Acoru

acoru.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Series A

Acoru is a Madrid-based fraud-prevention platform for banks and financial institutions that uses AI to continuously monitor and classify first-party and counterparty accounts, predicting and blocking Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud, money mule activity, and scams before transactions occur. Founded in December 2023 by cybersecurity veterans who previously built and sold Revelock (formerly Buguroo) to Feedzai, the company has grown to a 30+ person global team serving banks across Europe. It raised a €4M seed and a €10M Series A (October 2025).

Founded

2023

Founders

Total funds raised

€14M

SectorsCybersecurity, Fintech, AI & Data Start-up MapCybersecurity › Enterprise cyber risk & compliance

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Founders

David Morán

Co-founder & CTO

Pablo de la Riva Ferrezuelo

Co-founder & CEO

Global models 5

Socure

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AI-driven identity verification and fraud prevention platform used by banks, matching Acoru's model of predictive fraud/risk scoring for financial institutions.

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Feedzai

United States/Portugal · www.feedzai.com ↗

AI-based fraud and financial crime prevention platform for banks (which acquired Acoru founders' prior company, Revelock), directly comparable to Acoru's bank-fraud focus.

$266MComparable

Alloy

United States · www.alloy.com ↗

Identity and fraud risk decisioning platform for banks and fintechs, similar to Acoru's account-classification approach to blocking fraud.

$237MComparable

BioCatch

Israel · www.biocatch.com ↗

Behavioral biometrics platform detecting fraud and money mules for banks, closely matching Acoru's mule-detection and scam-prevention focus.

$213MComparable

ComplyAdvantage

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AI-driven AML and financial crime risk detection for banks, aligning with Acoru's anti-money-laundering and fraud-prediction mission.

$150MComparable

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Investors 3

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Adara Ventures

www.adara.vc

2 rounds · 2025 Spain

Athos Capital

www.athos-cap.com

2 rounds · 2025 Spain

33N Ventures

33n.vc ↗

Led Series A 2025 Portugal

Funding rounds 2

Date	Round	Amount	Lead
2025-10-22	Series A	€10M	33N Ventures +2 more
2025-04-24	Seed	€4M	Lead not disclosed +2 more

News 4

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Published	Article
2026-06-10	10 fraud-prevention startups taking on scammers before they strike ↗ EU-Startups 2026-06-10
2025-10-22	Acoru secures €10M to disrupt money mule activity and predict financial scams ↗ Tech.eu 2025-10-22
2025-10-22	Predicting scams and halting fraud - Spanish cybersecurity platform Acoru raises €10 million ↗ EU-Startups 2025-10-22
2025-04-24	Madrid-based Acoru emerged from stealth with €4M funding to combat rising financial scams ↗ Tech Funding News 2025-04-24