Sardine

Sardine, founded in 2020 in San Francisco by Soups Ranjan with co-founders Aditya Goel and Zahid Shaikh, builds real-time fraud and compliance infrastructure for fintech and crypto that combines device, identity and behavior signals with AI risk scoring. Its platform helps hundreds of customers including fintechs and crypto exchanges stop account takeovers and streamline sanctions screening, KYC and transaction monitoring. The team met while building risk systems at Revolut and Coinbase, applying two decades of machine learning experience to financial crime. Backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Visa, Sardine operates at the intersection of risk, data science and payments. Headquartered in San Francisco with a second hub in Miami and distributed colleagues, the company emphasizes rapid iteration, model accuracy and helping partners scale safely in high-risk verticals.