Yanez Compliance Closes Oversubscribed Seed Part A, Raising $900K to Advance Bittensor Network Operations

Strategic funding supports Yuma-accelerated subnet 54 operations and reinforces commitment to decentralized AI infrastructure for financial crime prevention

San Francisco, July 22^nd 2025. Yanez Compliance, the AI-powered platform for detecting and correcting exposure, weaknesses, and configuration flaws in financial crime prevention systems, today announced the successful closing of its oversubscribed Seed Part A funding round. The round raised $900K, surpassing the initial $600K target by 50%, demonstrating strong belief in Yanez’s approach to leveraging decentralized infrastructure for adversarial testing in compliance.

The funding will directly support the operations of Yanez's Bittensor subnet 54, known as the Yanez MIID (Multimodal Inorganic Identities Dataset) Subnet. Subnet 54 serves as the decentralized infrastructure powering the Yanez Compliance platform. The raised capital will be allocated across network operations, research and development, marketing initiatives, and building a strategic treasury of Tao and the subnet's alpha tokens - a critical component for long-term sustainability and incentive alignment within the network.

Leveraging Bittensor for Competitive Advantage

Yanez Compliance's decision to build on the Bittensor protocol stems from two critical strategic advantages: normalizing operational costs of AI computing and leveraging the decentralized nature of miners to produce more competitive datasets with regionally relevant characteristics. This approach enables the generation of sophisticated inorganic identities that fuel the testing capabilities of financial institutions' compliance systems against evolving financial crime techniques.

The MIID Subnet currently focuses on complex name variation challenges for sanctions screening validation, but is designed to expand into comprehensive identity-centric testing, including biometric data generation, document synthesis, and multi-modal identity verification testing.

Founder and Partner Statement

“We are deeply grateful for the overwhelming support from our investors, and our partners Yuma and BT Labs, who recognize the transformative potential of bringing decentralized AI to enterprise-grade regulatory compliance solutions.” said Jose Caldera, Founder and CEO of Yanez Compliance. “This outside capital injection is crucial for further developing and maintaining Yanez MIID Subnet. It will allow us to provide reasonable stability to liquidity pools during the first stages of the subnet so we can properly incentivize miners work. It will also allow us to move forward partnerships with other subnets which strengthens the overall ecosystem. We maintain a long-term vision for Bittensor as an integral part of Yanez Compliance's infrastructure, and this funding reinforces our commitment to building lasting value within the ecosystem.”

“BTLabs holds the Yanez team in the highest esteem for their capabilities and experience,” said Jose Rios, BT Labs CEO. “Their forward-thinking approach in the market they serve not only aligns with our core mission but also inspires us to push the boundaries of what’s possible. We’re incredibly excited about the opportunities this segment presents and the groundbreaking solutions they are deploying.”

Additional Institutional Investment

We welcome the addition of institutional investor Deep Ventures - An early-stage venture fund with strong conviction that blockchain startups can create a more open, free world with unprecedented opportunities and access. Their investment reflects confidence in Yanez's mission to democratize financial crime prevention through decentralized AI infrastructure.

"Yanez’s integration of Bittensor to generate synthetic identity datasets is a breakthrough in how financial crime prevention apps are built,” said Mike Chan, Managing Partner of Deep Ventures. “We believe this decentralized approach can be applied to all AI-driven apps and we are excited to back the Yanez team in leading this charge."

Strategic Ecosystem Support

Bringing Bittensor into Yanez Compliance was supported by key stakeholders in the Bittensor ecosystem, including:

Yuma - A subnet accelerator within the Bittensor ecosystem, Yuma provides technical guidance, validator access, and go-to-market support for emerging subnets. Their involvement reinforces the viability of Yanez's model and approach to building sustainable, incentive-aligned infrastructure within the Bittensor network. “Yanez is exactly the type of team we built Yuma's accelerator to support," said Evan Malanga, Chief Revenue Officer of Yuma.

BT Labs - A trusted partner in the Bittensor ecosystem focused on empowering the future of decentralized AI through mining operations, subnet development, and infrastructure services. Their involvement underscores the technical viability and infrastructure requirements of the MIID Subnet.

Market Opportunity and Impact

The global financial crime prevention market faces significant challenges, with an estimated $2 trillion in annual costs linked to financial crime, $450 billion in fraud-related losses in the U.S. alone, and over $315 billion in global regulatory fines over the past 15 years. Traditional static testing approaches fail to keep pace with evolving evasion tactics, creating a substantial market opportunity for AI-powered, adversarial testing solutions.

Through the MIID Subnet, Yanez Compliance addresses this gap by providing financial institutions with dynamic, real-world adversarial testing capabilities that continuously adapt to emerging threats. With the revenue the company generates from operations, it is incentivized to re-invest some of that value back into the subnet by further incentivizing miners to expend compute resources and improve the quality of their work, which results in better product research, development and offerings for customers.  

Looking Forward: Seed Part B

Building on the success of Seed Part A, Yanez Compliance plans to launch Seed Part B within the next six months. This subsequent funding round will focus specifically on developing advanced testing technology and datasets for transaction monitoring systems that detect and prevent fraud and money laundering, further expanding the company's comprehensive suite of compliance testing solutions.

The strategic timing of Seed Part B will enable Yanez to capitalize on the infrastructure and network effects established through the current funding, while addressing the broader spectrum of financial crime prevention challenges beyond identity verification.

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About Yanez Compliance

Yanez Compliance is an AI-powered platform specializing in detecting and correcting exposure, weaknesses, and configuration flaws in financial crime prevention systems. Through its innovative Bittensor-powered Yanez MIID the company generates multimodal inorganic identities to provide comprehensive testing capabilities for financial institutions' compliance systems. Learn more at yanezcompliance.com

About Bittensor

Bittensor is a decentralized network that rewards stakeholders for producing intelligence through AI model computation, creating a sustainable ecosystem where miners contribute solutions and validators ensure quality output.

Contact Information

• Website: www.yanezcompliance.com

• Yanez MIID: www.yanez.ai

Media Contact social@yanezcompliance.com

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ from those projected.