Castellum.AI recently announced a $4 million seed investment led by Spider Capital with participation from NewFund, Remarkable Ventures, Cameron Ventures and new and existing angel investors. The funding round was oversubscribed by $1.5 million.
The company has built the most accurate, reliable, and fastest global risk data platform – enabling KYC and AML compliance teams to reduce false positives by 80%. This platform is backed by a fully automated risk data collection, cleaning, standardization, and enrichment process.
Since launching its beta in March 2022, Castellum.AI has hit over 1,250% user growth, signed Fortune 500 customers including leading banks and insurance companies as well as global government customers, and enabled clients to ace regulatory and audit exams. And over 100 news organizations and NGOs have received crucial data to facilitate informed discussions on financial crime risk.
Castellum.AI’s solutions enable customers to conduct efficient and effective screening across global financial crime risk data updated every five minutes to meet KYC onboarding and rescreening, transaction screening, crypto sanctions screening, supply chain compliance, etc. Plus, users can conveniently access these services through Castellum.AI’s online platform, API, or a bulk data subscription.
This funding round will enable Castellum.AI to scale its proven software technology to meet the needs of the world’s largest enterprises through investments in product and engineering and additional resources to connect with new users.
KEY QUOTES:
“We started Castellum.AI after I spent years trying, and failing, to find accurate financial crime, sanctions and corruption data while working at the U.S. Department of Treasury and in banking. I saw this pain was shared across the entire industry. We set out to become the category leader by building a global platform that makes finding risk data easy, effective and intuitive.”
– Castellum.AI CEO and co-founder Peter Piatetsky
“Deciding to go with Castellum.AI to assist our sanctions program was an easy choice. Their lists are updated every 5 minutes, so I never have to worry.”
– Crypto exchange Digital Mint’s Chief Compliance Officer Seth Sattler
“We are really excited to partner with Castellum.AI, which enables us to enhance our AML/KYC compliance solutions with best-in-class compliance data. By joining forces, we can provide our customers with even more robust protection against financial crime while streamlining compliance processes.”
– David Lomiashvili, CEO and Co-Founder of identity verification platform Identomat
