RegScale, a cybersecurity company specialising in continuous controls monitoring for highly regulated industries, has secured more than $30m in fresh investment to accelerate its expansion and product development.
The Series B round was led by Washington Harbour Partners, with participation from M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Hitachi Ventures and Ankona Capital. Existing backers SYN Ventures and SineWave Ventures also joined the oversubscribed round.
Founded to modernise compliance, RegScale offers a platform that turns governance, risk and compliance (GRC) from a manual and checklist-driven process into an automated system. The company is positioning itself as a leader in the $50bn global GRC market, with customers reporting faster audit preparation, speedier authorisations and significant cost savings through its use of automation and AI.
The latest funding will be channelled towards expanding RegScale’s AI roadmap and advancing RegML, its machine learning framework. The company plans to enhance its platform by integrating AI agents designed to monitor compliance continuously, collect and review evidence, conduct audits and analyse risk. New hires across research and development, as well as sales, will also be supported by the investment.
Beyond product development, RegScale is expanding its reach into new sectors. While its core clients include government agencies, financial services firms and high-tech organisations, the company is now targeting industries such as energy and utilities, where compliance and security needs are becoming increasingly critical.
Washington Harbour Partners founder and CIO Mina Faltas said, “We invested in RegScale because the stakes could not be higher. Protecting critical infrastructure and high-value assets must be achievable, scalable, and resilient. RegScale has the technology, leadership, deep expertise, and market traction to transform GRC from a cost center into a force multiplier for security and resilience. With compliance debt dragging down agencies and enterprises alike, the company doesn’t just check compliance boxes; it increases security effectiveness while cutting compliance costs.”
M12 managing partner Todd Graham said, “RegScale’s AI-powered compliance-as-code approach delivers what today’s operators need most: faster certifications, lower costs, and a stronger security posture. This is the future of cyber GRC, and we’re excited to support RegScale as they scale to meet the growing demand.”
Hitachi Ventures partner and CFO Wolfgang Seibold added, “RegScale is transforming GRC from a consultant-driven, expensive, checklist-based compliance burden into real-time resilience and dynamic operational control assurance. By automating continuous controls monitoring, RegScale is leading the industry in how compliance can become a driver of competitive advantage and mission speed, not a barrier to innovation.”
RegScale co-founder and CEO Travis Howerton said, “CISOs are faced with ensuring the systems that keep our country running can withstand increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. From homeland security missions, to the grid, to our leading cloud service providers, to global banking transactions, every compliance gap can quickly become an operational catastrophe or worse, a national security risk. RegScale was built to close those gaps in real time while cutting costs and accelerating missions. We have assembled a world class leadership team that is laser focused on automating all aspects of risk and compliance. This funding allows us to double down: scaling our go-to-market team, expanding our platform capabilities, and accelerating our pace of innovation. The future of cyber GRC isn’t just manual paperwork, it’s your AI-powered Risk and Compliance Co-Pilot that accelerates your digital transformation efforts while simultaneously improving your security posture and cost basis.”
The company’s impact has already been recognised across the industry, having been named Best Compliance Solution by SC Media and identified as an industry leader by Gartner. It also plays a leading role in promoting industry standards, working with the Cyber Risk Institute, the OSCAL Foundation, and the Cloud Security Alliance’s compliance initiatives.
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