We just raised a $75M Series B to *finally* automate AML/KYC with AI agents. KYC/AML software has been around for a long time. @brettonai is different: - Autonomous browsing: agents hop between multiple tools to complete reviews without the need for a massive engineering lift for the bank - Long Horizon Agents: our agents complete iterative, complex reviews that take humans hours to complete - Bank-grade model risk management: built for regulators, internal audit and third-party reviews It's why companies like Robinhood, Lead Bank and Gusto use us to scale efficiently and deliver great customer experiences. Our Series B is led by @rajeevdham and @SapphireVC , with participation from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Canvas Ventures and TIAA Ventures. 3 years ago, this company was just a dream. Now I get to work with 40 of the smartest, hardest working poeple I’ve ever met to solve big problems at the heart of finance. I'm pumped for the future! Now back to building.

What does an AI-native bank look like? Have a look at First Internet Bank of Indiana in our latest customer deep dive. With zero branches and over $5.6B in assets, FIB has been a pioneer in digital banking since 1999. But even the most innovative banks are drowning in manual compliance work. By partnering with @brettonai, FIB was able to: - Reduce time spent on manual compliance review by a whopping 87% - Saving 24,300 hours a year across four different teams Full cases study video below.

Excited to announce the speaker lineup for The Vertical AI Summit in New York on June 2nd. We’re bringing together founders and leaders from top vertical AI companies for a behind-the-scenes look at how they’re building with AI. We still have a few open spots. Apply below.

Excited to be speaking at this one! Come join us

Introducing Bretton AI Horizon: the first agentic workspace for L2 financial crime escalations. Your best investigators spend hours swiveling between 10 systems to close a single case. Horizon changes that. One workspace to: - Pull records from any internal or external system - Execute AI-powered research plans - Draft SARs from your own templates - Meet audit and QA standards on every investigation Bretton AI now covers L1 to L2. End-to-end.

Today I'm excited to announce Bretton AI Horizon: the AI workspace for L2 financial crime work. Why we built this: Agents complete L1 alert reviews incredibly well. But some investigations need an escalated review driven by humans. Horizon is the first automation platform designed specifically for complex financial crime escalations, starting with L2 work. Horizon can help teams: - Find records from your underlying case management, screening or KYC systems without “swiveling” between 10 different systems - Use 30 AI tools to execute contextual research plans - Draft and [soon] file SARs directly from Horizon - Ensure every investigation has a rich audit log and meets internal QA/QC standards -- @brettonai now helps financial crime team automate L1 and L2 work all from a single pane of glass. We're so excited for the financial crime community to try this. Get in touch if you want to see it in action!

@brettonai just raised a $75 million Series B. quick interview w/ the CEO @will_lawrenceTO on how they are using AI to tackle fraud and compliance:

Three years ago, @brettonai was an idea. Now, we’re in Times Square celebrating our $75M Series B. I’m so proud of our incredible team and grateful to our customers for the support. We’d be nowhere without you all. 2026 is going to be our biggest year yet. Let’s go!

Congrats to @brettonai on their $75M Series B! Bretton AI builds AI agents that automate AML, KYC, and sanctions reviews for banks and fintechs. Their agents replace hours of manual compliance work with fast, fully auditable investigations that meet regulatory standards. bretton.com/blog/bretton-rai…

In 2023, 3 years before this chart, @will_lawrenceTO had a clear vision for how AI agents were going to automate compliance based on his experience at WhatsApp and Paxos Fast forward, and @brettonai has become the enterprise leader in AI for financial crimes Individual banks can spend $100-$300M *each* on human compliance analysts for poor results - including backlogged alerts, fines, and poor customer experiences Bretton AI has become the trusted provider for regulated financial institutions at scale, serving customers worth over $1 trillion in aggregate market cap Congrats on the $75M Series B, and welcome @rajeevdham and @SapphireVC to the team! fortune.com/2026/02/10/brett…

Sapphire is awesome and we're excited to build a generational company with them. Onwards!

2025 was our best year yet at Greenlite. - Grew ACV from $50k to $201k - Signed 5 public companies - Grew AUM of customers from $150B to $987B - Completed 1.2M investigations for customers - Saved our customers 97.5 years worth of labor 2026 will be even bigger!

Large financial institutions spend 6-10% of their revenue on compliance; with the majority of spend on human analysts who complete mundane data transformation tasks There's a new category of AI agents that automate this work, going after the $60bn in spend in North America alone, and enabling businesses to onboard more customers, reduce compliance risk, and save costs If you're curious about this category, stop by @money2020 and hear from - @will_lawrenceTO, CEO & co-founder of @greenliteai - Melissa Strait, Chief Compliance Officer of @coinbase - @shara_chang, Chief Compliance Officer of @Chime

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So I’m back full time-ish to the SF Bay Area.  As, often quietly, are so many leaders and execs I’ve known for years. I spent about 60% of my time since lockdown in SoCal, 30% in Palo Alto, and the rest in Misc.  It wasn’t to work at the beach, it was for family reasons.  But still, I like many of us went from someone who never felt they could leave the SF Bay, to some who well, did. The SF Bay Area is back.  It’s clearly the center of the AI Boom, even if many are based outside of it, in Paris and elsewhere.  YCombinator is having a renaissance, with 3 batches of 100s of top tier startups being hatched in Dogpatch in SF.  Most will stay.  Even top European accelerators like EF have come to SF.  Many VCs that for whatever reason left, have returned. New York is great, SoCal and Miami are great places to live and OK for tech, and certainly there are segments of SaaS and B2B where SF isn’t as compelling.  Vertical SaaS and parts of eCommerce may well be so focused on other geos, for example, it’s not worth it to be in SF Bay. But we’ll all kind of back.  At least most of us. It is different though.  That’s the subtle thing: •The SF Bay may no longer make sense for anyone that isn’t truly ambitious.  Better to find a remote job and live in a cheaper, and calmer geo. •It will take years for parts of SF to be nice again.  Some parts are great though.  But SOMA and much of the financial district are still awful.  Palo Alto and the Peninsula are as pretty, sunny, and expensive as ever. •The density isn’t quite there.  But it’s still #1.  Before March 2020, you could reach out your window and see a dozen leading SaaS execs.  The hour after the Stay at Home order went out, I bumped into the President of Atlassian on the street.  That doesn’t really happen anymore, at least for now.    •All VCs will invest anywhere now.  But it’s much easier if you are in SF Bay.  It makes getting to know each other so, so much easier. •Most founders are OK hiring VPs anywhere now — but really, strongly prefer to work together in the office.  It just gives you a leg up as a VP, especially a first-time VP, to be in SF Bay. •It’s by far the easier place to meet up with other CEOs and founders.  You can do it anywhere.  But it’s so much easier in SF Bay. My somewhat obvious learnings.  I’m back.  I miss the beach.  I like it here, but I don’t love it.  It lacks the density of pre-March 2020, that’s underappreciated. But if you are really going for it, I think most B2B founders will really benefit from being here.  And probably most ambitious VPs and VPs-to-be, as well. It’s time.  I’m back.  It might be time for you to come back, too.

New issue of "Banking on AI" is out now! Lot's of stuff to cover this week: - Andreessen Horowitz GP David Haber and partner Marc Andrusko interviewed Citigroup's Head of Strategy, Timothy Karpoff, covering a wide range of topics including AI & Banking - Databricks' Russ Rawlings discussed smaller LLM models and why they're increasingly making more sense for banks and financial institutions - Spending on AI software is projected to jump over the next few years—with financial services leading the way The full issue is in the comments below—check it out and let us know what you think!

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#AI's potential to automate bureaucratic tasks is transformative. By handling compliance and detailed work, AI will free up human talent for more strategic roles. This shift will optimize enterprise operations over the next decade. linkedin.com/pulse/real-futu… #DigitalTransformation