Elliptic raises $120M from Nasdaq and Deutsche Bank to supercharge AI-powered crypto compliance!

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic has closed a $120 million funding round led by One Peak, valuing the London-based company at $610 million. Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank, and the British Business Bank all participated — a lineup that signals TradFi is treating crypto compliance infrastructure as a serious capital allocation, not a side bet.

The raise lands as nearly $3 billion in crypto assets have been stolen since January 2025 through smart contract exploits, phishing, and cross-chain bridge breaches. Regulators are simultaneously tightening anti-money laundering requirements on exchanges and banks, compressing the window for institutions to operate without robust on-chain monitoring.

CEO Simone Maini told CoinDesk the capital will accelerate an "agentic product roadmap" — AI agents built on Elliptic's dataset that automate the manual, repetitive work of compliance analysts,…