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Diligent AI Raises $2.5M to Empower KYC and Anti-Money-Laundering teams with AI Agents
Diligent AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup building autonomous AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $2.5 million in Seed funding led by Speedinvest alongside fintech investor Shapers, with participation from the CEOs and founders of N26, Allica Bank, IDnow, Billie, and Cybersource. The platform, already relied upon by global fintechs, banks, and publicly listed payment processors, is automating routine KYC/AML tasks.
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How Scalapay reduced merchant KYC/AML ops time by 65% with AI agents
Scalapay, one of Europe's fastest-growing payment companies, partnered with Diligent to automate merchant due diligence with AI agents. Within the first year, they achieved a 65% reduction in manual reviews and saved over 6,000 operational hours annually.
Diligent AI Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance
Diligent AI has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance, validating the security and operational discipline behind our platform used by fintechs and banks worldwide.
Diligent AI Raises $2.5M to Empower KYC and Anti-Money-Laundering teams with AI Agents
Diligent AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup building autonomous AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $2.5 million in Seed funding led by Speedinvest alongside fintech investor Shapers, with participation from the CEOs and founders of N26, Allica Bank, IDnow, Billie, and Cybersource. The platform, already relied upon by global fintechs, banks, and publicly listed payment processors, is automating routine KYC/AML tasks.
New Launch: Automate Sanctions, PEP, and Adverse Media alerts with AI Agents
We're excited to announce our AML Screening AI Agent to address the high volume of false positives that burden KYC/AML teams by automatically investigating alerts and providing clear, auditable recommendations—reducing alert-handling time, delivering more consistent decisions and lower operational costs, while improving risk management.
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How Alma accelerates merchant onboarding with AI agents
Alma was growing quickly and needed its merchant onboarding to stay fast and smooth without compromising risk, compliance, or customer protection. As volumes increased, manual reviews created operational strain and threatened to introduce delays for legitimate merchants. To solve this, Alma partnered with Diligent and introduced AI-driven checks to streamline routine work and prioritize higher-risk or more complex cases for human review. The result was a more scalable onboarding process, with greater operational efficiency and more consistent, auditable decision-making. Going forward, the partnership helps Alma keep pace with growth while maintaining trust and safeguards.
Hiding in Plain Sight - Catching prohibited business activities
Explore how Agentic AI can investigate businesses and uncover if they engage in prohibited activities that don't match what they declare