# Tyler Allen

> 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.

- **Role:** CEO at Unit21
- **Organizations:** Unit21
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts, International Political Economy, Colorado College, Software Engineering, App Academy
- **Known for:** Grew Unit21's customer usage of AI Agents 30x in a single quarter, Architected Unit21's complete AI strategy and oversaw transition from no-code to AI-first infrastructure, Oversaw deployment of AI agents processing 200,000+ monthly fraud and AML reviews

## Career timeline

- **2014-2016** — Account Executive and Sales Development Representative at TubeMogul, Inc.
- **2017-2018** — Account Executive and Sales Development Representative at Branch
- **2018** — Completed software engineering program at App Academy
- **2019** — Joined Unit21 as founding software engineer and first employee, writing the earliest lines of the platform
- **2019-2023** — Progressed to Head of AI at Unit21, architecting the company's AI strategy
- **2023-2026** — Served as Chief Operating Officer at Unit21
- **2026-04** — Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Unit21, succeeding co-founder Trisha Kothari

## Achievements

- Grew Unit21's customer usage of AI Agents 30x in a single quarter
- Architected Unit21's complete AI strategy and oversaw transition from no-code to AI-first infrastructure
- Oversaw deployment of AI agents processing 200,000+ monthly fraud and AML reviews
- Unit21 under his AI leadership detected $14 billion in suspicious activity
- Platform files approximately 5% of all U.S. SARs submitted to FinCEN
- Achieved 93% reduction in false positives for customers; 44% faster alert reviews
- Maintained quarterly synchronization meetings with FinCEN regarding AI products
- Named Category Leader by Chartis in Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions (2026)
- Unit21 included in RegTech100 for Agentic AI Innovation

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Appointed CEO of Unit21, succeeding co-founder Trisha Kothari who transitions to Chairman of the Board.
- **2026-04** — Unit21 named Category Leader by Chartis in Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions, highest-scoring vendor for AI.
- **2026-04** — Unit21 included in RegTech100 for Agentic AI Innovation.
- **2025-08** — Unit21 introduced BYOA (Bring Your Own Agent) to transform fraud detection.
- **2023-06** — Unit21 raised $45M Series C funding led by Tiger Global.

## Links

- Website: https://unit21.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tylertallen

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Last updated: 2026-05-14