I.
Sigma360 continued its strong business expansion in Q1, building on record growth in both 2024 and 2025.
During the quarter, we announced an oversubscribed Series B financing to accelerate investment in differentiated screening software, workflow automation, and the continued expansion of our go-to-market organization, including the growth of our services team.
The combination of a rapidly growing client base and a strong balance sheet positions the company to accelerate work against two core objectives:
- a) Delivering the world’s most complete screening platform.
This includes adverse media screening, an area that has historically been difficult for the industry and one where Sigma360 was once again recently recognized by Chartis Research as the top provider. - b) Expanding Sigma360’s presence with key decision-makers globally.
Increased conference participation, executive dinners, client visits, and broader geographic expansion. When we are able to present our capabilities, engage in data testing and discuss service levels, we win the business most of the time.
II.
These developments are unfolding against the backdrop of an increasingly risk-on world.
From escalating tensions involving Iran, to continued enforcement and kinetic activity targeting cartels across Mexico and Latin America, to ongoing geopolitical concerns surrounding Russia and China, the global risk environment continues to intensify.
This matters to our business because these developments create significant new demands on screening, due diligence, and broader compliance operations – all areas that have already been stretched by legacy data providers and outdated software platforms.
As a result, a growing number of institutions are reevaluating how they approach name screening, transaction screening, and the broader organization of risk data and compliance technology to meet today’s challenges. A reality we are benefiting from.
III.
With each passing quarter, it is becoming increasingly clear that AI will play a defining role in the future of financial crime compliance.
While we welcome this shift, Sigma360 is also one of the few firms in the industry with nearly a decade of practical experience applying AI to this problem set, including early adoption of natural language processing and frontier AI models.
That experience matters, both from a technical perspective and from a deployment standpoint.
At the same time, we believe the current AI hype cycle is incomplete on its own.
Agentic AI workflows are powerful, but meaningful differentiation in financial crime compliance requires more than automation alone. The strongest outcomes come from combining AI with deep risk intelligence, proprietary data, and core screening technology.
It is the combination of these capabilities – not any single component in isolation – that is driving our momentum in the market today.
IV.
We take our mission seriously.
When we say we are building the future of financial crime compliance, we mean two things:
- a) Empowering clients to meet regulatory obligations more efficiently, including the ability to document, explain, and operationalize compliance decisions while reclaiming time across the workflow;
- b) Equipping clients to fight financial crime more effectively through better data, stronger intelligence, and more advanced technology.
These objectives are related, but they are not the same.
Most vendors focus primarily on the first.
We are focused on both.
Because the second objective impacts the integrity of the financial system, the broader global environment, and our collective sense of purpose.
Sigma360 was founded to fight financial crime and to advance risk management more broadly.
Our work is accelerating because the need for it continues to grow.
Sincerely,
Stuart Jones, Jr.
