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Arachnys

Provides tools for assessing financial crime customer risk

21-100 employees
  • Fintech
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Compliance
  • Big data
  • Legal
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
  • Cloud Computing
London (HQ), United Kingdom, Saint Magnus House, 3 Lower Thames St

Company mission

Arachnys' mission is to harvest data from the wild to help companies make better business decisions – about who to take on as a customer, which suppliers to use and who to hire.

Top investors

18% female employees

-6% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Arachnys is a leader in Customer Risk Intelligence. It harnesses the world’s information to empower the investigative minds that secure our world.

Its cloud-native, customer risk intelligence platform enables financial institutions worldwide to thwart bad actors, reduce operational costs, accelerate top line revenue, decrease false positives and reduce rejection and error rates. It ensures a firm’s KYC, AML and CDD /EDD capabilities support regulatory compliance demands.

Benefits

  • Generous parental leave
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Video therapy sessions through Spill, to support positive mental health

Company values

  • Smart and collaborative people - we are working together to solve hard, interesting problems for real customers
  • Anyone can get involved with any part of our system - front-end developers can write Hadoop jobs if they fancy
  • We’re proud of our product - we are uncompromising with quality, while not being scared of pushing back on customer demands

Funding (1 round)

Oct 2018

$10m

SERIES A

$10m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

Ben Hall

(Director of Engineering, not founder)

Proven technologist with experience across a broad range of industries. From innovating in small disruptive technology startups all the way through to driving digital transformation in large banks.