compliance-software
(35)
Steve Gallion and the Product Hidden in a Bad Demo
A clumsy two-minute sales call exposed what MedTrainer had not yet built. Steve Gallion turned the embarrassment into a roadmap, then spent the next decade joining healthcare training, credentialing, and compliance under one roof.
The Most Expensive Word in Government Is ‘Why?’
ConductorAI began with a forbidden Slack message and a policy nobody could produce. Its answer is software that turns institutional rules into decisions people can inspect, challenge, and finally move forward.
Ideagen built a billion-pound business on “prove it”
A missing signature. An outdated procedure. Sixty people reviewing the same document. Ideagen sells order to organizations that cannot afford to lose the paper trail.
Polaris Software and the business of getting paperwork out of the way
From pavement permits to police armouries, Polaris sells software for the work behind public services. Its growth rests on a practical bet: joining up the paperwork can be worth more than another app.
Joblogic wants to close the gap between job done and invoice paid
A repair can be finished long before the paperwork is. Joblogic has built a business around that delay, and more than £100 million in fresh backing is financing its next move.
GRC Solutions wrote the rulebook. Now it does the work.
A business that began with security books now sells the people, software and testing behind compliance. Its next bet puts round-the-clock cyber response on the same shopping list.
Vixio Wants to Retire the Compliance Spreadsheet
A gambling research service grew into a subscription business serving more than 500 enterprises. Its next bet: help customers finish the work that starts when a regulation changes.
Neotas Hunts the Risks That Never Made the Watchlist
Most compliance tools ask whether a person is already on a list. Neotas searches the wider digital trail, maps the connections and leaves an audit trail for the human who still has to make the call.
The $5.35 Billion Bet on the Software Underneath Insurance
Vertafore began with punch cards and became a software utility for insurance distribution. Now it has to prove that half a century of embedded workflows can become an AI advantage - without asking customers to rip out the systems that run their businesses.
The Spreadsheet Was the First Thing to Break: How HR Acuity Turned Workplace Complaints Into Enterprise Intelligence
Most companies can count employees, payroll and vacation days. HR Acuity built a business around the thing they could not count cleanly: what happens after someone says something went wrong at work.
Red Oak’s $51 Million Bet: Turn Compliance’s Biggest Bottleneck Into a Growth Engine
Red Oak started by untangling one miserable workflow: the review of financial marketing. A $51 million investment and three strategic combinations later, it is trying to govern the whole journey from first draft to permanent record.
Deltek Built a $2.8 Billion Business Out of the Work Generic ERP Avoids
Government contracts, architecture jobs and consulting engagements do not behave like boxes moving through a warehouse. Deltek spent four decades turning that awkward fact into a durable software franchise.
Lexipol Turned the Policy Binder Into Public Safety’s Operating System
More than 10,000 agencies buy Lexipol’s answer to an awkward question: who keeps the rulebook current when the law, the workforce and the risk change every day? The clever part is not the manual. It is the loop around it.
Relias Built a Healthcare Software Business From Everyone's Least Favorite Task
Mandatory training is easy to dismiss until an audit, a staffing gap, or a preventable error arrives. Relias has spent more than a decade turning that administrative burden into a healthcare workforce platform used by millions of caregivers.
AbsenceSoft Turned HR's Worst Spreadsheet Into a 7-Million-Person Business
Leave is where employment law, private life and office bureaucracy collide. AbsenceSoft built a business by turning that collision into a workflow HR teams can actually run.
BiltOn Put a Face Scan at the Gate - Then Turned Jobsite Paperwork Into Risk Intelligence
Construction runs on concrete, steel and an alarming amount of paper. BiltOn starts by proving who walked through the gate, then turns the resulting trail into something contractors, safety chiefs and insurers can actually use.
Cyber Trust Alliance’s $79-a-Month Bet: Make HIPAA Compliance Boring Enough to Actually Finish
Small healthcare teams cannot staff compliance like a national hospital chain. Cyber Trust Alliance built CEBA to turn the annual HIPAA scramble into a visible routine - then carried that approach into CorePLUS and, most recently, New York hospitals.
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.
MyPass Global
MyPass Global is an Australian B2B SaaS company that runs a worker-owned digital Skills Passport and compliance platform for highly regulated, high-risk industries such as mining, oil and gas, energy and construction. Workers store verified qualifications, licences, medicals and background checks in one place and grant employers permission to view them, while site owners and contractors get real-time visibility of workforce compliance. Founded by Matt Smith and headquartered in Perth and Sydney, the platform serves more than 1,500 organisations and over 160,000 verified workers, and raised a A$7.5M Series A led by OneVentures in February 2025 to expand across the Americas.
Certemy
Certemy is a SaaS workforce-compliance platform that helps enterprises and licensing boards track, verify, and manage the professional licenses and certifications of their workforce. It replaces spreadsheets and manual paperwork with automated workflows, primary-source verification, real-time dashboards, and HRIS integrations - reducing compliance risk and administrative cost for organizations that employ licensed and certified professionals across healthcare, field services, real estate, and multi-state operations.
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.
Distru
Distru is an Oakland-based software company that builds a purpose-made ERP for the licensed cannabis industry. Its seed-to-sale platform unifies inventory, order fulfillment, manufacturing, CRM, and financial tools while keeping operators compliant through deep two-way integrations with state track-and-trace systems like Metrc and BioTrack. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Blaine Hatab, Distru serves cannabis distributors, manufacturers, cultivators, and retailers across roughly 25 states and processes more than $2 billion in transactions annually.
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.
Dave Feldman
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.
Model N
Model N is a Redwood City-based enterprise software company that builds cloud revenue-management systems for pharmaceutical, medtech, semiconductor, and high-tech manufacturers. Its Revenue Cloud automates pricing, quoting, contracting, rebates, incentives, and regulatory compliance - the commercial machinery that governs how life sciences and high-tech companies book and protect their top line. Founded in 1999 and taken public in 2013, Model N was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2024 for $1.25 billion and now serves 150+ leading brands across more than 120 countries.
Anrok
Anrok is a San Francisco fintech building a global sales tax, VAT and GST compliance platform for software and AI companies. It monitors sales activity to flag tax obligations across jurisdictions, calculates tax in real time, and automates filing, remittance and reporting. More than 3,000 finance teams - including Anthropic, Cursor and Notion - use Anrok across 100+ countries where digital products are taxable.
Brico
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.
StandardC
StandardC is a San Francisco fintech that builds compliance and risk-management software for banks, credit unions and other financial institutions serving high-risk, cash-intensive industries - most notably cannabis-related businesses. Its AI-assisted platform bundles onboarding (ApplyC), KYC/KYB screening and continuous monitoring (MonitorC), GPS-verified virtual site inspections (VerifyC) and examiner-ready audit logging so smaller institutions can bank regulated sectors without drowning in manual BSA/AML work.
VComply
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.
Shawn Cantor
Shawn Cantor is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Certemy, a Series B compliance and credentialing SaaS company he started in 2017 with Zorik Gordon. Before Certemy, he served as COO of WorkWave (acquired by IFS in 2018), spent eight years at ReachLocal building its North American sales channel to more than 600 employees and $200M in revenue, and founded JAC Media, a digital marketing agency acquired by ReachLocal in 2005. His career is a sequence of building operations engines for outbound sales and services businesses.