Resistant AI
Resistant AI is a software company that helps financial businesses detect document fraud and suspicious transactions. Its document system examines uploaded files for signs of alteration, including forged or AI-generated material. Banks and fintechs use these checks when reviewing customer applications and the documents supplied to support a financial request.
Resistant AI also adds machine-learning models to existing transaction monitoring systems to identify patterns of fraud or money laundering. The results give compliance and fraud teams evidence to review before accepting documents or acting on unusual account activity. A detection result supports investigation while the responsible team assesses the individual case.
Resistant AI's founders and customers
Martin Rehak and his co-founders started Resistant AI in Prague in February 2019. They had earlier sold the security startup Cognitive Security to Cisco in 2013 (TechCrunch). In 2025 the company raised a $25 million Series B; investors include DTCP, GV and Index Ventures, and customers include Payoneer, Close Brothers, AXA, Bank of Valletta and Finom (Tech.eu). Resistant AI's founders specialize in machine learning for financial crime detection.
Document fraud and generative AI
Lenders and fintechs approve accounts and loans on the strength of uploaded files. Resistant Documents inspects each file for edits and for traces of generative AI, and the company says it verifies KYB documents in under 20 seconds (Resistant AI). Deepfake onboarding attacks covers the same threat at the identity check.
AI on top of transaction monitoring
Resistant Transactions runs next to an existing monitoring system and does not replace it (Resistant AI). The company names money muling, authorized push payment fraud, synthetic company identities and complex laundering schemes as targets (Tech.eu). The business account provider Finom added it to its AML engine; Finom handles more than €4 billion in transactions a year, and its head of risk says the team talks to Resistant AI whenever it plans a new country (Resistant AI). Money mules and transaction monitoring for AML explain both duties.
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Where is Resistant AI based?
In Prague, Czech Republic, where it was founded in 2019. Resistant AI's customers include banks and fintechs in the EU, among them Bank of Valletta in Malta.
What does Resistant AI detect?
Forged or AI-generated documents at onboarding and in lending, synthetic company identities, money mules, authorized push payment fraud and money laundering in transaction data. APP fraud explains the push payment scam.
Fraud and financial crime
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Resistant AI and Finance Loop
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