Tagged: regtech
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Will Lawrence
Will Lawrence is the co-founder and CEO of Bretton AI, the San Francisco company formerly known as Greenlite AI that builds AI agents for financial crime and compliance operations. After leading anti-money laundering product work at Facebook/Meta and building compliance infrastructure at Paxos, he started the company in 2023 to automate the slow, manual investigative work behind KYC, AML and sanctions checks. In February 2026 the company rebranded to Bretton AI and raised a $75 million Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $90 million, with customers including Robinhood, Mercury, Ramp, Gusto and a set of OCC-, FDIC- and Federal Reserve-regulated banks.
Caroline Shleifer
Caroline Shleifer is the founder and CEO of RegASK, a Singapore-based regtech company that pairs an AI engine built for regulatory content with a global network of 1,800+ subject matter experts. A pharmacist and scientist by training with a PharmD-PhD in medical physics from the University of Paris V, she spent years leading regulatory and scientific affairs across Asia Pacific at SPRIM before founding RegASK in 2018 to bring regulatory work into the AI era.
Chris Lipowicz
Chris Lipowicz is the CEO of Elementus, a New York based blockchain intelligence company that helps hedge funds, financial institutions, government agencies, and legal teams interpret what happens on-chain. An enterprise operator with more than 20 years of experience building revenue and operations teams, he came up through real estate and security technology firms including Building Intelligence and Cherre before moving into crypto data. He argues that on-chain activity is public but hard to read without the right tools, and positions Elementus as the layer that turns raw blockchain data into real-time, compliant, risk-aware decisions.
Craig Costigan
Craig Costigan is the CEO of NICE Actimize, the financial crime and compliance software division of NICE, a role he has held since 2018. He leads market strategy, product, R&D, sales and marketing for a business that helps banks and other financial institutions fight money laundering, fraud and market abuse. A founding partner of a securities finance software firm in the early 1990s, he built a three-decade career in capital markets technology at K-Tek International, SunGard and FIS before taking the top job at NICE Actimize, where he has pushed the company toward generative and agentic AI.
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.
Caruso
Caruso is an AI-native fund administration and registry platform for private markets, built to replace the spreadsheets, manual workflows and fragmented tools that fund managers have long relied on. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Sydney with offices in Dallas and Auckland, Caruso unifies investor onboarding, capital raising, fund accounting, registry operations and investor reporting into a single system, offered as software, outsourced services, or a hybrid of both. More than 80 fund managers running 900+ funds and $55B+ in assets under administration use the platform, including enterprise clients such as Centuria Capital Group.
Catena Labs
Catena Labs is a Boston-based fintech building what it calls the first AI-native financial institution - a regulated bank and governance platform designed for AI agents that autonomously send and receive money. Founded in 2025 by Circle co-founder and USDC co-creator Sean Neville, Catena pairs agent identity, deterministic spending policies, and audit trails with account management and stablecoin, card, ACH and wire payment rails. It also open-sourced the Agent Commerce Kit (ACK), a set of protocols for agent identity and payments built on W3C web standards.
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.
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.
Merkle Science
Merkle Science is a blockchain analytics and predictive risk intelligence company that helps crypto exchanges, financial institutions, government agencies and Web3 businesses detect, investigate and prevent illicit cryptocurrency activity. Founded in Singapore in 2018 by Mriganka Pattnaik and Nirmal Ak, it uses behavior-based machine learning rather than static blacklists to power its two core products - Compass for real-time transaction monitoring and compliance (AML/KYC/CFT), and Tracker for cross-chain forensic investigations across 10,000+ assets and 200+ bridges.
N5 Now
N5 Now is a Buenos Aires-founded software company built specifically for the financial industry. Its 'systematics' platform - along with AI products AIfred, Pep and Singular - lets banks, insurers and payment companies connect CRM, campaigns, analytics, compliance and omnichannel operations on top of existing legacy systems instead of replacing them. Founded in 2017 by former Santander executive Julian Colombo, N5 works fully remotely across teams in dozens of cities, serves clients including Santander, Mastercard, Itau, Interbank and Zurich in roughly 15-18 countries, and closed a $20M Series A in 2025 to accelerate its AI agents for banks.
NICE Actimize
NICE Actimize is the financial-crime, risk and compliance division of NICE Ltd. and one of the largest providers of anti-money laundering, fraud prevention and trading-surveillance software to banks, regulators and financial institutions worldwide. Its AI-driven X-Sight platform, ActOne case management and SURVEIL-X surveillance suite help more than a thousand institutions detect suspicious activity, screen against sanctions lists, manage regulatory reporting and investigate financial crime - increasingly using agentic AI to cut investigation time.
RegASK
RegASK is a Singapore-based regtech company building an agentic AI regulatory intelligence platform for life sciences and consumer products teams. It monitors regulatory change across 160+ markets, pairs autonomous AI agents with a global community of 1,800+ regulatory experts to validate insights, and automates the workflows that turn regulatory updates into compliant action. Founded in 2018 by Caroline Shleifer, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2022 and in 2025 became the first vertical regulatory intelligence platform certified to ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management.
Silent Eight
Silent Eight is a Singapore-headquartered regtech company that builds purpose-built artificial intelligence for financial crime compliance. Its Iris platform automates name screening, transaction screening, transaction monitoring, investigation and case documentation for banks, producing decisions with written, auditable narratives instead of black-box scores. The company is used by Tier 1 institutions including HSBC and Standard Chartered, and has raised roughly $55 million to date, including a $40 million Series B in 2022.
Slice | Global Equity
Slice is an AI-native platform for managing employee equity across borders. It unifies cap tables, grants, exercises and reporting while automatically applying each country's tax rules and compliance requirements, helping finance, legal, HR and payroll teams issue equity to distributed teams without triggering local penalties. Founded in 2022 and backed by Insight Partners, Slice raised a $25M Series A in early 2026 and counts fast-growing tech companies such as Wiz, Aidoc, Silverfort and Wayve among its customers.
Solidus Labs
Solidus Labs is a New York-based crypto-native risk monitoring and market surveillance company founded in 2018 by former Goldman Sachs engineers. Its flagship HALO platform combines trade surveillance, transaction monitoring and threat intelligence to help crypto exchanges, brokers, custodians, stablecoin issuers and regulators detect market manipulation, fraud and money laundering across onchain and offchain markets. HALO monitors over one trillion events daily, deploys 50+ crypto-native abuse typologies, and in 2025 was selected by the EU's ESMA as a trade surveillance provider under MiCA.
Transient.AI
Transient.AI is a New York-based fintech startup building what it calls a Trusted AI Operating System for capital markets - a compliant, explainable intelligence layer that unifies fragmented legacy systems for hedge funds, asset managers, RIAs, and sell-side trading desks. Founded by former traders and technologists from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, UBS, and McKinsey, the company ships a suite of enterprise SaaS platforms (Caddie.AI, ClarityRIA, CapFlo.AI, Sales+) plus specialized AI agents for trade ideas, surveillance, AML, and term sheets. In May 2026 it raised its Series A led by NEXT Investors to scale deployment inside regulated financial institutions.
Evan Wong
Evan Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Checkbox, a legal AI company he started in Sydney in 2016 and now runs from New York. Checkbox builds an AI 'legal front door' that lets in-house legal teams intake, triage and automate routine work through a no-code, drag-and-drop platform. A serial entrepreneur who launched his first company at 17, Wong studied Commerce and Law at UNSW, was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019, and in early 2026 raised a US$23M Series A that valued Checkbox at roughly US$100M. His customers include large enterprises such as PepsiCo, SAP, Telstra and Woolworths.
Feedzai
Feedzai is an AI-native platform that helps banks and financial institutions detect and prevent fraud and financial crime in real time. Founded in Portugal in 2011, its RiskOps platform unifies fraud detection, anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, identity verification and scam prevention across the customer lifecycle. Feedzai screens transactions for institutions such as Citi and Lloyds Banking Group, and in 2025 was selected by the European Central Bank to help safeguard the forthcoming digital euro. The company reached a $2 billion valuation in October 2025.
AiPrise
AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance platform that helps businesses verify individuals and companies across borders. It unifies 100+ data sources and 50+ KYB/KYC vendors into a single orchestration layer for identity verification (KYC), business verification (KYB), and fraud and risk scoring, letting companies onboard customers, vendors, and partners in more than 200 countries in minutes rather than weeks. Founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator, AiPrise serves 150+ global customers and closed a $12.5M Series A led by Headline in October 2025.
Bretton AI
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite AI, builds an AI-native platform for the financial back office - deploying audit-ready AI agents that run compliance, risk and fraud operations for OCC-, FDIC- and Federal Reserve-regulated banks and fintechs. The agents ingest alerts and policies, consolidate evidence across systems, auto-resolve low-risk cases and escalate complex matters with cited, traceable narratives. Founded in 2023 by Will Lawrence and Alex Jin, the company rebranded from Greenlite to Bretton in February 2026 alongside a $75M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures.
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.
Flagright
Flagright is an AI-native financial crime compliance platform that gives fintechs, banks, and crypto firms a single system for transaction monitoring, sanctions and watchlist screening, dynamic risk scoring, case management, and regulatory filing. Founded in 2022 by Baran Ozkan and Madhu G. Nadig after Baran spent roughly 18 months failing to find a real-time monitoring vendor he liked, the company sells what it calls an 'AI operating system for compliance' - including an agentic investigation engine, AI Forensics, that runs alert investigations end to end. It serves 100+ financial institutions across 35+ countries and raised a $12.5M Series A in June 2026.
Osano
Osano is an Austin-based data privacy platform that helps companies comply with GDPR, CCPA, and 95+ global privacy laws through consent management, cookie banners, subject rights automation, data mapping, vendor risk monitoring, and privacy assessments. Founded in 2018, it is the first data privacy platform certified as a B Corporation and backs its software with an industry-only 'No Fines, No Penalties' guarantee. Osano processes over a billion consents a month for thousands of companies.
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.
Variance
Variance builds investigative AI agents that automate risk and compliance work for banks, fintechs, and Fortune 500 platforms - handling KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, and fraud investigations that would otherwise take teams of analysts days to complete. Founded in 2023 by ex-Apple fraud engineers Karine Mellata and Michael Lin (originally as the trust-and-safety startup Intrinsic), the company raised a $21.5M Series A in March 2026 led by Ten Eleven 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.
Martin Markiewicz
Martin Markiewicz is the co-founder and CEO of Silent Eight, a Singapore-headquartered regtech that builds AI models banks use to screen names, transactions and alerts for money-laundering, sanctions and terrorist-financing risk. A mathematician by training with roots in Poland's tech scene, he has spent the last decade convincing tier-one banks to let algorithms make the first call on suspicious activity.