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Complyance wants your auditors to arrive bored
The enterprise GRC company is putting AI agents to work on evidence, vendors and policies. Its most revealing customer story begins with a CISO who wanted nothing to do with AI.
Sure found its business behind the app
The insurance app was the opening act. The machinery behind it became a business that lets familiar brands sell protection without building an insurance platform from scratch.
MetaCompliance wants to change what happens after you click
Security training is easy to count. Safer habits are harder. MetaCompliance is building a business around that gap, combining phishing rehearsals, policy paperwork and lessons triggered by real-world exposure.
NAVEX Turned the Ethics Hotline Into a $2.5 Billion Risk Machine
The company began as a private-equity roll-up of four compliance specialists. Fourteen years later, its real advantage is not the hotline - it is the data trail that begins when someone decides to speak up.
The 30-Year Software Company That Still Answers to Insurance Agents
HawkSoft began with a father, a son and a Tandy computer. Three decades later, its best product decision may be the one it keeps refusing: selling out.
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.
MedTrainer Turned Healthcare’s Worst Paperwork Chore Into a $54 Million Software Bet - Here’s the Playbook
MedTrainer built a business around the work nobody in healthcare wants to do twice. The payoff is a unified compliance system - but the first bill comes due in data cleanup, configuration, and changed habits.
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.
WithCoverage
WithCoverage is a New York-based insurtech that replaces the traditional commission-based insurance broker with a flat-fee, AI-enabled risk management team. Its platform pairs licensed insurance experts, attorneys and claims specialists with an AI audit engine that scans policies and operations to find hidden exposures, run competitive carrier bidding, and cut premiums - routinely saving clients over $100,000 a year. Founded in 2023 by Opendoor co-founder JD Ross and Compound alumnus Max Brenner, the company has replaced brokers for 550+ fast-growing businesses including Gopuff, Bombas, Blank Street and Eight Sleep, and raised a $42M Series B in January 2026 co-led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
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.
Max Brenner
Max Brenner is co-founder and CEO of WithCoverage, an AI-enabled risk management and insurance platform based in New York that raised a $42M Series B in January 2026, led by Sequoia and Khosla Ventures. He was part of the founding team at Compound, the wealth management platform, where he helped scale to its first $1B in AUM before starting WithCoverage with Opendoor co-founder JD Ross to rebuild the commercial insurance broker from scratch.
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.
Modern Life
Modern Life is an AI-powered, tech-enabled life insurance brokerage that gives financial advisors a single platform to quote, underwrite, and manage life insurance policies. Founded in 2021 by Michael Konialian and Jack Arenas and backed by Thrive Capital, it replaces a stack of 10+ fragmented legacy tools, compares quotes across 30+ carriers, and uses accelerated underwriting to cut policy cycle times from roughly six months to minutes. Licensed in all 50 states, the company raised a $20M Series A in November 2025, bringing total funding to $35M.
Dustin Yoder
Dustin Yoder is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sureify, a San Jose-based insurtech SaaS company that builds a low-code, cloud-native platform helping life insurance and annuity carriers digitize their sales, service, and engagement operations. With roots in the insurance industry through his family's Silicon Valley brokerage, Yoder entered insurtech in 2012, making him one of the earliest pioneers in the space. Under his leadership, Sureify has grown to serve marquee carriers including State Farm, Allstate, Nationwide, and Principal, reaching $38.9M in annual revenue by 2024 after raising $25M+ in total funding including a $15M Series C from Aspen Capital Group in 2021.