RiskFront AI raises $3.3M pre-seed to tackle the $114B financial crime problem with agentic AI

Financial crime keeps getting more expensive. U.S. companies now lose more than $100 billion a year, and nearly 60 percent reported a rise in fraud in 2025. Banks, fintechs, and regulated firms face tougher oversight at the same time. Teams feel stuck. Workloads climb, headcount stays flat, and manual reviews eat up hours that should go into real analysis.

The Los Angeles-based RiskFront AI wants to flip that equation.

The AI startup just closed a $3.3 million pre-seed round led by Lytical Ventures, with backing from Flint Capital and Oceans. The funding will push the development of its agentic AI systems built to run core compliance work at machine speed. The goal is simple: cut out repetitive tasks so professionals can focus on judgment calls that actually matter.

Most risk teams spend their days buried in research. Andy Bethurum, CEO and co-founder, says about 70 percent of the job is manual digging, 5 percent is analysis, and the rest is paperwork. “RiskFront’s agentic AI systems fundamentally reverse this dynamic,” Bethurum said. “Organizations gain productivity, better decisions, and the ability to scale without hiring armies of analysts.”

Armed With $3.3M, RiskFront AI Goes After Fraud and Compliance Bottlenecks

At the center of the product is Airos, RiskFront’s AI-driven operating system for compliance. It runs three core modules. One scans open sources for due diligence, flags risk signals, and writes summaries. Another pulls transaction data, organizes it, and surfaces patterns. The third breaks down dense documents and structures insights that teams can act on.

Together, these agents handle work that used to take days. RiskFront says research time drops to about five percent. Analysts get back nearly 80 percent of their schedules for higher-value thinking, with the rest spent on final decisions and reporting.

This isn’t about adding a layer of automation on top of old workflows. RiskFront replaces them. AI agents take over repetitive tasks so experienced professionals can focus on cases that require human judgment. That shift, investors argue, turns top performers into force multipliers.

“Agentic AI systems for risk and compliance operations are changing how work gets done by shifting power to high performers and turning them into 10x employees,” said Sergey Gribov, general partner at Flint Capital. “RiskFront AI is executing on this shift with a production-ready platform.”