TLDR: Resistant AI, a leading provider of AI models for financial crime and fraud prevention, has successfully raised $25 million in Series B funding. The investment, led by DTCP Growth with significant participation from existing investors like Experian, GV, and Notion Capital, will be used to expand its document fraud detection and transaction monitoring offerings, develop threat intelligence capabilities in Europe, and solidify its position as a profitable EU AI champion. The company aims to empower AI agents and human teams against increasingly sophisticated, AI-powered financial threats.
PRAGUE – Resistant AI, a pioneer in leveraging native artificial intelligence models to combat financial crime and fraud, announced today the successful closure of a $25 million Series B funding round. This significant investment was spearheaded by DTCP Growth, with strong follow-on participation from existing investors including Experian, Google Ventures (GV), and Notion Capital, all of whom are doubling down on their commitment to the company.
The funding arrives at a pivotal moment for Resistant AI, which achieved breakeven profitability in September. The capital infusion is earmarked to reinforce its standing as a profitable EU AI leader. Key initiatives include expanding its advanced document fraud detection and transaction monitoring solutions into new territories and partnerships, as well as enhancing its threat intelligence capabilities across Europe.
The anti-fraud and regtech markets are currently undergoing a profound transformation. The emergence of fully-native or bolted-on ‘agentic’ solutions is replacing traditional, static workflows with more cost-effective, intelligent, and adaptive systems. However, a critical challenge persists: these large language model (LLM)-based agents often lack the inherent ability to perform the rigorous quantitative risk analysis essential for effective fraud and financial crime combat. They are also prone to high systemic hallucination rates, typically ranging from 10-30%, and have proven difficult to secure against adversarial manipulation.
Resistant AI directly addresses these vulnerabilities. The company’s core mission is to safeguard and empower these AI agents, alongside the often-overwhelmed human fraud, risk, and compliance teams. Its sophisticated machine learning models are designed to detect fraud across various vectors, including documents, transactions, and behavioral patterns. These models can seamlessly integrate and leverage signals from a client’s existing risk technology stack. This distinctive multi-model approach delivers unparalleled improvements in recall, precision, and contextual decision-making, enabling the detection of highly sophisticated financial crimes. These include real-time payment (APP) fraud, synthetic corporate identity fraud, money muling, generative AI document fraud, and complex money laundering schemes.
Martin Rehak, CEO and Founder of Resistant AI, emphasized the evolving threat landscape: “The financial crime landscape has fundamentally changed with the deployment of LLMs and AI agents in risk prevention settings, and the weaponization of generative AI by fraudsters. Our fraud and fincrime models offer any institution the tools to empower both their human and agentic co-pilots to combat these AI-powered threats at scale. This funding, combined with our near-term path to profitability, allows us to accelerate our mission of protecting the global financial system from increasingly sophisticated criminal networks.”
Since its Series A funding round, Resistant AI has demonstrated impressive growth, achieving a 10x increase in Annual Recurring Revenue and a 4x expansion in its customer base. The company has become a recognized leader in AI-driven document fraud detection, having verified over 150 million documents. Furthermore, the volume of transactions analyzed for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) purposes has surged 100x, reflecting the escalating demand for advanced fraud detection capabilities within the financial services sector.
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Michael Rager, Partner at DTCP Growth, commented on the investment, stating, “Resistant AI represents the future of financial crime prevention, with their in-house built multi-model approach to fraud detection marking a paradigm shift in how financial institutions can protect themselves and their customers.”
