What it sells
Hickory offers agentic compliance and BSA for banks and fintechs
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedCompliance, BSA/AML and banking-operations leaders.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Compliance and BSA teams drowning in reviews, EDD backlogs, board reports and exam prep with no headcount.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Experts build tailored workflows; agents do the first pass of reviews, assessments and reports (board packages from live data, triaged system reports, assembled EDD reviews), humans decide; everything logged and audit-ready.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Gives a compliance team the capacity of another analyst without headcount; claims 4 hours of case work becomes a 10-minute review.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Demo-led ("Book a demo") with segment-specific pages.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Fall 2026 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.