
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
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)”
This is a rare opportunity: Join a startup, earn equity and work on an amazing mission (identifying and preventing financial crime), and work in a healthy, respectful and intellectually rigorous environment. As a platform engineer you will lay the foundation on which our products are built and our team operates focusing on security, reliability, and enablement of the rest of the team. You will report directly to the CTO.
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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