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Cranium Wants to Be the Control Room for Every AI Your Company Forgot It Had
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?
Your Company Has Two AI Strategies. Velatir Raised €5 Million to Govern the One You Can't See
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.
Foundation Models: The Industry Report
A deeply researched report on the foundation model industry as of mid-2026: a sector where two labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, capture roughly 89% of startup AI revenue; where hyperscaler capital spending has tripled to an estimated $725 billion a year; where inference has overtaken training as the dominant cost; and where open-weight Chinese models now trail the closed frontier by only months. The report maps market structure, competitive strategy, the economics of scale, regulation, and where value is migrating up the stack.
Corti
Corti is a Copenhagen-based healthcare AI company that builds clinical-grade models and APIs helping developers and health systems automate medical conversations. Its Symphony model powers speech-to-text, medical coding, clinical note generation, and agentic workflows, serving roughly 100 million patient interactions a year across providers, insurers, EHR vendors, and public-safety dispatch centers - including the NHS. Corti positions itself as privacy-compliant, healthcare-specialized infrastructure that outperforms general-purpose models on medical tasks.
Monitaur
Monitaur is a Boston-based B2B software company that builds an AI governance platform for highly regulated industries, most notably insurance and financial services. Its 'policy-to-proof' approach helps enterprises define AI policies, inventory and manage models, and automatically generate the evidence, monitoring, and audit trails that businesses, regulators, and consumers need to trust high-impact AI. Founded in 2019 by Anthony Habayeb, Andrew Clark, and Michael Herman, the company raised a $6M Series A in 2024 and has been recognized by Forrester as a Customer Favorite in AI governance.
Vectice
Vectice is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company that builds a 'Regulatory MLOps' platform to automate the documentation, governance, and collaborative review of AI/ML models. Using a lightweight autolog library, it captures model, data, and code lineage from tools like Python, Databricks, and Snowflake, then assembles audit-ready model development and validation documents mapped to regulatory frameworks such as SR 11-7, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI. Founded in 2020 and backed by $15.6M in seed and Series A funding, Vectice targets banks, insurers, and other heavily regulated enterprises that need to scale AI without drowning in compliance paperwork.
ALIGNMT AI
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%.
SolidCore.ai
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.
Andreea Bodnari
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.
Dynamo AI
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.
Gabriel Kalejaiye
Gabriel Bayomi Tinoco Kalejaiye is a Brazilian-born engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Openlayer, a San Francisco-based AI governance and observability platform. After earning his MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple - where he contributed to both Siri and the secretive Vision Pro project - he left with two colleagues to solve the problem that haunted every AI team: models that look great in testing but fail in the real world. Openlayer provides enterprises with evaluation, monitoring, and compliance tooling across the full AI lifecycle, from prototype to production. The company raised a $14.5M Series A in May 2025, grew nearly 5x in 2024, and is now a recognized vendor in Gartner's 2026 Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability Platforms.
Gwendolyn Carpenter
Gwendolyn Carpenter is the Head of Artificial Intelligence Division at the European Investment Bank (EIB), where she defines and executes the Group's AI strategy, builds its enterprise AI platform, and leads EU AI Act compliance efforts. A veteran European policy practitioner, she has shaped digital innovation agendas across smart cities, social innovation research, and cybercrime policy - most recently turning her expertise toward the frontier challenge of governing AI inside one of the world's largest development finance institutions.