What Cloudburst Technologies does

Cloudburst Technologies is a New York-based private company, founded in 2022–2023 by Evan Kohlmann (previously founder of Flashpoint), that provides an autonomous threat and financial intelligence platform for the cryptocurrency and broader financial sector. Its product unifies five stages: (1) OSINT collection via native mobile/desktop app interception, web and social media scraping, agent-based scanning of hidden services, and ingestion of data breaches and stealer logs; (2) AI-driven enrichment covering translation, transcription/OCR, sentiment analysis, and LLM-based tagging; (3) entity resolution through embeddings and graph search; (4) multi-dimensional risk scoring for users, organizations, and crypto wallets; and (5) real-time, AI-generated Request for Information (RFI) responses with downloadable intel reports. The platform's differentiated proposition is bridging blockchain data to real-world identities without relying on anonymous wallet addresses, enabling attribution of crypto fraud and threat actor activity for banks, exchanges, fintechs, and government agencies.

The company sells primarily through an enterprise direct-sales motion with a "Request a Demo" conversion path, targeting large financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, and government/law enforcement buyers. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and the revenue model is subscription-based recurring access to the intelligence platform. Cloudburst has processed 600M messages, tracked 55M users, and monitored 12M cryptocurrency addresses, reflecting a sizeable proprietary data asset.

Capital formation has been modest but high-signal: a $3M seed round in May 2023 led by Strategic Cyber Ventures with Coinbase Ventures and Bloccelerate, followed by a $7M round in September 2025 led by Borderless Capital with IQT, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Bloccelerate, and Strategic Cyber Ventures. The leadership team is small (1–10 employees) and includes CEO Evan Kohlmann, COO/GC Michael O'Connor (formerly Global Head of Litigation at Kraken), and CTO Ben Turner (prior engineering roles at Flashpoint, Vimeo, The Colbert Report, and a DHS contractor, plus US Army Military Intelligence).

Name

Cloudburst Technologies

Legal name

Cloudburst Technologies

Website

https://burst.cloud

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cloudburst Technologies is a New York-based autonomous threat and financial intelligence platform that uses OSINT collection, LLM enrichment, and entity resolution to bridge blockchain data with real-world identities for banks, crypto exchanges, and government agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Threat Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Blockchain Analytics & Transaction Monitoring (FSADALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fraud Detection, Scam Prevention & Account Takeover (Crypto) (FSADALAF), Cybercrime, Ransomware & Illicit Finance Intelligence (Crypto) (FSADALAL), Digital Asset Risk, Security & Audit Tooling (Smart Contract Audit, Threat Monitoring) (FSAGAMAJ)

Keywords

• Threat intelligence platform
• Cryptocurrency fraud detection
• Cyber threat monitoring
• OSINT collection software
• Financial crime intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Threat Intelligence Platform: Subscription-based access to autonomous threat and financial intelligence platform with real-time monitoring, risk scoring, and RFI response capabilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Cloudburst Technologies sells an autonomous threat and financial intelligence platform that automates the full intelligence workflow — from OSINT collection across mobile/desktop apps, web, social media, hidden services, data breaches, and stealer logs, through AI-driven enrichment (translation, OCR, sentiment, LLM tagging), entity resolution, and multi-dimensional risk scoring (user, organization, crypto wallet), to real-time autonomous Request for Information (RFI) responses. It is sold as a subscription-based platform to financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, fintechs, and government/law enforcement agencies for cryptocurrency fraud detection and cyber threat attribution.

Product overview

Cloudburst Technologies offers a single unified autonomous intelligence platform that provides zero-analyst threat and financial intelligence for the financial sector. The platform operates through a five-stage pipeline: (1) Collect OSINT via native mobile/desktop apps, web scraping, social media monitoring, agent-based extraction, and data breach/stealer log aggregation; (2) Enrich data through language translation, transcription/OCR, sentiment analysis, and LLM-based automated tagging; (3) Connect entities into a searchable knowledge graph with embeddings; (4) Calculate risk scores for users, organizations, and crypto wallets; and (5) Provide autonomous RFI (Request for Information) responses with AI-generated intel reports. The platform bridges blockchain data with real-world identities to detect and prevent financial crime, with no separate modules or add-on products identified.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Autonomous Intelligence Platform Zero-analyst threat and financial intelligence platform for the financial sector. Collects OSINT via native mobile/desktop app interception, web scraping, social media monitoring, agent-based data extraction from hidden services, and aggregation of data breaches, stealer logs, and airdrop data; enriches data through language translation, transcription/OCR, sentiment/emotion analysis, and LLM-based automated tagging; connects entities into a searchable knowledge graph with embeddings; calculates User, Org, and Crypto Risk Scores; and provides autonomous real-time Request for Information (RFI) responses with AI-generated intel reports and recommendations. Built for banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, fintechs, and government/law enforcement agencies needing cryptocurrency fraud detection, financial crime prevention, and cyber threat attribution.

Quantifiable outcome

• Tracks 12M cryptocurrency addresses for fraud and financial crime indicators
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature11 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Chainalysis: Chainalysis is the dominant blockchain analytics and AML platform serving crypto exchanges, financial institutions, and government agencies. It overlaps with Cloudburst's on-chain transaction monitoring and risk-scoring capabilities but is a much broader, general-purpose compliance suite rather than an OSINT-first attribution platform.
• Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the cyberintelligence market leader previously founded by Cloudburst's CEO Evan Kohlmann. It is a broad incumbent in threat intelligence across the deep/dark web with overlapping OSINT collection capabilities, though it focuses more on enterprise cyber threats than crypto-specific financial crime.
• Recorded Future: Recorded Future (a Mastercard company) is a large-scale threat intelligence platform with broad OSINT collection and entity correlation. It overlaps with Cloudburst's intelligence-platform architecture and financial-sector/government customer base, though at a much larger and more general-purpose scale.
• Mandiant (Google Cloud): Mandiant is an established incident response and threat intelligence provider now part of Google Cloud. It serves a similar financial-sector and government customer base with cyber threat intelligence, though its primary focus is incident response rather than crypto-native financial crime.
• Dataminr: Dataminr provides real-time event and threat detection from public data sources using AI, with enterprise and public-sector customers. It overlaps with Cloudburst's real-time OSINT-to-intelligence pipeline at the architectural level, though it serves a much broader set of use cases beyond crypto.

Direct peers

• TRM Labs: TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence and crypto fraud/AML detection for financial institutions, crypto businesses, and public-sector clients. It competes directly with Cloudburst in the same customer segment with comparable risk-scoring and entity-resolution functionality.
• Elliptic: Elliptic offers blockchain analytics and crypto transaction screening for compliance, fraud, and financial crime use cases. It targets the same financial-sector and law-enforcement buyer as Cloudburst with overlapping risk-scoring and investigation workflows.
• Crystal Intelligence: Crystal (formerly Bitfury Crystal) provides blockchain analytics for AML, compliance, and law-enforcement investigations, with a similar focus on attribution and transaction monitoring that overlaps with Cloudburst's blockchain-side capabilities.
• Scorechain: Scorechain is a blockchain analytics and AML/KYC platform focused on crypto compliance for exchanges and financial institutions. It directly overlaps with Cloudburst's risk-scoring and transaction-monitoring functionality, particularly in the European market.

Emerging players

• Arkham Intelligence: Arkham Intelligence is an emerging blockchain analytics platform that uses entity resolution and deanonymization to link wallet addresses to real-world actors. It addresses the same off-chain-to-on-chain identity bridging problem that Cloudburst is built around, with a more consumer/researcher-facing product surface.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors6 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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