Yield Sec

What Yield Sec does

Yield Sec is a US-based technical intelligence platform, headquartered in Smyrna, Georgia, that monitors online marketplaces to detect illegal activity and support regulatory enforcement. Founded in 2020 and operating with 11-50 employees, the company serves governments, regulators, and tribal gaming nations with data, analytics, and advisory services focused on quantifying black-market activity, particularly in online gambling, but also extending into streaming piracy, cryptocurrency, and broader consumer marketplaces. Its core product surface comprises four verticalized monitoring solutions (Gambling, Streaming, Crypto, Consumer) delivered through an AI-powered oversight platform that combines proprietary data collection with regulatory compliance and risk-mitigation tooling.

The platform's core technology is an AI-powered marketplace monitoring engine that identifies unlicensed operators, tracks advertising spend by regulated versus unregulated entities, and produces jurisdiction-specific intelligence reports (e.g., 93% unregulated content in Puerto Rico, >50% illegal GGR share in Brazil, UK unlicensed ad-spend projections through 2028). Yield Sec monetizes through subscription-based or project-based data, analytics, and advisory engagements sold via direct enterprise sales to government and regulatory buyers, with no publicly disclosed pricing. The company does not maintain a consumer product, public API, or SDK distribution layer — all delivery is relationship-driven to institutional clients.

On November 18, 2025, Yield Sec was acquired by Gaming Compliance International (GCI), under whose corporate umbrella Yield Sec now operates as a platform combining its marketplace intelligence layer with GCI's compliance technology stack. Co-founders Ismail Vali (President), Alastair Graham (CINO), Bret Sperling (CFO), and David Pedley (CLO) continue to lead the business. The company has no disclosed venture funding, no public revenue, and no app distribution, operating as a focused B2B regtech supplier rather than a broad SaaS platform.

Name

Yield Sec

Legal name

Yield Sec

Website

https://yieldsec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Yield Sec is an AI-powered marketplace intelligence platform that monitors online gambling, streaming, crypto, and consumer marketplaces to detect illegal operators and support regulatory enforcement for governments, regulators, and tribal gaming nations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regulatory Technology (RegTech) — Online Marketplace Compliance Intelligence

NAICS

Gambling Industries (7132)

akta.pro primary industry

Market Surveillance & Trade Monitoring (Crypto) (FSADALAG)

Keywords

• Online marketplace intelligence
• Gambling compliance monitoring
• Regulatory technology platform
• Black market detection
• Illegal gambling analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Smyrna

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Data and Analytics Services: Subscription-based or project-based data, analytics, and advisory services for governments, regulators, and gaming operators. Provides marketplace intelligence, regulatory compliance data, and risk mitigation insights.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Yield Sec is a technical intelligence platform that monitors online marketplaces across gambling, streaming, crypto, and consumer sectors. It provides data, analytics, and advisory services that quantify illegal and unregulated activity, enabling governments, regulators, and tribal nations to identify black-market operators, enforce compliance, and recover lost tax revenue.

Product overview

Yield Sec™ is a technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces, offering four specialized product verticals: Gambling, Streaming, Crypto, and Consumer. The platform provides data, analytics, and advisory products and services that allow clients to decrease costs, mitigate risks, increase revenues or taxation receipts, and achieve marketplace certainty. Each product category monitors its respective online marketplace sector, with the Gambling product being the most prominently featured, addressing unlicensed operators, black market activity, and regulatory compliance in the online gambling industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Identified that 93% of online gambling content in Puerto Rico promoted unregulated operators (H1 2025)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 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

One partnership is on record.

• Gaming Compliance International (GCI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 November 2025GCI acquired Yield Sec in November 2025, integrating Yield Sec's marketplace monitoring platform into GCI's compliance technology offerings. The acquisition aims to enhance GCI's AI-powered systems for marketplace oversight, black-market mitigation, and regulatory support. Yield Sec operates as a platform of Gaming Compliance International (GCI).

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Feedzai: Feedzai is a financial-crime and AML platform used by banks and regulators to monitor transactions and detect illicit activity. It is comparable to Yield Sec as a risk-and-surveillance vendor selling data-driven compliance intelligence to government and financial-institution buyers.
• Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain analytics and transaction monitoring used by regulators and law enforcement to detect illicit crypto activity. It is the closest analog to Yield Sec's crypto marketplace monitoring vertical, applying surveillance-style analytics to a regulated digital-asset market.
• Sumsub: Sumsub is a KYC, AML, and fraud-prevention platform with strong penetration in the iGaming and crypto sectors. It competes with Yield Sec for the same regulator and operator compliance budgets and offers adjacent identity-verification and transaction-monitoring capabilities relevant to illegal-operator detection.
• Veriff: Veriff provides identity verification and KYC/AML compliance used by online gambling operators and fintechs. It is comparable to Yield Sec as another compliance-vendor layer selling into the same regulated industries and addressing illegal or fraudulent online activity.
• GeoComply: GeoComply provides geolocation compliance and fraud prevention for the online gambling industry, serving many of the same regulators and licensed operators that Yield Sec targets. Both companies monetize on the need to detect and deter illegal or non-compliant online gambling activity, making them direct comparables in the gambling-compliance stack.

Broad incumbents

• Palantir Technologies: Palantir provides large-scale data integration and analytics platforms used by governments and law-enforcement agencies, including for regulatory and compliance use cases. It is comparable to Yield Sec as a data-platform vendor selling decision intelligence to government buyers, though at vastly larger scale and scope.
• Jumio: Jumio is an established identity-verification and KYC provider used across online gambling, fintech, and crypto. It overlaps with Yield Sec's compliance focus and competes for regulator and operator wallet share as part of a broader onboarding-and-compliance portfolio.
• NICE Actimize: NICE Actimize is a large incumbent provider of financial-crime, AML, and enterprise fraud-prevention software to global financial institutions and regulators. It is comparable to Yield Sec as a broader compliance incumbent whose marketplace-monitoring capabilities overlap with Yield Sec's surveillance offering at much larger scale.
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides large-scale data, analytics, and compliance tooling used by regulators, financial institutions, and law enforcement. It is comparable to Yield Sec as a data-driven risk-intelligence vendor operating at significantly greater scale across adjacent regulated markets.

Emerging players

• ThetaRay: ThetaRay provides AI-based AML and transaction-monitoring solutions to banks and fintechs, including for cross-border payments and crypto. It is comparable to Yield Sec as a smaller, AI-driven surveillance vendor selling into regulator and financial-institution use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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