Diligent AI Raises $2.5M To Support KYC And AML Teams With AI Agents

The round was led by Speedinvest and Shapers, with participation from strategic angels including CEOs of N26, Allica Bank, IDnow, Billie, and Cybersource.

KYC and AML teams face growing operational pressures from expanding sanctions, rising fraud and faster digital payments, often performing repetitive data-gathering tasks instead of deeper analysis.

Diligent AI addresses this by deploying autonomous AI agents that read, reason and investigate, automating KYC, AML, adverse media analysis and sanctions or payment screening alerts.

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Founded by Edoardo Maschio and Ahmed Gaber, Diligent AI helps financial institutions reduce operational costs while enhancing risk detection and compliance efficiency.

Diligent AI’s agents are already in use at financial institutions across Europe, the Middle East, the US, and Japan. The platform helps resolve sanctions, PEP and adverse media alerts, conduct merchant risk reviews and streamline customer onboarding delivering measurable efficiency gains and more consistent decision-making.

The new funding will expand the company’s engineering team and accelerate agent deployment across the UK and Europe, while continuing to develop advanced tools for financial crime compliance teams.

Edoardo Maschio, CEO and co-founder of Diligent AI, said the company is designing its platform specifically for analysts:

When you strip away repetitive tasks - like clearing false positive alerts, searching corporate registries and public records, cross-referencing adverse media - you free up the human mind to focus on judgment and strategy. It’s decision-making instead of data processing. We’re not just making teams faster; we’re enabling them to do the job they were hired to do.

About Diligent

Diligent, founded in 2023 builds generative AI assistants that automate and enhance KYC/AML processes for banks and fintechs, streamlining sanctions checks, adverse-media reviews onboarding and investigative due diligence.