All the funding deals in the AI governance market
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The AI governance market is growing fast as companies need safer, clearer, and more accountable ways to use AI.
We conducted deep research and collected 52 funding deals in the AI governance market from 2024 to 2026.
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- The AI governance market is not only about compliance anymore. Many 2026 deals focus on control planes, runtime governance, and agent oversight.
- The largest AI governance market deal in this list is Braintrust at $80.0M, showing strong investor interest in AI evaluation and observability infrastructure.
- 2024 funding was led by AI security startups, while 2026 funding shows more demand for audit trails, policy enforcement, and enterprise AI control layers.
- Several AI governance market companies raised more than once, including Aim Security, Norm Ai, Prompt Security, WitnessAI, Darwin AI, AIM Intelligence, Guild.ai, and nexos.ai.
- The AI governance market has a clear enterprise focus. Most funded companies help large organizations manage risk, compliance, security, or trust at scale.
- AI agent governance became more visible in 2025 and 2026, with companies such as Guild.ai, Geordie, Vijil, and Portkey building around agent control.
- The AI governance market includes both small seed rounds and large later-stage rounds, which suggests the category has new entrants and scaling leaders at the same time.
- Governance, security, and evaluation are becoming closely linked. Many AI governance market startups now combine testing, monitoring, guardrails, and policy controls.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iridius | Builds compliance controls and evidence tools for regulated AI workflows. | $8.6M | Q2 2026 | Business Wire |
| AIM Intelligence | Provides AI red teaming and guardrails for models, agents, and multimodal systems. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | Seoul Economic Daily |
| Haast | Embeds compliance policies and approval logic into enterprise workflows. | $12.0M | Q2 2026 | Haast Blog |
| OpenBox AI | Builds runtime governance, verification, policy, audit trails, and accountability tools. | $5.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| JetStream | Helps enterprises see, control, and govern AI adoption safely. | $34.0M | Q1 2026 | JetStream Security |
| Guild.ai | Provides governance, observability, access control, and auditability for AI agents. | $14.0M | Q1 2026 | Guild.ai |
| Guild.ai | Provides governance, observability, access control, and auditability for AI agents. | $30.0M | Q1 2026 | Guild.ai |
| Portkey | Runs governance, observability, guardrails, reliability, and cost controls for AI systems. | $15.0M | Q1 2026 | Portkey Blog |
| Braintrust | Provides evaluation and observability infrastructure for production AI systems. | $80.0M | Q1 2026 | Braintrust Blog |
| OPAQUE | Builds confidential AI controls for privacy, policy, integrity, and audit proof. | $24.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Complyance | Automates enterprise risk, compliance, evidence, and audit-readiness workflows. | $20.0M | Q1 2026 | Complyance |
| Fiddler | Provides AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, policy enforcement, and governance controls. | $30.0M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| WitnessAI | Secures and governs enterprise AI operations and AI agents. | $58.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Alinia | Provides guardrails and compliance tools for high-stakes AI agents. | $7.5M | Q4 2025 | Alinia |
| Vijil | Builds trust, resilience, reliability, and governance tools for AI agents. | $17.0M | Q4 2025 | Pam |
| AI Score | Centralizes AI governance, compliance monitoring, analytics, and risk scoring. | $1.0M | Q4 2025 | Startupmag |
| Portal26 | Manages GenAI adoption, governance, shadow AI detection, and forensic audits. | $9.0M | Q4 2025 | FinTech Global |
| Darwin AI | Builds AI governance and workflow automation for government agencies. | $15.0M | Q4 2025 | GovTech |
| nexos.ai | Provides governance, security, cost control, and orchestration for enterprise AI. | $35.0M | Q4 2025 | Index Ventures |
| Geordie | Gives enterprises visibility, risk intelligence, and control over AI agents. | $6.5M | Q3 2025 | Yahoo Finance |
| AIM Intelligence | Offers AI red teaming, guardrails, and policy-drift monitoring for AI agents. | $1.3M | Q3 2025 | KoreaTechDesk |
| Promptfoo | Provides AI evaluation, red teaming, and security testing tools. | $18.4M | Q3 2025 | Promptfoo |
| AIUC | Offers audits, certification, insurance, and standards for safe AI deployment. | $15.0M | Q3 2025 | FinTech Global |
| Modulos | Automates AI compliance, risk management, and lifecycle governance. | $10.9M | Q3 2025 | Modulos |
| Repello AI | Tests and protects AI deployments through red teaming and runtime defenses. | $1.2M | Q2 2025 | Repello AI |
| Trustible | Helps enterprises govern AI adoption, risk workflows, and compliance operations. | $4.6M | Q2 2025 | The SaaS News |
| Hirundo | Removes risky data, bias, vulnerabilities, and confidential information from AI models. | $8.0M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Openlayer | Tests, evaluates, and governs AI reliability before and after deployment. | $14.5M | Q2 2025 | Openlayer |
| Virtue AI | Provides AI safety, red teaming, guardrails, and enterprise security controls. | $30.0M | Q2 2025 | Business Wire |
| Darwin AI | Supports public-sector AI adoption, oversight, compliance, and governance. | $5.0M | Q1 2025 | PR Web |
| Dreadnode | Stress-tests AI systems through offensive AI security and red teaming. | $14.0M | Q1 2025 | SecurityWeek |
| nexos.ai | Manages, optimizes, secures, and governs many enterprise AI models. | $8.0M | Q1 2025 | nexos.ai |
| DAIKI | Centralizes AI governance, monitoring, risk management, and AI Act controls. | $1.62M | Q4 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Calvin Risk | Manages AI risk through testing, governance, and quantitative risk assessment. | $4.0M | Q4 2024 | Calvin Risk |
| Noma Security | Secures AI lifecycles, AI supply chains, and runtime AI systems. | $32.0M | Q4 2024 | The SaaS News |
| Prompt Security | Secures employee GenAI use and internal enterprise AI applications. | $18.0M | Q4 2024 | Wikipedia |
| ModelOp | Manages AI inventory, risk, compliance, and operational governance. | $10.0M | Q3 2024 | ModelOp |
| Protect AI | Secures AI and machine-learning systems with visibility, control, and governance. | $60.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Credo AI | Supports responsible AI oversight, compliance, risk management, and governance workflows. | $21.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Lakera | Protects GenAI applications from LLM-specific risks in real time. | $20.0M | Q3 2024 | Lakera |
| Norm Ai | Automates regulatory compliance work for financial and regulated companies. | $27.0M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Aim Security | Helps enterprises adopt generative AI applications securely. | $18.0M | Q2 2024 | Business Wire |
| Patronus AI | Detects LLM mistakes, safety failures, copyright risks, and hallucinations. | $17.0M | Q2 2024 | patronus.ai |
| WitnessAI | Gives enterprises visibility, control, protection, policy enforcement, and governance. | $27.5M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Monitaur | Provides model governance software for highly regulated companies. | $6.0M | Q2 2024 | Monitaur |
| ValidMind | Automates model documentation, validation, governance, and compliance for finance. | $8.1M | Q1 2024 | Business Wire |
| Enkrypt AI | Adds visibility, safety, security, and compliance to enterprise GenAI use. | $2.35M | Q1 2024 | Yahoo Finance |
| Guardrails AI | Measures, monitors, validates, and reduces AI application risks. | $7.5M | Q1 2024 | EIN Presswire |
| Armilla AI | Verifies AI products and offers warranties to reduce AI adoption risk. | $4.5M | Q1 2024 | Armilla |
| Aim Security | Controls shadow AI, data leakage, and risky enterprise AI application use. | $10.0M | Q1 2024 | Business Wire |
| Prompt Security | Prevents data leaks, prompt injection, jailbreaks, and unsafe GenAI use. | $5.0M | Q1 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Norm Ai | Automates regulatory compliance workflows for chief compliance officers. | $11.1M | Q1 2024 | PR Newswire |
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