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Delve

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Delve provides AI-powered compliance automation and expert services helping companies achieve security certifications faster.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-10
Funding$35.3M
Valuation$300M
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 18h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$10M-$50M

About

Delve builds an AI-native compliance platform that automates evidence collection, monitoring, security workflows, and certification preparation for startups, midmarket companies, and enterprises. Its differentiation is a highly customized, human-supported approach combining AI agents with dedicated compliance experts, enabling customers to pursue frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 faster.

Market

Delve competes in the security compliance automation and GRC software market, helping companies achieve and maintain frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Its positioning centers on an agentic, AI-native experience that automates evidence collection, monitoring, security workflows, and compliance customization, with a stated goal of getting companies compliant in days rather than months and reducing compliance time by 75% versus other platforms.

Target Customers

Delve serves organizations at every stage—from startups preparing for their first SOC 2 or similar audit to midmarket and enterprise companies managing ongoing compliance, custom frameworks, and enterprise risk management. The likely buyers are security, compliance, GRC, and risk leaders who need to automate evidence collection and control workflows.

At a Glance

Problem

Security and regulatory compliance is a labor-intensive bottleneck for fast-growing companies. Manual evidence collection, control checks, policy work, and remediation consume hundreds of hours that teams could otherwise spend building products or serving customers. The economic cost is therefore both direct operational overhead and the opportunity cost of delayed growth.

The killer use case is helping a company become SOC 2 compliant quickly enough to pass enterprise security reviews and close larger contracts. Delve positions faster proof of compliance as a way to remove a common sales blocker while allowing companies to stay compliant as they scale.

Product / Service

Delve is an AI-native compliance and GRC platform. Its AI agents automate evidence collection, continuous monitoring, security workflows, task assignment, and remediation tracking, turning compliance from a recurring manual project into an ongoing software process. The platform supports frameworks including SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR, with a demo-led delivery model indicated by its invitation to book a demo.

The benefit is speed and reduced workload: Delve says companies can become SOC 2 compliant in days rather than months, while its automation lets teams focus on higher-impact work. In practice, the product helps gather proof, validate controls, prepare for audits, and maintain compliance while the underlying business continues operating.

Market

Delve competes in the cloud compliance automation and broader governance, risk, and compliance software market. Its closest named alternatives include Vanta, Drata, and Sprinto; other market comparisons also place Secureframe and Scytale in the competitive set. The category is aimed particularly at startups and growing technology companies that need security certifications to win enterprise customers without building a large internal compliance function.

Delve has meaningful commercial and financing traction rather than appearing pre-launch: the company says it has helped more than 500 fast-growing companies, including Lovable, Bland, and Wispr Flow, and a company-tracking source reports $35.3 million raised across two rounds. The available evidence does not disclose revenue or profitability, so its revenue status cannot be determined from the cited material, but the customer count, named customers, and funding indicate an established go-to-market business.

Founders & Leadership

Karun KaushikFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Selin KocalarFounder
Co-Founder & COO
Varun GurnaneyHead of Enterprise GRC Product

Funding History

2024
Seed$3.3M

Y Combinator, General Catalyst, FundersClub

2025-07
Series A$32M

Insight Partners

Recent News

2026-05-26
Honest Delve Review 2026: Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

Sprinto’s review describes Delve as a compliance-automation platform supporting certifications including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. It presents Delve as a tool for reducing manual compliance effort.

2026-04-01
The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse

TechCrunch reported new allegations that Delve violated the open-source license of Sim.ai’s customer tool by allegedly taking the tool and presenting it as its own. The report focused on Delve’s no-code Pathways product.

2026-03-31
Delve Allegations Expose Weak Points in Modern Compliance

An IANS Research article reported whistleblower allegations that Delve generated fabricated SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance certifications and weakened independent audit testing.

2026-03-27
Delve Compliance Scandal Exposes AI Vendor Risk Gaps

Channel Insider covered allegations against Delve and framed them as a warning about risks in AI compliance tools, emphasizing the need for stronger vendor vetting and oversight.

2026-03-26
Delve did the security compliance on LiteLLM, an AI project hit by malware?

TechCrunch examined Delve’s security-compliance work for LiteLLM, an AI project that was hit by malware, in the context of broader accusations that Delve misled customers about their compliance status.

2026-03-24
Delve Announces Changes and New Customer Support Measures

Delve published a response intended to set the record straight on claims about its compliance platform and announced changes and new customer-support measures.

2026-03-23
The Delve Scandal: A Y Combinator Darling Just Got Hit With a Bombshell Fraud Accusation

Inc. reported on fraud allegations involving Delve and noted that Wispr had proactively moved away from Delve to Vanta in the fourth quarter of 2025, before the allegations became public.

2026-03-22
Delve accused of misleading customers with 'fake compliance'

TechCrunch reported on an anonymous Substack allegation that Delve falsely convinced hundreds of customers they were compliant with privacy and security requirements.

2025-12-16
Vanta vs. Drata vs. Delve

Vanta’s comparison characterized Delve as an AI-first compliance platform aimed at startups pursuing their first SOC 2, while noting limitations in its integration set.

2025-09-09partnership
Delve Partnership

Delve promoted a partner ecosystem for auditors, vCISOs, MSSPs, venture capital firms, and consultants. The program offered referral payments and co-selling opportunities, but the available evidence does not identify a specific bilateral partner or integration.

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Business Model

Delve uses a sales-led, quote-based model in which customers select compliance frameworks and add-on services before receiving a customized proposal. Its revenue appears to come from annual platform or compliance engagements, with additional fees for audit support and services such as penetration testing, vCISO support, and custom AI workflows.

Products

AI-native compliance platform for SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, and other frameworksAutomated evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and security workflowsAI evidence pathway builder and AI onboardingEnterprise GRC, custom risk management, and actionable compliance insightsComputer-use agent for screenshot automation and custom control-framework support

Customers

LovableBlandWispr FlowRAEK

Tech Stack

Agentic AI and AI compliance agentsComputer-use agents for screenshot automationAI copilot workflowsAI-powered code scanningAutomated integration testingContinuous monitoring and automated evidence collection

Competitors

Uproot Security
Vanta
Drata
Scytale
Sprinto

Key Investors

Insight Partners, General Catalyst