ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage, founded in 2014, is a RegTech company that provides software to help detect and manage risks associated with anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud.^[1] The company uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing to help regulated organisations manage risk obligations and counteract financial crime.^[2][3]

ComplyAdvantage was founded in London, United Kingdom, in 2014 by Charles Delingpole.^[4] The company was initially set up as a provider for businesses to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements.^[5][6][7] Prior to this, in 2002, Delingpole had founded The Student Room, an online community for students based in the United Kingdom, which he sold in 2006. He then founded MarketFinance, a FinTech company, alongside Anil Stocker and Ilya Kondrashov, in 2011.^{[8][9][10][11]}

ComplyAdvantage has raised a total of $108.2 million through three series of venture capital funding.^[12] In October 2016, the company raised $8.2 million Series A funding.^[13][14] It then raised $30 million in Series B (January 2019) and $70 million in Series C (July 2020 and May 2021).^[15][16] Funding rounds have been led by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan Board, and Goldman Sachs.^[12][17][18] ComplyAdvantage has offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca.

The company was named a Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum in 2020.^[19] It was ranked 87th on Financial Times list of Europe's 1000 fastest growing companies.^[20] ComplyAdvantage has been named as an industry leader by software marketplace G2, and ranked as a category leader for KYC solutions and as a best-of-breed vendor for KYC data by advisory platform Chartis Research.^[21][22]

ComplyAdvantage was one of six British FinTech companies chosen by the Department of International Trade (DIT) for its third mission to Finnosummit, an international financial technology conference that takes place in Latin America.^[23][24]

In 2024, ComplyAdvantage acquired knowledge graph startup Golden Recursion Inc, with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) becoming an investor in ComplyAdvantage.^[25]

The funding was used by ComplyAdvantage to introduce new services and set up offices in the United States, Singapore, and Romania.^{[26][1][27][28][29]} As of 2020, the company offers AML onboarding and monitoring, AML transaction monitoring, payment screening, and politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse media screening.^[30][31][32] ComplyAdvantage also offers real-time sanctions and watch list screening using global lists maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and other governmental, law enforcement, and regulatory databases.^{[33][34][3][35][36]}

ComplyAdvantage partners with a range of other technology companies to expand its risk detection offering, such as identity verification platform Jumio.^[37] In 2020, sync., an open banking platform, partnered with ComplyAdvantage to integrate its AML and anti-fraud features in their mobile application.^[38] Kompli-Global also entered into a strategic partnership with ComplyAdvantage in 2020 to include its real-time sanctions and PEP screening features in its remote corporate onboarding platform, Kompli-QED.^[39][40][41] In 2024, ComplyAdvantage partnered with Tuum, a core banking platform.^[42][43] In 2025, ComplyAdvantage announced two new partnerships: with KYB platform Detected, and with Greenlite AI, which offers AI agents for compliance and risk teams.^[44][45]

• Anti-money laundering software