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Funding and backers

Total raised
$70M
1 round on record
Latest round
$70M
Series C · Feb 2025 · 20 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
44
+17 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Andreessen Horowitz, Activant Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
20 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
40/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 14 First role in Canada Strategic Account Manager Aug 27 First role in United Arab Emirates Strategic Account Manager Jun 29 First role in Singapore Solutions Architect, Integrations (APAC) Feb 10, 2025 Raised a round Series C $70M 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Feb 2025 $70M — businesswire.com
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How Sardine hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
60 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
80%
Reposted roles
0%

Sardine scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 80% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 60 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 2

Visa details by country

Overview

Sardine is a fraud prevention and compliance platform founded in 2020 for banks, fintechs, crypto companies and merchants. It combines device intelligence, behavioural biometrics and transaction monitoring with AI agents for anti-money-laundering checks, KYC and onboarding, and its Sonar product shares fraud signals between institutions. The company has teams in Brazil and the Middle East. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

News

News english.news.cn 25 days ago
Sardine mortality subsides as South Africa maintains precautionary fishing measure
Sardine mortality subsides as South Africa maintains precautionary fishing measure-
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News Mail & Guardian 2 months ago
Sardine deaths along Cape coast: PHV detected as Koeberg Unit 1 cuts power
Pilchard herpesvirus is emerging as the prime suspect in the mass mortality of sardines along the Cape coast, an incident that prompted beach clean-ups and forced Eskom's Koeberg station to reduce power output.
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News Maghrebi.org 9 months ago
Moroccan sardine prices to stabilise via new measures: officials
The Maritime Fisheries State Secretariat has implemented preventive measures to stabilise the prices of sardine to their usual levels
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News Popular Science 10 months ago
Sardine-inspired washing machine filter removes 99% of microplastics
The home appliance can easily generate as much as 500 grams of microplastics each year.
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Sardine: AI-Based Risk Platform Raises $70 Million
Sardine, a leading AI risk platform for fraud, compliance, and credit underwriting, announced a $70 million Series C funding round, bringing the total capital raised to $145 million. The funding round was led by Activant Capital, with participation from n
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sardine over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
70
Postings analysed
66
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python42%
SQL38%
Go26%
Ruby20%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js8%
Flink6%
CatBoost2%
Cypress2%
Databases
Google BigQuery11%
Google Bigtable6%
BigQuery6%
PostgreSQL6%
Cloud & platforms
Postman18%
GCP15%
AWS11%
Kubernetes11%
AI & ML
Claude5%
LLM2%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$148k
Typical range
$53k – $320k
Open positions
31
27 Jobs
Junior 7.4%
Middle 3.7%
Senior 74.1%
Staff 3.7%
Architect 11.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $125k $119k – $130k
Middle 1 $140k $140k
Senior 20 $164k $53k – $320k
Staff 1 $320k $320k
Architect 3 $275k $129k – $295k
Highest paying role Strategic Account Executive $320k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Sardine By role, level and city, against the market · 31 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
44
9 opened / 15 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
16%
Backend
9% ▲
Support
9% ▼
HR
9% ▼
Marketing
9% ▼
Sales
9% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
New location: Berkeley Sep 2026
New location: Washington Sep 2026
New location: Dubai Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack Sep 2026
Added Tokenization to stack Sep 2026
Added Self-Supervised Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Quantization to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Dubai
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Sales office
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% remote 200-500 est. staff $124k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Support, Marketing
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Washington United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $320k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Berkeley, United States 2 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

Jobs

$135k – $180k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
JavaScript
Java
Ruby
Node JS
AI Agents
Red Teaming
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
Semgrep
CodeQL
OWASP Top 10
PCI DSS
SOC 2
Threat Modeling
Apply
$129k – $143k per year • Remote (Ireland) • Full-Time
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Apply
$140k – $156k per year • Remote (Germany) • Full-Time
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Apply
$126k – $143k per year • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Apply
$32k – $53k per year • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Python
Go
TypeScript
Ruby
PostgreSQL
Google BigQuery
Google Bigtable
BigQuery
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Apply
$93k – $129k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Dubai
Python
Go
SQL
Ruby
AI Agents
QA
Postman
Apply
$185k – $230k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp
AI Agents
Apply
$87k – $120k per year • Remote (United Arab Emirates) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Dubai
SQL
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
QA
Postman
Apply
$110k – $140k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
SQL
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
AWS
QA
Postman
Apply
$87k – $121k per year • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Dubai
AI Agents
Apply
$57k – $79k per year • Remote (Brazil) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • São Paulo • Rio de Janeiro • Curitiba • Belo Horizonte • Florianópolis
Python
Go
Java
TypeScript
Ruby
PostgreSQL
Google BigQuery
Google Bigtable
BigQuery
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Apply
$145k – $195k per year • Remote (United States, ET hours) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Claude
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$70M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2025 $70M Details