CipherOwl Completes $15 Million Seed Round, Led by General Catalyst, Flourish Ventures, and Enlight Capital

CipherOwl, founded by the team behind Coinbase's on-chain data and compliance platform, announced today that it has secured $15 million in seed funding, led by General Catalyst, Flourish Ventures, and Enlight Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures, Road Capitals, and Sancus Ventures. CipherOwl provides an enterprise-grade compliance intelligence layer for exchanges, custodians, payment providers, and DeFi institutions. Through AI-driven automated review, CipherOwl eliminates the need to expand compliance teams as on-chain businesses scale, reducing overall operating costs by 60%. Its core product, SR 3, leverages its proprietary Evidence Graph technology, integrating multi-chain transaction data with global intelligence in real time to generate a complete, auditable chain of evidence for every transaction. It can review millions of transactions daily, scans APIs with response times under 10 milliseconds, and supports 98% of the market capitalization of major public chains, catering to high-frequency scenarios such as stablecoins and tokenized assets.