Sardine
Agentic AI platform for real-time fraud prevention and financial crime compliance.
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Employees
- 201-500
- Latest Round
- Series C
- Est. Valuation
- ~$660M
Investment Thesis
Fintech and crypto companies face rampant payment fraud and money laundering, with legacy tools unable to keep pace with AI-driven attacks.
Sardine is an agentic financial crime platform that combines device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and AI to detect fraud in real-time. It provides KYC/KYB, transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening in a single platform.
AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic identities are making fraud exponentially harder to catch. Sardine's agentic AI approach fights AI fraud with AI defense.
300+ enterprise customers including FIS, Deel, GoDaddy, and X. 130% YoY ARR growth in 2024, reaching ~$23M revenue. Valued at $660M.
Founded by Soups Ranjan (CEO, ex-Coinbase Head of Data Science) and Zahid Shaikh (CTO, ex-Revolut).