Diligent AI Wants to Rewire Financial Crime Compliance
The Diligent founders: Ahmed Gaber (CTO) and Edoardo Maschio (CEO) - © Diligent AI
Berlin-based startup Diligent AI has closed a $2.5 million funding round to expand its AI-powered compliance platform. The round was led by Speedinvest and Shapers, with continued backing from Y Combinator, according to the company's press release.
Diligent AI targets one of the most high-pressure corners of financial services: KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliance. According to the company, frontline compliance teams are increasingly overwhelmed by manual, repetitive tasks like data gathering and alert triaging, leaving little room for the deeper investigative work these roles were designed for.
The startup's AI agents are built to handle routine workflows end to end, including merchant onboarding risk reviews, adverse media analysis, and payment sanctions alert remediation. The goal is to put analysts back into a strategic, judgment-focused role rather than a data-processing one.
Diligent AI says its technology is already deployed at publicly listed companies and major financial institutions, including Flywire, Allica Bank, Teya, and Digital Garage, across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Japan.
The new funding will go toward launching additional AI agents, strengthening existing products, and growing the go-to-market team. The company is also actively hiring across engineering and business development.
With financial crime growing more sophisticated by the day, Diligent AI is betting that giving compliance teams better tools is one of the most impactful places to deploy AI right now.
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