CRB Monitor

What CRB Monitor does

CRB Monitor is a privately held corporate intelligence platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, that maintains proprietary relational databases covering cannabis-related businesses (CRBs) and digital asset-related businesses (DARBs). The core cannabis database catalogs 101,000+ direct CRBs, 245,000+ cannabis licenses from 100+ licensing agencies, 155,000+ owners, and 1,400+ cannabis-linked issuers, with entities de-duplicated, cross-linked, and classified into proprietary risk tiers (Tier 1A, 1B, 2, 3). A second product line, the DARB Securities Database, covers 3,000+ digital asset-linked securities from 2,250+ issuers across 80+ global exchanges, including 900+ exchange-traded products.

The platform's underlying technology is a curated, relational data model rather than a static list: entity profiles include license details, beneficial ownership, jurisdictional attributes, supporting documents, and cross-entity relationships accessible through search, filter, and plug-and-play data integration into customer compliance workflows and third-party filter solutions. Founder Steven Kemmerling created and continues to maintain the taxonomy and risk-tier frameworks that have been adopted by financial institutions and regulators.

CRB Monetizes primarily through recurring enterprise database subscriptions and data licensing/integration agreements with financial institutions and capital providers, including banks, credit unions, broker-dealers, insurance companies, money service businesses, investment banks, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and follows a consultative enterprise sales motion initiated via "Request Demo" or "Request More Info." In October 2025, the company acquired VASPnet Ltd. from XReg Group to extend its digital asset coverage into virtual asset service provider regulatory data aggregated from 80+ countries.

Name

CRB Monitor

Legal name

CRB Monitor

Website

https://crbmonitor.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CRB Monitor provides proprietary relational databases of cannabis-related and digital asset-related businesses to financial institutions and capital providers, enabling compliance, due diligence, and investment analysis across these regulated sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regulatory Compliance Data & Analytics

NAICS

Credit Bureaus (56145), Credit Bureaus (561450), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Activities Related to Credit Intermediation (5223)

SIC

Services-Consumer Credit Reporting, Collection Agencies (7320), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

KYC/KYB & Customer Onboarding (CIP, beneficial ownership, screening) (FSAGAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ongoing Monitoring & Periodic Reviews (KYC Refresh) (FSAMAMAL)

Keywords

• Cannabis compliance intelligence
• Digital asset risk data
• Regulatory database services
• AML KYC screening data
• Corporate intelligence platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashville

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, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Database Subscription Access: CRB Monitor provides online database access for search, research, and investigations with no limits or extra charges per search. This appears to be a subscription-based model providing access to their comprehensive cannabis and digital asset corporate intelligence database.
2. Data Integration/Plug & Play Datasets: The company offers datasets that can be integrated into customer filter systems and workflows, suggesting a B2B data licensing or API-based revenue stream for enterprise clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CRB Monitor provides a proprietary relational corporate intelligence database covering cannabis-related businesses (CRBs) and digital asset-related businesses (DARBs). The platform delivers centralized, curated, de-duplicated entity profiles with risk-tier classifications, license details, beneficial ownership data, and securities linkages for use in KYC/AML/BSA compliance, due diligence, and investment analysis. Customers access the data through online database subscriptions or by integrating plug-and-play datasets directly into existing filter systems and compliance workflows.

Product overview

CRB Monitor is a corporate intelligence platform offering two interconnected core databases: a Cannabis Corporate Intelligence Database covering cannabis-related businesses with 101,000+ direct CRBs, 245,000+ licenses, and 1,600+ securities; and a Digital Asset-Related Business (DARB) Securities Database covering 3,000+ securities from 2,250+ issuers across 80+ exchanges. The platform includes proprietary risk tiering frameworks for both cannabis (Tier 1A/1B/2/3) and digital assets, supplemented by compliance tools like the CBD Consideration Tree and the recently acquired VASPnet regulatory data service covering VASPs across 80 countries. Users can access the on-line database for search, research, and investigations, or integrate datasets into existing filter systems and workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CRB Monitor Cannabis Corporate Intelligence Database Centralized relational database providing comprehensive coverage of cannabis industry participants — 101,000+ direct CRBs, 245,000+ cannabis licenses, 155,000+ owners, and 1,600+ cannabis-linked securities — with de-duplicated entity profiles, license details, relationships, and search/filter functionality for compliance and investment teams at financial institutions.
• Digital Asset-Related Business (DARB) Securities Database

Quantifiable outcome

• Data aggregation from regulators across 80 countries following VASPnet acquisition
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Neil Samtani, CEO of VASPnetminorOthers · 11 February 2026Neil Samtani, CEO of VASPnet (now part of CRB Monitor following the acquisition), spoke at CoinDesk Consensus in Hong Kong on 'Before the Transaction: Knowing Who You're Doing Business With'.
• XReg GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 October 2025CRB Monitor acquired VASPnet Ltd., a Gibraltar-based provider of regulatory data on virtual asset service providers (VASPs), from XReg Group. The acquisition aims to expand CRB Monitor's digital asset compliance and surveillance capabilities, leveraging VASPnet's data aggregation from regulators across 80 countries. This is a strategic acquisition that enhances CRB Monitor's offering in the digital assets space.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Chainalysis: Leading blockchain data platform providing KYC/AML, transaction monitoring, and investigation tools for digital assets. Directly comparable to CRB Monitor's DARB Securities and VASPnet offerings serving the same financial-institution compliance buyers in the digital-asset vertical.
• Elliptic: Crypto compliance and blockchain analytics provider offering AML/sanctions screening and VASP due diligence to financial institutions. Closely mirrors CRB Monitor's digital-asset compliance value prop and target buyer profile.
• TRM Labs: Blockchain intelligence company focused on AML, fraud, and compliance for crypto and digital assets. Comparable to CRB Monitor's DARB offering and serves overlapping institutional customers (banks, broker-dealers, VASPs).

Broad incumbents

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions: Incumbent provider of AML, KYC, beneficial ownership, and entity-risk data to financial institutions globally. Represents the most likely large-scale competitor that could encroach on CRB Monitor's cannabis and digital-asset niches from a much broader compliance-data platform.
• Refinitiv (LSEG) World-Check: Industry-standard KYC/AML screening database for PEPs, sanctions, adverse media, and entity risk. A natural competitor and adjacent data source for CRB Monitor's institutional compliance buyers.
• Moody's / Bureau van Dijk (Orbis): Provides corporate intelligence, beneficial ownership, and entity-risk data (Orbis, Compliance Catalyst) used heavily by financial institutions for KYC and counterparty risk. Comparable in offering and customer base to CRB Monitor's relational database.

Emerging players

• Sayari: Corporate intelligence platform providing beneficial ownership, supply-chain, and entity-risk data for KYC, AML, and trade-compliance teams. Closest emerging competitor to CRB Monitor's relational-database approach and financial-institution buyer.
• ComplyAdvantage: AI-driven AML and KYC data platform serving banks, fintechs, and crypto firms. Comparable as a RegTech data vendor targeting the same compliance buyer and overlapping with CRB Monitor's digital-asset monitoring use cases.
• Kharon: Specialized research and data provider on sanctions, illicit finance, and entity-risk networks for financial institutions and government. Overlaps with CRB Monitor's high-risk entity classification and ongoing monitoring workflow.

Others

• ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists): Industry association and standards body for AML/BSA professionals, publisher of ACAMS Today where CRB Monitor publishes thought leadership. Ecosystem counterpart rather than a direct competitor, but key distribution channel for the same buyer audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mrb-monitor

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

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

M&A1 record

Investments

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

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