HelmGuard Raises $7.3M for Agentic GRC Platform

HelmGuard, a UK-based startup founded in 2024 by former Palantir executive John Daley and Jack Miller, announced $7.3 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with participation from FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First.

The company has built an agentic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and security platform that connects to live source systems and unstructured documents to gather evidence and produce risk assessments. HelmGuard describes the platform as using autonomous AI agents to automate evidence collection, control-gap assessment and assurance workflows and to present results in a single view.

HelmGuard says the platform pulls data directly from integrated systems and synthesizes assessments into a unified report. The company reports that the process can shorten assessment cycles that often take weeks or months to a matter of hours.

Founders describe a change in vendor risk profiles as more vendors add AI to their products, which can make vendor underwriting performed at purchase out of date compared with what is running in production. HelmGuard’s agents continuously reassess running systems and generate updated risk signals.

“Most compliance platforms were built to document a process, not to reach a conclusion. Now they’re using AI to produce those documents faster, which doesn’t help anyone decide anything,” John Daley, HelmGuard’s chief executive, said. “Our agents go to the source to collect and assess risk signals directly, removing manual data collection and assessment work that burns thousands of hours annually.”

The company plans to use the funding to scale deployments, expand integrations with enterprise systems and extend capabilities for governing AI agents deployed across business workflows. HelmGuard did not disclose customer names or revenue figures.

Investor interest in AI security and runtime protections has grown recently. The founders expect the new capital to support product development and customer acquisition as enterprises seek continuous, automated GRC that reflects live system behavior rather than static snapshots.