What Shield does

Shield Financial Compliance Ltd is a private, Israel-headquartered software company that builds an AI-driven digital communications governance and archiving (DCGA) platform purpose-built for regulated financial institutions. Founded in 2015 by Shiran Weitzman (CEO), Ofir Shabtai (CTO), and Eran Noam (CBO), Shield processes over 5.5 million daily communications and 70+ billion records annually across 100+ native data sources spanning email, chat, voice, and collaboration platforms including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Zoom, and WhatsApp.

The platform is structured around a unified Shield Data Engine that manages the full communications lifecycle — capture, ingestion, reconciliation, WORM-compliant archiving (aligned with SEC 17a-4, FINRA, CFTC, and MiFID II), and export. Core products include Shield Archive (compliant records management with intelligent hot/cold storage tiering), Shield Discover (AI-powered eDiscovery), Shield Surveillance and Shield Supervision (multilayered AI-driven risk detection reporting a 97% reduction in false positives and 0.15% alert rate), Shield Voice (in-house ASR trained on 680,000+ hours of multilingual financial jargon across 99+ languages), Shield InfoBarriers (MNPI and wall-crossing surveillance), and the AmplifAI Suite (governed AI agents including the Alert Closure Agent). The platform is delivered as cloud SaaS, including an AWS-hosted deployment option.

Shield operates a sales-led enterprise go-to-market targeting tier-1 banks, capital markets firms, broker-dealers, and energy trading companies through direct field sales with regional leadership in North America and EMEA/APAC, supplemented by a September 2025 strategic collaboration with PwC UK. The company is venture-backed, having raised $35 million in 2022 (a $15M Series A and $20M Series B led by Macquarie Capital with UBS, Mindset Ventures, and OurCrowd), and has offices in Ramat Gan, New York, London, and Lisbon. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; revenue is generated via subscription contracts scaled by data volume, monitored users, and regulatory scope.

Name

Shield

Legal name

Shield Financial Compliance Ltd

Website

https://shieldfc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Shield Financial Compliance Ltd is an Israel-headquartered AI-driven digital communications governance and archiving platform serving tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, and capital markets firms with surveillance, eDiscovery, voice transcription, and compliance archiving across 100+ data sources.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ramat Gan

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Shield operates as a SaaS platform offering subscription-based access to its digital communications governance and archiving suite. The platform is sold to financial institutions on an annual or multi-year contract basis, with pricing driven by data volume, number of monitored users, and regulatory scope.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Shield is an AI-powered digital communications governance and archiving (DCGA) platform purpose-built for regulated financial institutions. The platform unifies capture, surveillance, supervision, eDiscovery, records management, and voice compliance across 100+ communication data sources, using multilayered AI to detect market manipulation, employee misconduct, and insider trading risks while reducing false positives. It is sold as a SaaS subscription to tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, capital markets firms, and energy trading firms.

Product overview

Shield is a unified digital communications governance and archiving platform purpose-built for financial institutions. The platform follows a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on the Shield Data Engine, which powers the core Shield Archive, Shield Discover, Shield Surveillance, and Shield Supervision products. AmplifAI Suite adds GenAI capabilities including AI agents for autonomous alert closure and multilingual coverage. Voice extends coverage to audio communications, while InfoBarriers addresses insider trading detection and Data Hub provides records management. The platform connects 100+ data sources including chat, voice, email, and collaboration tools, and operates on both cloud and hybrid deployments with AWS hosting available.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Shield Archive: Compliant records management platform for financial institutions
• Shield Discover
• Shield Surveillance
• Shield Supervision
• AmplifAI Suite
• Shield Voice
• Shield Records Management

Products and services

• Shield Archive Immutable, centralized communications archive with WORM-compliant storage aligned with SEC 17a-4, FINRA, CFTC, and MiFID II requirements. Supports 100+ data sources with intelligent hot/cold storage tiering for compliant long-term retention of regulated communications.
• Shield Discover AI-powered eDiscovery platform providing lightning-fast search, early case assessment, self-service collection and export, and unified collaboration for legal and compliance teams within financial institutions.
• Shield Surveillance Proactive communications surveillance software using multilayered AI to analyze context, semantics, sentiment, and intent across 100+ data sources, achieving a 97% reduction in false positives and a 0.15% alert rate for financial institution compliance teams.
• Shield Supervision AI-driven proactive communication supervision platform for the first line of defense, featuring automated group setup, customizable sampling methods, and AI noise reduction for strategic risk coverage.
• Shield Voice Voice communications surveillance and transcription solution with multilingual coverage across 99+ languages, real-time language switching, voice AI risk detection, and synchronized playback with speaker diarization. Pre-trained on 680,000+ hours of multilingual financial jargon.
• AmplifAI Suite GenAI toolkit comprising governed AI agents including the Alert Closure Agent (autonomously closes compliance alerts with documented 77.3% false positive reduction), Language Expansion Agent, Shiela conversational assistant, Risk Reasoning, Surveillance by Example, Speech Enhancement, and Call Topic Segmentation.
• Shield Data Engine Unified data lifecycle management platform covering capture (100+ native connectors), ingestion (normalization and metadata enrichment), reconciliation (record-level traceability and completeness reporting), archive (WORM storage), and export with no extraction fees. Processes 70+ billion records annually.
• Shield InfoBarriers MNPI (Material Non-Public Information) surveillance and insider trading detection platform that monitors ethical walls in real time, integrates HR and list management data, and automatically triggers lookbacks when restricted lists are updated. Supports SEC Rule 105 and FERC compliance.

Quantifiable outcome

• 97% reduction in false positives
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability10 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• PwC UKcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 September 2025Shield and PwC UK forged a strategic collaboration announced September 2025, bringing together Shield's AI-first compliance platform with PwC's surveillance expertise to deliver measurable compliance outcomes to financial institutions.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationShield's platform runs on AWS, leveraging the cloud's scalability and elasticity for enterprise deployments. Customers can leverage existing AWS agreements. Shield's partnership with AWS enables rapid deployment across any region and flexible data residency controls.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• NICE Actimize: NICE Actimize is the largest dedicated communications surveillance and trade compliance vendor for financial institutions, offering ACTimizeCommunicator for eComms surveillance. Directly comparable to Shield's Surveillance, Supervision, and Archive products targeting tier-1 banks.
• Smarsh: Smarsh provides enterprise archiving and communications surveillance for regulated industries, including financial services. Its Smarsh Enterprise Conduct and archiving suite directly competes with Shield Archive, Discover, and Surveillance products.
• Global Relay: Global Relay offers unified communications archiving, surveillance, and eDiscovery for financial services and other regulated industries. Closely comparable to Shield on archive, supervision, and discovery functionality for compliance teams.
• Behavox: Behavox provides AI-driven employee surveillance and compliance monitoring for financial institutions, focused on reducing false positives in trade surveillance. Directly comparable to Shield's AI surveillance and AmplifAI agent proposition.
• Theta Lake: Theta Lake provides compliance and security for modern collaboration tools (Zoom, Teams, Webex, Slack). An emerging direct competitor to Shield Voice and Shield's collaboration-channel surveillance modules.
• SteelEye: SteelEye is a UK-based RegTech providing communications surveillance, archiving, and trade reconstruction for financial firms. Closely comparable to Shield on MiFID II/FCA compliance and EMEA enterprise sales motion.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg Vault: Bloomberg Vault is Bloomberg's compliance archiving and eDiscovery offering bundled with the Bloomberg Terminal ecosystem. Competes with Shield Archive and Discover for tier-1 bank customers who already use Bloomberg terminals.
• LSEG (Refinitiv) World-Check: LSEG (formerly Refinitiv) provides surveillance, KYC, and risk intelligence to financial institutions via World-Check and compliance suite. Overlaps with Shield's market abuse and InfoBarriers (MNPI) surveillance offerings.
• Proofpoint (Enterprise Archive): Proofpoint's enterprise archiving and compliance solutions serve regulated industries including financial services. Competes with Shield Archive and Discover, particularly in email and collaboration compliance.

Emerging players

• Red Box (Conversa): Red Box provides voice capture, AI transcription, and analytics for enterprise compliance. Comparable to Shield Voice on multilingual voice transcription and surveillance for financial-services trading desks.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/shieldfc
• Xx.com/Shieldregtech
• Facebookfacebook.com/ShieldFinancialCompliance

Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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