

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


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
