Vivox AI, a RegTech company developing AI agents for financial crime compliance and regulatory operations, has secured £1.3m in its first funding round to accelerate the development of its technology and expand its enterprise platform.
The round attracted a group of prominent investors including Axel A. Weber, former chairman of UBS and former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, alongside Dan Cobley, former managing director at Google UK.
Additional backing came from senior executives at Barclays, Kos Stiskin, co-founder of Finom, the co-founder of Onfido, Startup Wise Guys, Venture Together, and James Janis Berdigans, founder and executive chairman at Printify+Printful, as well as several strategic fintech and technology investors.
Vivox AI focuses on building specialised AI agents designed to automate key financial crime compliance processes such as AML, KYB/KYC and due diligence. Unlike broad, general-purpose AI systems, the company’s architecture centres on “atomic” AI agents, independent and auditable AI units responsible for a single compliance task.
These tasks range from corporate registry analysis and ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) identification to sanctions screening, politically exposed person (PEP) triage, adverse media analysis and enhanced due diligence reviews.
The company said the newly secured capital will be used to expand its core platform and further develop a new generation of AI agents tailored for highly regulated financial institutions. The funding will also support the growth of Vivox AI’s engineering and product teams as it prepares to roll out the next phase of its enterprise-grade platform.
At the centre of Vivox AI’s system is a self-learning agent layer implemented through its AI agent Rachel. The agent continuously improves performance through supervised feedback from experienced compliance analysts, while maintaining governance controls and explainability. The platform can securely connect to internal and external data sources, enabling real-time enrichment and decision support across complex compliance workflows.
Vivox AI’s platform is already deployed by enterprise customers operating in more than 100 countries across the UK, Europe, the US and Singapore. Clients include TransferMate, Altery, Osome and Telf.
In live environments, the system has helped reduce compliance case processing times from around six hours to roughly 30 minutes, while lowering false-positive screening alerts by up to 86%. It has also enabled straight-through processing rates of up to 50% for certain onboarding and due diligence workflows. The platform consolidates multiple compliance tools into a single system, replacing the need for analysts to operate across numerous platforms.
The company’s architecture is designed to align with emerging regulatory expectations around AI governance, including guidance from the Financial Conduct Authority, the EU AI Act and other international frameworks such as those recently adopted in Singapore.
Axel A. Weber, Former Chairman, UBS; Former President, Deutsche Bundesbank, and investor in Vivox AI, said, “In today’s environment, transparency, auditability, and regulatory alignment are not optional – they are a must. Vivox AI is building the blueprint for how regulated financial institutions should integrate AI safely and responsibly.”
Kos Stiskin, co-founder of Finom and investor, added: “Vivox’s atomic agent architecture represents a differentiated and the most superior approach to applying AI across transaction monitoring and KYB operations.”
Vivox AI founder and CEO Tim Khamzin said, “We are excited to see Vivox AI beginning to play a meaningful role in the global financial crime compliance ecosystem. The role of the compliance analyst is rapidly evolving into that of a compliance engineer, focused on managing complex investigations and supervising AI agents rather than manual, repetitive processes. Our platform is designed to support this shift, enabling teams to operate with greater control, transparency and regulatory confidence.”
Alex Clements, Global Head of AML at TransferMate Global Payments, commented on implementing Vivox AI’s technology: “The level of detail in Vivox AI’s AI governance framework is exactly right. It gives us confidence that we can demonstrate that same depth of control and transparency during audits and in any regulatory inspection relating to the use of AI.”
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