What is Sardine?
Agentic financial-crime platform for fraud prevention, KYC/KYB, AML, and transaction monitoring.
- Category
- Fraud prevention and AML
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA / remote-first
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 200+
- Total funding
- $170M disclosed on company site
- Valuation or Status
- Private; valuation undisclosed
What is Sardine?
Sardine unifies fraud prevention, AML compliance, KYC/KYB onboarding, device and behavior intelligence, transaction monitoring, case management, and agentic risk operations.
Sardine unifies fraud prevention, AML compliance, KYC/KYB onboarding, device and behavior intelligence, transaction monitoring, case management, and agentic risk operations. Sardine says it has 450+ enterprise customers, has screened $1.48 trillion in payments, and has profiled 6.21 billion devices. Its customer logos include FIS, GoDaddy, Experian, Intuit, Nubank, Kalshi, Gusto, Deel, SeatGeek, and ZoomInfo.
The company is positioned as an agentic financial-crime platform that consolidates fraud, AML, onboarding, cyber-security, and risk operations for banks, fintechs, marketplaces, and merchants. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; the most durable scale signals are the customer counts, funding, product breadth, and current hiring/office footprint disclosed in public sources.
For sellers, Sardine should be treated as a fraud prevention and aml buyer with specialized functional stakeholders. The strongest entry points are tied to measurable workflow impact, compliance or security fit, and integrations with the systems or operating model described in this profile.
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What does Sardine offer?
Sardine offers Global KYC, Global KYB, Identity Verification, Device and Behavior, Payment Fraud and related platform capabilities.
- Global KYC· Product
- Global KYB· Product
- Identity Verification· Product
- Device and Behavior· Product
- Payment Fraud· Product
- Transaction Monitoring· Product
- Agentic Fraud Ops· Product
- Agentic AML Ops· Product
- Case Management· Product
- Sonar consortium data· Product
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How does Sardine make money?
Sardine does not publish price tiers. It sells demo-led enterprise contracts, with economics driven by transaction volume, product modules, payment rails, device intelligence, KYC/KYB checks, AML monitoring, and case-management workflows.
Sardine does not publish price tiers. It sells demo-led enterprise contracts, with economics driven by transaction volume, product modules, payment rails, device intelligence, KYC/KYB checks, AML monitoring, and case-management workflows.
Growth is driven by customers expanding from an initial use case into adjacent workflows, more volume, more geographies, deeper integrations, and more governance. Where public price points exist, this profile names them; where pricing is quote-based, it states that clearly instead of inventing a contract value.
The sales motion is therefore consultative. Procurement usually evaluates security, data handling, implementation effort, and ROI, while the operating team evaluates whether the product reduces manual work, risk, latency, or revenue friction.
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Who leads Sardine?
Sardine is led by Soups Ranjan with Kazuki Nishiura as a key technical/product leader.
- Soups RanjanFounder and CEOFounder - since 2020Public CEO and financial-crime platform leader.
- Zahid ShaikhChief Product OfficerCurrentLeads product organization.
- Kazuki NishiuraChief Technology OfficerCurrentLeads technology organization.
- Ben CookChief Financial OfficerCurrentFinance leader listed on company site.
How do you contact Sardine's leadership?
Use published company channels first. Personal leadership addresses listed here are clearly labeled as format-following where they are not published or verified.
format-following, not verified: first@sardine.aiSources:Sardine homepageSardine about
How much funding has Sardine raised?
Sardine has raised $170M disclosed on company site; latest status: Private; valuation undisclosed.
Major disclosed financing events: 2021: Seed/early financing - Early capital for fraud and risk platform; exact round details vary by source. 2022: Series A - amount reported in press - Funding to expand fraud prevention and compliance products. 2022: Series B - $51.5M - Andreessen Horowitz-led Series B widely reported for fraud and compliance expansion. 2026: Aggregate funding disclosed - $170M - Company about page states Sardine has raised $170M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, Experian, Google, XYZ, Cross Creek, FIS, Activant, Moody's, Geodesic, and NYCA.
The latest disclosed financing signal is Company discloses $170M total raised; latest individual round not fully itemized publicly. The investor group includes Andreessen Horowitz / Visa / Experian, and the company is Private; valuation undisclosed. If a valuation, profitability metric, or round detail is not public, this profile marks it as undisclosed.
For sales planning, funding matters because it changes budget availability and procurement maturity. Late-stage or heavily funded buyers usually have stronger budgets but more formal reviews, while earlier-stage buyers may move faster but require a clearer connection to near-term execution.
How did Sardine get here?
Sardine's path runs from its 2020 founding through financing, product expansion, and current June 2026 scale.
- 2020FoundedSardine is founded to tackle fraud and financial-crime risk.
- 2022Series BSardine raises $51.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz.
- 2025Sonar consortium emphasisSardine markets consortium intelligence for fraud networks.
- 2026Agentic platformSardine markets Agentic Fraud Ops and Agentic AML Ops.
- Aug 2026SardineCon plannedCompany site promotes SardineCon SF/2026.
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Who are Sardine's competitors?
Sardine competes with companies that solve adjacent fraud prevention and aml workflows, though positioning differs by customer segment, product depth, and go-to-market motion.
- AlloyIdentity decisioning and fraud orchestration for financial institutions.
- SocureIdentity verification and fraud prediction platform.
- SiftDigital trust and safety platform for fraud prevention.
- RiskifiedEcommerce fraud and chargeback-risk platform.
- Unit21Risk and AML operations platform.
- PersonaIdentity verification and orchestration platform.
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