Location
Headquarters: Munich, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Region: Bayern
Country: DE
Continent: Europe
About
Hawk provides AI-powered financial crime prevention for banks, payment firms, and fintechs, offering AML, screening, fraud, and FRAML capabilities through a unified platform. The company emphasizes explainable, governance-focused AI that surfaces true risk, reduces false positives, and enables scalable, configurable deployment across real-time monitoring and regulatory reporting. Its solutions are designed to integrate with existing core banking and data systems, supporting deployments in SaaS or private cloud across multiple markets. Headquartered with global reach, Hawk serves financial institutions and regulated entities worldwide.
Hawk provides an AI-powered platform for financial crime prevention, specializing in anti-money laundering (AML), transaction monitoring, and fraud detection. The company serves banks, payment firms, and fintechs by offering a unified solution that reduces false positives through explainable artificial intelligence. Its technology integrates with existing banking systems to support real-time monit
Hawk AI Gmbh
2018
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Business Services
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series C
27000000
under-1m
private
Investors
Founders
Tobias Schweiger
Wolfgang Berner
Leadership
Technology Stack
Products
Transaction Monitoring: A system that monitors financial transactions to detect suspicious activity and reduce false positives using explainable AI.
Payment Screening: Automated screening of payments against sanctions and risk lists to identify and prevent suspicious transactions.
Customer Screening: Screening of customers against sanctions, watchlists, politically exposed persons (PEP) lists, and adverse media databases.
Customer Risk Rating: A dynamic risk scoring system that assesses customer risk using static and dynamic data throughout the customer lifecycle.
AML AI Overlay: An AI augmentation layer that enhances existing AML systems by adding tailored AI detection without replacing legacy platforms.
Transaction Fraud: A monitoring solution that detects fraudulent patterns in transactions across multiple channels and payment methods by combining fraud and AML behavior analysis.
Funding rounds
Series C · $56M · (2025-04-08) · Lead: One Peak
Series B · $107.63M · (2024-06-10) · Lead: Macquarie Capital,Rabo Investments
Series Unknown · (2023-12-01)