Comp AI raises USD $34 million to boost cybersecurity

Comp AI has raised USD $34 million in a Series A funding round led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, following rapid growth to more than 1,000 customers.

The Miami-based compliance and security software provider will use the funding to expand from compliance automation into continuous cybersecurity, including real-time monitoring, control validation and security testing across applications and infrastructure.

Founded in 2025, Comp AI says it has recorded 15-fold annual recurring revenue growth year on year in less than two years of trading. It also says it has grown 10-fold year on year and now serves customers in healthcare, financial services, higher education, professional services and software.

Its customers include Corgi, Dub, OpenCode, Inference and Primer.

The funding comes as software companies face growing pressure to demonstrate stronger security controls earlier in development. Comp AI argues that faster software release cycles and a more dynamic threat environment are making periodic compliance checks less useful than continuous monitoring.

Its platform uses AI agents and organisational context to automate tasks including onboarding, policy and risk generation, evidence gathering, control monitoring and vendor assessments. The company is positioning that approach as an alternative to older compliance processes built around manual reviews and point-in-time assessments.

Investor backing

Roo Capital Principal Varun Sridhar said the firm sees a market opening as businesses rethink how they handle compliance and security.

"AI is changing the security and compliance landscape quickly, and businesses can no longer afford to treat compliance as an annual box-checking exercise," Sridhar said.

"Lewis and Claudio saw that shift early and built an agentic platform that makes compliance and security continuous. The gravitational pull they have received from the market shows us that customers have felt the pain and see the need for a platform like this one. Comp AI is exactly the type of company we are building Roo to back, and we believe it has a real opportunity to define this category. As company builders ourselves, we are excited to lead this investment and put Roo's differentiated Capital + Talent + Growth model to work alongside the team as they scale."

The investment will also support product and engineering work and add staff in Miami and New York. The company expects to hire across product, engineering, operations, sales, customer success and marketing.

Product shift

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Lewis Carhart said the company sees a broader role for software in security operations as AI tools take on more repeatable work.

"The first generation of compliance software proved this process could be automated. Agentic AI lets us go much further," Carhart said.

"Security software shouldn't just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes. We started by making compliance dramatically faster and less resource-intensive. Now we're building toward a platform to proactively identify, validate, and act on risk in real time."

Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder Claudio Fuentes said the company believes compliance has historically served only as a rough indicator of security because so much of the work was manual and periodic.

"Historically, compliance has been an approximation of security because so much of the work could only be performed manually and periodically," Fuentes said.

"Agentic AI changes that constraint. Work that once required teams of people can increasingly happen continuously in software. At the same time, AI is making the threat landscape faster and more dynamic. We believe the next generation of security companies will be built around that reality from day one."

The system is being designed around what AI agents can do directly, rather than adding AI tools to older workflows. That reflects a broader shift across software markets, where suppliers are trying to move from audit preparation and record-keeping into live risk detection and response.

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder Mariano Fuentes said that transition could change the role of security software.

"AI changes both what software can do and how quickly technical teams can build it," Mariano Fuentes said.

"As models become more capable, we can move beyond software that simply records whether security work happened toward software that can execute and verify that work."

Grand Ventures, which co-led the round, linked its support to customer adoption. General Partner Nathan Owen said portfolio companies had switched from rival providers to Comp AI.

"When I first visited Comp AI in New York, the team was four people working out of a single room," Owen said.

"Since then, an increasing number of our own portfolio companies have left other compliance platforms out of frustration and moved to Comp AI, and every one of them raved about both the process and the result. That's the same thing I saw on day one: a team that moves incredibly fast, stays close to its customers, and makes every resource count. Growing to more than 1,000 customers this quickly is remarkable, and we believe they're just getting started."