Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series A round.
The company was founded last January by Lewis Carhart, Claudio Fuentes, and his brother, Mariano Fuentes.
Claudio was the CEO and co-founder, while Carhart served as head of growth and Mariano was a senior full-stack engineer.
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.
Comp AI is part of the next generation of cybersecurity startups emerging to help companies run more efficiently in the agentic era.
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Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced it has raised a $34 million Series A round. Claudio was the CEO and co-founder.
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Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series A round. The round was led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.
The company was founded last January by Lewis Carhart, Claudio Fuentes, and his brother, Mariano Fuentes. 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.”
For one, they learned how to build with LLMs and the importance of finding a specific use case for a product.
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.
“For a lot of software companies, security and compliance are directly tied to revenue,” Carhart told TechCrunch, citing, for example, how a customer might ask a startup for an SOC 2 report before closing a deal.
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