Market landscapes / AI Safety, Security & Governance

AI Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) companies

Inventory of what AI a company is running, assessment of the risk each system carries, and the workflows that prove compliance to a regulator or an auditor. At 68 companies it is the largest sub-sector on any of these maps, and that is the EU AI Act arriving with real deadlines rather than the market deciding it needs 68 of anything. Expect this number to fall.

Updated 12 October 2026

68 companies

6 acquired

44 hiring now

The rest of the AI Safety, Security & Governance landscape

The full map, including the sub-sectors too small to list separately.

The whole AI Safety, Security & Governance map AI Runtime Security & Guardrails 74 AI Red Teaming & Security Testing 39 Agent Identity & Access Control 32 Shadow AI Discovery & Workforce AI Governance 29 AI Security Posture & Threat Detection 24 AI Data Privacy & Confidential Computing 21

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