Caulis
Caulis is a Tokyo-based B2B financial-crime detection vendor serving 40+ Japanese financial institutions with its cloud-based Fraud Alert platform (300+ ML parameters for account, login, and transaction monitoring) and Grid Data KYC, a utility-data-based identity verification service covering 86 million households.
- Company typePublic
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersOtemachi, Japan
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Caulis does
Caulis Inc. (株式会社カウリス) is a Tokyo-headquartered B2B financial-crime detection company that sells cloud-based fraud monitoring and identity-verification services to Japanese financial institutions. Founded in 2015 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market (ticker 153A) since March 2024, Caulis serves 40+ customers across banks, securities firms, credit card issuers, insurance companies, crypto asset exchanges, and consumer finance lenders, with disclosed adopters including Seven Bank, auフィナンシャルサービス, SBJ Bank, Tokyo Star Bank, 百五銀行, ０１銀行, インヴァスト証券, and ビューカード. The company states it detected and blocked nearly JPY 10 billion in unauthorized transfers and money laundering transactions annually and now monitors roughly 600 million transactions per month.
The flagship product is Fraud Alert, a cloud-native platform that uses machine learning with over 300 monitoring parameters to score risk on account opening, login, and fund transfer events across web and smartphone channels, with APIs, JavaScript tags, and SDKs available for integration. Fraud Alert 入金検知 extends the platform into real-time transaction blocking and cross-institution blacklist asset freezing. The complementary Grid Data KYC service, launched in 2024 after a three-ministry gray-zone resolution and a 2023 amendment to the Electricity Business Act, cross-references approximately 86 million household electricity contracts from all 10 general power transmission/distribution operators with bank KYC data to detect vacant properties and identity mismatches without requiring customer opt-in. Anti-phishing URL registration and X-based account-resale intelligence are offered as add-ons.
Caulis generates revenue through subscription contracts for Fraud Alert (priced by monitored channels and transaction volume) and a usage-based (従量課金) model for Grid Data KYC. Go-to-market is enterprise direct sales supported by regulatory engagement with the Financial Services Agency, National Police Agency, and METI, plus thought-leadership presence at FIN/SUM, AML Conference, and FIT. Specific revenue figures are not publicly disclosed; the company reports 11–50 employees and dual headquarters functions in Tokyo (Otemachi, FINOLAB) and Fukuoka (opened March 2026).
Caulis firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Caulis
- Legal name
- 株式会社カウリス
- Website
- https://caulis.jp
- Company type
- Public
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Caulis is a Tokyo-based B2B financial-crime detection vendor serving 40+ Japanese financial institutions with its cloud-based Fraud Alert platform (300+ ML parameters for account, login, and transaction monitoring) and Grid Data KYC, a utility-data-based identity verification service covering 86 million households.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Caulis industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Financial Cybersecurity / Fraud Detection Software
- NAICS
- Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320), Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (52232), Credit Bureaus (56145)
- SIC
- Finance Services (6199), Services-Consumer Credit Reporting, Collection Agencies (7320)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Fraud Detection & Transaction Monitoring (FSAMALAA)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Consumer Identity Verification (KYC) & Fraud Risk for Credit (FSAKAKAD), KYC/KYB Identity Verification & Onboarding (FSADALAA), Fraud, Risk, KYC/AML & Compliance Platforms (BPAMAFAI)
Keywords
Where Caulis is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Otemachi
- HQ country
- Japan
- HQ region
- Asia
Offices2 records
Markets served
Caulis business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Fraud Alert Subscription: Subscription-based monitoring service for financial institutions, with fees varying by number of monitored channels and transaction volume. Covers login detection, account opening detection, and transaction monitoring across 40+ financial institution customers.
- Grid Data KYC Usage-based Fees: Pay-per-inquiry pricing model for electricity contract data cross-referencing. Grid Data KYC is described as usage-based (従量課金型).
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Usage-based | Pay-as-you-go | Grid Data KYC — Usage-based (従量課金型) |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels5 records
Caulis product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Caulis sells cloud-based fraud detection and identity verification software to Japanese financial institutions. Its primary offering, Fraud Alert, monitors account openings, logins, and fund transfers using 300+ parameters with machine learning risk scoring, while Grid Data KYC cross-references customer data against electricity contract information from all 10 Japanese general power transmission and distribution operators covering approximately 86 million households to verify residence and detect fraud.
Product overview
Caulis provides a portfolio of fraud detection and identity verification services for financial institutions. The core offering is Fraud Alert, a cloud-based fraud access detection platform using 300+ parameters to monitor account opening, login, and fund transactions across web and smartphone channels. Fraud Alert includes sub-modules: ログイン検知 (login detection), 口座開設検知 (account opening detection), and 入出金検知 (transaction monitoring). Grid Data KYC is a complementary KYC service that leverages electricity contract data from 10 power transmission operators covering 86 million households to verify customer residential status and detect fraud. Additional services include anti-phishing URL blocking and account resale intelligence monitoring.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Fraud Alert（フロードアラート）: クラウド型の不正アクセス検知サービス。300以上のパラメータを活用し、金融庁のガイドラインに準拠したモニタリングを提供。
- Grid Data KYC（グリッドデータKYC）
Products and services
- Fraud Alert (フロードアラート) Cloud-based fraud detection service using 300+ parameters to monitor account opening, login, and fund transactions for financial institutions in compliance with FSA anti-money laundering guidelines. Features a cross-industry sharing platform for blacklisting compromised device information and consulting services for operational support.
- Grid Data KYC (グリッドデータKYC) Identity verification service that cross-references approximately 86 million household electricity contracts from Japan's 10 general transmission/distribution operators with financial institution customer data. Enables address verification, vacant property detection, and name mismatch identification for continuous customer management and fraud prevention, without requiring customer opt-in consent under AML regulations.
- Phishing Countermeasures (フィッシング対策) Anti-phishing service that automatically detects phishing sites upon launch and registers URLs with Google Safe Browsing and Microsoft SmartScreen, enabling browser-level blocking before URLs spread via email or SMS.
- Account Resale Information (口座転売情報) Account resale intelligence service that crawls account purchase posts on X (Twitter), aggregates customer purchase volumes and amounts daily via email reports, and provides weekly Excel reports on account resale trends.
- Fraud Alert In/Out Transaction Detection (Fraud Alert 入出金検知) Real-time transaction monitoring component of the Fraud Alert suite that combines account rules (destination, amount, frequency), device information, and behavioral patterns to detect rented/resold accounts and enable real-time blocking of dangerous fund transfers. Includes a shared blacklist database that allows asset freezing across different operators.
Quantifiable outcome
- Approximately JPY 10 billion in unauthorized transfers and money laundering transactions detected and blocked annually
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Caulis
Customer profileNamed customers8 records
Segments2 records
Ideal customer profiles1 record
Caulis technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
AI capability5 records
Feature4 records
Caulis partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.
- 全国一般送配電事業者10社 (10 General Power Transmission/Distribution Operators — Nationwide)corePartnership with all 10 general power transmission/distribution operators in Japan to provide Grid Data KYC service. Covers approximately 86 million households nationwide. Enables financial institutions to verify customer residence, detect vacant properties, and confirm identity matching using electricity contract data, without requiring customer opt-in consent under AML regulations. Operators include: Hokkaido, Tohoku, Tokyo, Chubu, Hokuriku, Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa.
- 関西電力送配電株式会社 (Kansai Electric Power Transmission & Distribution Corporation)coreCo-development partnership to provide a fraud detection service utilizing electricity contract data. The partnership established that electricity contract data (names, phone numbers, addresses) could be used by financial institutions for identity verification, clearing three-ministry gray zone resolution. Led to Japan's first regulatory sandbox-based commercialization in this domain. Data partnership covers approximately 8.6 million households in Kansai region. 2023 revision of the Electricity Business Act Implementation Regulations enabled broader rollout.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves8 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Caulis competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- BioCatch: Behavioral biometrics fraud detection platform used by global banks. Directly comparable to Fraud Alert in its use of device, session, and behavioral parameters to score account opening, login, and transaction risk, though serving multinational banks rather than Japan-domestic institutions.
- Feedzai: Cloud-native transaction monitoring and fraud detection platform with hundreds of parameters. Comparable in core technology (ML-based anomaly detection, real-time risk scoring) and target buyer profile (large financial institutions), competing for the same enterprise fraud analytics budget.
- Featurespace: Adaptive behavioral analytics for fraud and risk management used by global payments and banking customers. Comparable in ML-based anomaly detection approach to Caulis's Fraud Alert.
- Sift: Digital trust and safety SaaS for fraud detection across account opening, login, and transactions. Comparable in cloud-native multi-parameter fraud detection and developer-friendly integration, though focused on global e-commerce/payments rather than Japan-specific financial institutions.
Broad incumbents
- NICE Actimize: Established enterprise financial crime and AML platform serving global tier-1 banks. Comparable in AML/CFT transaction monitoring scope, but as a broader portfolio vendor with enterprise-scale deployments rather than a Japan-focused niche specialist.
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions: Global identity verification and risk analytics provider, including KYC and AML data. Comparable in the KYC and identity-verification layer that overlaps with Grid Data KYC, and historically active in Japan through partnerships.
- TransUnion: Major credit bureau with identity verification and fraud-prevention services globally. Comparable to Grid Data KYC's KYC/onboarding use case, with broad data assets rather than a single niche (electricity) data set.
- Experian: Global credit bureau and identity/fraud services provider. Comparable to Grid Data KYC for KYC/identity verification and to Fraud Alert for fraud-detection analytics, but as a large diversified incumbent rather than a specialized Japan-domestic player.
Regional players
- E-Guardian: Tokyo-listed (TSE Growth) Japanese internet monitoring and fraud/risk services company. Comparable as a Japan-domestic fraud and risk services vendor with similar sales-led GTM targeting Japanese enterprises, but broader in scope (content moderation, social media risk).
Emerging players
- DataVisor: AI-based fraud and AML platform serving financial institutions. Comparable in unsupervised ML approach to detecting emerging fraud patterns and cross-account/organization behavior, with comparable enterprise financial-services target market.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Caulis social profiles
Digital presenceCaulis compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance3 records
Caulis financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Caulis leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles3 records
Caulis funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds4 records
Investors8 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Caulis M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Caulis
What does Caulis do?
Caulis sells cloud-based fraud detection and identity verification software to Japanese financial institutions. Its primary offering, Fraud Alert, monitors account openings, logins, and fund transfers using 300+ parameters with machine learning risk scoring, while Grid Data KYC cross-references customer data against electricity contract information from all 10 Japanese general power transmission and distribution operators covering approximately 86 million households to verify residence and detect fraud.
Is Caulis a public or private company?
Caulis is a public company. It is classified as public and is currently operating.
When was Caulis founded?
Caulis was founded in 2015. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Caulis based?
Caulis is headquartered in Otemachi, Japan, in the Asia region.
How does Caulis make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Fraud Alert Subscription is the primary driver. The others are grid Data KYC Usage-based Fees.
Who are Caulis's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are BioCatch, Feedzai, Featurespace and Sift. Broad incumbents are NICE Actimize, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, TransUnion and Experian. E-Guardian is listed as a regional player. DataVisor is listed as an emerging player.
Does Caulis have an API?
Yes. Fraud Alert offers multiple integration methods: (1) API integration for real-time access result delivery to client systems, enabling automated responses like additional authentication; (2) JavaScript-based integration for accumulating terminal information and sending quasi-real-time alert emails upon high-risk access detection; (3) SDK for smartphone app integration supporting both API and JavaScript methods. Developer documentation is at caulis.jp/fraud-alert.
What industry is Caulis in?
Caulis's product category is Financial Cybersecurity / Fraud Detection Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is FSAMALAA, Fraud Detection & Transaction Monitoring, with a secondary code of FSAKAKAD, Consumer Identity Verification (KYC) & Fraud Risk for Credit. Its NAICS code is 522320 and its SIC code is 6199.