Sardine

Overview

Sardine, co-founded by chief executive Soups Ranjan and Adi Goel, states that it has raised US$170 million from investors whose logos include Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, Experian, FIS and Moody’s^[18]. The company describes itself as an agentic financial crime platform for fraud prevention, AML compliance and real-time transaction monitoring^[17].

On the AML side, Sardine sells transaction monitoring for laundering and money-mule patterns, sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening, customer risk rating, case management, and a sponsor-banking product that monitors risk controls across fintech programmes. Agents handle transaction-monitoring alerts, sanctions and PEP screening and SAR generation. Its fraud range is broader still, covering payment fraud across ACH, wires, SEPA, RTP, FedNow and Zelle, device intelligence, behavioural biometrics and KYC/KYB onboarding^[17]. Sardine states that it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Financial Crime Management Solutions in Q3 2026; customer logos include FIS, National Bank of Canada, Nubank, Gusto and Deel^[17]. Its roots are in fraud, so AML-only buyers may pay for capabilities they do not need, and prices are not published.

Sardine features

• Transaction monitoring for laundering and mule activity
• Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening
• SAR generation agent
• Sponsor-bank programme monitoring
• Device intelligence and behavioural biometrics
• Consortium data and rules engine with ML
• Real-time fraud prevention
• Global KYC and KYB

Sardine pricing

Quote-based; contact sales.

Sardine strengths and limitations

Appears in

• Best AML Software in 2026 #9
• Best Fraud Detection Software in 2026 #10

Sardine alternatives and competitors

Alternatives to Sardine: companies ranked in the same lists.

• NICE Actimize
• Feedzai
• SAS Institute
• Sumsub
• SSignifyd
• Stripe Atlas
• SEON
• Sift
• BioCatch
• LTLexisNexis ThreatMetrix
• FFeaturespace (Visa)
• Alessa