Arva AI

About

Banks and fintechs have large teams of human analysts who conduct manual checks and reviews. We replace those human compliance analysts with AI agents that automate 80% of the manual work for faster and more compliant financial crime (AML) reviews. Our first three products are: Screening AI (discount 91% of screening alerts), KYB/C AI (speed up onboarding), Transaction Monitoring AI (handle AML transaction monitoring alerts) Our end goal is to have a whole suite of AI workers that can handle manual compliance work for banks and fintechs. A $24B opportunity in the US alone.

Founders

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  Rhim Shah· Founder/CEO

  Formerly led the FinCrime product team at Revolut Business and multiple product teams at Jobandtalent. Prior to that an APM intern at Google. Studied Engineering at the University of Oxford.

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  Oli Wales· Founder/CTO

  Formerly lead product engineer at Opvia (YC S20), before that a full-stack engineer at Iventis, Chimnie and The Trade Desk. Studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Product launches · 1 launch

• Arva AI — AI agents for instant global KYB onboarding ↗▲ 44Aug 12, 2024

  We make onboarding onto a bank/fintech as a business 100x faster and significantly cheaper.

Change history · 15 recorded

1. July 10, 2026
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2. July 5, 2026
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3. June 28, 2026
   • YC partner updated08:00 PM
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4. June 27, 2026
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5. June 14, 2026
   • Launches refreshed08:00 PM
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