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4Crisk

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Founded 2019 · 35 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

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4CRisk offers an AI-powered platform for risk and compliance professionals, with tools for regulatory research, regulatory change management, and compliance gap assessment. It uses specialized language models to help governance, risk, and compliance teams track regulatory changes and answer compliance questions.

Also known as 4CRisk · 4CRisk.ai · 4CRisk.ai, Inc.

Founders & leadership

4Crisk was founded in 2019 by Venky Yerrapotu and Supra Appikonda.

VYVenky Yerrapotu
Venky YerrapotuinFounder & CEOHe brings over two decades of experience in regulatory intelligence and compliance.
SASupra Appikonda
Supra AppikondainCo-Founder & COOSupra Appikonda has spent over two decades in professional services, product development, and compliance management, building products for Fortune 500 companies and leading global teams across governance, risk, and compliance functions.
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Susan PalmChief Revenue Officer
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ShwethaAVP, Product Head

Investors · 2

Also in the syndicate · 1

Touchdown Ventures

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

4CRisk.ai (4CRisk) develops an AI-powered software platform for regulatory, risk and compliance functions. Its product set comprises five interconnected modules: Regulatory Research, HorizonScan, Compliance Map, Regulatory Change Management and Ask ARIA Co-Pilot. Regulatory Research lets teams search authoritative global sources to identify regulations, rules, laws, standards, guidance and news, build curated rulebooks and generate business obligations by merging similar requirements across sources. HorizonScan scans more than 2,500 sites for applicable regulatory changes. Regulatory Change Management aligns policies, procedures and controls with upcoming changes and performs applicability and impact assessments with reporting for regulators, internal audit and oversight. Compliance Map compares external obligations against internal policies, procedures and controls to identify gaps, duplicate or overlapping controls and generate remediation recommendations. Ask ARIA Co-Pilot is an AI assistant that answers first- and second-line compliance questions from an organization's own documents.

The company positions its technology around Specialized Language Models (SLMs) trained on regulatory, risk and compliance content published by authority sources, presented as a domain-specific alternative to general-purpose large language models with respect to hallucination, data privacy, explainability and cost. The company states that customer data is held in a private, secure environment, is not used to train public models or shared across customers, that the platform is SOC 2 certified and uses a zero-trust architecture, and that human-in-the-loop review is built into workflows. 4CRisk describes serving financial services, insurance, retail, telecom and other regulated industries globally. Its site cites 14,000+ licensed users of 4CRisk products and coverage of roughly 2,300 global regulatory agencies and sources. Its site and news room report that 4CRisk has joined CUBE, which acquired the company.

Founding story

The company was founded by Venky Yerrapotu (Founder and CEO) and Supra Appikonda (Co-Founder and COO), who are described as having architected and advised hundreds of organizations on risk and compliance programs globally, backed by over 100 years of collective GRC experience across the team and a focus on the unstructured data problem in compliance. Yerrapotu has over 20 years of experience building GRC technology platforms. The company states its platform was built by people who have worked as chief compliance officers, practitioners and technologists.

Business model

4CRisk sells enterprise software products to regulatory, risk, compliance, IT, security and policy teams, licensed on a per-user basis (the company cites 14,000+ licensed users). Prospects are offered a free evaluation and demo as an entry point.

Software licensing to enterprises; the company reports 14,000+ licensed users of its products.

Traction

The company reports 14,000+ licensed users of its products and coverage of about 2,300 global regulatory agencies and sources (with HorizonScan scanning 2,500+ sites). Customer testimonials include Guidewire, which reported mapping 50 compliance documents to NIST CSF in four days versus an estimated six-month manual project, and unnamed financial and software firms citing faster policy alignment with regulatory changes.

Latest developments

4CRisk announced that it is joining CUBE, which acquired the company; the transaction is described in a CUBE press release linked from 4CRisk's site as strengthening CUBE's corporate compliance capabilities. In January 2026 the company was ranked in the Best of Breed quadrant of Chartis Research's Governance, Resilience and Compliance Solutions, Digital Resilience quadrant update, and it was named for a second consecutive year to the RegTech100 list for 2026. Recent published content covers AI-powered compliance-by-design concepts and applying its models to privacy compliance management.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

4CRisk competes in the RegTech and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software market. Third-party recognition includes placement in the Best of Breed quadrant of a Chartis Research governance, resilience and compliance report, selection to the RegTech100 (2025 and 2026, chosen from over 1,000 RegTech companies) and the AIFinTech100, a Gold Globee Award for Artificial Intelligence, and inclusion among Bank Automation News' 22 AI start-ups to watch in 2025. Its Series A lead investor characterized 4CRisk as the only market player delivering end-to-end cognitive AI for compliance risk management.

4CRisk contrasts its Specialized Language Models with general-purpose LLMs such as ChatGPT and Gemini, arguing SLMs curated on a risk and compliance corpus are domain-specific, private, more accurate, faster and more cost-effective, with lower hallucination risk, zero data bias, greater explainability and a lower carbon footprint. It also emphasizes end-to-end coverage across research, horizon scanning, change management, mapping and question answering, SOC 2 certification, and speed claims of results in minutes rather than days and up to 50 times faster than manual methods.

Technology

The platform uses Specialized Language Models (SLMs) curated on regulatory, risk and compliance corpora published by authority sources, alongside AI agents, deep learning and workflow capabilities that connect regulatory and business data. Design principles cited include private and secure processing, no use of customer data to train public models, zero data bias, explainability, low carbon footprint, zero-trust architecture, SOC 2 certification and human-in-the-loop review.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales supported by free evaluations, demo requests, product and industry overview PDFs, blogs, e-books, webinars, podcasts and surveys. The company cites third-party validation (Chartis Research, RegTech100, AIFinTech100, Globee, Bank Automation News) in its marketing and is a member of the American Bankers Association technology and services partner network and participates in TechPassport's enterprise-ready onboarding program to ease due diligence with financial institutions.

Regulatory, risk, compliance, IT, security and policy professionals — including chief compliance officers and first- and second-line teams — at organizations in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, retail, telecom and healthcare. A named reference customer is Guidewire.

Geography

The Series A announcement was datelined Redwood City, California, and coverage of the round describes the company as San Francisco, California-based; the acquisition press release describes 4CRisk as a Silicon Valley RegTech. The company states it serves organizations across the globe and has a Managing Director, Naveen Kumar, among its leadership.

History

4CRisk.ai was established in 2020. In June 2022 the company, then based in Redwood City, California, announced an $8 million Series A round led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners with Touchdown Ventures as a syndicate partner, earmarked for growth, hiring and global expansion. Over 2024 and 2025 the company accumulated industry recognition including RegTech100 and AIFinTech100 listings, a Gold Globee Award for Artificial Intelligence, a Business Intelligence Group award, an A-Team RegTech Insights nomination for best regulatory intelligence solution (2024), a FinTech Futures Banking Tech Awards finalist placing, and inclusion in Bank Automation News' list of 22 AI start-ups to watch in 2025. The company was subsequently ranked in the Best of Breed quadrant of a Chartis Research report on governance, resilience and compliance solutions (January 2026) and was named to the ninth annual RegTech100 for 2026. Its news room announces the acquisition of 4CRisk by RegTech firm CUBE.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Global regulatory agencies and sources coveredJan 20262,300 sources
Licensed users of 4CRisk productsJan 202614,000 users
Number of core productsJan 20265 products
Sites scanned by HorizonScanJan 20262,500 sites

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 7

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
CUBE acquires 4CRisk

4CRisk announced it is joining CUBE; a press release states CUBE strengthens its corporate compliance capabilities with the acquisition of Silicon Valley RegTech 4CRisk.

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Jan 2026
Named to RegTech100 for 2026 (second consecutive year)

4CRisk.ai was ranked for a second year on the ninth annual RegTech100 list, selected by a panel of analysts and industry experts from over 1,000 RegTech companies; the company also features on the 2025 AIFinTech100.

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Jan 2026
Ranked in Best of Breed quadrant in Chartis Research report

4CRisk.ai was ranked in the Best of Breed quadrant of Chartis Research's Governance, Resilience and Compliance Solutions, Digital Resilience quadrant update.

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Jan 2025
Awarded Gold Globee Award for Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 2025
Named one of top 22 AI start-ups to watch in 2025 by Bank Automation News

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Jan 2024
Nominated by A-Team RegTech Insights as best regulatory intelligence solution for 2024

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Jun 2022
4CRisk.ai raises $8 million Series A

4CRisk.ai announced an $8 million Series A round led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners with Touchdown Ventures as syndicate partner, to fund long-term growth, hiring and global expansion.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does 4Crisk do?
4CRisk.ai builds AI and specialized language model products for regulatory research, change management and compliance mapping.
Who founded 4Crisk?
4Crisk was founded by Venky Yerrapotu, Supra Appikonda in 2019.
Who are 4Crisk's investors?
4Crisk's investors include Cerity Partners Ventures.