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Co-founder and CEO of Inscribe, a document-fraud-detection company used in Womply's PPP application flow.

Identity and role

Ronan Burke is the co-founder and chief executive of Inscribe, the San Francisco document-fraud-detection company. His twin brother, Conor Burke, is the co-founder and chief technology officer. Inscribe's software reads the financial documents that lenders and fintechs collect — bank statements, pay stubs, tax forms — and decides whether they have been forged, altered, or, more recently, generated by AI; it also extracts and verifies the data inside them. The company has reorganized that capability around what it now sells as "AI Risk Agents."

Contemporaneous Irish press names the Burke twins plus Oisín Moran and James Eggers as co-founders, while the company's current materials and its Y Combinator listing credit only Ronan and Conor.

Biography

Ronan Burke studied electronic engineering at University College Dublin and went through Y Combinator with the company (Inscribe author page and Y Combinator listing). His employers before Inscribe are not documented; the founding story on the company's About page is that early experience inside a bank showed him how broken manual document review was. He was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30 Europe" list in 2020 (author page and Silicon Republic). The Limerick origin cited to ThinkBusiness is not in our copy.

Conor Burke, the twin and CTO, took the same degree at University College Dublin and lists a research internship at UCD's Insight Centre (Inscribe author page). He was on the same 2020 Forbes list and leads the company's engineering work.

The author pages describe Ronan as host of Inscribe's podcast and a contributor to Forbes and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and Conor as a Money20/20 speaker.

The company and its PPP role

Inscribe was founded in 2017 and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch (Y Combinator listing); it is headquartered in San Francisco with a Dublin office (the December 2018 opening date is cited to VentureBeat). Its named customers include Plaid, Ramp, BlueVine, Navan, Rapid Finance, and others.

In Womply's arbitration against Benworth Capital Partners, the corrected final award records Womply's testimony that Fast Lane "analyzed and extracted data from documents using Inscribe, Mindee, and Ocrolus" and lists Inscribe among the stack's third-party providers. The December 2022 House Select Subcommittee staff report does not name Inscribe.

The material we have contains no Inscribe statement about PPP, and the company's customer list (About page; we have a copy) does not include Womply. No public allegation or finding against Inscribe itself has arisen from PPP.

Their own relief

No relief located: we searched SBA PPP and COVID-EIDL records under Inscribe's name and found no loan to the company; the "Inscribe" entries in the loan data are unrelated namesakes.

No litigation, enforcement action, or court matter naming Ronan Burke, Conor Burke, or Inscribe as a party appears in the public record. Inscribe surfaces in the Womply–Benworth arbitration only as a named third-party vendor inside Womply's technology stack, not as a participant in the dispute. No SEC, FTC, CFPB, or SBA inspector-general action against the company or its founders was found.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Inscribe raised $38 million across three rounds (Silicon Republic): a $3 million seed (Crosslink and Uncork, the December 2018 date is cited to VentureBeat), a $10.5 million Series A in April 2021 co-led by Uncork, Foundry Group and Crosslink (Business Wire), and a $25 million Series B announced in January 2023 led by Threshold Ventures, with angels including Box co-founder Dylan Smith and Intercom co-founder Des Traynor (TechCrunch).

The current product is the "AI Risk Agents" line, built on Anthropic's Claude through AWS Bedrock, which the company and Anthropic say cut document-review time roughly twentyfold (Anthropic customer story and Inscribe release). Inscribe remains headquartered in San Francisco with its Dublin office, and the brothers still run it.

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