Expent Inc
YC W21San Francisco, US · Founded 2020 · 10 employees · 5 known investors
Hyperproof provides an AI-native third-party risk management platform that automates vendor security assessments and centralizes risk data for security, procurement, and compliance teams. The platform streamlines vendor onboarding and delivers continuous visibility for audits and reporting.
Also known as Expent · Hyperproof
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W21)
Expent Inc was founded in 2020 by Harikrishna Narayanan and Srikanth Veeraraghavan.
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Expent Inc, operating under the Hyperproof brand at expent.ai, offers a third-party risk management (TPRM) platform for identifying, assessing, and reducing risk introduced by vendors, suppliers, and service providers that access an organization's data, systems, or critical operations. The platform is positioned as AI-native: its engine ingests vendor-provided artifacts such as security reports, policy documents, and compliance certificates, detects gaps and exceptions, maps controls to frameworks, and produces risk assessments with stated rationales, with the aim of reducing manual review effort and improving scoring consistency.
Core product capabilities include configurable questionnaires that can be created, distributed, and tracked across frameworks and assessment types (with templates, conditional logic, and scoring models); a vendor risk register that categorizes and prioritizes issues by severity and likelihood and supports remediation collaboration; automated reassessments triggered by thresholds or timeframes with tier-based prioritization and pre-built workflows; continuous external monitoring that scans public sources for breach disclosures, security incidents, and compliance lapses; and a vendor catalog covering vendors, assessments, and contracts filterable by risk tier, framework, or lifecycle stage. Higher tiers extend into full vendor lifecycle management, including intake-to-procure onboarding workflows, contract management and renewals, configurable workflows aligned to internal GRC or procurement rules, API access, and custom analytics dashboards.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold via tiered subscriptions. A free TPRM trial covers internal-only, AI-powered assessments, AI-driven risk scoring, external monitoring, and standard frameworks (Hyperproof Essential 20, CAIQ, VSAQ), and converts to a paid Core subscription. TPRM Core adds vendor collaboration, customizable frameworks and scoring rules, more frequent external monitoring, a centralized vendor inventory, and optional AI acceleration. TPRM Advanced adds vendor onboarding, full lifecycle and contract management, fully configurable workflows, API access, and advanced analytics.
Paid subscription plans (Core and Advanced tiers) following a free trial entry point.
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Market position
Operates in the third-party/vendor risk management segment of governance, risk, and compliance software.
Positions its offering as AI-native rather than checkbox-based questionnaire tooling, emphasizing automated analysis of vendor documentation with defensible rationales, continuous external monitoring beyond point-in-time questionnaires, and embedding risk checks across the full vendor lifecycle from intake and sourcing through contract renewal.
Technology
An AI-native third-party risk engine that automates analysis of vendor-provided artifacts—security reports, policy documents, and compliance certificates—detecting gaps and exceptions and mapping controls to frameworks. Additional components include automated risk scoring and dashboards, questionnaire tooling with conditional logic and scoring models, workflow automation for reassessments and task routing, a continuous external monitoring engine that scans public sources for risk indicators, and API access for integration into customer tech stacks.
Go-to-market
Self-serve free trial for the entry-level TPRM plan with conversion to paid subscriptions, alongside demo requests for the Core and Advanced enterprise tiers.
Security, procurement, compliance, legal, and GRC teams managing vendor and supplier risk, ranging from smaller programs starting with a free trial to enterprises requiring configurable end-to-end vendor lifecycle management.
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- Expent Incexpent.ai · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Expent Inc do?
- AI-native third-party risk management platform that automates vendor security assessments and centralizes vendor risk data.
- Who founded Expent Inc?
- Expent Inc was founded by Harikrishna Narayanan, Srikanth Veeraraghavan in 2020.
- Who are Expent Inc's investors?
- Expent Inc's investors include Four Acres Capital, Lorimer Ventures, PJC, Y Combinator, Workday Ventures.
- Where is Expent Inc headquartered?
- Expent Inc is headquartered in San Francisco, US.