4x founder

Alexey Zanin

Reducing SOX testing cost by 70% with AI | ex-Compliance Lead at Meta | a16z speedrun scout

Co-founder

2025Co-founder· Bead AI

Founder · since 2014

Company

Bead AI

Role

CEO, co-founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Bead AI

Bead is building AI agents for Internal Audit teams, automating repetitive work in a $70B industry.

Experience

Career

Bead AI
Co-founder
CEO, co-founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Meta
Product Lead, Compliance · Greater London · 2022 – 2025
2022
GoCardless
Product Manager · London, United Kingdom · 2019 – 2022
2019
Cashbe
Co-founder
Co-founder, CPO · Moscow, Russian Federation · 2017 – 2018
2017
Argetur
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CPO · 2015 – 2018
2015
Local Internet
Co-founder
Co-founder, CPO · 2014
2014
BeachMint
Analyst, Project Manager · Moscow, Russian Federation · 2014
2014
LLC Kupishoes / Lamoda.ru
Senior Analyst Business Development · 2014
2014
LLC Kupishoes / Lamoda.ru
Analyst Business Development · 2013 – 2014
2013

I am an exited founder, who then led Compliance at Meta. And that’s where I discovered how manual, slow, and inefficient internal audits were.