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About Elliptic
Elliptic provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions for financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies. Its platform screens wallets and transactions for sanctions and illicit activity, monitors risk across 65+ blockchains and 250+ bridges, and traces fund flows with entity attribution. The core value proposition is reducing false positives while keeping pace with high-volume, cross-chain activity.
Market pain points include legacy screening tools that generate excessive alerts, miss emerging risks, and lack cross-chain visibility. Elliptic addresses these by combining real-time screening with continuous monitoring that re-evaluates wallets based on risk-score changes, not just label updates. Its API-first design integrates into transaction workflows without slowing operations.
In the past six months (March–September 2026), Elliptic launched a continuous monitoring product that detects risk changes and applies customer-defined rules to reduce noise. It also integrated with Tempo, a payment-focused Layer-1 blockchain, enabling real-time screening, cross-chain tracing, and stablecoin monitoring on that network. No major negative developments were reported in the available information.
Elliptic received strategic investment from HSBC, becoming the first company backed by four major global banks and solidifying its position in crypto compliance.
It raised $120 million at a $670 million valuation led by One Peak Partners, with Circle Ventures participating, underscoring sustained expansion.
Partnered with Monerium to deliver MiCA-compliant solutions for European stablecoins, advancing regulatory infrastructure.
Published analyses on Russian sanctions circumvention via shadow networks and nearly $2 billion in monthly illicit Telegram flows, establishing long-term industry authority.
Over the past six months, Elliptic has made significant strides. In May 2026, it closed a $120 million Series D round at a $670 million valuation, led by One Peak with participation from Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank, and others, to accelerate AI-native compliance and agentic risk solutions.
In September, it released the Elliptic Standard, eight principles addressing the compliance challenges of a 500% surge in agentic crypto payments, emphasizing data quality, model transparency, AI safety, and human oversight.
In July, it launched the next-generation Continuous Monitoring solution, combining event detection and periodic rescreening to cut manual screening time by up to 75%, ensuring real-time risk accuracy.
Future focus: fully embracing an agentic operating model for machine-to-machine risk decisions; developing risk infrastructure for privacy-shielded environments; and enabling customers to compound their own intelligence from risk decisions while retaining full control over policies and data sharing.
James Smith: Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Board Director. PhD in Computer Science from Oxford, specializing in NLP. Led Elliptic from inception.
Tom Robinson: Co-founder, Chief Data Officer. PhD in Computer Science from Oxford. Key architect of Elliptic's blockchain analytics.
Adam Joyce: Co-founder, Chief Architect. PhD from Imperial College London. Responsible for engineering and technical architecture.
Simone Maini: CEO. Previously Senior Director at Kroll and Deutsche Bank. Joined Elliptic as COO, became CEO in 2020.
Karan Peri: VP of Product. Focuses on product strategy and development.