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Clearly AI
Clearly AI is a Seattle-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that automates security and privacy reviews for regulated enterprises. Its AI-native platform gathers context, assesses risk, and flags where human review is actually needed - so security, privacy, and compliance teams can clear their review backlogs and ship products faster without sacrificing trust. Founded in 2024 by former Amazon security engineers Emily and Joe Choi-Greene, the company raised an $8.4M seed round in February 2026 and counts Fortune 500 brands like Ericsson, Rivian, and HID Global among its customers.
Emily Choi-Greene
Emily Choi-Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Clearly AI, a Y Combinator (S24) startup in Seattle that automates the slow, paperwork-heavy security and privacy reviews enterprises dread. She spent five years at Amazon leading Alexa AI Security and later owned data security and privacy at Moveworks, performing hundreds of reviews by hand before building the tool she wished she had. A Dartmouth computer scientist who graduated with High Honors, she runs the company alongside her husband and CTO Joe Choi-Greene, whom she met in 2019 over an Alexa security review. Clearly AI has raised roughly $8.4M and counts Fortune 500s and global brands among its early users.