69 Best Compliance Automation Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Compliance Automation Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 1,205 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $23.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $343.8m.

Last update to the database: Mar 31, 2026. See changelog.

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7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

15

Funding Rounds

$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

4

Funding Rounds

$583.6m

Money raised

TriNet Zenefits is a software as a service (SaaS) company providing a digital human resources platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

8

Funding Rounds

$2.8b

Money raised

Cerebras is an AI company building computer systems designed to accelerate AI workflows.

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5

Funding Rounds

$349.2m

Money raised

HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

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7

Funding Rounds

$267.5m

Money raised

Immuta is a Boston-based provider of a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance.

6

Funding Rounds

$21.8m

Money raised

A software company offering a low-code development platform for creating mobile business forms.

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4

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

CUJO AI is a network intelligence software company.

4

Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

TrustArc is a San Francisco-based developer of privacy compliance and risk management software for GDPR, CCPA, and related regulations.

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6

Funding Rounds

$97.8m

Money raised

Mighty Buildings is a company working in the construction industry with 3D printing technology and advanced composite materials, funded by Y Combinator.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.

10

Funding Rounds

$447.0m

Money raised

Interos is a Virginia-based company developing a logistics assurance platform designed for supply chain risk management, through a breakthrough AI SaaS platform.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.

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7

Funding Rounds

$280.9m

Money raised

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

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5

Funding Rounds

$58.2m

Money raised

Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based software company and developer of an automated prediction ordering platform for food retailers, intended to reduce food waste.

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8

Funding Rounds

$251.1m

Money raised

H2O.ai is the creator of H2O, an open-source machine learning and artificial intelligence platform.

8

Funding Rounds

$252.0m

Money raised

Kandji is a San Diego-based device management software company developing a device management platform for Apple devices.

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5

Funding Rounds

$57.2m

Money raised

A company offering a business intelligence and risk management platform.

14

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

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6

Funding Rounds

$53.9m

Money raised

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

2

Funding Rounds

$25.5m

Money raised

Itential is an Atlanta-based network company developing intelligent network automation tools for multi-domain networks.

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7

Funding Rounds

$97.8m

Money raised

Directly is a San Francisco-based developer of artificial intelligence systems of customer experience and chatbots founded by Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier and Jeff Patterson.

2

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

Nillion is a decentralized privacy solutions provider founded in 2021 by Andrew Masanto.

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13

Funding Rounds

$655.6m

Money raised

Chainalysis is a company that provides tools for cryptocurrency analysis, compliance, and investigation.

7

Funding Rounds

$240.0m

Money raised

Intercom is a technology company developing and providing a communications platform for web and mobile businesses to interact with customers.

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6

Funding Rounds

$96.3m

Money raised

Anomali is a Redwood City, California-based cybersecurity company offering real-time threat intelligence capabilities.

6

Funding Rounds

$678.5m

Money raised

Klaviyo is a marketing automation software company which has a email software platform with SMS for ecommerce companies.

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10

Funding Rounds

$568.0m

Money raised

An insurance technology company offering artificially intelligent software for insurance fraud detection and claims handling.

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8

Funding Rounds

$28.3m

Money raised

Hazy is a machine learning company creating statistically controlled synthetic data for fraud detection and risk modeling.

2

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

OpsRamp is an IT Operations management software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

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8

Funding Rounds

$474.5m

Money raised

Trulioo is a Vancouver-based company offering an electronic identity verification platform.

1

Funding Rounds

Doxim is a Markham, Ontario-based customer communications and engagement technology software development company focused on providing omnichannel communications and payment solutions for the financial services industry.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.3m

Money raised

Hyperproof is a cloud-based compliance operations software.

3

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

Kindred AI is a company founded in 2014 by George Babu, Geordie Rose, James Bergstra and Suzanne Gildert.

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7

Funding Rounds

$184.7m

Money raised

Tessian (formerly Checkrecipient) is an artificial intelligence email security platform.

13

Funding Rounds

$1.6b

Money raised

An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

8

Funding Rounds

$286.6m

Money raised

SparkCognition is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company offering cognitive computing analytics for the information technology, operational technology, and the internet of things (IoT) industries.

3

Funding Rounds

$23.0m

Money raised

Serve Robotics is a developer of autonomous robotic vehicles intended for use in delivery, especially food delivery, in urban settings.

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3

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

Macondo Vision is an AI platform provider specializing in computer vision systems for tracking objects and workers' actions and providing machine learning-based analytics.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Amplemarket provides lead generation, email outreach, and lead qualification on autopilot.

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6

Funding Rounds

$727.4m

Money raised

Fivetran is a California based data software company that helps analysts use cloud data warehouses to store and access their data.

6

Funding Rounds

$190.7m

Money raised

Ada is a brand interaction platform that enables the automation of conversations with customers and employees via an AI-based chatbot.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.8b

Money raised

Automation Anywhere is a company developing cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software.

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8

Funding Rounds

$101.4m

Money raised

Synthetic biology company that uses AI, DNA synthesis, and robotics to discover biological molecules.

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3

Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

Drift is a software company offering a conversational marketing platform founded in 2015 by David Cancel.

3

Funding Rounds

$73.0m

Money raised

Fourthline, founded in 2017 by Krik Gunning and Chris van Straeten, provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-based compliance and know your customer (KYC) platform for financial technology companies.

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4

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

Hearsay Systems (formerly Hearsay Social) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) digital marketing platform for financial services that uses predictive analytics to help financial advisors automate marketing tasks.

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2

Funding Rounds

$82.0m

Money raised

Bionic is a company founded in 2019 by Idan Ninyo.

10

Funding Rounds

$36.3m

Money raised

Chronicled is a blockchain company founded by Ryan Orr, Samantha Radocchia, Maurizio Greco and David Aho.

6

Funding Rounds

$17.4m

Money raised

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3

Funding Rounds

$502.0m

Money raised

Rubrik is a cloud data management company providing recovery and application development solutions for enterprise data management.

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2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Company providing consultation for security standards and regulatory compliance for technology startups

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10

Funding Rounds

$273.8m

Money raised

Alpaca is a developer-first API brokerage platform founded in 2015 by Yoshi Yokokawa, Hitoshi Harada and Yuki Hayashi.

3

Funding Rounds

$305.0m

Money raised

Moveworks is an AI, machine learning, enterprise natural language understanding (NLU) and chatbot platform that resolves IT Service Desk support issues.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

A software company headquartered in San Francisco, California providing spreadsheet workflow automation software for businesses.

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8

Funding Rounds

$292.0m

Money raised

Swimlane is the developer of a security organization and response platform that allows businesses to automate their security.

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12

Funding Rounds

$296.1m

Money raised

BigID is a cybersecurity company developing a platform for data protection and privacy compliance.

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2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

A software company offering a digital identification and e-signature service platform.

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6

Funding Rounds

$238.9m

Money raised

HyperScience is a AI enabled company for office work company founded in 2014 by Peter Brodsky, Krasimir Marinov and Vladimir Tzankov.

3

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

Gideon is a robotics company that creates products for industrial settings.

10

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Tipalti automates the way companies pay suppliers, partners, publishers and employees with cloud-based solutions which addresses all phases of the payables workflow.

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4

Funding Rounds

$60.2m

Money raised

Rapid7 is a Boston-based cybersecurity company providing security data and analytics solutions.

1

Funding Rounds

$48.8m

Money raised

Kontron is a company developing embedded computing technologies (ECT) with a portfolio of solutions for secure hardware, middleware, and services for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

6

Funding Rounds

$613.7m

Money raised

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform for exploring, analyzing, and sharing real-time business analytics data.

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5

Funding Rounds

$11.9m

Money raised

R3 Printing is a company offering 3D-printed products.

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5

Funding Rounds

$44.4m

Money raised

Osano is a data privacy platform founded in Austin, Texas by Arlo Gilbert and Scott Hertel.

5

Funding Rounds

$217.0m

Money raised

Takeoff Technologies provides an automated grocery fulfillment solution for grocers.

8

Funding Rounds

$100.4m

Money raised

A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.

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