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Sardine is an AI-driven risk platform specializing in fraud prevention, compliance, and credit underwriting. The platform provides AI-powered solutions to automate fraud detection, sanctions screening, and compliance ...

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Sardine is a well-funded AI-native fraud and compliance platform capturing a large TAM in high-growth fintech and banking...

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Industry Cybersecurity Software
3 named competitors
3 recent developments
11 analyst dimensions
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Sardine Overview

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Sardine is an AI-driven risk platform specializing in fraud prevention, compliance, and credit underwriting. The platform provides AI-powered solutions to automate fraud detection, sanctions screening, and compliance processes for financial institutions, having profiled over 2.2 billion devices. More than 300 enterprises, including FIS, Ascensus, Deel, GoDaddy, and X, rely on Sardine.

Strategic Profile

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Sardine raised $70 million in Series C funding in February 2025, led by Activant Capital, bringing total funding to $145 million. The company is pursuing FRAML (fraud and AML) convergence, enabling enterprises to break down silos between fraud prevention and AML through a unified case management platform. Founded in 2020, Sardine was established to address growing challenges in fraud detection and compliance as financial transactions become faster and AI-driven scams more sophisticated.

Competitive Landscape

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The identity, fraud, and risk management space has well-funded competitors such as Socure and SentiLink, many of which could extend their offerings to compete with Sardine. Sardine differentiates through behavioral AI analysis, consolidated FRAML platform capabilities, and real-time fraud scoring across traditional and digital payment flows.

Industry Context

Sardine operates in Cybersecurity Software.

Key facts

Founded: 2020 · Headquarters: San Francisco, US · Employees: 101-250

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  • The KYC Agent automates complex identity verification processes with an auto-resolution rate of 88%, reducing onboarding delays
  • Alert volumes have surged 800%, and compliance hiring can't keep up, creating urgent demand for AI automation in risk operations
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Recent developments

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  • February 2025Raised $70M Series C funding led by Activant Capital, bringing total funding to $145 million
  • February 2025Announced suite of intelligent AI agents for fraud and compliance automation
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SocureIdentity verification and synthetic fraud detection→SentiLinkIdentity verification and fraud prevention→AlloyEmbedded KYC/AML and fraud prevention platform→

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Sardine operates in Cybersecurity Software. See how the rest of the sector scores on the Cyborg framework.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Sardine do?+
Sardine is an AI-driven risk platform specializing in fraud prevention, compliance, and credit underwriting. The platform provides AI-powered solutions to automate fraud detection, sanctions screening, and compliance ...
What is Sardine's Cyborg Score?+
Sardine has a Cyborg Score of 8/10 (Strong). The score synthesizes business model, financials, leadership, competitive position, technology, marketing, and ESG dimensions across hundreds of data points.
Who are Sardine's main competitors?+
Named competitors include Socure, SentiLink, Alloy. The full competitive landscape is in the AskCyborg report.
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