Unit21
Unit21 sells AI-powered fraud detection and anti-money laundering software to financial institutions. The San Francisco-based company has raised $92M, most recently in a Series C round in June 2022, and employs 116 people.
The growth story
Unit21 grew from 137 to 116 employees between 2023 and 2026, raising $92M along the way, most recently a Series C in June 2022.
About
Unit21 provides software that uses AI to detect and investigate financial crimes like fraud and money laundering. Its system automates detection workflows and improves over time by learning from each decision. Financial institutions use it to streamline compliance operations.
The company has raised $92M across multiple funding rounds, with its latest Series C closing in mid-2022. Its 116-person team includes a large engineering group, which makes up over a third of its workforce.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Unit21's largest function, with 40 employees accounting for over a third of its 116-person workforce. The company's leadership includes investors like Diane Greene and Andrew Wilkinson, who participated in its $92M funding rounds.
The Unit21 org chart
Tyler Allen (Chief Executive Officer) leads 40 mapped leaders with 4 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 52 (-2% YoY), Sales 11 (-27% YoY), Customer Success and Support 10 (+43% YoY), Entrepreneurship 6 (0% YoY), Information Technology 6 (-25% YoY), Business Development 6 (0% YoY).
Talent flow
Unit21 recruits heavily from tech companies like Top Hat, Kooltra, and Shape Security. Its alumni often move to major tech firms, with Salesforce hiring the most former employees. The company also draws from top universities, particularly the National University of Singapore and UC Davis.
Most common previous employers of Unit21 staff: Top Hat (5), Kooltra (4), Shape Security (3), The Home Depot (3), Bevy (3), Intel (2). Former Unit21 employees most often moved to Salesforce (6), Recurrency (4), Meta (3), Sardine (3), Flex (2), Coram AI (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Unit21 mafia
Unit21 alumni have founded 13 companies, including Flex (48 employees), Cubist (21 employees), and Socratix AI (8 employees). Several startups founded by former employees are still in early stages, like Jarmin (YC F25) and Kipee International.
14Riya Jagetia, was AI/ ML Product Lead until 2024Chalmers Brown, was Lead Solutions Architect until 2023Yelena Pesic, was Product Marketing Lead until 2024
Zacchaeus C., was Software Engineer until 2023
Theo Schmidt, was Marketing / Personal Assistant to CEO until 2021
Udayan Maurya, was Senior Software Engineer until 2024
Matthew Lifshotz, was Advisor - Strategy and BD until 2025
Franklin Tieu, MBA, was Founding Head of Implementations, Customer Success until 2025
Yash Choukhany, was GTM until 2022
Sudan Sethuramalingam, was Advisor until 2020
David Wang, was Product Analytics until 2023Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 53% direct, 32% search, 6% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Unit21: Python (Programming Language) (51), Java (45), Leadership (41), JavaScript (38), SQL (38), Management (33), HTML (31), Microsoft Office (30).
Where the team actually sits
Unit21 people are concentrated in California, United States (29), San Francisco Bay Area (18), Washington, United States (5), Texas, United States (4).
Search footprint
Unit21 attracts about 26,029 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $102K a month if bought through ads. It gained 2,826 ranking keywords and lost 3,652 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.30 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.20 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.00 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.10 / 5
Frequently asked
Unit21 has 116 employees as of September 2026.
Unit21 has raised $92M in total, most recently a Series C round in June 2022.
Unit21 was founded in 2018 by Trisha Kothari.
Tyler Allen (Chief Executive Officer) sits at the top of Unit21's reporting structure, with 4 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Unit21 staff are Top Hat (5 people), Kooltra (4 people), Shape Security (3 people).
Former Unit21 employees most often move to Salesforce (6), Recurrency (4), Meta (3).
At least 13 companies have a founder who previously worked at Unit21, including Flex, Cubist, Socratix AI.
Unit21 attracts about 26,029 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $102K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Unit21 staff are Python (Programming Language), Java, Leadership, JavaScript, SQL.
Unit21 staff are concentrated in California, United States (29), San Francisco Bay Area (18), Washington, United States (5).
Unit21 has about 52 people in Engineering, down 2% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Unit21 has about 11 people in Sales, down 27% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 97 current and 194 former Unit21 profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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