Footprint raises $25M Series B to scale Percy, an AI OS for financial-crime compliance

Footprint said it raised $25 million in Series B funding led by QED Investors, with participation from MUFG, Commerce Ventures, LightBank, and Alumni Ventures, plus continued backing from Index Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, BoxGroup, Operator Partners, and Animal Capital. The New York company builds Percy, an AI operating system for financial-crime compliance workflows used by banks and fintechs.

SOFTWARE desk — same-day company primary that QED and bank-adjacent capital are scaling an agentic compliance OS already named into regulated banks and major fintechs, as AI both increases and helps fight financial-crime volume.

New participants named on the same wire, still company: MUFG, Commerce Ventures, LightBank, and Alumni Ventures. Existing investors named as continued backing: Index Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, BoxGroup, Operator Partners, and Animal Capital. File the $25 million figure, the Series B label, the QED lead, those new names, and those existing names as Footprint’s. This desk is not inventing a valuation, an ownership split, or a check size. None was printed.

Product, as the same wire has it: Percy, which Footprint calls an end-to-end AI operating system for financial-crime compliance. An operating system here means a layer that runs the investigation workflow — not a phone OS. Named jobs on the page, still company: anti-money-laundering, or AML; enhanced due diligence, or EDD, on higher-risk cases; know-your-customer and know-your-business identity checks, or KYC and KYB; and transaction-monitoring investigations. The company says Percy investigates every case, surfaces every finding, and executes standard operating procedures — SOPs, the written steps a bank already uses — in plain English, so a team can ask for reasoning or create a new workflow without writing code. Every investigation, the company says, is documented with citations, timestamps, and a full task-by-task audit trail for regulators. File that Percy / AML / EDD / KYC / KYB / monitoring / SOP / audit-trail picture as Footprint’s. This desk did not run Percy or sit with a compliance team. The wire’s “world’s first” line is company positioning — not a desk ranking.

Trust Fabric, still company: the governed infrastructure beneath Percy. Footprint says it builds an “organizational memory” over time — connecting related signals across customers and cases so a finding from one investigation is available across KYC, sanctions, and monitoring. The same wire says that memory is meant to help teams spot fraud rings and repeat bad actors a human analyst might miss. Trust Fabric also provides agent assurance: continuously checking whether AI agents follow policy and use evidence correctly, so a quality-assurance team can inspect the exact trace behind every finding. File that memory / sanctions / agent-assurance picture as Footprint’s. This desk did not audit the memory or the traces.

Customers named on the same wire, company-attributed — do not independently certify: FDIC- and OCC-regulated banks, plus fintechs including Bilt, Nuvei, and MoonPay. FDIC is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the U.S. bank-deposit insurer. OCC is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a U.S. bank supervisor. File those regulator labels and those three fintech names as Footprint’s. This desk did not review a customer contract or a bank exam.

Integrations named on the same wire, still company: LexisNexis, ComplyAdvantage, among others. Footprint says the platform is pre-integrated with hundreds of data sources and vendors so Percy can check findings against those sources. File the two named vendors and the hundreds line as Footprint’s. This desk did not count connectors or test a lookup.

Use of funds, as the same wire has it: double the engineering and sales teams; advance Percy and Trust Fabric; open a San Francisco office as West Coast expansion. File that double / advance / San Francisco plan as Footprint’s. This desk did not sit in a board meeting and is not inventing a headcount.

Named voice: Eli Wachs, CEO and co-founder. File the name and title as his, via Footprint. His other quotes are color only and stay in Sources. This is not investment advice.

About-box context, still company-attributed: Footprint calls itself an agentic platform that learns a compliance program and runs it end to end. Agentic here means software that takes investigation steps, not only writes a summary. The about box repeats Index, QED, and Commerce Ventures as backers, and repeats Bilt, Nuvei, and MoonPay plus FDIC- and OCC-regulated banks as customers. File that about-box picture as Footprint’s. Extra “leading” wording is company positioning — not a desk ranking. Do not file a matching company-blog Series B post as a second originating newsroom. The PR Newswire is the Tier A primary. Prior company blog covers Series A.

Plain English for the rest of the card: Series B = a growth venture round after Series A. AML = anti-money-laundering checks. KYC / KYB = know-your-customer / know-your-business identity checks. EDD = enhanced due diligence on higher-risk cases. SOP = standard operating procedure, the written steps a team already follows. agentic = software that takes the investigation steps, not only writes a summary. organizational memory = the company’s phrase for keeping findings so the next case can use them. agent assurance = a check that the AI followed policy and cited evidence. FDIC = U.S. bank-deposit insurer. OCC = U.S. national-bank supervisor. transaction monitoring = watching payments and transfers for suspicious patterns.

PRIMARY here: Footprint’s 16 Sep 2026 PR Newswire company release — Tier A PRIMARY company source, the original record. The onefootprint.com company home is product-home context, not a second originating newsroom. The $25 million Series B and QED lead, MUFG / Commerce Ventures / LightBank / Alumni Ventures, Index Ventures / Lerer Hippeau / BoxGroup / Operator Partners / Animal Capital, Percy as the end-to-end financial-crime compliance OS, Trust Fabric as the governed infrastructure beneath it, the AML / EDD / KYC / KYB / transaction-monitoring jobs, the SOP / plain-English / audit-trail picture, the organizational-memory / sanctions / agent-assurance lines, the FDIC- and OCC-regulated banks plus Bilt / Nuvei / MoonPay names, LexisNexis and ComplyAdvantage, the double-engineering-and-sales / San Francisco spend plan, the Wachs title, and the New York dateline are company-attributed. Product claims and named customers stay company-attributed — not independently audited here. NOT claimed: a valuation, ARR, revenue, case volumes, independently verified investigation quality, a matching company-blog Series B post as a second originating newsroom, that this desk tested Percy or saw a term sheet, a stock tip, or investment advice. Distinct from the already-filed backops-42m-series-b, arcee-series-b-1b, orbits-2m-pre-seed, noetive-41m-seed, envive-15m-series-a, pindrop-botstopper, digicert-ai-trust-manager, archer-evolv-ai-compliance, and flam-40m-series-b.