# AiPrise

> AiPrise is a global compliance platform for KYB, KYC and AML. One API covers business verification across 200+ countries and 500+ registries, identity verification, AML screening across 3,000+ watchlists, and specialized AI agents that review cases so compliance teams only handle the hard ones. AiPrise is backed by Y Combinator (S22) and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Key facts:
- Products: Business Verification (KYB), User Verification (KYC), eKYC, AML screening, continuous monitoring, case management, and AI compliance agents.
- AI agents: Athena Agent (KYB case review), Sherlock Agent (KYC fraud), AML Agent (alert adjudication), Document Agent (document review), Website Agent (merchant website review).
- Customers include Airwallex, Payoneer, MoneyGram, Bridge, dLocal, Grey, Conduit, BlindPay and Tabby.
- Founders: Chaitanya Sarda (CEO and co-founder) and Rushabh Shah (Co-CEO and co-founder).

## Platform
- [AiPrise home](https://www.aiprise.com/): The global compliance platform. End-to-end KYB, the global KYC network, and AI agents in one API across 200+ countries. Replace the multi-vendor stack.
- [Business Verification (KYB)](https://www.aiprise.com/kyb): Verify businesses in 200+ countries with 800+ data points per entity. Onboarding, UBO checks, risk scoring and monitoring in one API.
- [User Verification (KYC)](https://www.aiprise.com/kyc): Country-native identity verification in 200+ countries with direct government registry checks in 70+. One API for global KYC.

## AI agents
- [Athena Agent](https://www.aiprise.com/athena-agent): Athena reviews full KYB cases against your policy: registry, documents, UBOs, screening and web presence. Evidenced recommendations in under two minutes.
- [Sherlock Agent](https://www.aiprise.com/sherlock-agent): AI fraud investigation on every verification session. Sherlock matches faces, IDs, devices and networks against prior sessions and returns a verdict with evidence.
- [AML Agent](https://www.aiprise.com/aml-agent): 95% of AML hits are false positives. The AML Agent clears them in seconds with audit-ready rationale your team can defend to regulators.
- [Document Agent](https://www.aiprise.com/document-agent): Extract and verify data from business documents in any language, with fraud detection and audit-ready reasoning on every document.
- [Website Agent](https://www.aiprise.com/website-agent): Reads, reasons and decides on business websites. Catch fraud signals, misrepresented businesses and risky merchants before onboarding.

## Features
- [Onboarding SDK for KYB and KYC flows](https://www.aiprise.com/features/onboarding-sdk): Country-aware onboarding flows that adapt to local documents and registries. Drop in the SDK and configure without engineering tickets.
- [Business Pre-fill: auto-complete onboarding](https://www.aiprise.com/features/business-pre-fill): Turn a company name or registration number into a completed profile, pulled from 100+ data sources. Fewer fields, fewer drop-offs, faster KYB.
- [Electronic KYC: government registry checks](https://www.aiprise.com/features/electronic-kyc): Verify identities directly against official government registries in 70+ countries. The primary source of truth that defeats fake documents.
- [Proof of address verification](https://www.aiprise.com/features/proof-of-address-verification): Verify addresses from utility bills, bank statements and registry data across 200+ countries, with document checks built in.
- [Proof of Source of Funds](https://www.aiprise.com/features/proof-of-source-of-funds): Verify source of funds automatically. AiPrise checks bank statements, payslips, and payroll confirmations for authenticity, recency, and consistency in seconds.
- [Phone and email risk checks](https://www.aiprise.com/features/phone-and-email-check): Validate phone numbers and email addresses in real time, surface risk signals and catch synthetic identities before document upload.
- [IP and Device Check](https://www.aiprise.com/features/ip-and-device-check): Detect VPNs, proxies, emulators, and device reuse during onboarding. Silent fingerprinting with no friction. Integrate with risk rules instantly.
- [Watchlist Screening](https://www.aiprise.com/features/watchlist-screening): Screen users and businesses against 3,000+ sanctions, PEP, and adverse media lists. AI-powered AML Agent filters false positives. Continuous monitoring.
- [UBO verification and ownership graphs](https://www.aiprise.com/features/ubo-ownership-graphs): Trace beneficial ownership through layered corporate structures to real people, with registry-backed data across 200+ countries.
- [Risk Scoring](https://www.aiprise.com/features/risk-scoring): One transparent risk score for every user and business. Approve low-risk applicants automatically, route high-risk cases to review with explainable rules.
- [Case Management](https://www.aiprise.com/features/case-management): One unified queue for KYC and KYB reviews. Identity data, documents, screening hits, and AI agent findings on a single screen for faster decisions.
- [RFI management for onboarding](https://www.aiprise.com/features/request-for-information): Request, collect and verify additional information without losing applicants. Structured RFIs that keep onboarding moving.
- [Continuous monitoring and perpetual KYC](https://www.aiprise.com/features/continuous-monitoring): Registry changes, sanctions hits, adverse media and website changes, monitored continuously. Alerts when risk actually changes.

## Industries
- [Compliance for payment companies](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/payments): KYB, KYC and AML built for PSPs, payfacs and payment platforms. Onboard merchants faster with one API and one audit trail.
- [Compliance for cross-border payments](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/cross-border-payments): Verify businesses and people across 200+ countries. Country-native KYC and deep registry access for cross-border payment companies.
- [Compliance for neobanks](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/neobanks): Faster KYC approvals, fewer manual reviews and continuous monitoring for digital banks. Grow accounts without growing the review queue.
- [Compliance for financial institutions](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/financial-institutions): Bank-grade verification, screening and monitoring with the audit trail examiners expect. One platform across every market you serve.
- [Compliance for stablecoins and crypto](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/stablecoins-crypto): KYB, KYC and AML for stablecoin issuers, exchanges and crypto infrastructure. Built for the pace and scrutiny of digital assets.
- [Compliance for lenders and BNPL](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/lending): Verify borrowers and businesses fast, trace ownership, and keep risk profiles current through the life of the loan.
- [Compliance for marketplaces](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/marketplaces): Onboard sellers at marketplace speed. KYB in 200+ countries, fraud signals and continuous monitoring in one integration.
- [Compliance for trading platforms](https://www.aiprise.com/industries/trading-platforms): KYC, source of funds checks and continuous screening for brokerages and trading platforms operating across borders.

## Customer stories
- [How Airwallex automated global KYB and sole prop onboarding](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-airwallex-automated-global-kyb-and-sole-prop-onboarding)
- [How Routable streamlined US KYB for B2B payments at scale](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-routable-streamlined-us-kyb-for-b2b-payments-at-scale)
- [How Tabby automated merchant KYB in the UAE and Middle East](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-tabby-automated-merchant-kyb-in-the-uae-and-middle-east)
- [How Eron consolidated global eKYC across 80+ countries](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-eron-consolidated-global-ekyc-across-80-countries)
- [How Runa automated global KYB for payouts across nearly every country](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-runa-automated-global-kyb-for-payouts-across-nearly-every-country)
- [How Grey scaled global KYC and compliance across 174 countries](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-grey-scaled-global-kyc-and-compliance-across-174-countries)
- [Scaling compliance globally for the world's leading B2B diamond marketplace](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/scaling-compliance-globally-for-the-worlds-leading-b2b-diamond-marketplace)
- [How BlindPay processes $125M+ with automated KYB in Brazil](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/how-blindpay-processes-125m-with-automated-kyb-in-brazil)
- [80% faster KYB powering Conduit's global compliance infrastructure](https://www.aiprise.com/customer-proof/80-faster-kyb-powering-conduits-global-compliance-infrastructure)

## Guides
- [KYB vs. KYC: Key Differences & How to Stay Compliant](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/kyb-vs-kyc): Learn the main differences between Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations, compliance, requirements, and processes.
- [KYB 101: What Know Your Business Is and How It Works in 2026](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/kyb-101): What Know Your Business means, what a KYB check verifies, the five stages of the KYB lifecycle, and how verification works in 2026.
- [What Full-Lifecycle KYB Actually Means (And Why One Platform Beats Five Vendors)](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/full-lifecycle-kyb): Every vendor claims end-to-end KYB. Here is what the full lifecycle actually covers, what the market really sells, and what changes when all five stages run…
- [KYB Compliance: 2026 Regulations You Should Know About](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/kyb-compliance): As organizations expand globally and face tighter regulations, adherence to Know Your Business (KYB) standards has become one of the most critical compliance layers for fintech, online marketplaces, and other companies that need to verify business customers before letting them perform financial transactions.
- [The Complete Guide to KYC Automation for Faster, Compliant Onboarding](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/kyc-automation): Every customer your compliance team verifies manually is time and money lost to document chasing and follow-up emails. And it adds up faster than most teams expect.
- [What Good KYB Looks Like Today, From the Bank's Seat](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/what-good-kyb-looks-like-today): What a business onboarding program checks, in what order, and what the file has to hold when the bank asks for it.
- [Why KYB Exists](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/why-kyb-exists): Every KYB rule arrived after someone used a company to do something that made the news, and each rule fixed the last problem. A short history, and why KYA is next.
- [Top 5 KYB Providers with AI for Faster Business Verification](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/top-kyb-providers-with-ai): Discover the top 5 KYB Providers with AI enabling faster business verification, smarter risk checks, seamless onboarding, and compliance-ready decisions today.
- [Best Sumsub Alternatives for KYC and KYB (2026)](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/sumsub-alternatives): The best Sumsub alternatives for KYC and KYB in 2026: when teams look beyond Sumsub, what to look for instead, and how the leading platforms compare.
- [Best Persona Alternatives (2026)](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/persona-alternatives): The best Persona alternatives in 2026: when teams want verification that works out of the box instead of a toolkit to build with, and how the leading platforms compare.
- [Best Onfido Alternatives (2026)](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/onfido-alternatives): The best Onfido alternatives in 2026: when teams need more than document and biometric checks, what to look for, and how the leading platforms compare.
- [What FinCEN’s Proposed Rule Really Means for AI in KYB and AML](https://www.aiprise.com/blog/what-fincens-proposed-rule-really-means-for-ai-in-kyb-and-aml): On April 7, 2026, FinCEN issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would significantly reform AML and CFT program requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act.

## Company
- [About AiPrise](https://www.aiprise.com/about-us): AiPrise verifies businesses and people in 200+ countries. Founded by ex-Google and Meta engineers, we make compliance fast, global, and simple.
- [Careers](https://www.aiprise.com/careers): Help build the compliance layer for the internet economy. 65+ people across San Jose, Bangalore and beyond. See open roles.
- [Newsroom](https://www.aiprise.com/newsroom): Customer wins, partnerships, funding and company news from AiPrise, the global compliance platform verifying businesses in 200+ countries.
- [Book a demo](https://www.aiprise.com/schedule-demo): See global KYB, KYC and AI compliance agents in action. Scoping call, sandbox in 24 hours, pilot.

## Optional
- [API documentation](https://docs.aiprise.com/): Developer docs for the AiPrise API and SDKs.
- [Blog](https://www.aiprise.com/blog): All articles on KYB, KYC, AML and compliance operations.
- [Privacy policy](https://www.aiprise.com/privacy-policy)