Sardine is a kyc compliance firm based in San Francisco, CA that sardine operates a fraud, compliance, and payments risk platform used by banks, fintechs, and merchants. it combines device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and machine learning to detect fraud, prevent account takeover and scams, screen for money laundering, and monitor transactions. the company also offers payment and settlement products and is building ai agents for risk operations. sardine was founded in 2020 by soups ranjan, aditya goel, and zahid shaikh, and raised a 70 million dollar series c round in february 2025, bringing total funding to about 145 million dollars. Sardine is listed on The Token Playbook's vetted provider registry at thetokenplaybook.com/registry/sardine.