# Unit21

> 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.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Trisha Kothari (Co-founder, former CEO), Clarence Chio (Co-founder, CTO)
- **Team size:** ~180
- **Products:** Fraud Solutions, AML Solutions, Case Management, Agentic AI Investigators, No-Code Rules Engine
- **Notable:** Responsible for ~5% of all Suspicious Activity Reports filed in the United States, G2 Leader in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) category, Reduced false positives for customers by up to 93% after 2025 AI rebuild

## Products & services

- **Fraud Solutions** — Real-time monitoring, device intelligence, behavioral analytics, and a cross-institution fraud consortium.
- **AML Solutions** — Transaction monitoring, customer risk rating, sanctions screening, and automated SAR/CTR regulatory filings.
- **Case Management** — Unified investigation workspace with AI-prioritized alerts, graph network views, and audit trail.
- **Agentic AI Investigators** — AI agents that triage alerts, gather evidence, and draft regulatory narratives end to end.
- **No-Code Rules Engine** — Analyst-friendly rule builder for velocity, behavioral, and multi-entity risk logic.

## Achievements

- Responsible for ~5% of all Suspicious Activity Reports filed in the United States
- G2 Leader in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) category
- Reduced false positives for customers by up to 93% after 2025 AI rebuild
- Saved 48.3M analyst hours across customer base
- Monitors 4.5B events monthly across 200+ institutions

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Relaunched as 'the leader in AI risk infrastructure' with new agentic platform.
- **2026-02** — Founder warned banks they 'will lose if they don't use AI' against fraud (FinTech Global feature).
- **2025-06** — Announced new compliance capabilities for financial institutions.
- **2023-06** — Closed $45M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth.

## Links

- Website: https://www.unit21.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unit21
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/unit21inc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unit21inc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/unit21inc/

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Last updated: 2026-05-23