AI risk and compliance startup HelmGuard today announced raising $7.3 million in seed funding.
The investment round was co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with additional support from FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital, and Entrepreneurs First.
Founded in 2024 by former Palantir executive John Daley (CEO) and Jack Miller (CTO), UK-based HelmGuard has built an agentic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and security platform that continuously collects and assesses risk signals from source systems.
According to the startup, its solution cuts assessment cycles to hours by unifying fragmented compliance, security, and risk data from unstructured data, documentation, and source systems it integrates into.
The platform’s AI agents then automate risk management, assurance, and control gap assessment workflows to synthesize the results into a single, unified view.
Vendor risk underwritten at purchase no longer covers what is currently running, as more and more vendors are integrating AI into their products, HelmGuard says, noting that its agents are collecting evidence and assessing risks under verified, current claims.