In a world where regulatory checklists can stall product launches and slow down sales cycles, Delve today raised $32 million in a Series A round at a $300 million valuation to flip compliance on its head. Led by Insight Partners and backed by CISOs from Fortune 500 companies, this fresh capital will deepen Delve’s AI capabilities, expand its team, and extend support across even more compliance frameworks.
The $40 Billion Copy / Paste Problem
Compliance isn’t just a checkbox, it underpins everything from go-to-market strategies to enterprise contracts. Yet too often, it’s treated as a clerical chore. “Millions of people spend their workdays taking screenshots, updating spreadsheets, and filing compliance documents,” notes CEO Karun Kaushik. “That manual labor collectively costs businesses billions in lost productivity.”
Traditional software falls short because it assumes every company fits a rigid mold. “Compliance frameworks are standardized. Businesses aren’t,” Kaushik adds. The result: teams juggling email threads, Slack channels, and shared drives when speed matters most.
An AI-Native Approach to Compliance
Delve was built by MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley AI researchers to solve that disconnect. Rather than wrapping AI around legacy workflows, the platform deploys AI agents that understand a company’s context, navigate its fragmented systems, and run end-to-end compliance operations behind the scenes.
“We’re not just streamlining compliance, we’re helping businesses grow faster,” says COO Selin Kocalar. “Getting compliant faster unblocks deals, and eliminating the busywork lets teams focus on what actually drives the business forward.”
Customers, including fast-growing AI startups like Lovable, Bland, and Wispr Flow, have used Delve to get audit-ready in days instead of months. Since raising a $3.3M seed in 2024, Delve has rapidly onboarded 500+ companies across dozens of frameworks, from SOC2 to GDPR, empowering teams to close deals faster and build security that lasts.
Scaling with $32M Series A
With the new funding, Delve says it plans to:
- Deepen AI Research: Invest in advanced agent capabilities to tackle even more complex compliance scenarios.
- Expand the Team: Hire engineers, customer success managers, and product experts to support growth.
- Broaden Framework Coverage: Add compliance standards popular in highly regulated industries.
“AI is fundamentally transforming how companies operate, yet compliance is still being managed like it’s the pre-AI era,” said Praveen Akkiraju, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “Since compliance touches every part of how a business runs, from scaling operations to closing deals to building customer trust, modernizing this function will modernize the entire organization. That’s what makes Delve’s approach so important. They’re not just transforming compliance, they’re transforming how companies operate at their core.”
A Founding Duo with Research Roots
Karun Kaushik (CEO) and Selin Kocalar (COO) launched Delve in 2023 after stints as AI undergrads at MIT. Frustrated by the tedium of manual compliance, they set out to build a platform that treats compliance tasks as first-class software workflows, powered by autonomous AI agents. They’ve since scaled to a team of more than 10.
As Delve scales, its vision remains clear: transform compliance from a necessary evil into a seamless, automated function that accelerates growth. With $32M in new funding, marquee investors, and a rapidly expanding customer base, Delve is well on its way to making compliance busywork a thing of the past.
For more information on Delve, visit delve.co.
