Best GRC Software Companies in Virginia, United States
The 78 best GRC Software companies in Virginia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Level Access.
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 Virginia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Level Access Digital accessibility compliance solutions for businesses | $111M | 60 mo ago | 335 335 → 528 (+58%) | 1997 | Simon Dermer Co-Founder/Board Observer | WordPressSentryZendesk+38 | — | — |
| 2 | SafeGuard Cyber Cloud-based social compliance software for highly regulated industries | $74M | 62 mo ago | 58 | 2014 | Christopher Lehmann CEO | HubSpot CMS HubWistiaBootstrap+33 | — | — |
| 3 | WireWheel Cloud based data privacy management software provider | $63M | 64 mo ago | 32 | 2016 | Justin Antonipillai Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Approva GRC Continuous controls monitoring software | $56M | 201 mo ago | 439 | 2001 | PV Boccasam Founder | — | 13 patents Enterprise application business process monitoring and control governance solutions | — |
| 5 | SRA Watchtower Risk intelligence platform for businesses | $34M | 16 mo ago | — | 2008 | Edward Vincent CEO | — | — | — |
| 6 | Strivacity Customer identity and access management solution for brands | $29M | 38 mo ago | 44 | 2019 | Stephen Cox Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer | WebflowSalesforceGSAP+30 | — | 1 launch |
| 7 | SRA Risk management solutions for financial institutions | $22M | 28 mo ago | 63 | 2008 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | RegScale Developer of automated governance, risk, and compliance management software solutions 53Growth top 30%Funding top 34%Talent top 38%Tech top 41% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 30% Fundingtop 34% Talenttop 38% Techtop 41% Moattop 41% Newstop 42% Patentstop 49% Innovationbottom 45% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 36% Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $21.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $22M | 9 mo ago | 47 | 2021 | Travis Howerton Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+35 | 3 patents Secure compliance data generation and cryptographic provenance for multi-tenant cloud systems | 2 job openings · 1 launch |
| 9 | Digital Harbor Provider of compliance and intelligent risk management solutions | $21M | 250 mo ago | 63 | 1997 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 10 | ActiveNav Data discovery and information governance solutions for businesses | $14M | 25 mo ago | 55 | 2008 | — | — | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | Brabeion Software IT governance, risk and compliance management software | $10M | 234 mo ago | — | 1990 | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Caveonix Cloud infrastructure security solutions provider | $10M | 65 mo ago | 15 | 2017 | Tim Sullivan Co-Founder | Framer SitesReactLenis+10 | — | — |
| 13 | disaster tech Disaster Tech develops a decision science platform for risk and resilience. 22Funding top 44%Growth top 45%Tech bottom 45%Global bottom 25% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 44% Growthtop 45% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 25% Marketbottom 20% Funding: Raised $8.9M · 4 rounds over 6 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 22/100 | $9M | 27 mo ago | 25 | 2019 | — | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | — | — |
| 14 | OpenQ Compliant KOL Management Software | $8M | 180 mo ago | 52 | 2006 | — | — | 4 patents AI-driven enterprise compliance monitoring of social media content | — |
| 15 | Verdata Risk mitigation platform for POS financing companies | $5M | 16 mo ago | 7 | 2003 | Mike Mondelli Chief Executive Officer | — | — | — |
| 16 | IntelliGRC Cybersecurity governance, risk management, and compliance platform | $4M | 4 mo ago | — | 2016 | Asfand Saeed Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | 2 job openings |
| 17 | Quick Code Provider of a cloud-based AI data training software for enterprises | $3M | 25 mo ago | 9 | 2020 | Gary King Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — | — |
| 18 | Qualtrax Compliance software for regulated industries | $3M | 113 mo ago | 43 | 1993 | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | SteelCloud Platform that offers GRC management solutions | $2M | 191 mo ago | 9 | 1987 | Sita Reeves Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | 41 patents Automated security policy compliance and remediation for network devices | 1 award |
| 20 | Atomicorp Unified workload security platform for cloud, data center, and hybrid environments | $1M | 115 mo ago | 12 | 2007 | Michael Shinn Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityWordPressPlesk+32 | — | 2 launchs |
| 21 | MeasuredRisk AI-based risk management solution for financial institutions | $700K | 113 mo ago | 20 | 2015 | — | — | — | 1 launch |
| 22 | Rimstorm Provider of managed cybersecurity, CMMC compliance, and IT services | $660K | 51 mo ago | 9 | 2016 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | — | — |
| 23 | Criticality Sciences Provider of risk management solutions for insurance service providers | $450K | 46 mo ago | 5 | 2016 | Alan Cohn Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 24 | Ostendio Cloud-based integrated IT compliance management software provider | $382K | 60 mo ago | 23 23 → 19 (-17%) | 2013 | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | X-Analytics Provider of cyber risk management software for governance, risk, and compliance | $350K | 34 mo ago | — | 2013 | John Frazzini CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowVimeo+21 | 55 patents Distributed asynchronous data transfer and multi‑view analytics visualization platforms | 3 launchs |
| 26 | ARCSys Software for accounting calculations and reporting for the allowance credit loss. | $260K | 166 mo ago | 26 | 2010 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 GRC Software companies in Virginia
#1
Series B · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2021 · 47 employees$21.5Mraised▾
Developer of automated governance, risk, and compliance management software solutions. The platform provides continuous controls monitoring, compliance automation, and risk management. It offers features such as automated evidence collection, compliance mapping, and simplified risk management. The software supports various compliance frameworks and standards. It also provides tools for issue remediation, threat modeling, and change management.
- Aug 2025Series B$30M
- Aug 2022Series A$20M
- Nov 2021Seed$1.5M
#2
Seed · Fairfax, Virginia · founded 2016$3.5Mraised▾
Cybersecurity governance, risk management, and compliance platform. It delivers intelligent insights to help organizations navigate the complexities of compliance. The solutions offered by the platform include utilizing the NIST cybersecurity framework, discovers network devices and detects technical security, allows organizations to tailor security controls, dynamically populate and generate document artifacts, risk deduction, and more.
- Jan 2026Seed$3.5M
#3
Series B · Glen Allen, Virginia · founded 2008$33.8Mraised▾
Risk intelligence platform for businesses. It helps financial institutions identify and mitigate risks, improve risk maturity, and enhance corporate governance. It improves awareness and proactive risk management enabling early detection and improved compliance.
- Feb 2025Series B$17.8M
- Nov 2022Series B$12M
- Mar 2021Series A$4M
#4
Series A · Virginia · founded 2003 · 7 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Risk mitigation platform for POS financing companies. It offers a data repository for fraud detection, regulatory compliance, consumer litigation risk management, and more. It helps in underwriting and portfolio management through credit risk mitigation.
- Feb 2025Series A$8M
- Jan 2022Seed$3M
- Oct 2021Seed$1.4M
- Feb 2021Seed$800K
#5
Series B · Glen Allen, Virginia · founded 2008 · 63 employees$22Mraised▾
Risk management solutions for financial institutions. It features insights on risk management, foresight on risk analytics, insight on regulatory tracking, and more. It also provides solutions such as risk assessment tracking, trend analysis, M&A risk analytics, and more.
- Feb 2024Series B$6M
- Nov 2022Series B$12M
- Mar 2021Series A$4M
#6
Series A · Reston, Virginia · founded 2008 · 55 employees$13.7Mraised▾
Data discovery and information governance solutions for businesses. It provides solutions such as content monitoring, audit and review, visualization, tagging and classification, and text content analysis. It helps organizations identify, manage, and protect unstructured data. It offers dashboards that provide key insights into data prioritization and management.
- May 2024Series A—
- Jan 2022Series A$2.7M
- Nov 2019Series A$11M
#7
Series C · Arlington, Virginia · founded 1997 · 335 employees$111Mraised▾
Digital accessibility compliance solutions for businesses. It helps organizations achieve compliance with accessibility standards such as WCAG and ADA. The platform offers automated accessibility scans to identify compliance issues across digital assets.
- May 2021Series C$55M
- Jan 2020Series C$16M
- May 2017Unattributed$40M
#8
Series A · Alexandria, Virginia · founded 2019 · 25 employees$8.9Mraised▾
Developer of disaster management software designed to offer comprehensive disaster risk data inventory to explore in real-time before, during, and after disasters. The company's platform provides web-based data visualization and data exploration features with user-defined and self-service analytics and data science tools to meet the demands of disaster response, enabling clients to stimulate, train, exercise and gamify disaster preparedness activities.
#9
Series B · Herndon, Virginia · founded 2019 · 44 employees$29.3Mraised▾
Customer identity and access management solution for brands. Offers SaaS based platform for managing customer identities and enables sign-in methods such as social login, multifactor authentication, single sign-on, password or passwordless, FaceID, and MFA. It allows brands to add secure log-in and identity management capabilities to customer facing applications.
- Apr 2023Series B$20M
- Nov 2021Series A$9.3M
#10
Deadpooled · Charlottesville, Virginia · founded 2014 · 58 employees$73.5Mraised▾
Social Safeguard provides a cloud-based software solution for highly regulated industries to leverage the power of social media without risk or penalty for non-compliance. The solution supports archiving (collect the social media content from multiple sources), analyzing (assess for risk contents from the archival), Action management (identify high-risk contents and mitigate/auto-removal) and syndicate (share pre-approved content across various platforms). Ability to monitor social media pages, individual accounts and internal collaboration tool for security protection to ensure compliance across channels. This platform helps for easy e-discovery, archival and also employee compliance. It serves companies in financial services, life sciences, and healthcare sectors.
- Apr 2021Series C$45M
- Apr 2021Conventional Debt—
- Dec 2020Series C$17.5M
- Jun 2020Conventional Debt$2M
#11
Acquired · Arlington, Virginia · founded 2016 · 32 employees$63Mraised▾
Cloud based data privacy management software provider. The product offered by the company is a cloud privacy management platform that delivers privacy programs at scale, enabling collaboration and leveraging integrations into cloud infrastructure and on-premises and cloud data stores. The features include privacy assessment, dashboards, analytics and reporting, consent and preference management, etc. It provides support to all phases of a privacy management program including collaboration and vendor risk management. It also provides compliances with privacy regulations around the world, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Feb 2021Series B$20M
- Jan 2021Series B$19.3M
- Feb 2020Series A$10.6M
- Oct 2018Series A$10M
#12
Seed · Mclean, Virginia · founded 2020 · 9 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based AI data training software for enterprises. Its features include multiple languages, workflow integration, training tools, data filters, labeling tools, cloud storage, and document exporters. It is used by data scientists and data engineers. It caters to healthcare, IT, and government sectors.
- May 2024Seed$1.1M
- Dec 2021Seed$2M
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