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Compliant LLM
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.
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.
Maxxsure
Maxxsure is a Dallas-area cybersecurity company that turns cyber risk into a number executives can actually use. Its flagship product, the M-Score, quantifies an organization's cyber risk on a 0-to-1000 scale by collecting thousands of internal, external, and third-party variables and running them through AI and machine-learning models. Rather than handing boards another vulnerability report, Maxxsure frames risk in financial terms - 'down to the dollar' - so leadership can decide what to remediate, what to accept, and how much cyber insurance they actually need.
Jake Taylor
Jake Taylor is a physicist turned founder and the CEO of Axiomatic AI, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building 'Axiomatic Intelligence' - AI that combines frontier models with formal mathematical and physics-based verification so engineers can design and prove out hardware like semiconductors and photonic chips. Before Axiomatic, Taylor spent 16 years at NIST as a Fellow and ran the first U.S. effort to coordinate quantum science, serving as the inaugural Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he architected the National Quantum Initiative. He holds a PhD in physics from Harvard, has authored more than 200 publications, and his honors range from the Presidential Early Career Award to the Service to America Medal. In March 2026 he led Axiomatic to an $18M seed round.
Paravision
Paravision is a San Francisco-based Identity AI company building face recognition, liveness, deepfake detection, and age estimation tools used by governments, airports, banks, and stadiums worldwide. Rebranded from Ever AI in 2019 after topping NIST's facial recognition leaderboard, it sells ethically trained biometric SDKs to enterprises and Five Eyes partners.
Doug Aley
Doug Aley is the CEO of Paravision, a San Francisco-based AI company building the world's most accurate facial recognition and identity AI technology. A Stanford and Harvard Business School alumnus, Aley co-founded his first company at 19, scaled Zulily from $100M to $700M in sales pre-IPO, and eventually landed at Paravision where he has guided the company to back-to-back #1 global rankings on NIST's Face Recognition Vendor Tests. Under his leadership, Paravision has raised $47M in funding, established itself as the only US company in the top 10 globally for facial recognition accuracy, and built a portfolio of AI tools spanning liveness detection, deepfake detection, and biometric authentication used in government, travel, border security, and enterprise applications worldwide.