ComplyAdvantage

About ComplyAdvantage

Financials

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Products by ComplyAdvantage

All products by ComplyAdvantage reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

ComplyAdvantageAI Compliance

AI-driven AML and fraud risk detection for compliance teams

Free7.2/10

Competitive Landscape

Who ComplyAdvantage competes with, and how they differ.

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LSEG Risk Intelligence (World-Check)

The incumbent alternative for the sanctions, PEP and adverse-media data that sits at the core of ComplyAdvantage's product. World-Check sells curated risk data plus screening to large banks on enterprise contracts, where ComplyAdvantage bundles its own continuously updated database with SaaS screening and monitoring aimed at fintechs and mid-market institutions.

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WorkFusion7.1/10

WorkFusion sells pre-trained AI "digital workers" that automate alert review, sanctions screening and adverse-media research inside a bank's existing compliance stack, rather than supplying the underlying risk database. ComplyAdvantage competes as the full platform — its own data plus screening and monitoring — while WorkFusion layers automation on top of whatever systems the institution already runs.

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Feedzai7.9/10

Feedzai focuses on real-time fraud and financial-crime detection for large banks and payment processors, with risk models trained on transaction behaviour. It overlaps ComplyAdvantage on transaction monitoring and the fraud-detection product launched in 2023, but has no equivalent to ComplyAdvantage's proprietary sanctions and adverse-media database.

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Middesk, Inc.8.0/10

Middesk verifies business identities for KYB — entity resolution, registration and beneficial-ownership data — mostly for US financial services. It overlaps ComplyAdvantage's company screening at onboarding, but is US-registry-centric and does not do ongoing transaction monitoring or global sanctions and adverse-media screening.

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Persona7.9/10

Persona is a document- and identity-centric KYC platform for consumer onboarding across fintech and marketplaces. It competes for the identity-verification step of onboarding, while ComplyAdvantage's customer screening starts after identity is established and continues as ongoing sanctions, PEP and adverse-media monitoring.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in ComplyAdvantage's history, with sources.

1. May 19, 2026Launch

   Real-time payment screening added to the Mesh platform

   ComplyAdvantage migrated payment screening onto Mesh, covering banking, card, remittance and cryptocurrency channels with low-latency name screening at scale.

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2. Mar 3, 2026Partnership

   FactSet embeds ComplyAdvantage risk intelligence in its terminal

   The partnership puts ComplyAdvantage financial crime risk data inside the FactSet terminal so corporate-banking relationship managers can run onboarding and client-lifecycle checks without leaving their workflow.

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3. Dec 16, 2025Partnership

   Sutherland partnership for unified AI-native FinCrime compliance

   Sutherland pairs its 2,400-strong FinCrime expert base with the Mesh platform to deliver combined fraud, AML, transaction monitoring and investigations. The companies cited early deployments cutting fraud losses 25% and false positives 70%.

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4. Oct 27, 2025Launch

   Launches Mesh, an AI-native financial crime platform

   Mesh unifies customer and company screening, customer risk scoring, transaction monitoring and real-time payment analysis in a single system with agentic automation.

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5. Apr 24, 2024Acquisition

   Acquires knowledge-graph company Golden

   ComplyAdvantage acquired San Francisco-based Golden, which automates knowledge-graph construction, to strengthen its data-ingestion layer. Terms were not disclosed; Andreessen Horowitz joined the shareholder register alongside Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers', Index Ventures and Balderton Capital, and Golden founder Jude Gomila became a board observer.

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6. May 16, 2023Launch

   Launches AI-powered payment Fraud Detection product

   The machine-learning product screens transactions in real time for more than 50 payment-fraud scenarios including account takeover, authorised push payment and synthetic identity fraud, extending the company beyond AML into fraud.

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7. Oct 13, 2022Milestone

   Vatsa Narasimha named CEO; founder Delingpole becomes Executive Chairman

   COO Vatsa Narasimha succeeded founder Charles Delingpole as chief executive, with Delingpole moving to executive chairman. The company reported more than 1,000 clients, over 450 employees and close to 80% ARR growth in the prior year.

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8. May 20, 2021Funding

   Series C extended to $70M with Goldman Sachs investment

   Goldman Sachs Growth Equity added $20 million to the oversubscribed Series C first announced in July 2020, taking the round to $70 million.

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9. Jul 28, 2020Funding

   Series C — $50M led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

   Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board invested through its Teachers' Innovation Platform, with existing backers Index Ventures and Balderton Capital following on. The company said the round took total investment to date to US$88 million.

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10. Jan 30, 2019Funding

    Series B — $30M led by Index Ventures

    Index Ventures led the $30 million round with existing investor Balderton Capital participating. ComplyAdvantage reported 350 clients across 45 countries and 160 employees at the time.

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11. Oct 13, 2016Funding

    Series A — $8.2M led by Balderton Capital

    Balderton Capital led an $8.2 million Series A into the then two-year-old London RegTech company.

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12. 2014Founded

    ComplyAdvantage founded in London by Charles Delingpole

    Charles Delingpole started the company in 2014 to automate anti-money-laundering checks, saying at the time that "compliance is painful, slow and expensive."

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