- Germany-based fraud prevention and AML answer supplier Hawk AI has raised $17 million in Sequence B funding this week.
- The spherical was led by Sands Capital and featured participation from DN Capital, Coalition, BlackFin Capital Companions, and Picus Capital, and provides to the $10 million Hawk AI raised in 2021.
- Hawk AI made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2022.
In a spherical led by Sands Capital and that includes participation from DN Capital, Coalition, BlackFin Capital Companions, and Picus Capital, Germany-based fraud prevention and anti-money laundering answer supplier Hawk AI has raised $17 million in Sequence B financing. The capital provides to the $10 million in Sequence A funding the corporate raised in June of 2021, and might be used to assist gasoline each product improvement and international growth.
“My co-founder Wolfgang Berner and I began this enterprise based mostly on the sturdy perception that solely vanguard, real-time surveillance expertise can ship the change wanted to battle monetary crime,” Hawk AI CEO and co-founder Tobias Schweiger mentioned. “This contrasts (with) the plain, drastic deficiencies in legacy expertise. Hawk AI’s progress will proceed to be fueled by industry-wide demand for AI, cloud outsourcing, and a convergence of fraud and AML expertise.” Schweiger added that this week’s funding would assist Hawk AI “develop into the main international surveillance platform quicker.”
Based in 2018, Hawk AI made its Finovate debut final yr at FinovateSpring in San Francisco. On the convention, the corporate demoed its AML Surveillance Suite, which mixes explainable AI with conventional rule-based methods to watch transactions for fraud and proof of potential cash laundering in actual time. The expertise alerts monetary crime specialists when suspicious conduct is detected whereas on the identical time considerably limiting the variety of false positives – by greater than 70% – in comparison with legacy techniques.
In its funding announcement, Hawk AI famous that greater than $2 trillion is laundered yearly, with U.S. fraud losses in 2022 topping $41 billion. Moreover, for what the corporate known as “high-growth markets,” fraud elevated by greater than 37% over the previous 12 months. This has put extra strain on establishments as each the quantity and class of monetary crime proceed to develop. Complicating issues additional are an ever-changing array of laws which Sands Capital’s Chris Eng mentioned has made combating monetary crime “traditionally” difficult. To this finish, Eng famous that, “Hawk AI’s subtle expertise and use of explainable synthetic intelligence current critically wanted easy options for establishments throughout the funds panorama.”
Hawk AI’s funding information comes within the wake of a yr by which the corporate realized year-over-year income progress of almost 3x. Hawk AI additionally expanded its operations to Singapore final yr, and now operates in additional than 60 international locations throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America. Hawk AI contains fellow Finovate alums VISA, Diebold Nixdorf, and Mambu amongst its companions.
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