Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Compliance and governance software startups worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,752 compliance and governance software startups worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 52,523 professional contacts across them, including 22,184 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers compliance and governance software startups worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026. Country and city lists for compliance and governance software startups follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest compliance and governance software startups worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,803 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and board members to clarify risk and elevate governance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,753 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sovos provides businesses with the confidence needed to navigate an increasingly regulated world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,740 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DFIN is the leading global provider of compliance and regulatory software and services, fueling end-to-end investment company regulatory compliance needs, complex capital markets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,705 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mitratech is a trusted, global technology partner empowering corporate legal, risk & compliance, and HR professionals to maximize productivity, control expense, and mitigate risk…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,658 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Relay is a leading provider of end-to-end recordkeeping solutions for the global financial sector and other highly regulated industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,486 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ACA Group is the leading governance, risk, and compliance advisor to the financial services industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vanta is the #1 Agentic Trust Platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ideagen brings clarity and confidence to the safe hands and trusted voices protecting our world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,279 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Solutions are offerings of the company’s Financial & Corporate Compliance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,260 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RLDatix is on a mission to change healthcare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,245 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MetricStream simplifies Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) with purpose-built AI-first Risk, Compliance, Audit, CyberGRC, Third-party Risk, and Resilience products on a single…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 824 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Archer's GRC keeps the world's most regulated enterprises ahead of constant regulatory change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 755 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Optro (formerly AuditBoard) helps enterprises transform risk into opportunity, redefining GRC through an agentic system of action.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 661 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LRN is the world's largest dedicated ethics and compliance company, educating and helping more than 30 million people each year worldwide navigate complex legal and regulatory…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 615 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MEGA International is a global SaaS software company headquartered in Paris, France, with offices in 10 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 568 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EQS Group is a leading international cloud provider for corporate compliance & ethics, data privacy, sustainability management, and investor relations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Compliance isn’t about reporting data - it’s the foundation of trust, transparency, and resilience in business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 453 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAI360 redefines GRC by using AI to connect ethics, risk, and compliance data so teams can identify issues sooner and act with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 416 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aithent creates high-value regulatory compliance management solutions for financial services, government, healthcare and insurance organizations around the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Azeus Systems Holdings Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Advisense is a leading governance, risk and compliance powerhouse, offering best-in-class services and tech solutions to the European industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MCO is a global leader on a mission to revolutionize how financial firms tackle compliance, making it simpler, smarter, and more effective.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, ZL Tech is the industry leader in information governance for large enterprises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “StarCompliance is a leading provider of employee compliance technology solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: compliance and governance software startups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names compliance and governance software startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of compliance and governance software startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name compliance and governance software startups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Compliance and governance software startups worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among compliance and governance software startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for compliance and governance software startups are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “compliance and governance software startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names compliance and governance software startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among compliance and governance software startups, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 22,184 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Compliance and governance software startups by location
17 lists · largest firstEvery Compliance and governance software startups list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Compliance and governance software startups based in the United States615
- Compliance and governance software startups based in the United Kingdom254
- Compliance and governance software startups based in India166
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Brazil135
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Australia129
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Germany107
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Canada72
- Compliance and governance software startups based in France70
- Compliance and governance software startups based in the Netherlands60
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Switzerland53
- Compliance and governance software startups based in South Africa48
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Spain44
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Ireland42
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Italy39
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Denmark35
- Compliance and governance software startups based in Sweden32
- Compliance and governance software startups based in the United Arab Emirates28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names compliance and governance software startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many compliance and governance software startups are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,752 compliance and governance software startups worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Diligent, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most compliance and governance software startups?
The United States leads with 615 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (254) and India (166). Every compliance and governance software startups list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most compliance and governance software startups?
London leads with 146 headquartered companies, followed by New York (55) and Sao Paulo (44).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 22,184 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,752 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.