Sardine, which offers fintechs real-time fraud scores based on users' identities, devices, and behavior, raises a $19.5M Series A from a16z, NYCA, and Experian
I am excited to announce our investment in Sardine - aptly named for the … Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : Crypto Compliance Platform Sardine Secures $19.5M in Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz Business Wire : Sardine Closes $19.5 Million in Series A Funding from Andreessen Horowitz and NYCA as It Sets a New Standard in Fraud Prevention Soupsranjan / SardineAI : Our Series-A announcement — At the end of 2018, there were roughly 5,000 fintech startups operating around the globe. Finextra : Sardine raises $19.5m to help fintechs fight fraud FinSMEs : Sardine Raises $19.5M in Series A Funding Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch : Sardine's algorithm helps crypto and fintech companies detect fraud Tweets: Sumeet Singh / @sumeet724 : 1/ Thrilled to announce that we @a16z @astrange are leading @sardineai's Series A - investing in an incredible team stopping fraud in the ever growing market of digital wallets that neobanks, web 3 companies, marketplaces, etc. are creating. More below! https://a16z.com/... Aditi Shekar / @aditishekar : Everytime we pick a piece of fintech infrastructure, we do an incredible amount of diligence. When building our fraud stack, we didn't just pick @sardineai as our risk layer at @askzeta but I asked (begged?) @soupsranjan to invest. So excited to be a humble part of this journey! https://twitter.com/... @astrange : 4/ Excited to announce our investment in Sardine, aptly named for the fishy behavior it will prevent. Sardine provides risk-free, instant ACH and card settlement for fintech & crypto companies, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, etc https://a16z.com/... @a16z : We're excited to invest in @sardineai, which provides instant, risk-free ACH & card settlement to fintech and crypto companies while also stopping payment fraud and increasing conversion rates. Read more from a16z general partner @astrange 👇 https://a16z.com/... @ralexjimenez : Sardine's algorithm helps crypto and fintech companies detect fraud - @TechCrunch #FinTech #FinServ #Banking #CryptoCurrency https://techcrunch.com/...