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# Soups Ranjan

CEO

Soups Ranjan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sardine, the leading agentic risk platform to fight financial crime. Before founding Sardine, he was Head of Financial Crime at Revolut, where he built the fraud and compliance stack from scratch, and Head of Risk at Coinbase, where he built the ML-based fraud and identity systems that prevented attacks and scams as the platform safely scaled 1000x.

With over 20 years of experience applying machine learning to fraud, Soups built Sardine as an end-to-end platform that brings fraud and AML data into one place, so organizations can stay ahead of modern attacks and run risk operations more effectively. Today, Sardine serves over 450 global enterprises and financial institutions, and is backed from world-class investors like Andreessen Horowitz, FIS, Visa, Experian, FIS, Google, and Activant Capital.

Soups holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, where his thesis focused on scaling web services to handle cyber threats and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.

## Articles by Soups Ranjan
- Introducing Sardine AI Labs
- Welcome to the Agentic Frontier
- Sardine’s Fraud prevention as a Service: Built from the ground up
- Exposing a 150K-account fraud ring in 11 minutes with agentic AI
- The 3 failure modes of AI agents in financial crime (and how to avoid them)
- Announcing Sardine's $70M Series C: Building the trust layer for AI-driven financial crime prevention
- 2025 fraud compliance predictions: The year AI agents fight back against scams
- Machine Learning vs Generative AI in Fraud Prevention
- My 7 Fraud Predictions for 2024
- Explained: How Fraudsters are using Generative AI
- Fraud is Evolving - So Must Our Defenses
- Real-time AI and Machine Learning for Transaction Monitoring
- GenAI in Financial Services
- What is phone theft and how do you prevent it?
- Buy vs Build the business case for Fraud & Compliance
- FedNow: New Opportunities bring new risks
- Introduction to AML
- Sardine at Nacha Conference
- A little bit of friction is a good thing.
- Fraud & compliance isn’t an issue – until it is the only issue
- Brazil — PIX and Shovels to dig out fraud
- How Sardine boosted Purchase Conversion at Autograph
- Announcing our Series-B led by a16z Growth
- 4 steps to stop fraud in Zelle and faster payments
- Announcing our Series-A led by Andreessen Horowitz
- 4 Ways to Keep Fraud from Derailing Your Growth