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Clarence Chio

Founder

Clarence Chio is listed as a founder of Unit21 on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Quick Facts

Role Founder
Company Unit21
Country United States
Industry AI in Finance
Founded 2018
Known For Unit21's shift from a no-code rule-building tool to a fully agentic risk platform — and its…
Status Active
Last Reviewed Aug 2026

Clarence Chio is listed as a founder of Unit21 on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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2018 Company founded
Unit21 was founded in 2018 per the company profile source on file.
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2018 Development
2018: Trisha Kothari, a former early engineer at Affirm, and Clarence Chio found Unit21 in San Francisco on the premise that risk and compliance teams should be able to build fraud and AML rules without engineering support.
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2023 Funding
2023: Unit21 raises a $45 million Series C round led by Tiger Global and South Park Commons, bringing total funding to $92 million.
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2025 Product
August 2025: Unit21 launches Build Your Own Agent (BYOA), a no-code framework for deploying custom AI agents for fraud and AML tasks.
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2026 Product
March 10, 2026: Unit21 relaunches its platform, rebuilt around agentic AI that executes investigation workflows rather than only assisting human analysts.
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2026 Leadership
April 3, 2026: Unit21 appoints founding software engineer and former Head of AI Tyler Allen as CEO; co-founder Trisha Kothari becomes Chairman of the Board.
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An AI Risk Infrastructure platform unifying fraud detection, anti-money-laundering transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, case management, and…

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Clarence Chio is listed as a founder of Unit21 on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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