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Best GRC Software Companies in North Carolina, United States

The 48 best GRC Software companies in North Carolina, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ArchiveSocial.

48companies tracked
$161.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
15have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · GRC SOFTWARE × NORTH CAROLINA

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.

50companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
7unicorns
2019median founding year
82kcombined LinkedIn audience
80%of audience held by top 3
4companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best GRC Software companies in North Carolina

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ArchiveSocial
Provider of social media archiving and monitoring for regulatory compliance and risk management
$54M87 mo agoSeries B—2011——2 job openings
2SilverSky
Cloud security and compliance solution company
$32M27 mo agoAcquiredDouglas Klotnia
President
1997WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+30—1 partnership
3FIS Memento
Analytics and machine learning based financial fraud detection & prevention solutions
$28M186 mo agoAcqui-Hired—2002———
4SAS
Provider of analytics, artificial intelligence, and data management software
$20M31 mo agoSeries BAnthony Barr
Co-Founder
1976Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+3150 patents
Modular building components and CAD software for interior construction and design
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5The Climate Service
Cloud-based climate risk analytics platform for investors and financial institutions
$12M61 mo agoAcquired—2014———
6Opal
Provider of software and hardware tools for workforce safety
$5M79 mo agoSeedMichael Brisson
Co-Founder
2013———
7Sign In Compliance
Platform offering security compliance management solutions
$4M71 mo agoSeedJohn Dillard
Founder
2017———
8Rownd
Provides data privacy software solutions
$2M50 mo agoSeedRobert Thelen
Co-Founder & CEO
2020Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceReact+10——
9RegEd
Compliance management solutions for financial institutions
$2M184 mo agoAcquiredJohn Schobel
Founder
1994WordPressMySQLPHP+24——
10Data443
Provider of data security, threat intelligence, and ransomware recovery solutions
$1M42 mo agoAcquired—1998Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+34—4 launchs
11TRUPOINT Partners
Provider of compliance solutions for lending industry
$1M184 mo agoSeed—2009———
12Warrant
Marketing compliance management platform for businesses
$820K16 mo agoSeedAustin Carroll
Co-Founder & CEO
2024Framer SitesYouTubeReact+19——
13Equity Shift
Provider of compliance management solutions for wealth managers
$750K14 mo agoSeries A—2019WordPressMySQLPHP+2040 patents
Blockchain-based equity tokenization and secure document provenance using distributed ledger
2 partnerships · 1 award
144RIVRS
Developer of software for managing stormwater pollution prevention plan compliance
$200K4 mo agoSeedDave Paquette
Co-Founder & CEO
2022——1 expansion
15Subsalt
Provides solution for sensitive data management
$100K11 mo agoSeedDavid Singletary
Co-Founder
2021—3 patents
Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation using machine learning techniques.
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Top 12 GRC Software companies in North Carolina

#1
Seed · Raleigh, North Carolina · founded 2022
$200Kraised
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Developer of software for managing stormwater pollution prevention plan compliance. This application automates the creation and maintenance of regulatory documentation. It incorporates logic to track environmental requirements and updates plans when regulations change. The system facilitates the drafting of documents and assists in keeping site records synchronized with current legal standards.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 74 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Seed$200K
Founders & team
Dave PaquetteCo-Founder & CEODan RadezCo-Founder & CTODave PaquetteCo-Founder & CEO
#2
Acquired · Morrisville, North Carolina · founded 1997 · 343 employees
$31.5Mraised
▾

Cloud security and compliance solution company. Its security as a service platform delivered cloud based software and managed services like email protection, data loss prevention, targeted attack protection, network security services and managed application services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 11k LinkedIn followers — 13.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. Torq) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Series C—
  • Oct 2020Series C$31.5M
Founders & team
Douglas KlotniaPresident
Investors
SQN Venture Partners, ITOCHU, Red Badge Management, Catalpa, Thynk Ventures, Arrowroot Capital Management
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDiviFont Awesome
#3
Series A · Raleigh, North Carolina · founded 2019 · 10 employees
$750Kraised
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Provider of compliance management solutions for wealth managers. It provides solutions to manage trade-related risk and compliance. Its features include managing corporate activities with digital efficiency, handling approvals, counterparty participation, legal disclosures, contracts, payments, closing, post-transaction settlement, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 881 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Palasta Falzon Eckel) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2025Series A$5.3M
  • Jun 2023Seed$250K
  • Nov 2022Seed$500K
  • Jun 2020Conventional Debt$750K
Investors
Tweener Fund
#4
Seed · Durham, North Carolina · founded 2024
$820Kraised
▾

Marketing compliance management platform for businesses. It helps mitigate regulatory and financial risk by automating the cumbersome back-office tasks of reviewing and documenting retail communications. It combines review, documentation, and management tools for financial services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Seed$720K
  • Sep 2024Seed$100K
Founders & team
Austin CarrollCo-Founder & CEOAidan McCarthyCo-Founder
Investors
Brickyard, Capitalize VC, Tweener Fund, Vast Ventures
Tech stack
CalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsEmotionFacebook Pixel
#5
Series B · Cary, North Carolina · founded 1976 · 201 employees
$20Mraised
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Provider of analytics, artificial intelligence, and data management software. It is a leading provider of data analytics and AI solutions, offering a wide range of software and services to help organizations make data-driven decisions. The company's portfolio includes products and solutions for analytics, data management, and artificial intelligence, among others.

Founders & team
Anthony BarrCo-FounderJane HelwigCo-FounderJohn SallCo-Founder
Investors
Europa, TSG Equity Partners, Thomas H Lee Partners, Paladin Capital, Axxon Group, The BV Group
Tech stack
Adobe Experience ManagerAdobe Experience Platform LaunchAmazon AdvertisingAmazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web Services
#6
Seed · Charlotte, North Carolina · founded 2021 · 8 employees
$100Kraised
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Provides solutions for sensitive data management. Their synthetic data store guarantees privacy protections and regulatory compliance for existing data science, machine learning, and data sharing workflows and applications. They help us in privacy preserving synthetic data, delivering data infrastructure, query time quality optimization and integrating with data tools and applications.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Seed$100K
  • 2022Seed—
Founders & team
David SingletaryCo-FounderLuke SegarsCo-FounderBen WinokurCo-Founder
Investors
Founder Collective, Rackhouse Ventures, Charlotte Fund, Bow Capital
#7
Series B · Durham, North Carolina · founded 2011 · 89 employees
$54.1Mraised
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Provider of social media archiving and monitoring for regulatory compliance and risk management. RMA provides sentiment analysis, engagement patterns, and platform usage patterns as required. Reduces risk from monitoring social media by sending customized alerts, notifications whenever a regulated policy is violated. Cater to businesses from Financial services, Government organizations, and public law firms.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 31k LinkedIn followers — 38.4% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Account Executive, Implementation Consultant
Funding rounds
  • May 2019Series B$53M
  • Aug 2015Series A$1M
  • Aug 2013Seed$25K
  • Jun 2012Grant (prize money)$41K
Investors
Level Equity, NC IDEA, The Startup Factory, Revolution
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpYoast Seo PremiumYoast SeoUnderscore.Js
#8
Acquired · Asheville, North Carolina · founded 2014 · 32 employees
$11.8Mraised
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The Climate Service provides a cloud-based risk analytics platform for investors and financial institutions. It offers a Climanomics analytics system for analyzing the financial impacts of climate change on the assets. It features solutions for analyzing investment portfolio risk, real estate portfolio risk, and corporate risk.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2021Series A$500K
  • Apr 2020Series A$6M
  • Feb 2020Series A$3.8M
  • Sep 2019Seed$850K
Investors
Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, Synova Capital, Persei, Hatteras Venture Partners, Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator
Tech stack
HighchartsMicrosoft Asp.NetAmazon Web ServicesOwl CarouselJqueryGoogle Tag Manager
#9
Acqui-Hired · Concord, North Carolina · founded 2002 · 40 employees
$27.5Mraised
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Memento provides enterprise fraud monitoring and detection solutions. Product Memento Security employs machine learning based analytics to detect existing or potential frauds. Solution leverages cache of data like transactions, reference data and extensive catalog of fraud scenarios to investigate fraud and inappropriate activities by a wide range of fraudsters, from trusted insiders to criminal outsiders. Company was acquired by FIS Products are currently offered as FIS Memento which includes Employee Fraud, Check Fraud, Deposit fraud, ACH (Automated clearing house) fraud and wire fraud. Received award for Best Security Solution at the MITX Technology Awards, 2007.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2011Series D$5M
  • Oct 2010Conventional Debt$2M
  • Nov 2008Series D$10M
  • Apr 2007Series B$7.5M
Investors
Bain Capital Ventures, Rock Maple Ventures, .406 Ventures
#10
Seed · Raleigh, North Carolina · founded 2020 · 10 employees
$2.3Mraised
▾

Developer of a cloud-based data privacy management software designed to offer data privacy and own tools to small and medium-sized businesses. The company's platform facilitates an easy-to-use portal where customers can see and control how their data is being used, enabling companies to ensure that they are compliant with data privacy regulations.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Founders & team
Robert ThelenCo-Founder & CEOMatt HamannCo-Founder & CTORachel RadulovichCo-Founder
Investors
Uncorrelated Ventures, Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, LegalTech, SaxeCap, Grit Partners
#11
Seed · Charlotte, North Carolina · founded 2017 · 22 employees
$3.8Mraised
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Platform offering security compliance management solutions. The platform allows users to protect against security risks, minimize compliance expenses, and reduce administrative burdens that distract teams from assigned tasks. The platform provides solutions to manage visitors, employees, workplaces, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2020Seed$1.6M
  • Nov 2019Seed$667.5K
  • Jun 2018Seed$1.2M
  • Jul 2017Seed$365K
Founders & team
John DillardFounder
Investors
VentureSouth
#12
Seed · Charlotte, North Carolina · founded 2013 · 2 employees
$4.9Mraised
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Provider of software and hardware tools for workforce safety. It offers an integrated real time location system that is an analytics tool that provides insights to optimize the workplace. It allows the monitoring and optimization of workplace data. It uses devices that are attached to hard hats, uniforms, equipment, or gear, and envoys to receive, consolidate, and transmit customized data. It also provides thermal camera for checking body heat in covid. The offering industries includes automotive, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2020Conventional Debt$245K
  • Feb 2017Angel$3.5M
  • Jan 2015Seed$1.4M
Founders & team
Michael BrissonCo-Founder
Investors
Joules Accelerator, Stout Street Capital

Funding & investor landscape

$161.6Mtotal disclosed funding
16companies funded
36disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Tweener Fund2 rounds
.406 Ventures1 rounds
AIN Ventures1 rounds
Academy Investor Network1 rounds
Alumni Ventures1 rounds
Arrowroot Capital Management1 rounds
Association of International Certified Professional Accountants1 rounds
Asymmetry Ventures1 rounds
Axxon Group1 rounds
Bain Capital Ventures1 rounds

Notable founders

Dave Paquette
Co-Founder & CEO · 4RIVRS
Dan Radez
Co-Founder & CTO · 4RIVRS
Douglas Klotnia
President · SilverSky
Austin Carroll
Co-Founder & CEO · Warrant
Aidan McCarthy
Co-Founder · Warrant
Anthony Barr
Co-Founder · SAS
Jane Helwig
Co-Founder · SAS
David Singletary
Co-Founder · Subsalt
Luke Segars
Co-Founder · Subsalt
Robert Thelen
Co-Founder & CEO · Rownd
Matt Hamann
Co-Founder & CTO · Rownd
John Dillard
Founder · Sign In Compliance
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 699,117 docs

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

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States

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.

research sentiment over time
200820182026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 31% → 58% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • Film Independent53
  • Florida Atlantic University36
  • University of the Cumberlands33
  • Arizona State University33
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison29
leading researchers
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar · Xie, Lulu · Goel, Rajeev · Wang, Yancheng · Guan, Hong · Nag, Soham · Crypto Education Research Lab · MengChu Zhou
▲ Breakthroughs441 · 37%
▲ 31%→39% share
▲1.3× share momentum1 median citations83% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (31%→39% of field), led by Database transaction.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Database transaction4→70
  • Credit card fraud1→66
  • Computer security10→62
  • Credit card1→52
  • Graph4→43
Newly emergingIdentity (music) 0→25 · Big data 0→24 · Identity theft 0→20
Landmark Opinion Fraud Detection in Online Reviews by Network Effects · 398 cites
◆ Advancements481 · 41%
▲ 30%→42% share
▲1.4× share momentum1 median citations81% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (30%→42% of field), led by Credit card fraud.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Credit card fraud3→75
  • Credit card4→67
  • Computer security9→66
  • Database transaction8→58
  • Financial fraud3→42
Newly emergingRandom forest 0→44 · Payment 0→27 · Feature (linguistics) 0→27
Landmark Financial Statement Fraud Detection: An Analysis of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms · 358 cites
▼ Concerns205 · 17%
▼ 28%→16% share
▼0.6× share momentum0 median citations72% since 2021mostly position pieces
Concerns are cooling (28%→16% of field), led by Key (lock).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Key (lock)1→21
  • Computer security1→19
  • Context (archaeology)2→20
  • Compliance (psychology)3→18
  • Transparency (behavior)1→14
Newly emergingCredit card fraud 0→13 · Payment 0→12 · Anomaly detection 0→12
Landmark An Experimental Study With Imbalanced Classification Approaches for Credit Card Fraud Detection · 311 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States

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.

Boston41 · +0.60
Hot · Computer securityAdvancing · Money launderingOpportunity · Artificial neural network
New York41 · +0.55
Hot · GraphAdvancing · World Wide WebOpportunity · Computer securityConcern · Financial transaction
Chicago29 · +0.64
Hot · Health careAdvancing · Anomaly detectionOpportunity · Artificial neural network
Pittsburgh21 · +0.73
Hot · Data scienceAdvancing · Data miningOpportunity · Credit card fraud
Los Angeles19 · +0.57
Hot · Risk managementAdvancing · Credit card fraudOpportunity · Credit card
SF Bay Area15 · +0.52
Advancing · Database transactionOpportunity · Random forest
Atlanta13 · +0.53
Hot · Data miningAdvancing · Computer securityOpportunity · Preprocessor
Ann Arbor11 · +0.67
Advancing · Computer securityOpportunity · Credit card
Seattle9 · +0.53
Hot · Financial fraudOpportunity · Audit
Philadelphia9 · +0.40
Opportunity · Convolutional neural network
PATENT SIGNAL · United States

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.

968 filings550 assigneespeak 138/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Capital One Services78
  • Mastercard International65
  • IBM62
  • Panasonic IP America55
  • FAIR Isaac42
  • VISA INT Service ASS39
  • Wells Fargo BANK NA34
  • Pindrop Security33

Common questions

How many GRC Software companies are there in North Carolina, United States?
Radar tracks 48 indexable GRC Software companies headquartered in North Carolina, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by GRC Software companies in North Carolina, United States?
The GRC Software companies in North Carolina, United States on this list have raised a combined $161.6M in disclosed equity funding across 16 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded GRC Software company in North Carolina, United States?
ArchiveSocial is the highest-funded GRC Software company in North Carolina, United States, with $54.1M in disclosed equity funding.
How many GRC Software companies in North Carolina, United States are funded?
16 of the 48 GRC Software companies in North Carolina, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many GRC Software unicorns are there in North Carolina, United States?
None of the GRC Software companies in North Carolina, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in North Carolina, United States GRC Software companies?
The most active investors in North Carolina, United States GRC Software companies on this list include Tweener Fund, .406 Ventures, AIN Ventures, Academy Investor Network, Alumni Ventures.
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