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PharmaForce and the money hiding in the paperwork
A prescription can be filled and a discount still missed. PharmaForce builds the software and services that help hospitals follow the evidence - and keep more of their eligible 340B savings.
The Spreadsheet That Called Back
Secureframe turned the least glamorous obstacle in enterprise sales - proving that your company is secure - into software. Its real product is not a certificate. It is fewer reasons for a deal to stall.
Drata Turned the Audit Scramble Into an Always-On Machine - Then Went After the Sales Cycle
The founders met compliance as a recurring evidence hunt. Five years later, Drata had crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and was selling a bigger idea: make proof of trust useful every day, not just during an audit.
SafetyChain Found Millions Hiding in the Factory's Most Boring Problem
Food plants do not usually lose money in one cinematic breakdown. They lose it a gram, a form and a late corrective action at a time. SafetyChain built a business by making those small failures visible while there is still time to fix them.
Qualio Turned the FDA’s Paperwork Problem Into a $64 Million Software Bet
A pharmacist saw life-science teams trying to prove product quality with paper, spreadsheets and disconnected software. Fourteen years and roughly $64 million in funding later, Qualio is betting that audit readiness can become a continuous operating system - with humans still holding the pen.
The Accountant Who Found 20 Bad Leases - Then Built the Software 8,700 Companies Use to Close the Books
George Azih did not begin with a pitch deck. He began with an audit sample in which 20 of 20 leases were wrong. The fix became LeaseQuery, the niche SaaS company now trying to turn its hard-won accounting credibility into a much broader intelligent subledger.
Strike Graph Wants to Turn Your Next Security Audit From a Fire Drill Into a Background Task
The Seattle startup began with one founder's bruising SOC 2 experience. Six years and $20.4 million later, it is betting that graph-based data and small, private AI models can make compliance useful between audits - not merely survivable during them.
The Company That Made Audit Season Boring
Meiran Galis spent years at EY watching startups treat security audits like a fire drill. Scytale is his bet that compliance can run in the background instead of eating a quarter.
73 Strings
73 Strings is an AI-powered financial intelligence platform for the private capital industry. Founded in 2020, it automates data extraction, portfolio monitoring, and fair-value estimation for alternative asset managers - the manual, fragmented "middle-office" work behind private equity, private credit, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure funds. Its Extract, Monitor, and Value modules structure unstructured documents, track portfolio performance in real time, and produce valuations reportedly up to 10x faster at roughly half the cost. The company serves institutions representing close to $10 trillion in assets and is backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Blackstone, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Hamilton Lane, and Golub Capital.
Sware
Sware is a Boston-based software company that modernizes GxP validation for life sciences. Its cloud-native Res_Q platform and developer-focused GxPNext product use AI and a decade of regulated validation knowledge to automate the computer system validation (CSV) work that the FDA and other regulators require - helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and CDMO teams cut validation time and cost while staying audit-ready. Formerly Boston Technology Research (BTR), the company rebranded to Sware in 2022 and has raised roughly $26-27M to date.
Credibl
Credibl is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered ESG and sustainability data management platform that helps companies, banks and investors measure, manage, validate and report environmental, social and governance data. Founded by Qwiklabs founder and ex-Googler Jitesh Shetty, it applies large language models and machine learning to consolidate fragmented sustainability data, detect anomalies and produce audit-ready, one-click disclosures across frameworks like CSRD, BRSR, TCFD, SASB, ISSB and CDP.
Elevated Signals
Elevated Signals is a Vancouver-based software company building modern, cloud-based manufacturing operations software for highly regulated industries. Born out of the Canadian cannabis boom, its platform replaces paper, spreadsheets, and legacy ERPs with a single real-time source of truth across inventory, quality, traceability, planning, costing, manufacturing, and fulfillment. After raising a $7.9M CAD Series A led by Yaletown Partners in 2024, the company is expanding beyond cannabis into nutraceuticals, food and beverage, CPG, and critical minerals.
RightRev
RightRev is a revenue recognition and automation platform for the office of the CFO, built to handle the messiest parts of ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance at high transaction volume. Founded in 2020 by Jagan Reddy - the accountant-turned-founder who built the original RevPro/Leeyo revenue engine later acquired by Zuora - the company sells both a standalone, API-first product and a native Salesforce Revenue Cloud application, plus an AI layer called Revi. It ingests contracts, orders, invoices and usage data from upstream billing and CPQ systems, applies configurable revenue rules, and produces journal entries, waterfalls and audit-ready reports. Backed by Norwest, Salesforce Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Innovius Capital and Cheyenne Ventures, RightRev has raised more than $31 million and counts Snowflake, Drata, Epicor, Docebo, CAE and LogicMonitor among its customers.
Clearly AI
Clearly AI is a Seattle-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that automates security and privacy reviews for regulated enterprises. Its AI-native platform gathers context, assesses risk, and flags where human review is actually needed - so security, privacy, and compliance teams can clear their review backlogs and ship products faster without sacrificing trust. Founded in 2024 by former Amazon security engineers Emily and Joe Choi-Greene, the company raised an $8.4M seed round in February 2026 and counts Fortune 500 brands like Ericsson, Rivian, and HID Global among its customers.
Reportwell
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.
Stacks
Stacks is a London-based, AI-native enterprise finance platform that automates the month-end close. Its agentic AI handles the most manual workflows in accounting - reconciliations, journal entries and variance analysis - so finance teams can shift from process execution to analysis and decision-making. Founded by former Uber product lead Albert Malikov with a team drawn from Uber, Plaid, Mollie and Miro, Stacks raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026 and counts 30+ enterprise customers including Pleo, Epidemic Sound, Cleo, Bloom & Wild and Nivoda.