Anecdotes
Founded 2020 · 170 employees on LinkedIn · 8 known investors
Anecdotes provides an enterprise GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) platform for organizations. The company positions its offering as enterprise-grade GRC without compromises.
Also known as anecdotes · Anecdotes A.I Ltd · anecdotes.ai
Founders & leadership
Anecdotes was founded in 2020 by Yair Kuznitsov.
Investors · 8
Also in the syndicate · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Anecdotes (Anecdotes A.I Ltd) develops an enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform that automatically collects data from an organization's SaaS, cloud and on-premises systems and structures it into GRC-ready data sets used for compliance evidence, control monitoring and risk management. The platform, originally marketed as a Compliance Operating System and more recently as an agentic GRC platform, combines a data engine, core applications for governance, risk, compliance and trust, and AI agents that execute GRC workflows.
Product components include the Data Engine and Data Studio for ingesting and normalizing system data, a plugin library of more than 230 native integrations (including AWS, Azure, Okta, GitHub and Jira), a framework library of over 60 pre-mapped frameworks with requirement-level cross-mapping so single evidence items can satisfy NIST, ISO 27001 and HIPAA simultaneously, and agentic modules for continuous control monitoring (A-CCM), enterprise risk management (A-ERM), policy lifecycle management (A-PLM) and third-party risk management. Additional capabilities cover user access reviews, findings management, automated risk calculation, custom natural-language gap-detection rules, an Agent Studio for no-code agent building, an agent library, a conversational ChatGRC interface and a Model Context Protocol server. Multi-entity management supports subsidiaries, business units and geographies with roll-up to enterprise-wide views, and a hybrid data delegation option lets customers retain sensitive data within their own cloud perimeter.
The company states its security compliance data standard has been adopted by ecosystem participants including Coalfire, Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG and Schellman, and it lists certifications and attestations including SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27032, ISO 42001, ISO 27701, GDPR and FedRAMP 20x Class C.
Founding story
Anecdotes was founded in 2020 by Yair Kuznitsov (CEO) and Roi Amior (Chief Product Officer), both alumni of the Israel Defense Forces' Unit 8200 intelligence unit.
Business model
Anecdotes sells its GRC platform as enterprise software, with applications and agents layered on an automated data collection engine. It also runs a Managed Service Provider program and distributes through cloud marketplaces including Google Cloud Marketplace and Amazon Web Services.
Subscription-based enterprise software; the company publishes a pricing page and has offered free trials.
Traction
Reported more than tripling annual recurring revenue in the year preceding its January 2023 Series B announcement, driven largely by US customer expansion. Named customers include Snowflake, SoFi, Coinbase, LifeLabs, Aristocrat, Grafana, Payscale, Sportsbet, WELL Health Technologies, Hudson River Trading, Axonius and HiBob. Integration count grew from over 120 at the time of the Series B first close to more than 230 as listed on the company website. The company employs roughly 100 people.
Latest developments
In April 2025 Anecdotes announced a $30 million second close of its Series B led by DTCP, taking the round to $55 million and total funding to $85 million, with capital earmarked for AI-powered GRC automation, global go-to-market expansion, partner alliances and its MSP program. Company blog posts dated 2026 describe achieving FedRAMP 20x Moderate (Class C) certification, releasing an MCP server, and introducing agentic third-party risk management that replaces vendor questionnaires.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Anecdotes operates in the GRC software market and positions itself as an enterprise-focused, data-driven and agentic alternative to traditional GRC tools that rely on manual evidence gathering. Investors and press describe the enterprise GRC market as being at an inflection point driven by expanding regulation, emerging AI rules and cybersecurity threats.
The company emphasizes that its AI outputs depend on the underlying data, citing automatically collected, normalized, audit-grade evidence structured natively for GRC, direct system integrations, requirement-level cross-mapping that avoids duplicate evidence work, and a compliance data standard it says has been adopted by major audit and advisory firms.
Technology
A data engine ingests information directly from customer systems (SaaS applications, multi-cloud and on-premises environments) via proprietary native integrations rather than third-party APIs, normalizes it into a unified schema, and contextualizes it against controls, risks, policies, requirements and frameworks. Evidence carries metadata, item counts, timestamps and source-system identifiers to form an end-to-end audit trail. On top of this data layer, pre-built and custom AI agents perform gap detection, remediation orchestration, risk calculation and framework mapping, with a no-code Agent Studio, an agent library, a conversational interface and MCP connectivity to external AI assistants.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales via demo requests, complemented by a partner ecosystem spanning technology, channel and audit partners. Named partnerships and alliances include Deloitte, Coalfire, Schellman, the Big Four firms, Google Cloud and ServiceNow, plus dozens of channel partners and advisory firms, an MSP program, and listings on the Google Cloud and AWS marketplaces.
Enterprise and multi-entity GRC, compliance and risk teams, with an emphasis on technology and SaaS, financial services, healthcare and gaming sectors; auditors and advisory firms also use the platform's data.
Geography
Headquarters listed in Palo Alto, California (3000 El Camino Real, Building 4, Suite 200) with offices reported in New York, San Francisco and Tel Aviv; most employees are based in Tel Aviv. Customers span North America, Europe and other regions, and the company has stated expansion plans across the US, EMEA and APAC.
History
Founded in 2020, the company raised a $5 million seed round for enterprise-grade cloud compliance, followed by a $25 million Series A in February 2022 that funded development of applications and data capabilities within its Compliance OS, including an analysis engine, playbooks, a GenAI toolkit, frameworks, audit, policy and risk management, and user access review. In January 2023 it announced a $25 million Series B led by Glilot Capital Partners, bringing total capital raised at that point to $55 million, and reported having more than tripled annual recurring revenue over the prior year on the back of US customer growth. In April 2025 it announced a second close of the Series B, adding $30 million led by DTCP for a $55 million round total and $85 million raised since founding. In 2026 the company positioned itself around agentic GRC, announcing FedRAMP 20x Moderate (Class C) certification and launching agentic third-party risk management.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Anecdotes went on to found or lead other companies.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsBlog post describing GRC use cases unlocked by the Anecdotes Model Context Protocol server, which connects Anecdotes data to AI assistants.
Second close of the expanded Series B added $30 million led by DTCP, bringing the round to $55 million and total funding to $85 million.
$30M source ↗
Anecdotes said Series B extension capital would strengthen strategic alliances with the Big Four firms, Coalfire, Schellman, Google Cloud and ServiceNow, and expand its Managed Service Provider program.
Anecdotes closed a $25 million Series B led by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from Red Dot Capital Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Shasta Ventures, and new investors Vertex and DTCP, bringing total capital raised to $55 million.
$25M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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- Anecdotesanecdotes.ai · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Anecdotes do?
- Anecdotes is an enterprise governance, risk and compliance platform that uses automated data collection and AI agents.
- Who founded Anecdotes?
- Anecdotes was founded by Yair Kuznitsov in 2020.
- Who are Anecdotes's investors?
- Anecdotes's investors include Aleph, Glilot Capital Partners, Red Dot Capital Partners, DTCP, Mango Capital, Vertex Ventures.