About HelmGuard
HelmGuard is an agentic governance, risk, and compliance platform for financial services and other regulated sectors. It is led by former Palantir executive John Daley and backed by Entrepreneur First. In September 2026 it raised a $7.3M seed round co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline.
What is HelmGuard?
What is HelmGuard?
HelmGuard builds an agentic security and compliance platform. Its premise is that GRC teams spend most of their time on data collection: chasing evidence, reading vendor SOC 2 reports, and re-answering the same questionnaires.
According to its website, HelmGuard's AI agents connect to source systems and pull evidence automatically, monitor controls, manage third parties, govern other AI agents, and deliver reports while the human team reviews and signs off. SecurityWeek reports that the platform unifies fragmented compliance, security, and risk data from unstructured documents and integrated systems, then automates third-party risk management, assurance, and control gap assessments into a single unified view, cutting assessment cycles to hours. HelmGuard also points out that vendor risk assessed at purchase often no longer reflects what is running as vendors add AI to their products.
The company is based in London and was co-founded by CEO John Daley, a former Palantir executive, and Jack Miller. In September 2026 it announced a $7.3M seed round co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital, and Entrepreneur First participating. It plans to expand in the US with New York and San Francisco presence and build an agent assurance layer.
Pros
- Agents pull evidence directly from source systems
- Covers third-party risk, control gaps, and AI agent governance
- Built with regulated sectors such as financial services in mind
- Human reviewers keep sign-off on findings
Cons
- Integration with source systems is needed to get full value
- Pricing is not published on the website
- US expansion was still underway at the time of the seed announcement
How to Use HelmGuard
- 1Request a demo
Book a demo through helmguard.ai.
- 2Connect source systems
Link the systems and documents agents should collect evidence from.
- 3Run assessments
Let agents perform third-party risk, control gap, and agent assurance assessments.
- 4Review and sign off
Your team reviews the unified findings and reports before acting.