Clearspeed: Speeding up Fraud Screening at Scale
It’s not surprising that financial services firms are looking for better ways to balance speed, security and customer experience – much like other heavily-regulated industries.
In this space – and in keeping with emerging trends – Clearspeed is positioning voice analytics as a practical tool for modern risk assessment.
The company’s technology is part of a wider shift toward automation in these regulated industries, where organisations want to reduce friction without weakening controls.
Building trust, faster
Clearspeed was founded in 2016 in San Diego and has built its business around a simple idea: that trust should not have to be slow.
Its AI-enabled technology analyses voice to identify fraud risk, delivering objective risk alerts in any language and without requiring additional data from the customer.
This makes the company especially relevant to financial services, where institutions are under constant pressure to reduce friction, improve customer experience and keep fraud under control.
Clearspeed’s pitch is that it can sit early in the workflow, helping banks, insurers and other regulated businesses quickly separate low-risk cases from those that require human review.
The broader appeal is operational as much as it is technical.
As teams look for tools that cut manual effort, shorten queues and make decisions more consistent across channels, Clearspeed offers voice analytics as a practical way to do that with use cases spanning fraud detection, security screening and transaction vetting.
A story of growth and momentum
While enabling and supporting regulated industry, Clearspeed has propelled itself into a visible growth phase.
In June 2025, Clearspeed announced a US$60m Series D round, bringing its total funding to US$110m and supporting expansion across insurance, government, defence and banking.
The raise was led by Align Private Capital, with participation from IronGate Capital Advisors, Bravo Victor Venture Capital and KBW Ventures.
And this momentum has only continued into 2026.
Clearspeed declared in February that annual recurring revenue (ARR) had doubled year over year. It also said it had added new leadership as it rounded off 10 years in business.
In keeping with this growth, Clearspeed has expanded its client base, too – including new insurance wins and renewals, showing that the platform is moving from niche innovation to broader enterprise adoption.
As financial institutions increasingly look for AI tools that are measurable, scalable and easy to operationalise – rather than experimental technology that sits outside day-to-day workflows – Clearspeed speaks directly to that demand.