Michael Ma

General Partner

Joe Montana

Managing Partner

Nathaniel Montana

General Partner

Elizabeth Montana-Luciano

Director of Operations

Matthew Mulvey

Partner

Past deals in Compliance

Unbound Security

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Unbound Security specializes in data protection, offering a browser extension platform that safeguards sensitive information. Its solution provides real-time monitoring and granular access control, ensuring businesses comply with data regulations and maintain security without disrupting employee workflows or requiring additional infrastructure.

Greenboard

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Greenboard is a financial software company that develops software to bridge the gap between regulation and financial innovation.

Pier

Seed Round in 2024
Pier's mission is to create tools for the next generation of innovators to improve credit access. They are developing an API to help us launch credit products. With just a few lines of code, they enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance, and servicing.

SafetyKit

Seed Round in 2023
SafetyKit automates Trust and Safety. SafetyKit's AI agents allow Operations, Risk, and Trust teams to scale review, enforcement, and appeals without throwing more people at the problem. This means faster, better decisions than traditional outsourced reviewers. The founders are ex-Airbnb, Meta, and Stripe, where they owned compliance, onboarding, and supportability reviews.

Handle

Venture Round in 2023
Handle is a construction software company that provides an end-to-end platform to streamline payments and project administration. Its tools automate tasks related to late payments, lien management, deadline tracking, mailings, and document management, enabling contractors and material suppliers to be paid faster. The software supports credit and finance teams with online payments, waivers, and access to capital, consolidating workflows for invoices and documents. By digitizing owner verification, required documents, electronic signatures, and related communications, Handle helps construction projects run smoothly and reduce payment delays. Based in La Jolla, California.

Parcha AI

Seed Round in 2023
Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.

Pier

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pier's mission is to create tools for the next generation of innovators to improve credit access. They are developing an API to help us launch credit products. With just a few lines of code, they enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance, and servicing.

Two Dots

Seed Round in 2023
Two Dots specializes in consumer underwriting and fraud prevention. Its platform offers universal income and employment verification services using automated processes and AI, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing leasing fraud.

AiPrise

Seed Round in 2022
AiPrise operates a global identity verification and know your customer (KYC) orchestration platform. It offers a customizable solution for businesses to manage their identity stack, enabling them to design ideal onboarding experiences while mitigating fraud risk and ensuring compliance.

nsave

Seed Round in 2022
Nsave is a fintech startup that specializes in digital banking services, focusing on providing a secure platform for saving in various currencies, including USD, EUR, and GBP. The company aims to enhance financial inclusion by offering services that do not impose account restrictions, allowing customers to access global safe accounts for their funds. With a commitment to financial security, Nsave ensures that users can manage their savings with confidence and ease.

Alterya

Seed Round in 2022
Alterya is a Software Development firm offering Simple, safe, and compliant access to web3.

Two Dots

Venture Round in 2022
Two Dots specializes in consumer underwriting and fraud prevention. Its platform offers universal income and employment verification services using automated processes and AI, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing leasing fraud.

Fyn

Seed Round in 2022
Fyn is a company focused on simplifying the tax management process for cryptocurrency investors worldwide. It has developed a digital asset tax engine that calculates and files crypto taxes, helping users effectively manage their capital gains and losses. The platform consolidates income gains from various exchanges, allowing individuals and accountants to accurately determine tax liabilities in accordance with the regulations of multiple countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, and India. Fyn aims to serve not only individual investors but also CPAs and tax agents by providing tools that streamline the reporting of financial details, including FBAR and FATCA compliance.

Argus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Argus is an employee trade compliance platform that creates professional services firms or asset managers, banks, or fintech. Argus lets bankers, consultants, crypto natives, and others trade their liquid assets easily in line with employer compliance restrictions, enabling firms to automate internal compliance, shrinking back-office headcount and minimize risks.

BenefitBay

Seed Round in 2021
BenefitBay is a technology company that specializes in facilitating Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) for employers. Its platform enables businesses to model, deploy, and manage ICHRA plans, ensuring compliance with regulations while providing employees with tools to choose and enroll in suitable individual health plans.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2020
UpCodes, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a comprehensive platform to assist the construction industry in navigating compliance with building codes. Founded in 2015, UpCodes consolidates various building regulations into a single, searchable database, utilizing machine learning and data analysis to enhance the search process. The platform offers tools that simplify coordination among teams and projects, allowing users to easily access and research building codes. By streamlining compliance efforts, UpCodes helps professionals involved in the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings avoid project delays and clarify regulatory requirements.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe provides a compliance automation platform that helps organizations achieve and sustain information security and privacy standards. The platform automates security audits and continuous monitoring to simplify compliance with standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, supporting service providers in securely managing data and protecting client privacy. Thousands of fast-growing companies rely on Secureframe to streamline their compliance programs and maintain up-to-date certifications, enabling them to build trust with customers. Founded and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on delivering automated, ongoing compliance across global frameworks.

Verifiable

Seed Round in 2020
Verifiable Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in credential verification and compliance monitoring software. Founded in 2019, Verifiable is dedicated to streamlining the verification process by automating primary source verifications and providing real-time monitoring of licenses, sanctions, and other essential records. The company develops an API that connects healthcare providers with state and federal databases, allowing users to access a multitude of primary sources from a single platform. This integration enables healthcare organizations to enhance compliance, minimize risk, and maintain patient safety. By offering features such as automated notifications for potential issues and detailed audit logs, Verifiable aims to save time and resources for healthcare entities while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist is a company that offers a remote learning platform specifically designed to deliver bite-size courses via text messages and social media channels such as SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. This approach caters particularly to frontline employees who may lack access to traditional learning management systems. Arist enables enterprise learning and development (L&D) and human resources (HR) teams to rapidly create, deliver, and analyze these courses on various topics, including diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement, and safety training. By facilitating efficient training, Arist helps organizations save over $200 per employee annually while achieving high adoption rates and clear outcomes in behavior change and performance improvement, with a notable Net Promoter Score exceeding 90.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist is a company that offers a remote learning platform specifically designed to deliver bite-size courses via text messages and social media channels such as SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. This approach caters particularly to frontline employees who may lack access to traditional learning management systems. Arist enables enterprise learning and development (L&D) and human resources (HR) teams to rapidly create, deliver, and analyze these courses on various topics, including diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement, and safety training. By facilitating efficient training, Arist helps organizations save over $200 per employee annually while achieving high adoption rates and clear outcomes in behavior change and performance improvement, with a notable Net Promoter Score exceeding 90.

Verifiable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Verifiable Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in credential verification and compliance monitoring software. Founded in 2019, Verifiable is dedicated to streamlining the verification process by automating primary source verifications and providing real-time monitoring of licenses, sanctions, and other essential records. The company develops an API that connects healthcare providers with state and federal databases, allowing users to access a multitude of primary sources from a single platform. This integration enables healthcare organizations to enhance compliance, minimize risk, and maintain patient safety. By offering features such as automated notifications for potential issues and detailed audit logs, Verifiable aims to save time and resources for healthcare entities while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Clarent

Seed Round in 2020
Clarent is a developer of compliance software tailored for senior living providers, offering a platform that consolidates data from diverse sources, including electronic health records, financial systems, and resident care records. This integration enables senior living teams to create a unified source of truth, facilitating the calculation of over 150 industry-specific key performance indicators. By organizing data into accessible reports and dashboards, Clarent empowers owners and operators to track trends, identify areas for improvement, and make informed, data-driven decisions regarding their operations and resident care.

Remote

Seed Round in 2020
Remote is a global HR solutions provider that facilitates international hiring and payroll management for distributed teams. They offer a platform designed to help companies recruit top talent worldwide, ensuring compliance with local laws while streamlining project allocation and payments. This enables businesses to expand their workforce globally, enhancing productivity and employment opportunities.

Secureframe

Seed Round in 2020
Secureframe provides a compliance automation platform that helps organizations achieve and sustain information security and privacy standards. The platform automates security audits and continuous monitoring to simplify compliance with standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, supporting service providers in securely managing data and protecting client privacy. Thousands of fast-growing companies rely on Secureframe to streamline their compliance programs and maintain up-to-date certifications, enabling them to build trust with customers. Founded and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on delivering automated, ongoing compliance across global frameworks.

Simetrik

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2017, Simetrik specializes in providing big data solutions for corporate finance control and automation. Its platform offers AI-powered tools, no-code configuration, and secure data integration capabilities, enabling global enterprises to streamline transaction reconciliation, detect anomalies, reduce manual effort, accelerate financial closings, and enhance decision-making.

Simetrik

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2017, Simetrik specializes in providing big data solutions for corporate finance control and automation. Its platform offers AI-powered tools, no-code configuration, and secure data integration capabilities, enabling global enterprises to streamline transaction reconciliation, detect anomalies, reduce manual effort, accelerate financial closings, and enhance decision-making.

Preclusio

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2019, Preclusio develops software that assists businesses in complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. Its solutions use machine learning to automatically identify and tag personal data across an organization's entire data infrastructure, enabling companies to discover, map, and audit their data at scale.

Remote

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Remote is a global HR solutions provider that facilitates international hiring and payroll management for distributed teams. They offer a platform designed to help companies recruit top talent worldwide, ensuring compliance with local laws while streamlining project allocation and payments. This enables businesses to expand their workforce globally, enhancing productivity and employment opportunities.

Handle

Seed Round in 2019
Handle is a construction software company that provides an end-to-end platform to streamline payments and project administration. Its tools automate tasks related to late payments, lien management, deadline tracking, mailings, and document management, enabling contractors and material suppliers to be paid faster. The software supports credit and finance teams with online payments, waivers, and access to capital, consolidating workflows for invoices and documents. By digitizing owner verification, required documents, electronic signatures, and related communications, Handle helps construction projects run smoothly and reduce payment delays. Based in La Jolla, California.

Rippling

Series A in 2019
Rippling provides an integrated platform that combines HR, IT, payroll, and spend management to streamline the entire employee lifecycle. It automates onboarding, offboarding, payroll processing, benefits administration, and tax forms, and centralizes employee data and access management (devices, software, and email accounts) to reduce administrative work. The platform supports compliance monitoring, real-time financial visibility, and dynamic spend policies, enabling seamless IT provisioning, access control, and unified management. By removing manual tasks and enabling faster onboarding, Rippling helps companies save time, cut costs, and focus on growth.

Soraban

Seed Round in 2019
Soraban is a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates routine tasks for tax firms, enhancing operational efficiency. It offers a client data collection system that assists accounting professionals in managing administrative services effectively. The platform continuously monitors and identifies any missing client information throughout the year, enabling tax firms to maintain high standards of expertise while ensuring compliance and security. By providing these services at an affordable cost, Soraban aims to empower tax professionals to focus on delivering quality service to their clients.

Whispli

Seed Round in 2018
Whispli is a secure whistleblowing management platform that allows employees to anonymously report violations of company conduct. The platform facilitates the confidential communication of issues such as fraud, harassment, discrimination, and unethical behavior through various channels, including live chat, SMS, and email. By enabling over five million employees to voice their concerns, Whispli assists organizations in identifying and addressing internal issues before they escalate and potentially damage the company's reputation and financial standing. Furthermore, Whispli fosters a culture of open feedback, which is essential for enhancing employee engagement and retention. Through its services, the company helps organizations uncover blind spots, promote accountability, and reinforce ethical practices.

Unit21

Seed Round in 2018
Unit21 Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that develops a no-code platform designed to streamline risk and compliance operations for businesses. The platform features an application programming interface and a dashboard that enable users to detect and manage money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across various industries. In addition to risk detection, Unit21's solutions encompass case management, transaction monitoring, identity verification, operations management, as well as analytics and reporting capabilities. The company emphasizes security, employing best practices to safeguard its systems against potential threats.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2018
UpCodes, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a comprehensive platform to assist the construction industry in navigating compliance with building codes. Founded in 2015, UpCodes consolidates various building regulations into a single, searchable database, utilizing machine learning and data analysis to enhance the search process. The platform offers tools that simplify coordination among teams and projects, allowing users to easily access and research building codes. By streamlining compliance efforts, UpCodes helps professionals involved in the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings avoid project delays and clarify regulatory requirements.

UpCodes

Seed Round in 2017
UpCodes, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that provides a comprehensive platform to assist the construction industry in navigating compliance with building codes. Founded in 2015, UpCodes consolidates various building regulations into a single, searchable database, utilizing machine learning and data analysis to enhance the search process. The platform offers tools that simplify coordination among teams and projects, allowing users to easily access and research building codes. By streamlining compliance efforts, UpCodes helps professionals involved in the design, construction, and occupancy of buildings avoid project delays and clarify regulatory requirements.

Meadow

Seed Round in 2015
Meadow is a software company focused on California's cannabis industry, providing a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance dispensary operations. Since its inception in 2014, Meadow has developed an on-demand directory for cannabis delivery and a telemedicine platform that connects patients with physicians. In 2016, the company introduced the Meadow Platform, a software-as-a-service solution tailored for cannabis retail and delivery. This platform includes features such as point of sale systems, inventory management, analytics, online and mobile ordering, delivery tracking, compliance tools, and patient intake. By streamlining these processes, Meadow enables dispensaries to operate more efficiently, serve more patients, adhere to regulations, and increase revenue. Headquartered in San Francisco, Meadow serves a diverse clientele of patients, dispensaries, and customers throughout California.

SafetyKit

Pre Seed Round in 1923
SafetyKit automates Trust and Safety. SafetyKit's AI agents allow Operations, Risk, and Trust teams to scale review, enforcement, and appeals without throwing more people at the problem. This means faster, better decisions than traditional outsourced reviewers. The founders are ex-Airbnb, Meta, and Stripe, where they owned compliance, onboarding, and supportability reviews.
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