MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (MUIP), the corporate venture capital arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), has recently invested in One Footprint, Inc. (Footprint) through the MUFG Innovation Partners No. 3 Investment Partnership.
Corporate Profile
Name | One Footprint, Inc. |
Date of Establishment | 2022 |
Headquarters | New York, USA |
CEO | Eli Wach |
Founded in 2022, Footprint provides an AI-native platform designed to support financial crime operations. Leveraging its AI agent “Percy” and proprietary data infrastructure “Trust Fabric”, the company helps financial institutions and fintech companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance functions, including AML, KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, and fraud investigations.
As financial services continue to digitalize and generative AI advances rapidly, financial crime is becoming increasingly sophisticated. New threats include the misuse of AI-generated identities, images, and videos, as well as money laundering activities conducted through opaque shell company structures. At the same time, many financial institutions still rely heavily on manual processes and outsourced operations for compliance reviews and investigations, creating growing operational burdens and increasing pressure to improve response times. Footprint is addressing these challenges by building a new AI-powered infrastructure for financial crime operations.
MUIP’s investment in Footprint is based on strong conviction in the long-term potential of AI within the financial crime prevention sector, as well as its assessment of Footprint’s proprietary data infrastructure and advanced AI capabilities. MUIP will support the company’s continued growth while exploring potential applications of its platform across the MUFG Group and the broader financial services industry.
About MUIP
MUIP was established in January 2019 as the corporate venture capital arm of Japan’s leading financial group, MUFG, to promote its open innovation strategy. MUIP currently runs 5 funds (about USD 650 million in total), making strategic investments in startups globally and driving business collaboration between the startups and MUFG group companies.
For more information, visit MUFG Innovation Partners
About Footprint
Footprint is a New York-based startup that provides an AI-native risk operations platform for financial crime compliance. Its AI agent “Percy” supports a broad range of compliance workflows, including identity verification, alert triage, risk assessment, evidence collection, and investigative report generation, enabling the automation of processes that have traditionally relied on multiple analysts and outsourced service providers. In addition, “Trust Fabric” captures and leverages investigative outcomes and decision-making rationale across the organization, creating a continuously improving knowledge base that enhances accuracy and operational effectiveness over time.
For more information, please visit Footprint.
