American Express

American Express, established in 1850, is a global financial services company headquartered in New York. It specializes in charge and credit card payment products, travel services, and expense management tools for consumers and businesses worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Global Consumer Services, Global Commercial Services, and Global Merchant and Network Services. American Express Ventures, its strategic investment arm, invests in innovative startups to enhance the company's core capabilities and accelerate growth in consumer commerce and B2B services, with a focus on mobile, consumer payments, marketplaces, lending, loyalty, and digital marketing products, as well as B2B services like business payments and process automation.

Tamanna Agrawal

CEO

Marta Arellano

Associate

Sharon Chew

Vice President and General Manager of Global Merchant Services Asia

Anatoly Kvitnitsky

Director / Principal

Margaret Lim

Managing Director

Brett Mooney

President and CEO of Amex Bank of Canada and Amex Canada

Mona Pezeshki

Senior Investment Manager

Ope Runsewe

Managing Director

Parin Shah

Investment Director

Anirudh Singh

Investment Manager

Matt Sueoka

Vice President and Head of Digital Strategy and Strategic Partnerships

Michal Edelman Tepper

Investment Manager

Kevin Tsang

Managing Director

Past deals in Compliance

Center

Acquisition in 2025
Center is a software company that focuses on enhancing visibility and management of employee spending for businesses. Its primary product, Center Expense, is an integrated corporate card and expense solution designed for small and medium-sized enterprises. This solution helps organizations streamline their operations, improve compliance, and save time by providing real-time insights to finance teams, facilitating better decision-making. Additionally, Center offers web development, cloud, and project management services, broadening its impact on business efficiency and operational effectiveness.

Sedric.ai

Series A in 2024
Sedric is a compliance excellence platform tailored for fintech companies, focusing on enhancing risk management and regulatory compliance. Utilizing AI for real-time monitoring and analysis, Sedric captures and assesses customer interactions across various channels, including voice, chat, email, and social media. This technology allows compliance teams to swiftly implement new laws and regulations, prioritizing high-value events that could impact the business. By extracting nuanced language understanding and contextual signals, Sedric helps clients identify and mitigate potential compliance and privacy violations, ultimately reducing regulatory threats and monitoring costs while fostering business growth.

Handle

Venture Round in 2023
Handle, Inc. is a software development company based in La Jolla, California, specializing in workflow management solutions tailored for the construction industry. Founded in 2011, the company offers a comprehensive software application that integrates to-do lists, emails, and calendars to streamline task management. Handle's technology addresses critical challenges such as late payments and access to capital, providing automation tools for lien management, deadline tracking, and documentation management. The software is widely adopted by Fortune 500 material suppliers and contractors, who rely on it for efficient handling of online payments, waivers, and lien management, ultimately ensuring that contractors and suppliers receive timely payments. Handle, Inc. was previously known as handl, inc. and officially rebranded in 2012.

DataGrail

Series C in 2022
DataGrail Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in privacy management software for businesses. Its platform integrates with third-party systems, enabling companies to comply with various privacy laws and regulations. DataGrail facilitates control over communication preferences, serving prominent brands such as Salesforce and Overstock.com. Recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, the company maintains high customer satisfaction ratings on platforms like G2.

Trulioo

Series D in 2021
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

EverC

Series B in 2020
EverC Ltd. is a developer of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions, aimed at enhancing the safety and integrity of the e-commerce ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring tool for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-related fraud and cyber risks, as well as MarketView, which tracks illicit listings in online marketplaces. Additionally, EverC provides professional services, including the detection of violating merchants and transaction laundering verification. Founded in 2007 and based in New York City, with offices in Shanghai and Tel Aviv, EverC utilizes advanced AI-driven technology to identify and mitigate risks associated with high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and counterfeit products. The company was previously known as EverCompliant Ltd. until its name change in September 2020.

Trulioo

Series C in 2019
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

DataGrail

Series A in 2019
DataGrail Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in privacy management software for businesses. Its platform integrates with third-party systems, enabling companies to comply with various privacy laws and regulations. DataGrail facilitates control over communication preferences, serving prominent brands such as Salesforce and Overstock.com. Recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, the company maintains high customer satisfaction ratings on platforms like G2.

EverC

Corporate Round in 2018
EverC Ltd. is a developer of cloud-based cyber risk intelligence and merchant fraud detection solutions, aimed at enhancing the safety and integrity of the e-commerce ecosystem. The company offers MerchantView, a monitoring tool for acquiring banks and payment service providers to manage merchant-related fraud and cyber risks, as well as MarketView, which tracks illicit listings in online marketplaces. Additionally, EverC provides professional services, including the detection of violating merchants and transaction laundering verification. Founded in 2007 and based in New York City, with offices in Shanghai and Tel Aviv, EverC utilizes advanced AI-driven technology to identify and mitigate risks associated with high-risk merchants, online money laundering, and counterfeit products. The company was previously known as EverCompliant Ltd. until its name change in September 2020.

VISOR ADL

Seed Round in 2017
Visor ADL, S.A.P.I. de C.V. is a Mexico City-based company that specializes in developing a loan originator and customer management platform tailored for financial institutions. Founded in 2015, the company provides a range of services including customer management, dynamic risk analytics, proactive loan placement, and dynamic portfolio management. Visor ADL aims to empower enterprises by offering data and insights to facilitate critical financing and trade decisions related to private companies. The company is focused on building a comprehensive Enterprise Health Bureau in e-invoicing countries and operates in both Mexico and Brazil. It is backed by several venture capital firms, highlighting its commitment to innovation in the financial sector.

Trulioo

Series B in 2015
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.
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