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.
TermScout is a legaltech company that turns contracts into data. It analyzes and benchmarks B2B agreements against thousands of real-world contracts, then issues an independent TrustMark certification - a public badge signaling that a contract's terms are fair, balanced, and ready to sign. The goal is simple: replace slow, adversarial negotiation with trusted, data-backed agreements that close faster. Its Certify engine scores contracts on nearly 1,000 points, and its newer TrustMark AI program certifies the AI-specific terms buried in modern software contracts.
Karun Kaushik is the co-founder and CEO of Delve, a San Francisco AI compliance startup he launched in 2023 with fellow MIT student Selin Kocalar after the pair dropped out sophomore year. What began as an AI medical scribe pivoted into automated SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance after the founders ran into the paperwork themselves. Delve raced through Y Combinator to a $32M Series A led by Insight Partners at a reported $300M valuation, landed both founders on Forbes 30 Under 30, and served more than 1,500 companies before a 2026 whistleblower controversy put its audit practices under a harsh spotlight.
Openlayer is an AI governance and observability platform that helps enterprise teams test, monitor, and trust their machine learning and LLM systems across the full lifecycle - from prototype to production. Founded by ex-Apple, Amazon and Harvard alumni and backed by Y Combinator and Race Capital, the company raised a $14.5M Series A in May 2025.
Alexandre Berkovic is the co-founder and CEO of Sphinx (YC F24), a San Francisco company building browser-native AI agents that do the grunt work of financial compliance - the KYC, AML and KYB checks that banks and fintechs run millions of times a year. He trained as a Design Engineer at Imperial College London and studied machine learning at MIT, did research on multi-modal generative AI, and co-founded and exited an audio-generation startup, Adorno AI, before pivoting into compliance with co-founder Chrisjan Wust. In February 2026 Sphinx raised a $7.1M seed led by Cherry Ventures.
Andreea Bodnari is the founder and CEO of ALIGNMT AI, a New York and Boston based startup building governance-first compliance infrastructure for healthcare AI. An MIT-trained machine learning scientist who built and scaled the B2B healthcare AI division at Google Cloud and served as a product VP at UnitedHealth Group, she now runs a company that monitors AI risk in real time across the model lifecycle. In August 2025 ALIGNMT AI emerged from stealth with a $6.5M seed round led by AIX Ventures. Bodnari sits on national AI safety bodies, has reviewed for the JAMIA journal for over a decade, and argues that transparency is the price of trust in clinical AI.
Arash Jafari is the CEO and co-founder of Clearpol, a San Francisco healthtech company that builds AI to help post-acute and long-term care providers manage regulatory compliance and clinical risk. A former NASA JPL and Langley engineer, he traded interplanetary robotics simulations and severe-weather prediction for one of healthcare's least glamorous frontiers: the survey deficiency. Clearpol's AI now acts as a 'co-pilot' for skilled nursing facilities, drafting Plans of Correction, monitoring clinical data, and flagging regulatory risk before it escalates - trusted by 900+ facilities, with 3,000+ Plans of Correction written.
Eric Chiu is the founder and CEO of SolidCore.ai, a Menlo Park startup that helps enterprises deploy generative AI with real-time monitoring, an immutable record of every LLM interaction, and built-in compliance. A veteran cybersecurity entrepreneur, he previously founded HyTrust, the cloud security company acquired by Entrust, whose technology protected the virtual infrastructure of Bank of America, United Healthcare, Honeywell, and U.S. Central Command. SolidCore emerged from stealth in September 2025 with $4M in seed funding led by Runtime Ventures, reuniting Chiu with his longtime collaborator and CTO Hemma Prafullchandra.
Sahil Agarwal is the co-founder and CEO of Enkrypt AI, a Boston-based startup building a security and compliance control layer for enterprise generative AI. An applied mathematician with a PhD from Yale who once modeled the chaotic motion of Arctic sea ice, he now leads a team that red-teams large language models to find where they break - work that made headlines when Enkrypt published research showing DeepSeek-R1 was 11x more likely to generate harmful content than its rivals. He met co-founder Prashanth Harshangi during their PhD years at Yale, and together they raised a $2.35M seed round to make AI safe enough for Fortune 500 deployment.
ModelOp is a Chicago-based enterprise software company that builds AI governance and lifecycle automation software. Its flagship platform, ModelOp Center, acts as a centralized system of record and 'control tower' for all of an organization's AI - traditional machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, and third-party tools - letting enterprises inventory every model, automate approvals and testing, enforce policy, monitor production systems for drift and risk, and produce audit-ready documentation. The company sells primarily to large, regulated enterprises such as financial services, healthcare, and government, and counts Fortune 500 names among its customers.
Dynamo AI is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI security and governance company that helps regulated organizations deploy generative and agentic AI safely. Born out of MIT CSAIL research, its platform - spanning DynamoEval, DynamoGuard, and AgentWarden - tests AI systems for vulnerabilities, applies real-time, customizable guardrails against threats like prompt injection, data leakage, and hallucinations, and produces the compliance documentation enterprises need to meet regulations such as the EU AI Act.