Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance — SkimNews
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- Comp AI raised a $34 million Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, announced Thursday, bringing total funding to $37.5 million.
- Lewis Carhart, Claudio Fuentes, and Mariano Fuentes founded Comp AI in January of last year, after shutting down their previous workflow startup LeapAI — which reached more than a million users — over a lack of a 'sticky enough use case.'
- Comp AI's platform uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, and continuously monitor compliance controls, though CEO Carhart said humans still review and approve every agent output.
- Claudio Fuentes said the SOC 2 process during LeapAI took 'a couple of months of doing things by hand' and pulled the founders away from product work — directly inspiring Comp AI's founding.
- Comp AI also offers AI-powered penetration testing that proactively probes codebases and infrastructure for vulnerabilities.
- Carhart argued rapid AI adoption is outpacing traditional audits, describing a scenario where a company passes SOC 2 and two weeks later deploys an AI agent that changes permissions or introduces new vulnerabilities the audit never covered.
Why it matters: Comp AI is selling into a real gap: SOC 2 and similar audits are point-in-time snapshots that don't capture post-audit AI deployments capable of altering permissions or introducing new vulnerabilities. With $37.5M raised and a competitor set that already includes Vanta and Drata, the bet is that continuous agentic monitoring becomes the default as companies ship AI agents faster than annual audits can track them.
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