Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite AI, said it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round and rebranded as Bretton AI as it expands its mission to define how AI is deployed across financial crime operations in regulated financial institutions. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Canvas Ventures, and Y Combinator. New investors include TIAA Ventures. Sapphire Ventures Partner Rajeev Dham has joined Bretton AI’s board. The company said the financing comes less than one year after its Series A.
Bretton AI said it is used by OCC-, FDIC-, and Federal Reserve-regulated banks and financial platforms, including Robinhood, Mercury, Gusto, Lead Bank, and Coastal Community Bank. The company said its AI agents staff high-volume, mission-critical workflows, including KYC and KYB reviews, AML and sanctions investigations, and ongoing monitoring.
At the core of the platform is what the company calls Trust Infrastructure, a governance system designed to embed regulatory guidance, model risk management, continuous AI evaluation, and quality assurance into each agent to support audit-ready, explainable deployments aligned with regulatory expectations.
Bretton AI said its agents operate across systems and data sources, reason over incomplete data, and complete investigations in minutes rather than days, delivering ROI through greater consistency and more defensible decision-making. The company said that since its May 2025 Series A, it has expanded adoption and use cases, and that the combined market capitalization of companies relying on its platform has grown from $150 billion to over $1 trillion over the past year.
The company signed five new publicly traded customers in 2025, and the average contract value increased to $201,000 from $85,000 at Series A in 2025 and $25,000 at seed in 2023. Bretton AI said it has helped customers save more than $10 million in compliance-related headcount costs and risk reduction while eliminating more than 195,000 hours of manual compliance work, and that its agents have completed more than 1.2 million L1 and L2 financial crime investigations.
Bretton AI said the name is an homage to Bretton Woods and reflects its shift from an AI tooling provider to a category-defining platform for financial crime operations. The company said the Series B proceeds will be used to expand across additional financial crime domains, deepen regulatory engagement, and accelerate adoption among larger institutions, while continuing to invest in product development and to grow engineering and go-to-market teams.
KEY QUOTES
“Financial crime is the breakout use case for AI in financial services. This work is complex, unstructured, and deeply scrutinized. We’ve proven that AI agents can operate in production inside the world’s most regulated institutions when built with the right trust and governance foundations. Bretton AI represents the next chapter of that ambition. Greenlite AI was about proving that trusted AI agents could work in compliance. Bretton AI is about defining the standard for how AI operates inside regulated financial institutions. Our mission has expanded, and our name needed to reflect that. But banks can’t just deploy any AI. They need systems built from the ground up for regulatory accountability. The opportunity to help financial institutions operate more safely and efficiently without compromising that trust is enormous. Bretton AI exists to define the industry standard for trustworthy, audit-ready AI in the financial system.”
Will Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer And Co Founder, Bretton AI
“Financial crime compliance is one of the most operationally intensive and critical functions in financial services—and it’s exactly where we think AI can deliver the biggest impact. From our perspective, Bretton AI has proven that AI agents can run in production at scale, turning compliance teams into force multipliers rather than cost centers. Will and the team aren’t just helping institutions move faster—they’re defining the trust infrastructure for how AI should be deployed, governed and audited across the global financial system. We couldn’t be more excited to partner.”
Rajeev Dham, Partner, Sapphire Ventures
“Bretton AI has been a force multiplier for our financial crime team. We’ve meaningfully reduced L1 investigation times, improved consistency across decisions and strengthened our overall risk posture as we scale.”
Brian Hamilton, President, Coastal Community Bank
