Sphinx has raised $7 million in a seed round led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures and Singularity Capital, the San Francisco-based compliance technology company said.
The company builds browser-native AI agents that work inside existing tools, such as case management systems, third-party portals and internal dashboards to AML, KYC (Know Your Customer) and KYB (Know Your Business) operations.
Sphinx was co-founded by Alexandre Berkovic and Chrisjan Wüst, who previously founded a company together that was later acquired.
“Compliance today is mostly human glue between systems that were never designed to work together,” Berkovic said in a news release. “Sphinx takes on that work directly so analysts can focus on the judgment calls — and institutions finally get a complete, defensible record of how every decision was made.”
