Companies rushed to install copilots, models and agents. Cranium built a business around the awkward question that followed: who knows where all of them are - and can anyone prove they are safe?
MedTrainer built a business around the work nobody in healthcare wants to do twice. The payoff is a unified compliance system - but the first bill comes due in data cleanup, configuration, and changed habits.

Before Affil.ai, John Ta taught personal finance, wrote more than 200 travel-and-credit-card articles, and kept a wallet with 30 cards. The odd collection became field research for a stubborn problem: nobody could reliably watch what financial affiliates published.

He began with screenshots, logs and a weekend blog. Five years later, Scytale had become an acquirer - proof that even the dullest business problem can hide a lively company.

After living the paperwork inside an SEC-registered investment adviser, the mathematician-turned-founder built Hadrius to give compliance teams leverage without handing judgment to a machine.

After one startup crossed continents and closed, the information systems engineer returned with a quieter proposition: in finance, the most useful AI may be the one checking everyone else’s work.

A touring musician followed one uncomfortable question from a Russian club to the State Department, a viral consumer tool and the procurement departments of global companies. Now FRDM AI is joining WiseTech - proof that Dillon's longest-running composition was a supply chain.
Financial firms still inspect a sliver of what their people, partners and bots tell customers. Sedric is betting that an independent AI control layer can review the whole stream - and turn compliance from a queue into a live operating system.
Employees adopted AI before management wrote the rules. The Danish startup is betting that a browser-level map, enforceable guardrails and a human yes-or-no can turn shadow AI from a security problem into usable infrastructure.
Three founders got tired of babysitting their own robo-advisor's SEC paperwork, so they built the tool they wished existed. Now 500+ firms run their audits through it.
Affil.ai is an AI-powered compliance and monitoring platform for financial affiliate marketing. It automatically reads the blogs, comparison sites and partner pages where affiliates promote a company's products, flags regulatory violations across thousands of pages, and turns each issue into a trackable ticket - letting banks, fintechs and other regulated brands scale affiliate programs without drowning in manual review. Founded in 2024 by John Ta, Vivek Olumbe and Vishal Vinjapuri, the company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and has raised about $500K.
Compliant LLM (formerly FiddleCube, YC W23) is an AI security and compliance toolkit that helps infosec, compliance, and GenAI teams keep their AI agents, prompts, and MCP servers secure. It red-teams AI systems against attacks like prompt injection and jailbreaking, checks them against frameworks such as NIST, ISO, OWASP, GDPR, and HIPAA, and monitors employee use of third-party GenAI tools to catch data leaks and PII exposure across both approved and shadow AI workflows.
Caroline Shleifer is the founder and CEO of RegASK, a Singapore-based regtech company that pairs an AI engine built for regulatory content with a global network of 1,800+ subject matter experts. A pharmacist and scientist by training with a PharmD-PhD in medical physics from the University of Paris V, she spent years leading regulatory and scientific affairs across Asia Pacific at SPRIM before founding RegASK in 2018 to bring regulatory work into the AI era.
Compyl is a New York-based SaaS company that unifies governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) on a single platform. Founded in 2020 by former CISOs, it pulls evidence directly from more than 125 integrated systems, maps controls across 70+ frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, and uses agentic AI to draft evidence, score vendors and answer security questionnaires while keeping humans in control of decisions. Compyl raised a $12M Series A in June 2025 to scale its AI-led platform for mid-market and enterprise security teams.
Greenboard is a New York-based regtech company building an AI-native compliance platform for SEC- and FINRA-regulated financial firms. Founded in 2023 by Dave Feldman and Ed Schembor, the company consolidates communications archiving, employee and firm compliance, marketing review, vendor diligence and books-and-records into a single system, with an 'expert-in-the-loop' AI layer called GreenboardGo. Backed by Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and General Catalyst, Greenboard has raised $20M total and serves more than 500 financial institutions.

Dave Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Greenboard, a New York-based company building an AI-native operating system for financial compliance. A Johns Hopkins-trained engineer who previously led product work at Guideline and a Hive AI joint venture with Bain & Company, Feldman started Greenboard in 2023 with college friend Ed Schembor after seeing how badly financial firms struggled with fragmented, dated compliance tools. Greenboard went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and has raised $20 million total, including a $15.5M Series A led by Base10 Partners, with more than 500 financial institutions running their compliance programs on the platform.

Maor Levran is the co-founder and CEO of Slice, an AI-powered global equity platform that helps finance and legal teams issue, track, and stay compliant with equity compensation across roughly 60 countries. A corporate lawyer for over a decade who was repeatedly ranked a Top Tech Attorney by The Legal 500, Levran started Slice in 2022 after watching companies struggle - and sometimes face six-figure fines - when granting stock options and RSUs to international employees. Slice has raised $32 million total, including a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners in early 2026, and manages equity for more than 70,000 employees at companies such as Wiz, Wayve, and Aidoc.
Jeen.ai is an Israeli enterprise AI company that builds an 'operating layer' for organizations to adopt generative AI securely, govern it responsibly, and scale it across business units. Spun off from ONE Technologies in July 2024 and led by founder-CEO Oded Tahori, the platform bundles chat, autonomous agents, workflow automation, governance and cost controls (FinOps), and data integrations - deployable in the cloud, on-premise, or fully air-gapped. It serves dozens of large enterprises and public bodies in finance, telecom, defense, healthcare and higher education, and is now expanding across the US, UK, Singapore and Latin America.
Brico is a San Francisco RegTech company that automates the grind of getting and keeping financial licenses. Founded in 2023 by Snigdha Kumar and Edward Swiac, its AI-powered platform pairs a 50-state regulatory intelligence engine with human compliance experts to help money transmitters, lenders, mortgage providers, and crypto firms file applications up to 5x faster and cut licensing costs by as much as 90%. Customers include Marqeta, Bilt, BitGo, and Better Mortgage.
Springshot is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that builds a cloud and mobile orchestration platform for airline and airport operations. It connects frontline ground crews, assets and systems in real time - turning raw operational data into structured 'missions' that streamline communication, automate task distribution, digitize compliance and deliver live analytics. Trusted by major global carriers and ground handlers across hundreds of airports, Springshot also extends into facilities, logistics, hospitality, stadiums and healthcare.
Streetbeat is a Palo Alto-based AI company building what it calls the most secure AI platform for regulated financial services. Its flagship product, StreetbeatPRO, gives wealth managers, banks and brokerages a set of agentic AI tools for investing, risk management, portfolio analysis and client engagement - built with compliance guardrails like audit trails, hallucination prevention and automated MiFID suitability checks. Founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneur Damian Scavo, the company says its platform is used by more than 4,000 advisors across 15 countries and raised a $15 million Series A in October 2025.
Trustero is a Palo Alto AI company building software for security and compliance teams. Founded in 2020 by SignalFx co-founder Phillip Liu, it applies generative AI and a patent-pending 'Trust Graph' to automate the grind of governance, risk and compliance (GRC): gap analysis, evidence collection, control testing, security questionnaires, third-party risk reviews and audit prep across frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI, SOX and DORA. In November 2024 it raised a $10.35M Series A led by Bright Pixel Capital.
VComply is a cloud-based governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform that helps mid-market organizations turn compliance from scattered spreadsheets and missed deadlines into a single system of record. Founded in 2019 by Harshvardhan Kariwala after a costly missed filing at a prior business, the Sunnyvale-based, Accel-backed company packages compliance, risk, policy, and case management into four connected modules - ComplianceOps, RiskOps, PolicyOps, and CaseOps - that it now frames as a Compliance & Risk Operating System (CROS). It serves thousands of customers across healthcare, financial services, education, energy, and nonprofits in more than 100 countries.
Virtue AI is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI security company that helps organizations deploy generative AI and AI agents safely. Founded in 2024 by AI-safety researchers from Berkeley, Stanford, and Chicago, its platform combines automated red-teaming (VirtueRed), real-time multimodal guardrails (VirtueGuard), and an end-to-end agent security suite (AgentSuite) to catch prompt injections, jailbreaks, data poisoning, and policy violations before they reach production. The company raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding and counts frontier AI labs and enterprises in finance, healthcare, and IT among its customers.
ALIGNMT AI is a New York-based company building an enterprise AI governance and risk-monitoring platform for healthcare. Founded by MIT-trained machine-learning scientist Andreea Bodnari, it helps health systems, payers, and health IT vendors deploy AI while automating compliance with frameworks like ONC, ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act. Its platform continuously monitors production AI systems, audits for bias and fairness, and generates the audit trails regulators, boards, and customers demand - reportedly cutting compliance audit-prep time by up to 50%.
Daptic (formerly DiploAI) is a New York-based startup building AI-powered regulatory intelligence software for global manufacturers. Its platform monitors more than 10,000 regulatory sources across 200+ jurisdictions, flags relevant changes within 24 hours of publication, and turns them into product-specific compliance requirements - cutting the manual research that eats into engineering and compliance teams. Founded in 2023 by MIT alumni Baptiste Bouvier and Hannah Collins, the company got its start helping electric-vehicle and automotive makers keep pace with the roughly 1,000 regulatory updates issued worldwide each day, and has since broadened to manufacturers of all kinds.
Enkrypt AI is a Boston-based AI security company that builds a control layer between enterprises and the large language models and AI agents they deploy. Founded in 2022 by Yale PhDs Sahil Agarwal and Prashanth Harshangi, its Sentry platform combines automated red teaming, runtime guardrails, and compliance monitoring to detect vulnerabilities like prompt injection, jailbreaks, bias, and data leakage before and after models reach production. The company also publishes a free LLM Safety Leaderboard and widely cited red-team research, including a January 2025 report finding DeepSeek-R1 far more likely than rivals to produce harmful content.
Reportwell is a Detroit-based, AI-powered compliance and reporting platform built for the K-12 education world - charter school authorizers, districts, agencies, and the schools they oversee. Founded in 2023 by a team of former education agency and school leaders, it scans for new laws, board decisions, and regulatory shifts, keeps policy documents current automatically, and answers plain-language legal questions through an AI chat. The goal is simple: turn the dreaded audit scramble into a routine, so educators can spend less time on paperwork and more time on students.
SolidCore.ai is a Menlo Park cybersecurity startup building the security and governance layer for enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2024 by HyTrust veteran Eric Chiu and former Microsoft security architect Hemma Prafullchandra, its platform captures an immutable record of every LLM prompt, response, and configuration inside a customer's own cloud, then continuously monitors for misconfigurations, policy violations, and risky usage while generating audit-ready evidence for frameworks like NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act. The company emerged from stealth in September 2025 with $4M in seed funding led by Runtime Ventures.
Sphinx builds browser-native AI agents that do the work of a human compliance analyst - running AML, KYC, KYB and enhanced due diligence reviews inside the case-management tools banks and fintechs already use. Every decision is logged and explainable, producing a regulator-ready audit trail. Founded in 2024 by Alexandre Berkovic and Chrisjan Wust and backed by Y Combinator, Sphinx raised a $7.1M seed round in early 2026 and now runs in production across banks, fintechs, crypto platforms and public companies in eight countries.