Best GRC Software Companies in Maryland, United States
The 43 best GRC Software companies in Maryland, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ZeroFOX.
Our analysis of 50 GRC Software companies
$4.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best GRC Software companies in Maryland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZeroFOX Provider of digital risk protection, threat intelligence, and attack surface management | $154M | 78 mo ago | Acquired | Christopher Cullison Co-Founder | 2013 | TurbopackSentryZendesk+31 | 63 patents Cybersecurity threat detection, attack surface analysis, and deepfake mitigation for digital environments | — |
| 2 | WorldAware Global leader in integrated risk management, security, and medical assistance | $19M | 110 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Kion Platform offering cloud enablement software | $10M | 58 mo ago | Series A | Brian Price Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 6 patents Silazane and polysilazane polymer chemistries for epoxy hardeners and moisture‑curable coatings | — |
| 4 | Statt Cloud based automated policy and regulatory intelligence management solutions | $3M | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | — | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 5 | Datum Data governance through data stewardship platform | $2M | 99 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2008 | — | 4 patents Structural metal gutter and canopy components; miniature microwave resonator technology | — |
| 6 | Pulse 8 Provides risk adjustment and quality analytics for healthcare providers | $1M | 134 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | — | 104 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 7 | Vibrant Commercial Technologies Enterprise content management solution | $1M | 184 mo ago | Deadpooled | David Leibman CEO & President | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 8 | GateKeeper Access control solution to prevent cyber attacks | $426K | 104 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+39 | 47 patents Intelligent video analytics and image processing for security surveillance and entry control | — |
| 9 | AXIM Fringe Solutions Group Provider of retirement benefit services | $270K | 76 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 10 | R3 Score Provides a financial risk analytics tool | $260K | 76 mo ago | Seed | Teresa Hodge Founder & CEO & President | 2016 | — | 2 patents Acoustic leak detection systems for measuring fluid/gas leak rates in pipelines | — |
Top 12 GRC Software companies in Maryland
#1
Seed · Silver Spring, Maryland · founded 2020 · 13 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Cloud based automated policy and regulatory intelligence management solutions. It leverages artificial intelligence and a proprietary data stream, containing hundreds of millions of public policy documents, to deliver real-time policy, regulatory, and geopolitical insights.
- Sep 2024Seed$2.8M
#2
Acquired · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2013 · 250 employees$154.2Mraised▾
Provider of digital risk protection, threat intelligence, and attack surface management. The company offers monitoring of external digital assets to identify and remediate vulnerabilities. It delivers curated threat intelligence from various online sources. The company facilitates the removal of sensitive information and takedowns of malicious content.
- Feb 2020Series D$74M
- May 2017Series C$40M
- Dec 2015Series B$27M
- Apr 2014Series A$11M
#3
Series A · Columbia, Maryland · founded 2018 · 58 employees$9.5Mraised▾
Platform offering cloud enablement software. It provides software that helps members to manage and govern cloud infrastructure. It offers solutions such as cloud orchestration to automate the cloud cycle, financial management to control costs with budget enforcements and savings opportunities, and cloud compliance to prevent, detect, report, and remediate findings across cloud providers.
- Oct 2021Series A$9.5M
#4
Acquired · Annapolis, Maryland · founded 1999 · 220 employees$18.6Mraised▾
Global leader in integrated risk management, security, and medical assistance. The organization delivers comprehensive solutions to help clients operate with confidence anywhere. They offer critical event management, travel risk management, risk intelligence and analysis, global security assistance, and medical evacuation services. Capabilities include medical and security consulting, duty of care, business continuity planning, and cyber security risk management. They provide intelligence and monitoring services, crisis response, event medical support, and global operations centers. Executive solutions, such as executive protection, are also available. The company utilizes purpose-built platforms for real-time awareness, dynamic analysis, and mass notification. They employ a team of analysts to provide actionable insights on risk-related topics. Their services are founded on standards and backed by talent and efficiency, offering expertise, intelligence, and technology across geographies and disciplines. They leverage technology to deliver solutions at scale, providing high-touch service tailored to client needs.
- Jun 2017PE$500K
- Dec 2013PE—
- Dec 2008Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2001Series B$8.1M
#5
Acqui-Hired · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2008 · 44 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Datum provides a data governance software, Information Value Management. Helps in creating business rules and data standards, define and manage business operating model, processes. Along with IVM platform ,a data stewardship application, also provides advisory services to design data operating model based on business requirements. Notable clients include MARS, Weber, Abbott, ConAgra Foods, Hershey's, Remington etc.
- May 2018Conventional Debt$1.5M
#6
Acquired · Annapolis, Maryland · founded 2012 · 88 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Pulse8 offers end-to-end analytics solutions for their healthcare industry so as to enable better outcomes in the Commercial Health Exchanges, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid markets. They offer Illumin8, a complete analytics suite that can provide risk management, business intelligence and predictive modeling among other things. They also offer a Member Benefits Card which uses technology to establish member's identity and actionable insights with regards to their visits.
- 2015Seed$90K
- 2014Grant (prize money)$500K
- Dec 2013Seed$1.1M
#7
Deadpooled · Owings Mills, Maryland · founded 2006$1.1Mraised▾
Vibrant Commercial Technologies provide content management solution for enterprise to manage the documents and ensure compliance with HIPPA, Mediclaim etc. The compliance suite CommerceCore supports compliance documents creation, gather, archival, analysis and e-discovery. It also provide users a solution to encrypt, synchronize patient information.
- Apr 2011Seed$675K
- Dec 2007Seed$125K
- Jun 2006Seed$350K
#8
Funding Raised · Rockville, Maryland · founded 2006 · 19 employees$269.8Kraised▾
Provider of retirement benefit services
- Apr 2020Conventional Debt$269.8K
#9
Seed · College Park, Maryland · founded 2015 · 18 employees$426.1Kraised▾
Untethered Labs provides an access control solution to prevent cyber attacks. Products offered by the company is GateKeeper Enterprise, GateKeeper Halberd, Trident App, GateKeeper Password Vault, GateKeeper Hub, and GateKeeper Client. GateKeeper Enterprise provides a centralized access management solution. GateKeeper Halberd provides a proximity-based wireless key for secure computer and website login. , GateKeeper Password provides a solution for secure passwords by stopping phishing attacks and poor password with auto-filled credentials. Trident App enables the user to unlock the computer and websites using smartphones. Products offered by the company can be used to provide services in the field of healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, government, and finance.
- Dec 2017Seed$326.1K
- Dec 2016Seed$100K
#10
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2016 · 2 employees$260Kraised▾
R3 Score provides a financial risk analytics tool. It allows users to check criminal background screening and credit processes. It also provides an online marketplace for derisking individuals. Clients include Echoing Green, NewProfit, Techstars, Conscious Venture Lab, Bank Of America, and 1863.
- Apr 2020Seed$260K
- 2019Seed—
#11
Funding Raised · Washington, Maryland · founded 2020$15Kraised▾
Cyber risk & vulnerability assessment solutions provider. The platform performs penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, analyzes the risk. Features of the platform include API integration, real time risk monitoring, etc. It provides actionable insights that can improve data security.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$15K
#12
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2021 · 33 employees—raised▾
Cloud based platform offering cyber security training solutions. It provides a platform for fixing misconfigurations, preventing breaches, and remediating security drift. It also automates security into DevOps workflows and assists engineers in getting their jobs back.
- Mar 2022Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of GRC Software coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Regtech & Compliance is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Regtech & Compliance — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,181 United States-affiliated papers.
- Film Independent53
- Florida Atlantic University36
- University of the Cumberlands33
- Arizona State University33
- University of Wisconsin–Madison29
- Database transaction4→70
- Credit card fraud1→66
- Computer security10→62
- Credit card1→52
- Graph4→43
- Credit card fraud3→75
- Credit card4→67
- Computer security9→66
- Database transaction8→58
- Financial fraud3→42
- Key (lock)1→21
- Computer security1→19
- Context (archaeology)2→20
- Compliance (psychology)3→18
- Transparency (behavior)1→14
Where regtech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing regtech patents in the United States
United States regtech patent filing is accelerating — 968 filings from 550 assignees (2016–2025), led by Capital One Services, Mastercard International, IBM; annual filings 58→90.
- Capital One Services78
- Mastercard International65
- IBM62
- Panasonic IP America55
- FAIR Isaac42
- VISA INT Service ASS39
- Wells Fargo BANK NA34
- Pindrop Security33
Common questions
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