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SPHERE Turned Cybersecurity’s Dirtiest Chore Into a Growth Business
Rita Gurevich spent the financial crisis untangling Lehman Brothers’ technology estate. Her company now sells the same hard-won discipline as software - finding forgotten access, assigning owners and cleaning it up before an auditor or attacker does.
The $8.50 Fix for HR’s Most Expensive Copy-and-Paste Problem
Insynctive spent years building the connective tissue that legacy HR stacks forgot. Its bet is simple: companies would rather automate the handoffs than replace the systems they already paid for.
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.
Encamp Turned Environmental Paperwork Into Software - Now It Wants AI to Do the Chasing
The Indianapolis company found a business in the least glamorous corner of enterprise software: chemical inventories, waste manifests and government portals. Its next bet is that compliance teams need a system that acts, not another database that waits.
SafeBase Made Security Paperwork Sell Software - Then Drata Paid a Reported $250 Million
Enterprise deals were drowning in spreadsheets, NDAs and repeated security questions. SafeBase turned that paperwork into a self-serve product - and gave founders a crisp lesson in selling the bottleneck beside the bottleneck.
The Startup That Taught AI to Read the Rulebook
Most companies drown in regulation. 4CRisk.ai built specialized AI that reads the rulebook for them - and turned a six-month compliance grind into a four-day job.
The Compliance Team That Never Sleeps, Built by People Who Hated Compliance
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.
The Company That Turned "Prove It" Into a Business
For 20 years, ActiveProspect has sold one unglamorous promise to marketers: keep the receipt. In a regulatory minefield where a single unwanted robocall can cost $500 to $1,500, that receipt is the whole business.
COGNNA Is Teaching the Security Operations Center to Think Before It Pings
The Saudi cybersecurity company is betting that the next useful AI agent will not write an email. It will decide which of 10,000 security alerts deserves a human being.
DealMaker Wants to Turn Fundraising Into Checkout
The lawyers who built DealMaker saw a capital raise full of paper, handoffs and rented audiences. Their answer is a white-labeled stack that makes an online securities offering feel less like a filing cabinet and more like modern commerce.
StarCompliance
StarCompliance built the software that a million financial-services employees answer to before they trade. Twenty-five years in, it is betting that the next compliance headache is crypto - and that explainable AI can settle the argument.
Appknox
Most security tools inspect the code developers write. Appknox follows the app that users actually touch - from compiled binary and real-device behavior to the moment a counterfeit copy appears in an app store.
Lumos
Lumos began by replacing the IT ticket queue with an internal app store. Six years later, it is betting that the next identity administrator will be a coordinated crew of software agents - with humans reserved for the judgment calls.
Archon Technologies
Archon Technologies is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator W25) that helps software companies sell to the U.S. government by automating FedRAMP, the federal compliance regime cloud vendors must clear before agencies can buy them. Its free-to-integrate SDK ships security controls compliant out of the box and, with AI-assisted documentation, aims to cut the certification timeline from roughly 16 months to 6 and save vendors about $1M. Founded by former U.S. State Department technologists George Parks and Sam Jung.
Fenrock AI
Fenrock AI is a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch building AI agents for the banking back office, starting with financial crime compliance. Its AI workspace helps compliance analysts investigate AML and fraud alerts at roughly 20x their normal volume while keeping bullet-proof audit logs and human oversight. Founded by repeat entrepreneur Charu Sharma and ex-Apple/Google machine-learning engineer Michael M, the company overlays on a bank's existing stack to automate investigations, loan processing, and complaint resolution.
FirstWork
FirstWork is a San Francisco-based, YC S24 enterprise AI company building autonomous agents that automate workforce operations for frontline and seasonal labor. Its platform handles document verification, credentialing, continuous compliance, and worker onboarding inside a company's existing systems, cutting time-to-hire and onboarding by up to 80%. Founded in 2024 by Vardhan Kapoor (ex-Remitly, Deliveroo) and Shubham Choudhary (ex-Deel, Rippling), FirstWork raised a $5M seed round led by Gradient and serves staffing, logistics, delivery, and care companies including Deel, Job&Talent, Relay, and Wonolo.
Perspectives Health
Perspectives Health builds AI agents that take on the paperwork behind behavioral health care. Its software reviews patient charts every night, flags documentation that would trigger an insurance denial, writes clinical notes, and assembles utilization-review packets - so addiction and mental health programs get paid and clinicians spend less time on forms. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, the company reports piloting across a dozen-plus clinics and reaching $250K in committed ARR within four weeks of launch.
Wealor
Wealor is a San Francisco startup building an AI-native platform for wealth managers. It creates a single source of truth across wealth management, tax, and legal, then runs specialized AI agents that automate back-office work directly inside firms' existing legacy systems using APIs and browser automation. Backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2026 / P26), it targets an industry that oversees roughly $90 trillion on infrastructure built decades ago, where advisors report spending most of their day on administrative work rather than with clients.
Finmo
Finmo is a Singapore-based fintech building a Treasury Operating System (TOS) - a single, API-driven platform that unifies global payments, multi-currency accounts, cash visibility and forecasting, FX risk management, and working-capital optimisation for finance teams. Founded in 2021 and led by CEO David Hanna, the company holds payment licenses across multiple markets and raised an oversubscribed US$18.5 million Series A in February 2025, bringing total funding to roughly US$27 million.
Fuze
Fuze is a Dubai-based digital asset infrastructure company that lets banks, fintechs, and enterprises across MENA and Turkey offer regulated crypto and stablecoin services through a single API. Its stack spans Digital Assets-as-a-Service, an OTC trading desk, stablecoin payment rails, embedded trading, and custody, all built on regulated, compliant infrastructure. Licensed by Dubai's VARA and holding a Retail Payment Services license from the UAE Central Bank, Fuze has onboarded hundreds of institutions and processed billions in digital asset volume since its 2023 launch.
Onlayer
Onlayer is an Ankara-founded regtech and merchant-management platform that unifies the entire merchant lifecycle - discovery, onboarding, and continuous monitoring - for acquiring banks, payment service providers, and fintechs. Its AI-driven system automates merchant onboarding, detects fraud and transaction laundering, and manages PCI-DSS, AML, BRAM, and VIRP compliance in one modular workflow, helping institutions detect risk earlier, act faster, and grow their merchant portfolios with confidence.
Tazapay
Tazapay is a Singapore-based cross-border payment platform that lets businesses collect, hold, and pay out money in over 170 markets without setting up local entities. Founded in 2020 by three payments veterans, it combines a payment gateway, multi-currency global accounts, escrow, and same-day payouts on top of local payment rails, cards, and stablecoins - all wrapped in institutional-grade compliance. The company processes more than $10 billion in annualized payment volume, serves 1,000+ enterprises and fintechs, and has raised roughly $68 million to date, including a $36 million Series B whose extension was led by Circle Ventures.
Arya Health
Arya Health is a New York-based healthcare technology company building AI-powered digital agents that automate the non-clinical administrative work of distributed care - onboarding, scheduling, compliance, payroll, and hiring. Its agents plug into existing electronic medical records so home health and post-acute providers can spend more of every dollar on patients and caregivers instead of paperwork. Founded in 2022 by Kunal Sarda and Arunram Kalaiselvan, the company raised an $18.2M Series A in 2025 led by ACME Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $25M.
Cape.ai
Cape.ai (formerly Cape Privacy) is a New York-based enterprise AI company building an agentic automation platform purpose-built for financial services. Founded in 2018 by Che Wijesinghe and Gavin Uhma, Cape lets banks, asset managers and insurers automate document-heavy back-office work - enhanced due diligence, SOC-report and third-party risk analysis, KYC/AML onboarding and regulatory reporting - using AI agents that are fully cited, auditable and deployable on-premise or in a private cloud so sensitive data never leaves the customer's environment.
Compyl
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.
Eisen
Eisen is a New York-based compliance operations platform that automates escheatment, disbursement, and regulatory reporting for banks, credit unions, fintechs, and crypto companies. Its software tracks state-by-state unclaimed property rules, reaches out to account holders before funds are turned over to governments, and manages payouts and 1099 tax reporting - reducing the manual, error-prone work financial institutions face when handling dormant accounts, stale checks, and account wind-downs.
Elementus
Elementus is a New York-based blockchain intelligence company that adds an identity layer to raw on-chain data, letting banks, regulators, government agencies and investigators trace crypto transactions, score risk, detect sanctions exposure and follow the money across multiple chains. Founded in 2018 by data scientist Max Galka, the company pairs proprietary attribution data with forensic algorithms and became widely known for mapping the flow of funds in the Celsius and BlockFi bankruptcies.
Footprint
Footprint is a New York-based identity and risk-operations company that unifies KYC, KYB, fraud detection, authentication, and secure data vaulting into a single platform for banks, fintechs, and marketplaces. Founded in 2022 by Eli Wachs and Alex Grinman, it aims to make verified identity portable across the internet - so a person proves who they are once and reuses that verification everywhere - while using AI agents (its Percy product) to automate manual fraud and compliance review.
Greenboard
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.
Highway
Highway is a Dallas-based logistics technology company that built the freight industry's Carrier Identity platform, verifying that the carrier a broker books is who they claim to be. Founded in 2022 by former TriumphPay CEO Jordan Graft, Highway connects a carrier's digital identity to its physical operations to stop double brokering, impersonation and freight fraud in real time. Its Identify, Connect and Monitor products - plus the newer Trusted Freight Exchange - serve more than 1,050 brokers, including 70 of the 100 largest freight brokers in the United States.