Sardine

Fraud prevention and compliance platform for fintech.

sardine.ai

HQ: Remote

FinTech

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

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.

Work style

Remote

Industry

Financial services technology / cybersecurity

Sub-industry

Fraud prevention, financial-crime compliance, identity and risk-management software

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Miami, Florida, United States

Business model

Enterprise SaaS

API-based risk infrastructure

Usage-based/transaction-oriented fraud and compliance services

Enterprise platform and professional-integration model

Funding

Stage

Series C / Series C extension; privately held growth-stage company

Total raised

$170M

Latest round

Series C extension · May 2026

Latest amount

$25M

Series C extension

May 2026 · National Bank of Canada / NAventures

$25M

Series C

Feb 2025 · Activant Capital

$70M

Series B

Sep 2022 · Andreessen Horowitz Growth Fund

$51.5M

Venture round

Aug 2022 · FIS Impact Ventures

Series A

Feb 2022 · Andreessen Horowitz

$19.5M

Seed

Aug 2020 · Ross Fubini / XYZ

People & investors

Leadership

Soups Ranjan

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

Aditya Goel

Co-Founder & COO

Investors

Work & culture

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

Competitive cash compensation and equity grants

100% employee health, dental and vision coverage; 60% dependent coverage

Unlimited/uncapped PTO

401(k) with 4% employer match

MacBook

Home-office stipend

Monthly food and fitness stipends

Flexible stock options with early exercise

Four-year post-separation option-exercise window

Product & market

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

—Unified fraud, AML and risk platform rather than disconnected point tools
—Real-time device intelligence, behavioral biometrics and explainable risk scoring
—Agentic AI for KYC, sanctions screening, merchant risk, disputes and investigations
—Sonar consortium network for anonymized cross-customer risk intelligence
—Broad coverage spanning identity, payments, onboarding, compliance and credit underwriting
—Claims of 4x ROI from customers using AI agents
—Large risk-data network; company materials report billions of profiled devices and screened payments

Technology

Python

Java

Kotlin

Ruby

TypeScript

React

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

Terraform

Helm

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Apache Spark

dbt

PyTorch

gRPC

Amazon SQS

Datadog

Grafana

Customers

FIS

GoDaddy

Intuit

Edward Jones

ZoomInfo

Checkout.com

Raise

bunq

Prezzee

Brex

Chipper Cash

FTX

Luno

Bakkt

MoonPay

Competitors

Persona

Alloy

Feedzai

Unit21

Socure

Sift

Mitek

Scale & contact

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

sales@sardine.ai

Latest news

National Bank of Canada leads $25 million Series C extension in Sardine

Finextra · May 2026

Independent coverage confirmed the extension and described the bank’s successful live evaluation of Sardine’s financial-crime agents.

National Bank of Canada Partners with Sardine; Leads $25M Series C Extension

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 | New Engineering Blog + Inside Our 2025 AI Hackathon

Sardine Engineering Blog · Apr 2025

Sardine launched its engineering blog and highlighted production engineering work and participation by its three co-founders.

Sardine AI Raises $70M to Make Fraud and Compliance Teams More Productive

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.

SardineX: Real-Time Fraud Data Consortium Uniting the Global Financial Industry

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.

Jobs and careers at Sardine

40 jobs at Sardine

Head of Talent and People

Remote

Talent and People

Berkeley, California; Berkeley, California, United States

2d ago

Remote

Full-time