8 RegTech companies in San Francisco.
By the Numbers
Bretton AI
San Francisco
Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite AI) builds AI agents for financial crime compliance, helping banks and fintechs automate AML and KYC work.
Commenda
The company automates multinational compliance by indexing regulations and enabling fast querying, targeting a $200B market and challenging the Big Four as a nimble alternative; it has raised $10M seed and counts Razorpay, Pine Labs, MPL, a
Middesk
Middesk enables B2B companies to transact by connecting them to essential products and services, backed by Sequoia, Accel, and Y Combinator and serving customers such as Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Divvy, Rippling, and Gusto.
Accend
Accend builds AI-powered risk, compliance, and underwriting automation tools for fintechs and banks. A YC S23 graduate, it has raised $6.2M in seed funding from Adverb Ventures, YC, General Catalyst, and 645 Ventures; clients include Pleo,
Hadrius
Hadrius automates and consolidates securities compliance for investment firms, serving over 500 institutions and more than $5 trillion AUM. A YC W23 alum with over $10M ARR, it’s described as fastest-growing company in its space and an emer
Sphere
Sphere is an AI-powered cross-border tax compliance platform that automates sales tax, VAT, and GST, building local rails into tax authorities worldwide and the world’s first AI-native tax engine; backed by Felicis Ventures and Y Combinator
Readily
Readily provides AI-powered compliance tools for healthcare organizations, aiming to build the compliance layer for every company and cut admin costs. Founded by Edward Tiong and Wei An Wang, it serves large healthcare clients and reports 3
Luthor
Luthor is the first AI-native compliance firm for RIAs and broker-dealers, delivering a full-stack program that automates SEC, FINRA, and FinCEN compliance by blending purpose-built LLMs with human expertise (including former SEC attorneys)
