Finextra · May 2026
Independent coverage confirmed the extension and described the bank’s successful live evaluation of Sardine’s financial-crime agents.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
SardineAI Corp. is a privately held fintech/security company founded in 2020. It provides an agentic risk platform that unifies fraud prevention, AML/compliance, identity, payments, investigations and risk decisions for banks, fintechs, retailers and other digital-economy businesses. Its AI agents and consortium intelligence are designed to detect financial crime earlier, reduce false positives and automate risk-operations work.
Primary product
Sardine Agentic Risk Platform: real-time fraud prevention, device and behavioral intelligence, KYC/KYB, identity-fraud detection, bank-account-owner validation, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, disputes, investigations, case management and credit underwriting.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (some commercial databases list Miami; Sardine’s LinkedIn and third-party company data identify San Francisco as HQ).
Team size
200+ employees across 20+ countries (company careers page, January 2026); a separate LinkedIn/company-data snapshot reports 176 employees across 19 countries.
40 jobs at Sardine
Work style
Remote
Industry
Financial services technology / cybersecurity
Sub-industry
Fraud prevention, financial-crime compliance, identity and risk-management software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series C / Series C extension; privately held growth-stage company
Total raised
$170M
Latest round
Series C extension · May 2026
Latest amount
$25M
May 2026 · National Bank of Canada / NAventures
Feb 2025 · Activant Capital
Sep 2022 · Andreessen Horowitz Growth Fund
Aug 2022 · FIS Impact Ventures
Feb 2022 · Andreessen Horowitz
Aug 2020 · Ross Fubini / XYZ
Leadership
CEO, Co-Founder
Zahid Shaikh
Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder
Kazuki Nishiura
Chief Technology Officer
Benjamin (Ben) Cook
Chief Financial Officer
Alex Kushnir
Head of Commercial Development
Myles Blumberg
Head of Global Revenue
Eduardo Lopez
Head of Marketing
Ravi Loganathan
General Manager, Banking
Christine Poulon
General Counsel
Founders
Aditya (Adi) Goel
Co-Founder; current executive title not verified in the retrieved sources
Co-Founder & COO
Sardine describes its culture as fast-paced, collaborative and respectful of deep work, with emphasis on outcomes rather than optics. The company says it moves quickly without cutting corners on customers, security or colleagues and operates as a distributed, work-from-anywhere organization.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public careers materials signal competitive cash plus equity, flexible stock options with early exercise, and a four-year post-separation exercise window. No public role-by-role salary bands were verified.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing; no public price list found. The product is sold through demos and enterprise/API integration rather than self-serve published plans.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $1M-$5M annually; a third-party company-data snapshot reports $1.3M, but this is not company-confirmed and conflicts with Sardine’s reported 130% 2024 ARR growth.
Estimated monthly visits
166.1K
Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026
Finextra · May 2026
Independent coverage confirmed the extension and described the bank’s successful live evaluation of Sardine’s financial-crime agents.
Business Wire · May 2026
National Bank of Canada entered a multi-year deployment partnership with Sardine and led a $25M Series C extension, taking Sardine’s reported total funding to $170M.
Sardine Engineering Blog · Apr 2025
Sardine launched its engineering blog and highlighted production engineering work and participation by its three co-founders.
Business Wire · Feb 2025
Sardine announced its $70M Series C, introduced AI agents for KYC, sanctions, merchant risk and disputes, and reported $145M total capital at the time.
Sardine blog · Jun 2023
Major product/platform milestone introducing SardineX, a fraud data-sharing consortium with founding members including Visa, Airbase, Novo, Blockchain.com, Alloy Labs, Chesapeake Bank, iLEX Consulting Group, and Spring Labs.