
Castellum.AI is a founder-led company that provides an all-in-one AML/KYC compliance screening solution for the financial services industry. Their platform combines global risk data, a high-performance screening engine, and AI agents built entirely in-house to reduce unproductive alerts by up to 94% compared to legacy providers. The data covers sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), adverse media, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBOs), and more. The screening engine is optimized for high-volume environments with advanced configurability, supporting real-time risk screening and integration with compliance workflows. Castellum.AI serves large financial institutions including Fortune 10 companies, systemically important banks, and governments, helping them achieve risk-aligned coverage and compliance at scale. Their technology supports KYC onboarding, transaction screening, supply chain compliance, and automated alert adjudication, with a developer-friendly API and continuous data updates every five minutes.

Castellum.AI is a founder-led company that provides an all-in-one AML/KYC compliance screening solution for the financial services industry. Their platform combines global risk data, a high-performance screening engine, and AI agents built entirely in-house to reduce unproductive alerts by up to 94% compared to legacy providers. The data covers sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs), adverse media, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBOs), and more. The screening engine is optimized for high-volume environments with advanced configurability, supporting real-time risk screening and integration with compliance workflows. Castellum.AI serves large financial institutions including Fortune 10 companies, systemically important banks, and governments, helping them achieve risk-aligned coverage and compliance at scale. Their technology supports KYC onboarding, transaction screening, supply chain compliance, and automated alert adjudication, with a developer-friendly API and continuous data updates every five minutes.
What they do: AI-enabled AML/KYC screening and monitoring platform (sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, UBOs, transaction & onboarding screening)
Customers: Large financial institutions including Fortune 10 companies, systemically important banks, and governments
Tech / product strengths: Explainable AI agents, high-performance screening engine, developer-friendly API, continuous data updates
Team & founding: Co-founded by Peter Piatetsky (CEO) and Julian Vasilkoski (CTO); founded Sep 2019
Recent funding: Series A $8.5M announced Jul 8, 2025; total funding reported ~$12.88M
AML/KYC, financial-crime compliance automation and alert adjudication
2019
RegTech / Compliance Software
4000000.00 USD
Company announced ~ $4M seed to scale compliance screening automation
8500000.00 USD
Announced as an oversubscribed round with participation from BTech Consortium, Framework Venture Partners, and existing investors
“Curql-led Series A with participation from BTech Consortium, Framework Venture Partners and continuing support from early investors (Spider Capital, Remarkable Ventures, Cameron Ventures)”
Join us to solve a multi-billion dollar problem and build technology with real world impact. Castellum.AI is looking for engineers who will thrive in a startup environment and are excited to join our mission to automate AML/KYC compliance for the financial services industry. You will help build software solutions spanning data pipelines, backend APIs, online platforms, smart decisioning engines, and agentic workflows. This is a rare opportunity to earn equity, work on an amazing mission, and work in a healthy, respectful, and intellectually rigorous environment.
About Us
Castellum.AI is an all-in-one AI agents and screening solution for AML/KYC that reduces false-positive alerts by up to 94% compared to legacy providers. We’re scaling quickly to meet market demand.
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Compensation
$150,000 - $180,000 Annually