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Best Governance AI Tools

34 tools compared · 2026

34 ai governance startups tracked, with the largest concentration in US. Total tracked funding: $2.0B.

All (34) By country Top ranked By funding

Tracked

34

Total Raised

$2.0B

Countries

4

Active Deals

0

Top by score

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WitnessAI Atherton, US $85.5M

Saviynt El Segundo, US $870M

Peregrine Technologies San Francisco, US $440M

GitGuardian Paris, FR $106M

Astrix Security Tel Aviv, IL $70M

Polimorphic New York, US $24.2M

Aurascape Santa Clara, US $50M

Arize AI — $132M

Darwin AI Palo Alto, US $15M

GovWell New York, US $35M

Vultron San Francisco, US $22M

Credal — $5.3M

Funding by year — AI Governance

2023 → 2026

$25M

’23

$89.6M

’24

$1.1B

’25

$83M

’26

Top countries

By startup count

US 22
IL 2
Spain 1
FR 1

Stage breakdown

Latest round type

Seed 19
Series A 5
Series C 3
Series B 2
Strategic 1

Top investors backing AI Governance

General Catalyst

Friends & Family Capital

Bessemer Venture Partners

Insight Partners

Fifth Down Capital

Entrée Capital

Alumni Ventures

Ten Eleven Ventures

Recent rounds in AI Governance

Date	Startup	Round	Amount
May 2026	GovWell	Series A	$25M
Jan 2026	WitnessAI	Strategic	$58M
Dec 2025	Saviynt	Series B	$700M
Dec 2025	Lumia Security	Seed	$18M
Apr 2025	Knostic	Series A	$11M
Apr 2025	Aurascape	Seed	$50M
Mar 2025	Peregrine Technologies	Series C	$190M
Feb 2025	Arize AI	Series C	$70M

All AI Governance startups

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WitnessAI

AI safety and governance platform for the enterprise

Saviynt

AI-powered identity security for humans, machines, and AI agents

GitGuardian

Secrets detection and non-human identity security platform

Peregrine Technologies

Decision-support and data integration platform for public safety agencies

Astrix Security

Identity security for AI agents and non-human identities

Polimorphic

AI platform for local government service delivery and 311 citizen services

Aurascape

AI-native security to discover, govern, and protect enterprise AI use

Arize AI

The AI & Agent Engineering Platform for development, observability, and evaluation of LLM applications.

Darwin AI

AI governance and agentic workflow platform for government agencies

GovWell

AI operating system for local government permitting and licensing

Vultron

Agentic AI operating system for federal contractors and proposals

Credal

GovSignals

AI platform to find and bid on government contracts in minutes

Lumia Security

Governance and control for enterprise AI agents

Truleo

AI agents for law enforcement: report writing, investigations, bodycam insights

Pillar Security

The security platform for AI applications and agents

Gable

ValidMind

Model risk management and AI governance platform for regulated financial institutions

Knostic

Need-to-know access controls and security for enterprise AI

Geordie

Civic Roundtable

Secure collaboration and operations platform for government workers

Lasso Security

Galileo AI

The AI observability and eval engineering platform where offline evals become production guardrails.

HiddenLayer

Total AI Security for the enterprise.