Legal tech and compliance startup, Delve, has gained $32m in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners – at a $300m valuation. Its goal is to handle this central issue: ‘Compliance frameworks are standardised. Businesses aren’t.’
I.e. the frameworks that legal, IT, procurement, and compliance teams have to work with are standardised, e.g. HIPAA, GDPR, and the many SOC and ISO benchmarks, but every company is different and has their own internal structure, along with sometimes random collections of data and workflows that are usually far from streamlined. This creates a huge bottleneck when you have to do a compliance check.
Co-founder, Karun Kaushik, commented that company staff ‘spend their days taking screenshots and filling out spreadsheets to prove compliance. [And so] we’re building agents that automate this busywork’.
Interestingly, they are working with genAI ‘vibe coding’ sensation Loveable, and a growing list of other companies.
They cover areas such as:
‘SOC 2 – The go-to security framework for B2B SaaS, required by most enterprise buyers.
HIPAA – US regulations for protecting patient data in healthcare and related services.
ISO 27001 – Global standard for maintaining an information security program.
GDPR – EU data privacy law for processing data from EU residents.
PCI-DSS – Standards for securing credit card data when handling payments.
ISO 42001 – New international framework for managing the risks and uses of AI.’
And no doubt more areas will arrive as the company grows. Plus, note the last one: ISO 42001, which covers risks connected to AI use.
All well and good. What does the company do? Here’s what they say it provides:
‘Agents to automate screenshots – Delve’s browser agents automate screenshots so that you don’t have to take them manually.
AI security questionnaires – Autofill vendor questionnaires with answers trained on your compliance setup.
AI code scanning – Catch compliance issues in code before they reach production.
AI infrastructure scanning – Scan your cloud for misconfigurations and fix them fast.
AI policy assistant – Ask questions and get instant answers about your compliance policies.’
The idea is that once Delve is integrated into your compliance workflows it can take on a significant chunk of your key tasks for you. And given that compliance costs are in the many billions of dollars globally, this could be impactful.
Does this affect law firms? Yes and no. For the higher value input around compliance advice or dealing with a crisis, probably not directly. But, one can see lawyers across several practice groups finding themselves working with clients on compliance issues, who in turn are working with Delve, i.e. to explore data records and procedures. Also, for those firms – and perhaps ALSPs – that do get into the more granular support side of compliance, then Delve could clearly have an impact there also.
Kaushik continued: ‘Legacy [compliance] tools are inflexible. Point solutions automate fragments of the workflow but leave gaps everywhere else. No platform knows your internal processes, systems, or context well enough to keep up.
‘So compliance teams fall back to duct-taped workflows across email, Slack, and shared drives, managing the same compliance requirements over and over again, manually.
‘[Whereas] Delve is an AI-native platform that eliminates compliance busywork by giving companies AI agents that act like part of the team. Built by MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley researchers, we’re applying the latest cutting-edge AI to compliance.
‘Our agents understand company context, navigate fragmented systems, and handle complex compliance tasks from start to finish. You don’t need to change how your company works. Delve adapts to your environment and automates the hardest parts behind the scenes.’
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You can find more about Delve here.
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