About
Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, a platform providing fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/AML), and payments solutions across industries including banking, fintech, crypto, and online gaming. He previously led risk and data science teams at Coinbase and worked at Revolut, where he launched the company's first regulatory-compliant crypto product in the US and built its fraud and compliance stack. Ranjan holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, holds patents in network security and anomaly detection, and co-founded Risk Salon, a think tank for risk professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle.
Founder & CEO at Sardine
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11.2 CapitalLas Vegas · $500K – $3M checksActivant CapitalNew York · $100K – $50M checks · since 2025Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025Cannage CapitalLas VegasCoinbase VenturesStamford · $100K – $10M checksCross Creek AdvisorsSalt Lake CityDigital Currency GroupNew YorkEssence Venture CapitalSeattle · $10K – $10M checksEvolution VenturesSan FranciscoExperian Venturessince 2025Factorial FundsSan FranciscoGeneral PartnershipSan Francisco · $1M – $30M checksGeodesic CapitalFoster CityGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checksHelios Digital VenturesLondonNAventuresTorontoNycaNew York · $2M checksNyca PartnersNew York · $1M – $10M checks · since 2025Torch CapitalNew York · $750K – $1.5M checksVillage GlobalCovina · $100K – $500K checksXYZ Venture CapitalSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checks
Co-founders at Sardine
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Adi GFounder
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Zahid ShaikhFounder
Experience
- SardineCo-founder, CEOcurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Risk SalonCo-founder2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- RevolutHead of Crypto2019 — 2020London, United Kingdom
- RevolutHead of Fincrime Risk2019London, United Kingdom
- CoinbaseDirector of Data Science & Risk2015 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- YelpSoftware Engineer - Data Mining2014 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- Flurry, Inc.Sr. Software Engineer (Machine Learning)2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- MyLikesSr Software Engineer2011 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
- Narus IncSr. Member of Technical Staff, Office of CTO2005 — 2011
- Rice UniversityResearch Assistant2000 — 2005
- Google IncSoftware Engineering Intern2003
- HP LabsResearch Intern, Internet Storage and Sytems Labs2001
Skills & more
Python59C28Java28C++19MySQL19R7Android9AJAX5MapReduce8Machine Learning67Distributed Systems50Network Programming14
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Soups Ranjan?
- Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, a platform providing fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/AML), and payments solutions across industries including banking, fintech, crypto, and online gaming. He previously led risk and data science teams at Coinbase and worked at Revolut, where he launched the company's first regulatory-compliant crypto product in the US and built its fraud and compliance stack. Ranjan holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, holds patents in network security and anomaly detection, and co-founded Risk Salon, a think tank for risk professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle.
- Where does Soups Ranjan work?
- Soups Ranjan is Founder & CEO of Sardine.
- What companies did Soups Ranjan found?
- Soups Ranjan founded Sardine.
- Where did Soups Ranjan go to school?
- Soups Ranjan studied at Rice University (PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Rice University (MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (BTech, Computer Science and Engineering).
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