AI compliance startup Comp AI raises $34 million in series A funding
MIAMI: Comp AI, an AI-native compliance and security platform, announced Thursday it has raised $34 million in Series A funding led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.
The raise comes after a period of rapid growth since the company’s founding in January 2025. Comp AI said it has achieved 15x annual recurring revenue growth year-over-year and now serves more than 1,000 customers.
The funding will accelerate the company’s expansion beyond compliance automation into continuous cybersecurity, including real-time monitoring, control validation and security testing across applications and infrastructure.
The first generation of compliance software transformed a process once dependent on spreadsheets, consultants and months of manual preparation. But much of the underlying work still depends on people, leaving companies with periodic snapshots of their security posture. Agentic AI changes that constraint by allowing software to increasingly perform and validate work that previously required ongoing human intervention, the company said.
Comp AI is building around that shift, using organizational context and AI agents to automate onboarding, policy and risk generation, evidence gathering, control monitoring and vendor assessments. The result is a faster path to compliance, helping software companies become compliant in days rather than quarters, according to the company. Comp AI serves customers across industries including healthcare, financial services, higher education, professional services and software, such as Corgi, Dub, OpenCode, Inference and Primer.
“AI is changing the security and compliance landscape quickly, and businesses can no longer afford to treat compliance as an annual box-checking exercise,” said Varun Sridhar, principal at Roo Capital. “Lewis and Claudio saw that shift early and built an agentic platform that makes compliance and security continuous. The gravitational pull they have received from the market shows us that customers have felt the pain and see the need for a platform like this one.”
Sridhar said Comp AI is exactly the type of company Roo was built to back and has a real opportunity to define the category.
The shift is becoming more urgent as AI accelerates both software development and the threats against it. Companies are shipping and updating software faster, creating security environments that evolve more quickly than point-in-time assessments can capture. Security systems will need to keep pace, becoming more adaptive, real-time and precise.
“The first generation of compliance software proved this process could be automated. Agentic AI lets us go much further,” said Lewis Carhart, CEO and co-founder of Comp AI. “Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes.”
Carhart said the company started by making compliance dramatically faster and less resource-intensive and is now building toward a platform to proactively identify, validate and act on risk in real time.
As software companies sell to larger customers, enter regulated industries and manage more complex technology environments, security requirements arrive earlier and become more demanding. Comp AI helps companies meet those requirements today while building a security posture that can keep pace as they scale, the company said.
“Historically, compliance has been an approximation of security because so much of the work could only be performed manually and periodically,” said Claudio Fuentes, COO and co-founder of Comp AI. “Agentic AI changes that constraint. Work that once required teams of people can increasingly happen continuously in software.”
Fuentes said AI is making the threat landscape faster and more dynamic, and he believes the next generation of security companies will be built around that reality from day one.
Purpose-built for the agentic era, Comp AI is designing its platform around what AI agents can now do, rather than layering AI onto workflows designed before the technology existed. Its agents can reason across organizational context and increasingly execute work on behalf of security and compliance teams.
“AI changes both what software can do and how quickly technical teams can build it,” said Mariano Fuentes, CTO and co-founder of Comp AI. “As models become more capable, we can move beyond software that simply records whether security work happened toward software that can execute and verify that work.”
Comp AI will use the new capital to accelerate product and engineering development, expand its continuous cybersecurity capabilities and bolster its team across its Miami headquarters and New York office. The company said it has grown 10x year-over-year and plans to hire across product, engineering, operations, sales, customer success and marketing as it expands its customer base to serve larger organizations with increasingly complex security requirements.
“When I first visited Comp AI in New York, the team was four people working out of a single room,” said Nathan Owen, general partner at Grand Ventures. “Since then, an increasing number of our own portfolio companies have left other compliance platforms out of frustration and moved to Comp AI, and every one of them raved about both the process and the result.”
Owen said the company has a team that moves incredibly fast, stays close to its customers and makes every resource count.
Comp AI is an AI-native compliance and security company helping businesses navigate an increasingly complex security landscape. Its platform brings compliance, risk management, vendor security and security operations into one place, using agentic AI and automation to reduce manual work and help teams stay ahead of evolving requirements. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Miami with offices in New York, Comp AI serves more than 1,000 companies globally.
