Dili, an AI-native compliance platform for the industries powering America’s infrastructure buildout, has announced $21.7 million in total funding. This includes a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures. Participants included Y Combinator’s Garry Tan, Allianz, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Rebel Fund.
Traditional auditors, including Big Four firms, have periodically sampled roughly 10% of data and taken one to two years to close an engagement. Dili checks 100% of the data in real time. The company has processed more than $1.4 billion in wages, 5.2 million labor hours, and nearly 16,000 certified payroll reports across more than 700 projects. Review time has dropped from seven-plus hours to under five minutes a week per organization.
Dili has caught or prevented more than $50 million in fines and clawbacks across its customer base. In one case, the company caught $6 million in IRS penalty exposure for a single customer before it became a liability. Anand Chaturvedi co-founded Dili in 2023 after seeing how much high-stakes audit and diligence work still ran through email and spreadsheets. He previously built products at Coinbase and conducted machine learning research at Apple. Co-founder and CTO Brian Fernandez previously led engineering projects for core retail infrastructure at Coinbase.
Customers include EDF, Radiance, Heelstone, and Borea. The new funding will go toward hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market. Dili plans to expand beyond prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance into broader audit and waste detection work traditionally outsourced to Big Four consultants.
KEY QUOTES:
“Compliance in this industry has always meant hoping the sample your auditor pulled happens to be clean. We look at everything, every report, every wage determination, every week. The first time we ran a look-back on a customer’s historical data, we found in four days what would have taken their consultants months to find by sampling, if they’d found it at all.”
Anand Chaturvedi, Co-Founder and CEO, Dili
“America is in the middle of the largest infrastructure buildout in a generation. One missed financial compliance requirement puts hundreds of millions of dollars at risk. Dili gives the industries building this new era of infrastructure a real-time, AI-powered assurance layer that catches problems before they become liabilities.”
Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
