NEW YORK / BARCELONA, 4 December 2025 – At Alinia AI we have raised a $7.5 million seed round led by Mouro Capital, with participation from Raise Seed For Good, Speedinvest, and Precursor Ventures. We plan to accelerate the development of our enterprise-grade Guardrails API and AI Compliance Platform. Our technology makes scalable AI control and compliance a reality for regulated organizations seeking to deploy generative AI, by embedding real-time auditing, policy enforcement, and risk control directly into their AI systems. We are proud to be working for top innovators in the space, such as Santander Group, alongside other fintech innovators such as Origin Financial in the U.S.
We envision a future where compliance is encoded in any autonomous system, steered by human experts. The goal is to empower business and compliance experts, equipping them to become key enablers in the deployment of AI Assistants in the most critical scenarios at scale.
A Growing Compliance Challenge for Expert AI Agents
Expert AI Assistants are transforming financial services—acting as financial assistants, debt managers, wealth advisors—and driving major productivity gains. A single AI investment assistant can now engage with 10,000 users a day, providing highly personalized recommendations based on proprietary and user data.
Yet, as productivity scales, so does regulatory exposure. The job that used to be done by a team of human experts (for whom the regulation was designed) is progressively being taken by an Agent able to 100x their work. Manual review of tens of thousands of AI interactions daily is infeasible, and regulatory scrutiny is intensifying.
Ariadna Font Llitjós, Co-founder & CEO of Alinia, said:
“As global spending on generative AI approaches $644 billion by 2025 (Gartner), adoption in regulated industries is hitting the compliance wall. Alinia is building the safe gateway that gives compliance teams centralized visibility and control across the enterprise.”
Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, Co-founder & COO, added:
“Generic guardrails miss nuanced violations tied to business realities in specific jurisdictions. Detecting and constraining specific types of AI output, such as investment advice under EU Delegated Regulation 2017/565 & ESMA Guidelines, requires precision and contextual understanding.”
Alinia AI Compliance Platform
Alinia provides enterprises with a unified framework to ensure transparency, accountability, and control over their AI systems. Our proprietary, multilingual Guard models—including Investment Guard and Hallucination Detector—are delivered through a flexible Guardrails API that enables real-time policy enforcement, auditing, and risk monitoring across any AI deployment.
Each Guard can be tuned to the specific risk profile and sensitivity thresholds of a business, giving organizations precision control over compliance in high-stakes use cases.
Fully vendor-agnostic, Alinia integrates seamlessly with any AI assistant or platform, serving as the compliance backbone that keeps AI systems aligned, auditable, and safe to deploy at scale.
Trusted by Leaders in Banking and Fintech
We are already working with some of the most forward-thinking financial organizations, including one of the world’s largest banks, and leading fintech AI scale-ups such as Origin Financial in the U.S., where the company’s technology powers the compliance layer for their customer-facing Financial AI assistant.
Arian Hassanalizadeh, General Counsel at Origin Financial: “Alina is one of our most integral back-end controls and is working well for us.“
Iñaki Bernal – Chief AI Officer at Santander: “Alinia is an essential building block for our AI strategy. As a global bank at the forefront of AI adoption, we need a robust control backbone that can power compliance for all the different use cases across Santander Group.”
Generic guardrails risk either over-restricting assistants (leaving product owners wondering “why are we using an LLM and not a simple chatbot?») or conversely, missing nuanced violations tied to legal and business realities.
Next: From Guardrails to Compliance Controllers
The next version of Alinia platform will introduce Compliance Controllers tailored to specific policies and regulations, empowering non-technical teams to evaluate the degree of risk level of user–AI interactions both pre-deployment and in real time. These Controllers will assess compliance in milliseconds, giving enterprises the ability to monitor, document, and control AI behavior at scale.
Our mission is to become the auditing & compliance infrastructure for the new generation of AI Agents operating in regulated industries, starting with finance.
We are expanding our R&D to enable businesses to train and deploy their own expert-driven Compliance Controllers for AI Agents, built around their proprietary knowledge and the regulatory frameworks that govern their sectors.
Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis shared: “We’re expanding our R&D to develop off-the-shelf guardrails for EU AI Act high risk scenarios impacting financial and insurance players.”
Ariadna Font Llitjós concluded: “It’s no longer about ticking boxes—it’s about steering unpredictable autonomous systems in real time and providing auditable evidence of compliance at any moment.”
We are hiring! Alinia is scaling its AI engineering, research, sales and customer success teams across Europe and the US to meet accelerating enterprise demand.
Quotes from investors
Manuel Silva Martínez, General Partner – Mouro Capital: “Innovation cannot scale without trust. AI cannot transform the financial services industries without it being deployed responsibly and in an explainable and auditable way, at scale. The future of AI cannot be conceived without the contribution the Alinia team is making to the maturity of the AI industry.”
Thibaut Schlaeppi, Managing Partner – Raise Seed For Good Ventures: “As enterprises scale their use of AI, governance architectures remain under-invested relative to the operational, regulatory, and systemic risks involved. Industries – especially those under strict regulation like Finance or Health – require verifiable compliance, strong security, and credible oversight before they can deploy AI at scale. Alinia’s compliance engine offers a pragmatic path through this complexity, turning AI’s extraordinary potential into an integrable and trustworthy asset for the enterprise world without putting long-earned reputations at risk.”