Sayari

Sayari (Sayari Labs, Inc.) is a risk-intelligence company that maps global commercial networks from public records, corporate registries, trade and ownership data. It describes its foundation as a "commercial world model" of more than 1.5 billion resolved entities across over 250 jurisdictions, built from eleven years of commercial intelligence, and now applies AI to supply-chain risk, financial crime and national-security workflows.^[1]

The company serves both commercial customers, such as banks and manufacturers, and government agencies working on export controls, trade enforcement, threat finance and counternarcotics. Its investors have included In-Q-Tel, the CIA's strategic investment arm, and TPG; it has also won multi-million-dollar analytics contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Treasury Department.^[2][3][4]

What It Does

Sayari resolves entities and relationships from primary documents into a structured graph, allowing users to trace beneficial ownership chains, screen counterparties for sanctions exposure and map supply chains back to source. The company emphasizes explainable output, scoring findings against investigative tradecraft standards through what it calls its Ontology and Superconductor evaluation infrastructure.^[1]

Products

The platform lineup includes Sayari Signal, an API-first screening and monitoring service; Sayari Graph, the network analysis application for ownership and supply-chain investigation; Pilot, focused on unified risk workflows; and Sayari Guide, alongside API access for embedding data in enterprise systems.^[1]

Solution areas cover third-party risk management, financial crime and AML, KYC and beneficial ownership, forced-labor screening under regimes such as the UFLPA, and export controls and sanctions compliance.^[1]

Buyers and Use Cases

The company's website displays customer logos including BNP Paribas, HSBC, BP, ExxonMobil, Tesla, Microsoft and HM Revenue & Customs, spanning financial services, energy, aerospace and defense, manufacturing and government.^[1]

Published case-study figures include a global telecom provider finding that 72 percent of discovered risk was absent from global watchlists, a logistics provider screening parties in over 220 countries at transaction speed, and an e-commerce platform running Know-Your-Business checks on more than 100,000 merchants with sub-second latency.^[1]

Government use cases include trade enforcement and threat-finance analytics: CBP awarded Sayari a $7.8 million enterprise trade-analytics contract in November 2022 for UFLPA-related shipment intelligence,^[2] and the company has announced an $8.5 million contract with the U.S. Treasury Department for financial-crime analytics.^[1]

History and Funding

In 2021 Sayari raised $40 million in a funding round that included participation by In-Q-Tel, as reported by PYMNTS.^[4] A later Wall Street Journal report cited on the company's website states that TPG acquired the supply-chain risk company, with Sayari announcing a $228 million raise from TPG to build AI for trade compliance and national security.^[3]

The company has also acquired an Israeli agentic risk-orchestration company and opened a fifth global office, according to Calcalist Tech coverage linked from its site.^[1]