{"id":599,"date":"2025-01-28T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:54:23","slug":"this-y-combinator-startup-raised-3-million-to-bring-its-ai-agents-to-compliance-busywork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/this-y-combinator-startup-raised-3-million-to-bring-its-ai-agents-to-compliance-busywork\/","title":{"rendered":"This Y Combinator startup raised $3 million to bring its AI agents to compliance busywork"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" height=\"2000\" width=\"2667\" alt=\"Employees of San Francisco AI startup Delve.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6797ac807bb3f854015a7544-scaled.jpg\"><figcaption>From left to right, Delve employees Arda Akman, Sazzad Islam, Taher Lokhandwala, Isaiah de la Fuente, Karun Kaushik, and Selin Kocalar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">Delve<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Delve launches from stealth with $3 million in funding to automate compliance evidence collection.<\/li>\n<li>Legacy systems require teams to manually collect screenshots; Delve uses AI agents to automate.<\/li>\n<li>Delve says it has reached a revenue run rate of over $1 million and has signed 100+ customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delve, a San Francisco startup that uses artificial intelligence agents to collect and verify compliance evidence for businesses, just launched from stealth with $3.3 million in funding, the startup tells Business Insider exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses handling data at scale need to collect and submit a variety of documents to show compliance with data and security standards. Legacy systems for gathering this evidence require teams to manually collect screenshots of security configurations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compliance is one of those industries that&#8217;s silently waiting for its revolution,&#8221; said Selin Kocalar, a cofounder and chief operating officer of Delve.<\/p>\n<p>Delve says it saves customers hours of busywork by using agents \u2014\u00a0software that can perform specific tasks without much human intervention \u2014\u00a0to collect evidence across web apps, internal tools, and custom software. For example, a customer can write a single instruction and Delve&#8217;s agents automatically collect the required screenshots. The platform continuously monitors the customer&#8217;s tech stack and alerts team members of compliance gaps before they affect security.<\/p>\n<p>Delve says it has reached a revenue run rate of several million dollars and has signed over a hundred customers, including 11x, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed sales automation platform and Bland, a startup developing agents for phone-based tasks. Delve investors include Y Combinator, General Catalyst, FundersClub, and Soma Capital.<\/p>\n<p>The startup&#8217;s founders, Kocalar and Karun Kaushik, met as classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and started working on a medical scribe solution. They saw up close the pains of showing compliance with HIPAA, a federal law that protects the privacy and security of health information, and decided to switch to building Delve.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kocalar, the platform now covers SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, and custom frameworks, with additional certifications in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses are increasingly turning to agents like <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/salesforce-agentforce-ai-tool-automate-tasks-boost-productivity-2024-11\" rel=\"noopener\">Salesforce&#8217;s Agentforce<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-copilot-ai\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft&#8217;s Copilot<\/a> to help them automate tasks and offload busywork. Investors are taking notice. In 2024, according to PitchBook data, startups exploring the application of agents raised $8.2 billion in funding. Some of that money flowed to startups in compliance, such as <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/startups-ai-agents-raising-venture-funding-2025-1\" rel=\"noopener\">Norm Ai<\/a>, which converts regulations from public laws to company policies into working computer code, and <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/15-most-promising-ai-powered-fintech-startups-according-top-vcs-2024-11\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenlite<\/a>, which applies agents to financial compliance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-original\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-agent-compliance-startup-delve-seed-funding-2025-1\">Business Insider<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left to right, Delve employees Arda Akman, Sazzad Islam, Taher Lokhandwala, Isaiah de la Fuente, Karun Kaushik, and Selin Kocalar. Delve Delve launches from stealth with $3 million in funding to automate compliance evidence collection. Legacy systems require teams to manually collect screenshots; Delve uses AI agents to automate. 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