Strise

What Strise does

Strise is a Norwegian software company that builds an AI-native anti-money laundering (AML) automation platform for European regulated institutions. The product, branded the 'AML Automation Cloud', is a graph-based system that consolidates KYC, KYB, ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) discovery, sanctions and PEP screening, ongoing due diligence, risk scoring, document analysis, and remediation into a single API-first platform. The proprietary knowledge graph maps relationships across companies, directors, ownership chains, sanctions exposure, and adverse media, drawing on direct integrations with 300+ global registries and on AI-driven document and adverse-media analysis. A configurable weighted risk-scoring engine (RiskLens) and a Workbench case management layer support event-driven continuous monitoring, with 80% of routine cases automated through rule-based decisioning and, in beta, agentic AI for autonomous alert dispositioning.

The company serves banks, insurers, payment companies, fintechs, and professional services firms, and reports 70% penetration of top-tier Nordic banks with named customers including Nordea, Storebrand, KLP, SpareBank 1, Vipps MobilePay, BnBank, PwC Norway, and British Land. Distribution combines direct enterprise sales with channel partnerships through Stacc (serving 280+ Nordic financial institutions), Signicat, Kyckr, and PSA Solutions. The revenue model is usage-based SaaS subscription priced on portfolio volume rather than headcount, with custom enterprise contracts. Strise is headquartered in Oslo, operates a regional office in London, employs approximately 50 people, and is backed by Atomico (Series A, 2023), Curiosity VC, and Maki.vc, with a total of roughly $14.1M in disclosed equity funding to date. Certifications include SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and GDPR compliance.

Name

Strise

Legal name

Strise AS

Website

https://strise.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Strise is a Norwegian AI-native AML automation platform serving European banks, insurers, payments firms, and professional services with a knowledge graph for KYC, KYB, screening, UBO discovery, and continuous compliance monitoring, sold via usage-based enterprise SaaS.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AML Compliance Software (RegTech)

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Fraud, Risk, KYC/AML & Compliance Platforms (BPAMAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Name Matching, Entity Resolution & Screening Optimization (FSAMAMAE), Case Management, Investigations & SAR/STR Filing (FSAMAMAF)

Keywords

• AML automation software
• KYC compliance platform
• Financial crime compliance
• Beneficial ownership discovery
• Sanctions screening software

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Usage-based): Usage-based SaaS subscription model where pricing is based on portfolio volume rather than headcount. Scales with customer portfolio size. Enterprise deals likely involve annual contracts with custom pricing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Strise sells the AML Automation Cloud, a SaaS platform that uses a knowledge graph and AI to automate KYC, KYB, UBO discovery, sanctions and PEP screening, ongoing due diligence, and risk scoring for financial institutions, fintechs, payment companies, insurers, and professional services firms. Customers can adopt individual modules (KYC, KYB, screening, monitoring) or deploy the full platform via API and analyst workbench, with pricing tied to portfolio volume rather than headcount.

Product overview

Strise offers the AML Automation Cloud, a unified AI-native platform-plus-modules architecture for financial crime compliance. The core platform (AML Automation Cloud) provides a graph-based entity knowledge model, real-time data enrichment (SuperData), and a configurable risk scoring engine (RiskLens), all connected via API-first infrastructure. The product suite comprises ten integrated modules: KYB Onboarding (with pre-populated case files), KYC Onboarding, ID Verification (via Signicat), UBO Discovery (graph-based ownership mapping), Screening and Alert Triage (with Agentic AI Beta for autonomous dispositioning), Ongoing Due Diligence Monitoring (event-driven, replacing periodic reviews), Risk Scoring (RiskLens), Document Analysis, Remediation, and a Portfolio Health Dashboard. Modules share a unified entity graph and audit trail; low-risk cases auto-approve without analyst involvement while complex cases route to the Workbench analyst workspace. The platform processes over 1 billion entities and 11 million individuals globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AML Automation Cloud: AI-powered AML automation platform powering KYC, KYB, sanctions and PEP screening, ongoing due diligence, and automated onboarding.
• SuperData™
• RiskLens™
• Workbench™
• The Laundry
• Yes, Chef!

Products and services

• AML Automation Cloud Unified AI-native platform that consolidates KYC, KYB, UBO discovery, screening, monitoring, risk scoring, document analysis, and remediation into a single graph-based system with API-first infrastructure, sold to banks, fintechs, payment companies, insurers, and professional services firms.
• KYB Onboarding
• KYC Onboarding Individual customer onboarding module covering identity verification, CDD, and risk classification for natural persons, handling both onboarding and periodic re-verification within the same workflow.
• Monitoring (Ongoing Due Diligence) Continuous, event-driven monitoring of the entire customer portfolio and network — owners, directors, and connected entities — with cases opening automatically on material change and closing automatically when nothing changes, replacing periodic batch reviews.
• ID Verification Identity verification module integrated directly into KYB/KYC workflows, built in partnership with Signicat's Mint platform, verifying individuals linked to companies through biometric matching, document validation, and secure workflow URLs.
• UBO Discovery Ultimate Beneficial Owner discovery module using graph-based ownership modelling to map direct and indirect ownership structures across jurisdictions, automatically calculating beneficial owners (≥25% threshold) and monitoring for ownership changes in real time.
• Remediation Remediation module enabling compliance teams to clear KYC remediation backlogs by identifying data gaps, automating reassessment of unchanged profiles, and applying automated decisions for low-risk cases.
• Risk Scoring (RiskLens) Configurable weighted risk matrix scoring engine (RiskLens) generating numeric risk scores and tiered risk categories from jurisdiction, entity type, ownership complexity, PEP exposure, adverse media, and screening results, converting the customer's risk model into a real-time scoring engine.
• Screening and Alert Triage Screening module that checks entities against PEP lists, sanctions lists, and adverse media, and filters false positives before they reach analysts, with transparent fuzzy matching scores and full audit trails, including Agentic AI (Beta) for autonomous alert dispositioning.
• Document Analysis Document analysis module that automates processing of client forms, documents, and public records submitted during onboarding and due diligence, extracting relevant information into the entity record.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% reduction in due diligence time (from days to minutes)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers22 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• KyckrcoreTechnology or Integration · 22 December 2025Integration partnership providing real-time registry data from 300+ global registries for automated KYB verification. Enables instant entity verification and discrepancy detection beyond document retrieval.
• PSA SolutionscoreTechnology or Integration · 20 August 2025Partnership bringing Strise's AML automation to law firms through PSA's Custodian Client Onboarding system. Addresses AML requirements for legal sector including source-of-funds checks and ownership mapping.
• KyckrcoreTechnology or Integration · 6 March 2025Partnership for KYB automation providing instant access to official records from 300+ global registries. Moves KYB workflows from document collection to real-time decision-making with auto-populated KYB checklists.
• SignicatcoreTechnology or Integration · 26 February 2025Strategic partnership unifying digital identity verification and AML automation. Integrates Signicat Mint no-code platform directly into Strise for end-to-end compliance workflows including IDV, KYB, and e-signatures.
• StacccoreTechnology or Integration · 5 December 2024Strategic partnership combining Strise's AML Automation Cloud with Stacc's AML & KYC Management Portal. Serves 280+ financial institutions across the Nordics with integrated case management and compliance workflows.

Scale indicators18 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ComplyAdvantage: UK-based AI-driven AML and sanctions screening platform serving banks, fintechs, and payment companies. Directly comparable to Strise in target verticals (banking, payments, fintech) and core offerings (KYC, sanctions/PEP screening, ongoing monitoring), with a similar AI-native positioning and enterprise GTM.
• Hawk AI: Germany-based AML and fraud surveillance platform for banks, payment providers, and fintechs. Comparable to Strise in AI-driven transaction monitoring and AML screening for European financial institutions.
• Sumsub: Global identity verification and AML/KYC platform covering onboarding, KYB, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring. Comparable to Strise across KYC/KYB/screening modules, with a broader geographic footprint and stronger identity-verification focus.
• Silent Eight: AI-native AML and sanctions name screening platform used by global Tier 1 banks. Comparable to Strise in automating alert dispositioning and sanctions/PEP screening with explainable AI for compliance defensibility.
• Lucinity: Icelandic AML software company offering an AI-powered compliance platform for KYC, transaction monitoring, and case management. Closely comparable as a Nordic-region AML software competitor targeting European banks with similar AI-augmented analyst workflows.
• Napier AI: UK-based AML compliance platform providing AI-enhanced transaction monitoring, KYC, and screening for banks and financial institutions. Comparable to Strise in serving European FIs with modern, AI-augmented compliance tooling.

Broad incumbents

• NICE Actimize: Established enterprise AML, KYC, and fraud prevention platform serving the world's largest financial institutions. Comparable to Strise in serving banks with AML/KYC solutions, but as part of a much larger financial-crime suite sold primarily to Tier 1 global FIs.
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions: Global data and analytics provider for AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and beneficial ownership. Comparable to Strise across screening and entity resolution capabilities, but as part of a much larger data and analytics portfolio serving all major FI segments.
• Onfido: Global identity verification provider (now part of Entrust) offering KYC, KYB, and AML document verification at enterprise scale. Comparable to Strise's ID verification and KYC modules as part of a broader identity portfolio rather than a full AML automation stack.

Emerging players

• Veriff: Estonian identity verification provider for KYC, KYB, and AML compliance workflows across fintech, crypto, and mobility. Comparable to Strise on the ID verification and KYC component, with overlap in Nordic/European customer base but narrower focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights8 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors8 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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