HelmGuard Raises $7.3 Million for Agentic GRC and Security

HelmGuard, an AI risk and compliance startup, raised $7.3 million to build a platform that uses AI agents (autonomous software programs that perform tasks without constant human direction) to automatically collect and assess risk signals from company systems, speeding up compliance and security assessments from days to hours. The platform aims to solve the problem that traditional compliance tools only document processes rather than help teams make risk decisions, and that vendor security assessments become outdated when vendors add AI to their products.