All the funding deals in the AI governance market
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The AI governance market is growing as companies and public organizations seek safer and more accountable ways to use artificial intelligence.
We conducted deep research and collected 50 AI governance funding deals announced between 2024 and 2026.
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- The AI governance market attracted much larger rounds in 2026. Nine Q1 2026 deals raised a combined $310 million, led by Braintrust, WitnessAI, Guild.ai, and JetStream.
- AI agent governance became a central investment theme in 2026. Startups increasingly focused on controlling agent identities, permissions, actions, outputs, and audit records.
- Funding in the AI governance market moved from general policy management toward active enforcement. New platforms can block unsafe actions and apply compliance rules while AI systems operate.
- AI security and AI governance are becoming closely connected. Many funded platforms combine governance tools with guardrails, red teaming, runtime protection, and risk monitoring.
- Regulated industries remain important customers for the AI governance market. Financial services, healthcare, government, and other regulated sectors need clear evidence that AI systems follow established rules.
- Evaluation platforms are becoming part of the AI governance infrastructure. Braintrust, Patronus AI, Openlayer, and Coval help organizations test AI performance before and after deployment.
- Several AI governance companies raised more than once during the research period. Aim Security, Norm AI, Patronus AI, Prompt Security, and WitnessAI all completed separate funding rounds.
- The AI governance market still supports early-stage companies. Small seed rounds continue to fund specialized products for compliance, assurance, red teaming, and AI risk monitoring.
- The largest AI governance funding deals are no longer limited to broad enterprise platforms. Specialized tools for AI agents, evaluation, security, and formal verification also attracted significant capital.
This chart, featured in our AI governance market deck, shows annual venture capital investment in AI governance startups
Summary table of the funding deals for the AI governance market since 2024
We define the AI governance market as the set of products and services that help organizations manage, demonstrate, and continuously enforce accountability, compliance, and risk controls for AI systems across their lifecycle.
We include AI-focused governance/risk platforms, compliance and audit tooling, safety and evaluation controls used for policy enforcement and evidence generation, and assurance services (e.g., independent testing, red teaming, audits) tied to AI deployments.
We exclude generic MLOps/dev tools, general cybersecurity or privacy tools, and productivity features unless they are explicitly used to enforce AI policies or produce audit-grade governance evidence.
We focused exclusively on pure players, defined as companies with at least 70–80% of their business directly tied to the AI governance market.
Our analysis has been done at a global level with a minimum funding threshold of $300k.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the AI governance market has evolved recently.
If you want a longer-term view, we also have a study of how funding activity in the AI governance market has changed over the years.
Also, you should know that we have a dedicated page, updated weekly, with all the latest fundraising deals in the AI governance market.
| Name | What they do | Amount in $ | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patronus AI | Tests AI agents in simulated environments to find safety and reliability problems. | $50.0M | Q2 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Coval | Tests and monitors autonomous voice and chat AI agents. | $28.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| NeuralTrust | Helps enterprises identify, secure, govern, and control AI agents. | $20.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Pramaana Labs | Uses formal verification to check AI systems in high-risk industries. | $27.0M | Q2 2026 | TechCrunch |
| NewCore | Provides identity, authentication, governance, and control tools for AI agents. | $66.0M | Q2 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Willow | Gives enterprises visibility and detailed control over autonomous AI agents. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| ZeroDrift | Flags, blocks, or rewrites AI outputs that break compliance rules. | $10.0M | Q2 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Geordie AI | Monitors autonomous AI agents and fixes security or governance problems during operation. | $30.0M | Q2 2026 | Geordie AI |
| Iridius | Applies regulatory rules to AI workflows and creates compliance evidence. | $8.6M | Q2 2026 | Business Wire |
| Haast | Adds company policies, risk limits, and approval rules to business workflows. | $12.0M | Q2 2026 | Haast |
| AIM Intelligence | Tests AI models and agents for attacks, weaknesses, and unsafe behavior. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | Seoul Economic Daily |
| JetStream | Helps enterprises discover, control, and safely adopt artificial intelligence. | $34.0M | Q1 2026 | JetStream |
| Guild.ai | Provides governance, access controls, monitoring, and audit records for AI agents. | $44.0M | Q1 2026 | Guild.ai |
| OpenBox AI | Provides runtime governance, verified AI activity, and clear audit records. | $5.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Complyance | Automates AI risk, compliance, evidence collection, and audit preparation. | $20.0M | Q1 2026 | Complyance |
| OPAQUE | Protects private AI workloads with policy enforcement and verifiable audit evidence. | $24.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Portkey | Provides governance, monitoring, guardrails, and policy controls for production AI. | $15.0M | Q1 2026 | Portkey |
| Braintrust | Provides evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for production AI systems. | $80.0M | Q1 2026 | Braintrust |
| Fiddler | Monitors AI agents and applies evaluation, governance, and policy controls. | $30.0M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| WitnessAI | Secures and governs enterprise AI applications, operations, and autonomous agents. | $58.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Portal26 | Discovers shadow AI and enforces safe enterprise generative AI policies. | $9.0M | Q4 2025 | Portal26 |
| Darwin AI | Helps government agencies build and manage responsible artificial intelligence solutions. | $15.0M | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| AI Score | Tracks enterprise AI usage, risk scores, compliance, and governance controls. | $1.0M | Q4 2025 | UKTN |
| ALIGNMT AI | Monitors healthcare AI risks and creates clear compliance reports. | $6.5M | Q3 2025 | ALIGNMT AI |
| Trustible | Helps enterprises identify, measure, and reduce artificial intelligence risks. | $4.6M | Q2 2025 | Trustible |
| Openlayer | Tests, monitors, and governs enterprise AI systems throughout deployment. | $14.5M | Q2 2025 | Openlayer |
| Virtue AI | Provides AI red teaming, guardrails, and deployment risk controls. | $30.0M | Q2 2025 | Business Wire |
| YRIKKA | Stress-tests visual AI systems used in high-risk environments. | $1.5M | Q2 2025 | SiliconANGLE |
| Repello AI | Continuously tests and protects generative AI applications from attacks. | $1.2M | Q2 2025 | Repello AI |
| Noma Security | Protects the AI supply chain, AI applications, and AI runtime activity. | $32.0M | Q4 2024 | SecurityWeek |
| Prompt Security | Secures and governs employee, developer, and application use of generative AI. | $18.0M | Q4 2024 | Prompt Security |
| Calvin Risk | Tests AI systems and measures deployment risks with quantitative methods. | $4.0M | Q4 2024 | Tech.eu |
| DAIKI | Centralizes AI governance, risk monitoring, compliance, and AI Act controls. | $1.62M | Q4 2024 | PR Newswire |
| ModelOp | Manages AI inventories, risks, compliance duties, and operational governance. | $10.0M | Q3 2024 | ModelOp |
| Protect AI | Finds and reduces security risks across enterprise AI and machine learning systems. | $60.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Credo AI | Helps enterprises manage responsible AI oversight, risk, and compliance. | $21.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Lakera | Protects generative AI applications from prompt attacks and unsafe outputs. | $20.0M | Q3 2024 | Lakera |
| FairNow | Manages business and regulatory risks when companies build or buy AI. | $3.5M | Q2 2024 | Business Wire |
| Aim Security | Secures enterprise generative AI adoption across applications and business environments. | $18.0M | Q2 2024 | Business Wire |
| Norm AI | Uses artificial intelligence to automate regulatory compliance for regulated organizations. | $27.0M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| WitnessAI | Provides visibility, security, policy controls, and governance for enterprise AI use. | $27.5M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Patronus AI | Finds hallucinations, safety failures, and copyright risks in large language models. | $17.0M | Q2 2024 | Patronus AI |
| Monitaur | Manages model governance and AI oversight for highly regulated companies. | $6.0M | Q2 2024 | Monitaur |
| Norm AI | Turns regulatory requirements into compliance instructions that machines can apply. | $11.1M | Q1 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Aim Security | Finds shadow AI and prevents data leaks and unsafe generative AI use. | $10.0M | Q1 2024 | Business Wire |
| Prompt Security | Prevents data leaks, prompt attacks, jailbreaks, and unsafe generative AI use. | $5.0M | Q1 2024 | Help Net Security |
| ValidMind | Automates model documentation, validation, governance, and compliance for financial companies. | $8.1M | Q1 2024 | Business Wire |
| Enkrypt AI | Adds safety, security, visibility, and compliance controls to enterprise generative AI. | $2.35M | Q1 2024 | Enkrypt AI |
| Armilla AI | Tests AI products and provides warranties that reduce adoption risks. | $4.5M | Q1 2024 | Coverager |
| Guardrails AI | Measures, monitors, validates, and reduces risks in artificial intelligence applications. | $7.5M | Q1 2024 | Startup Rise |
This market map, featured in our AI governance market deck, highlights top companies and startups in the AI governance market
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