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AiPrise, which helps global companies onboard businesses across borders, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding, its founders tell Axios Pro exclusively.

Why it matters: Know your business (KYB) compliance demand is growing.

Zoom in: Headline led the round, with Y Combinator and SixThirty participating.

How it works: AiPrise bundles global KYB data collection, verification, and case management into a single platform.

Its system triangulates government registries, documents, and open-web signals to reduce manual work.

Customers can embed a hosted onboarding UI, call APIs for specific checks, or run reviews in a dashboard.

"Compliance officers do the job of being detectives. We do triangulation and tell them that the story adds up," co-CEO Rushabh Shah says.

The big picture: Enterprises that are standardizing compliance between countries face long procurement cycles and many local point solutions.

Rather than stitching together AML and KYB tools country by country, buyers want a single orchestrator.

They can go live in as quick as two days, with typical implementations taking 15 to 20 days, co-CEO Chaitanya Sarda says.

Between the lines: AiPrise has built multiple AI agents to cut review time while keeping humans in the loop.

A sanctions-screening agent using its tech typically clears hits in about 30 seconds, down from 5 to 15 minutes per hit, the team says.

"We give them the recommendations with reasoning. Your results and recommendations need to follow the compliance policy each customer may have," Shah says.

The fine print: AiPrise calls its agents recommendation tools and grounds their outputs in customer policy.

Under GDPR, AiPrise acts as a data processor while clients remain controllers, with retention and deletion set by the customer.

By the numbers: Since launching in 2022, AiPrise has grown to serve more than 150 customers, including six public U.S. companies.

Revenue grew 10x last year and growth is tracking about 3x this year, according to Sarda.

Pricing includes a platform fee for case management and monitoring plus per-check fees, with up to 20 checks on a business.

What's next: The team is developing a "super agent" to auto-approve more cases, including reasoning and audit trails.

Exclusive: AiPrise raises $12.5M to unify global compliance

KYB demand rises as cross-border payments go real-time.

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AiPrise, which helps global companies onboard businesses across borders, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding, its founders tell Axios Pro exclusively.Why it matters: Know your business (KYB) compliance demand is growing.

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Exclusive: AiPrise raises $12.5M to unify global compliance

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