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Diligent (YC S23) — AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations

We help fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen routine customer due diligence tasks with LLMs. Our AI assistants slash cost-to-comply, improve risk detection and free up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making.

Diligent is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations. The founders listed are Edoardo Maschio (Founder), Ahmed Gaber (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 1, 2024).

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Diligent

New accelerator entry · 2024-02-01 · the record

Summer 2023
batch
10
people
Early
stage
United Kingdom
region
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BatchSummer 2023
Announced2024-02-01
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size10
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech
SectorsFintech, Compliance, Fraud Prevention, Regtech, AI
RegionsUnited Kingdom, Europe
BasedLondon, England, United Kingdom
HiringYes
Sitehttps://godiligent.ai
Previously known asPaylane

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We help fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen routine customer due diligence tasks with LLMs. Our AI assistants slash cost-to-comply, improve risk detection and free up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making. Fintechs and banks use us to automate workflows like running thorough due diligence on a legal entity, reviewing customer documents like registry extracts, proofs of address etc and remediating false positive alerts from their AML systems.

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