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Roz

Founded 2024 · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 6 known investors

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Roz builds AI tools for auditors, with a focus on security, compliance, and technology. The company serves audit professionals.

Also known as getroz.com

Founders & leadership

Roz was founded in 2024 by Donnie Hampton.

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Donnie HamptoninCo-FounderDonnie Hampton spent 7 years as a technology professional in the energy sector before earning an MBA from Cornell University and subsequently joining McKinsey & Company, where he co-founded Purro, an EdTech startup based in Ithaca, NY. He is now co-founder of Roz, an AI platform for audit professionals.

Investors · 6

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Roz develops an AI audit and advisory platform that automates manual steps in audit and compliance work, including evidence intake, control testing, gap analysis and workpaper or report generation. The product provides a self-serve evidence portal where clients submit documents that are automatically tagged and mapped to control activities, automated annotation and testing of incoming evidence, flagging of missing or conflicting items, and generation of audit reports, gap analyses and readiness assessments. A natural-language search feature, "Ask Roz," retrieves the relevant standard, policy, control or evidence item and highlights it for reviewer validation.

The platform is designed around a human-in-the-loop model: AI surfaces gaps while auditors review and sign off, and every answer carries an audit trail and citations back to source references. Customers define their own frameworks and controls — standards, regulations, contractual obligations or custom requirements — and map controls once for reuse across engagements. Roz also monitors control compliance and evidence continuously rather than only at audit time, and automatically maps new regulations such as SEC rules, NIS2 and DORA to existing client controls.

Stated technical characteristics include support for major evidence file types (Word, PDF, CSV and Excel among them), isolated multi-workspace environments for firms managing several divisions, clients or projects, deployment in under a day with the system reportedly usable within five minutes of document upload, and enterprise data protection under which customer data is not used to train public models.

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

Key figures

latest reported
EmployeesDec 20252-10 employees
Founded yearDec 20252,024 year
Reported reduction in report writing timeJan 202690%
Total funding raisedSep 2025$2.1M

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

Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Named a Kansas City Startup to Watch in 2026

Roz was recognized, together with Resonus, as a Kansas City Startup to Watch in 2026.

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Dec 2025
Reported $2.15M funding for AI compliance automation

Coverage reported Roz having raised $2,150,000 to advance its AI compliance automation platform, with proceeds directed toward scaling operations, expanding platform capabilities and broadening market reach.

$2.1M source ↗

Sep 2025
Roz reports $2.15M in early funding, including $1.875M pre-seed and $275K from Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

Roz secured $2.15 million in early funding: a $1.875M pre-seed round led by Outlander VC and KCRise Fund, plus $275,000 from New York-based Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.

$2.1M source ↗

Sep 2025
Pilot with a Fortune 100 company

Roz landed a pilot with a Fortune 100 company alongside refining its ideal customer profile and launching a new strategy and branding.

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

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed
  • Rozgetroz.com · web

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

Frequently asked questions

What does Roz do?
Roz is an AI platform that automates evidence collection, control testing and reporting for auditors and compliance teams.
Who founded Roz?
Roz was founded by Donnie Hampton in 2024.
Who are Roz's investors?
Roz's investors include Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Service Provider Capital, G9 Ventures, KCRise Fund, Outlander VC, Silas Capital Partners.