Tessera

AI-native compliance
for fintechs

Ship faster. Stay compliant. Stop paying $400/hr consultants.

Fintech compliance is
broken by design

Every product change triggers manual compliance review. Early-stage teams burn runway on consultants who bill hourly to do what AI can automate.

$400

Per hour

Big 4 compliance consultant rate

6 mo

Average delay

From feature spec to regulatory approval

73%

Of fintechs

Cite compliance as top growth blocker

Tessera automates the
entire compliance loop

We plug into your existing tools and handle the regulatory burden so you can ship.

📋

Product Change

Linear, Jira, GitHub

→

🧠

Tessera AI

Maps regulations automatically

→

📄

Updated Policies

BSA/AML/KYC compliant

→

✓

Evidence Packets

Auditor-ready exports

Two inflection points
converging now

↑ Regulatory Pressure

Enforcement is accelerating

CFPB, OCC, and state regulators issued 3x more fintech enforcement actions in 2023 vs 2021. The compliance surface area is exploding faster than teams can scale.

↑ AI Capability

LLMs finally work for this

Regulatory text mapping requires nuanced reasoning that GPT-3 couldn't handle. Claude and GPT-4 class models cross the threshold—we can now parse intent, not just keywords.

Built for how fintechs
actually ship

Native Integrations

Two-click connection to Linear, Jira, GitHub. Tessera ingests every ticket and PR automatically.

Real-Time Rule Mapping

AI analyzes each change against 50+ BSA/AML/KYC regulations and state MSB requirements. Flags gaps instantly.

Auto-Generated Policies

One-click policy updates with redlines. Version-controlled, audit-trail included, ready for board or regulator review.

Evidence Packets

Export auditor-ready bundles: policies, control mappings, change logs, testing evidence. What takes consultants 40 hours takes us 4 minutes.

Growing 30% month-over-month

$180K

ARR

As of this month

14

Design Partners

Paying customers

30%

MoM Growth

Last 5 months

71

NPS Score

"World-class"

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

$15KOct

SaaS pricing that scales
with product complexity

Starter

$4K

per year

1 product line
Core compliance modules
Email support

Growth

$12K

per year

Up to 3 products
All integrations
Dedicated CSM

Enterprise

$20K+

per year

Unlimited products
Custom workflows
On-call support

$4K – $20K ACV · Per-product, per-month · 90% gross margin

$8B market,
wide open

TAM

$8B

SAM

$2.4B

SOM

$240M

01

Now: Founder-Led Sales

Direct outreach to seed/Series A fintechs. High-touch onboarding, case study capture.

02

12 mo: Product-Led Growth

Self-serve tier, compliance content marketing, referral program for portfolio companies.

03

24 mo: Channel Partnerships

Embedded in banking-as-a-service platforms and accelerator compliance stacks.

Built by people who've
done this before

SK

Sarah Kim

CEO & Co-Founder

Led compliance operations at Stripe for 4 years. Built the BSA/AML program that scaled from 50 to 500 money transmitter licenses.

Ex-Stripe Stanford MBA

MR

Marcus Rivera

CTO & Co-Founder

ML engineer at Anthropic, worked on Claude's reasoning capabilities. Previously built NLP systems at Google Search.

Ex-Anthropic Ex-Google

Advisors

James Chen Former CFPB Deputy Director

Lisa Patel GP, Ribbit Capital

David Park Founder, Plaid (acquired)

Raising $4M to own
fintech compliance

We've proven the model. Now we scale.

$4M

Seed Round

$20M

Post-Money Valuation

24 mo

Runway to Series A

50%

Engineering

25%

Go-to-Market

15%

Compliance Ops

10%

G&A

Let's talk about how Tessera becomes the compliance layer for every fintech.

sarah@tessera.ai

AI-native compliancefor fintechs

Fintech compliance isbroken by design

Tessera automates theentire compliance loop

Two inflection pointsconverging now

Enforcement is accelerating

LLMs finally work for this

Built for how fintechsactually ship

Growing 30% month-over-month

SaaS pricing that scaleswith product complexity

$8B market,wide open

Now: Founder-Led Sales

12 mo: Product-Led Growth

24 mo: Channel Partnerships

Built by people who'vedone this before

Advisors

Raising $4M to ownfintech compliance

AI-native compliance
for fintechs

Fintech compliance is
broken by design

Tessera automates the
entire compliance loop

Two inflection points
converging now

Built for how fintechs
actually ship

SaaS pricing that scales
with product complexity

$8B market,
wide open

Built by people who've
done this before

Raising $4M to own
fintech compliance