A Los Angeles-based firm called RiskFront Inc. is ready to unleash a squad of artificial intelligence agents to tackle financial crimes such as fraud and money laundering after raising $3.3 million in preseed funding today.
The round was led by Lytical Ventures and saw participation from Flint Capital and Oceans, and will help the company to accelerate the development of its agentic compliance tools. The startup is the creator of Airos, an AI-enabled risk operating system that’s designed to surface indicators of financial crime and support compliance workflows and other operational tasks.
Airos consists of three kinds of AI agents, including Due Diligence Research agents designed to analyze open-source research, flag any risk-related information they surface and summarize the results of what they discover. Meanwhile, its Transaction Analysis agents perform the task of fetching, organizing and analyzing organization’s financial transaction data to spot patterns that might indicate suspicious activity. Then there’s the Document Analysis agents, which are designed to analyze thousands of documents and surface relevant insights that aid in compliance and other risk management workflows.
RiskFront says the three agents can all work cooperatively, summarizing, flagging and documenting all relevant information relating to an organization’s financial activities and generate a complete audit trail to ensure compliance.
The startup says this level of automation is going to be necessary in future because financial crime continues to grow across banks, fintech companies and other types of organizations. It cites a 2025 study by TransUnion LLC that shows how financial fraud costs U.S. companies more than $100 billion in losses every year.
While this is happening, American companies are facing increased pressure from regulators to get their act together and try to prevent this activity, being asked to scale their risk and compliance operations. Yet doing so is extremely complex and labor intensive, and many companies cannot afford the additional labor costs.
That’s precisely why they might be interested in RiskFront’s AI agents, which can perform key operational tasks across compliance and transaction monitoring at speeds that far outpace what humans are capable of.
RiskFront co-founder and Chief Executive Andy Bethurum stressed that the company’s agents don’t just augment existing human-centric workflows. Rather, they take on the full burden of the most labor-intensive processes relating to financial compliance, so that human teams can focus on higher-level judgment-driven work. He said the company’s internal data shows that its AI agents reduce the time humans spend on research effort to just 5% of their daily workload, so they can spend up to 80% of their time on analysis work.
“In traditional risk and compliance workflows, professionals spend approximately 70% of their time on manual research, with only 5% dedicated to actual analysis and the remaining 25% consumed by decision-making and documentation,” Bethurum explained. “RiskFront’s agentic systems fundamentally reverse this dynamic, allowing organizations to increase productivity, improve decision quality and scale risk and compliance operations without expanding their headcount.”
Companies might worry that RiskFront’s agentic systems could introduce yet another security risk they have to worry about, but the startup has taken steps to reassure them otherwise. Its agents are hosted on trusted Amazon Web Services private cloud environments and are governed by strong data ownership rules within an audited SOC 2 Type II security framework.
Flint Capital General Partner Sergey Gribov said RiskFront’s real value lies in the way it empowers human risk and compliance professionals. “Agentic AI systems for risk and compliance operations are changing how work gets done by shifting power to high performers and turning them into 10x employees,” he said.
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