Bretton AI

Profile (continued)

In August 2025 the company signed a lease for office space in San Francisco's SOMA district (covered by Yahoo Finance), reflecting continued headcount growth (the company grew from a founding team of about seven at YC to roughly 100 employees by mid-2026, drawing hires from Meta, Netflix, Uber, Stripe and SpaceX, per CEO Will Lawrence).

On February 10-12, 2026, the company announced a $75 million Series B -- less than a year after its Series A -- led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued participation from Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Canvas Ventures and Y Combinator, plus new investor TIAA Ventures. Sapphire Ventures partner Rajeev Dham joined the board. Concurrently, the company rebranded from Greenlite AI to Bretton AI (a reference to the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that established the post-WWII financial system's rules and rails), reflecting an expanded ambition to move beyond AML/KYC point solutions toward a broader 'AI-native operations' platform for the financial back office (spanning compliance, risk, fraud and operations). CEO Will Lawrence said total funding raised across the three rounds (seed, Series A, Series B) was 'about $95 million'; the company declined to disclose revenue or valuation. Widely covered in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Axios, Finextra, FinSMES, FinTech Futures and Connecting the Dots in Fintech.

At the Series B, the company reported: combined market capitalization of customers using the platform grew from $150 billion to over $1 trillion in the prior year; five new publicly traded companies signed as customers in 2025; average contract value grew from about $25,000 (seed, 2023) to $85,000 (Series A, 2025) to about $201,000 (Series B, 2026); customers had saved more than $10 million in compliance headcount/risk costs; the platform had eliminated more than 195,000 hours of manual work and completed over 1.2 million Level 1/Level 2 investigations; and net dollar retention exceeded 180%.

Post-rebrand in 2026, Bretton AI has continued to expand its customer base and product line. On June 30, 2026 it formally launched the 'Bretton AI Platform' (bundling Templates, Builder, Workbench and Trust Infrastructure) alongside Bretton AI Managed Services, positioning itself as an agent-first alternative to BPOs/outsourcing for community and regional banks. Case studies and testimonials cite an FDIC-regulated bank cutting compliance review time by 87%; a global exchange saving $5.35 million in operational costs in year one; a global payments platform conducting 200,000+ customer reviews with Bretton; and First Internet Bank reducing SBA loan-origination review time from 8-10 hours to under 1 hour (87% reduction, ~24,300 hours saved annually). Named customers/testimonials as of mid-2026 include Coastal Community Bank / CCBX (President Brian Hamilton), Gusto (BSA Officer John Wiethorn), MVB Bank (a Nasdaq-listed MVB Financial Corp. subsidiary; multi-year AML/KYC deal announced August 2026), and a partnership with Risk Management Solutions Group (RMSG, announced August 2026). The company won CB Insights' 'AI 100' award in May 2026. In May 2026 the CEO discussed the Nasdaq board display in Times Square, NY following the Series B. As of August 2026, the platform is described as 'trusted by OCC, FDIC and Fed regulated institutions' and used by Robinhood, Mercury, Gusto, Lead Bank and Coastal Community Bank, among others.

Competitively, Bretton AI/Greenlite positions itself against (a) point-solution AML/KYC software vendors such as Alloy, ComplyAdvantage (also a former go-to-market partner), Hawk AI, Unit21, Sardine and Feedzai; (b) traditional BPO/outsourced compliance staffing providers; and (c) general-purpose AI/LLM tooling being adapted for compliance use cases. No evidence was found that the company (as Greenlite AI or Bretton AI) has made any acquisitions of its own, been acquired, or pursued an IPO; it remains an independent, privately held company as of August 2026.

Go-to-market

OCC-, FDIC- and Federal Reserve-regulated banks, SEC-regulated broker-dealers, fintechs, payment platforms, and Fortune 500 companies; named customers include Ramp, Mercury, Betterment, Gusto, Robinhood, RSM UK, Grasshopper Bank, Coastal Community Bank (CCBX), Lead Bank, First Internet Bank, and MVB Bank.

Ownership

private