Strategic Partnerships Sardine has active and high-profile partnerships with Modern Treasury, Infinite, and Modulr, plus a notable client win with National Bank of Canada. This signals a strong channel and ecosystem approach, presenting opportunities to expand co-sell motions and integration-led offerings with payment and treasury platforms.

Enterprise Expansion Recent Series C1 extension led by National Bank of Canada and a growing enterprise client list (FIS, GoDaddy, Deel, Brex) indicate a proven appeal to large financial services and fintechs. Focus sales efforts on multi-institution contracts and cross-sell of agentic risk capabilities across risk, compliance, and payments.

AI and Compliance Sardine positions itself as an AI-native risk platform tying fraud detection to AML workflows. There is an opportunity to package scalable AI-enabled risk modules for institutions investing in real-time fraud prevention, regulatory tech, and stablecoin-related compliance as a differentiator.

Geographic and Use-Case Growth With a recent emphasis on real-time risk analytics for global payments and cross-border flows, target international banks and payment processors seeking enhanced monitoring, faster deployment, and secure FIs’ product trust to accelerate market entry.

Leadership and Talent Key leadership additions such as a new COO with experience from Visa signal operational scale and go-to-market acceleration. Leverage leadership credibility to engage enterprise buyers, expand customer success for renewals, and shorten time-to-value in large deployments.