Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series A round on Thursday. The round was led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. The company was founded last January by Lewis Carhart (CEO), Claudio Fuentes (COO), and his brother, Mariano Fuentes (CTO).
Claudio and Mariano had been building startups together for nearly a decade, met Carhart a few years ago, and invited him to join LeapAI, a workflow platform they were building. Claudio was the CEO and co-founder, while Carhart served as head of growth and Mariano was a senior full-stack engineer. The startup ran for about two years, growing to more than a million users, but they eventually decided to shut it down after not finding a “sticky enough use case to warrant continued investment.” That experience taught them a lot, though, they recalled.
For one, they learned how to build with LLMs and the importance of finding a specific use case for a product. They also learned how tedious the SOC 2 compliance process was, especially as they tried to scale the platform to work with bigger enterprise clients. This time, Carhart would take the lead as CEO because it was his idea, the trio said.
Comp AI says it’s building an agentic platform to tackle tedious security and compliance work; that means having AI agents help write company security policies or collect evidence for security audits. The platform also continuously monitors whether a company is meeting compliance controls. Comp AI is part of the next generation of cybersecurity startups emerging to help companies run more efficiently in the agentic era.
It also doesn’t replace humans, the trio said. Human workers help onboard the AI, support controls, and maintain the agentic workflow. The team hopes this Series A capital will help with product expansion.
It has raised $37.5 million in funding to date. There has been much conversation about the new wave of security risks in the agentic era (and with it, a wave of AI security and compliance companies like Vanta and Drata). Carhart said the rapid adoption and experimentation companies are doing with AI is creating a need for continuous — and perhaps autonomous — security and compliance platforms.
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