing at Checkr, Middesk has grown into a category-defining KYB infrastructure company backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi Ventures with $77M+ in total funding. The company serves hundreds of enterprise clients - including two of the top three U.S. banks and fintechs like Plaid, Affirm, Brex, and Shopify - by connecting to roughly 400 U.S. government agencies to surface real-time business identity intelligence. Mack is also a Sequoia Scout, investing in early-stage founders.
Michael Saracini is the CEO of Aravo Solutions, a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company he has led since 2011. With over two decades building profitable high-growth software businesses across CRM, HCM, and supply chain, Saracini has positioned Aravo as the category-defining platform for third-party risk management - managing 10.5 million suppliers and vendors across 177 countries for global enterprises in financial services, pharma, high-tech, and consumer goods. Under his leadership, Aravo has earned five consecutive Chartis Category Leader designations, won the 2025 TPRM Innovator Award, and built an AI-driven TPRM platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies navigating an era of regulatory complexity.
Rick Song is the Co-Founder and CEO of Persona, the identity verification platform trusted by OpenAI, Instacart, LinkedIn, and 3,000+ others. A self-described reluctant founder, he left Square in 2018 after five years working on fraud and identity products, convinced there was a better way to build identity infrastructure. By 2025, Persona had completed 300+ million verifications, crossed $100M ARR, raised a $200M Series D at a $2B valuation, and was named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Identity Verification for the second consecutive year.
Persona is a San Francisco-based identity infrastructure company that helps businesses verify people - and increasingly, AI agents - online. Its configurable platform powers KYC, KYB, AML, age verification, and ongoing trust-and-safety workflows for fintechs, marketplaces, crypto exchanges, and AI platforms across 200+ countries.
Unit21 is a San Francisco-based risk and compliance platform that uses agentic AI to detect, investigate, and report financial crime. Its no-code rules engine, transaction monitoring, case management, and AI investigation agents serve banks, credit unions, fintechs, and crypto firms including Chime, Brex, Intuit, Crypto.com, and Jack Henry. The company is responsible for roughly 5% of all SARs filed in the US.
Finalis is a San Francisco-based fintech building the operating system for private capital markets. It pairs a registered broker-dealer with software that handles compliance, deal management, and a global network of bankers - letting independent dealmakers run M&A, capital raises, and private placements without standing up their own back office.
Christopher Gottschalk is a General Partner at Mouro Capital, a $400M fintech-focused venture capital firm headquartered in London and spun out of Banco Santander. Based in San Francisco, he anchors the firm's U.S. and Silicon Valley presence, bringing over 16 years of experience spanning investment banking at Cowen and Company, operations at Intel, early-stage investing at Menlo Ventures, and nearly seven years as a Principal at Blumberg Capital. At Mouro, he takes board seats at flagship portfolio companies including Upgrade, Trulioo, and Blueprint, applying a long-duration, multi-stage partnership model to back category-defining fintechs from seed through Series B and beyond.
Quantifind is a Palo Alto-based AI risk intelligence company that helps banks and government agencies surface financial crime signals from oceans of public, unstructured data. Its Graphyte platform automates anti-money-laundering, KYC, and investigations work, cutting false positives and accelerating analyst decisions.
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.
Ren Riley is a General Partner at Fin Capital, a San Francisco-based B2B fintech-focused venture capital firm managing over $800 million in assets. With 25+ years in financial services and 20+ years in venture capital, Riley brings deep sector expertise spanning enterprise AI, banktech, payments, and risk technology. He joined Fin Capital in November 2020 and was promoted to General Partner in January 2023, where he sources and leads primary and co-investment opportunities. Previously, he was a General Partner at Oak Investment Partners (1999-2015), a Partner/CEO at Robertson Stephens (2015-2019), and co-founded Enclave Liquidity Partners (2019-2022), a firm providing liquidity solutions to late-stage private company stakeholders. Fin Capital exclusively backs repeat founders and invests across the full startup lifecycle from pre-seed through IPO.
Leo Patching is a serial fintech entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Kompliant, a compliance orchestration platform for banks, payment facilitators, and financial institutions that was acquired by LegitScript in October 2025. With a track record spanning from solar energy to payments infrastructure, Patching has built a career around turning regulation into a competitive advantage - arguing that compliance is not a cost center but a growth engine for the modern financial services industry.
Nuno Sebastiao is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Feedzai, the AI-native RiskOps platform protecting over $70 billion in annual payment volume across 190 countries. A former European Space Agency aerospace engineer turned fintech disruptor, he co-founded Feedzai in Portugal in 2011 alongside Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro. Under his leadership, Feedzai reached unicorn status in 2021, hit a $2 billion valuation in 2025, and was selected by the European Central Bank to power fraud detection for the digital euro. A multilingual polymath fluent in four languages, Nuno was ranked #1 in Portugal's 40 Under 40, named Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, and has shared stages with Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, and Richard Branson.
Tyler Allen is the CEO of Unit21, the AI risk infrastructure company he helped build from the ground up as its founding software engineer in 2019. Starting by writing Unit21's earliest lines of code, he progressed through Head of AI and COO before being appointed CEO in April 2026, succeeding co-founder Trisha Kothari. Under his AI leadership, customer usage of Unit21's AI Agents grew 30x in a single quarter. Unit21's platform now handles over 200,000 monthly reviews, has detected $14 billion in suspicious activity, and files approximately 5% of all U.S. SARs submitted to FinCEN.
Ari Tuchman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Quantifind, a Palo Alto-based AI risk intelligence company that uses machine learning, entity resolution, and natural language processing to automate financial crime detection and compliance workflows for Tier 1 banks and government agencies. A Harvard-trained physicist with a Yale Ph.D. in atomic physics, Tuchman left a Stanford research career working on DARPA-funded quantum sensors to co-found Quantifind in 2009. His company's Graphyte platform now analyzes millions of entities, reduces false positives by up to 75%, and auto-resolves 90% of risk cases for global financial institutions. He is also a co-founder of Entanglement Technologies, a quantum chemical sensor company.
Federico Baradello is the Founder and CEO of Finalis, an AI-powered investment banking platform he built from his frustration with a 30-year-old technology stack while executing M&A deals at Kirkland & Ellis. An Argentine-American multilingual attorney with degrees from Princeton, Harvard, LSE, and UC Berkeley, Baradello launched Finalis in 2020 and has grown it into one of the fastest-growing investment banking platforms in history - now powering over 900 bankers across 24 countries with $22.5B+ in closed transactions.
COO of Stratyfy, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University, and one of the most credible voices in the fight against algorithmic discrimination in financial services. Born in Istanbul, educated in engineering and business, Deniz has spent decades bridging the gap between AI technology and human consequences — building interpretable, bias-mitigating AI systems used by 20+ lenders through the Underwriting for Racial Justice programme. She is a serial board member, community convener, and published author who believes fairness and performance are not opposites but the same equation solved correctly.