Bretton AI, previously known as Greenlite AI, has announced the completion of a $75 million Series B funding round and its corporate rebrand. This marks an expansion of the company’s objective to define the application of AI within financial crime operations for regulated financial institutions.
The Series B funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with ongoing participation from existing institutional investors Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Canvas Ventures, and Y Combinator. TIAA Ventures joined as a new investor in this round. Following the investment, Rajeev Dham, Partner at Sapphire Ventures, has been appointed to Bretton AI’s Board of Directors. This financing follows less than one year after the company’s Series A round.
Bretton AI’s platform is utilized by banks regulated by the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve, as well as global financial platforms including Robinhood, Mercury, Gusto, Lead Bank, and Coastal Community Bank. The company’s AI agents are deployed to manage high-volume, critical financial crime workflows, such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and KYB (Know Your Business) reviews, AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and sanctions investigations, and ongoing monitoring.
Will Lawrence, CEO and co-founder of Bretton AI, stated, “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.”
The foundation of Bretton AI’s platform is its proprietary Trust Infrastructure, a governance system that integrates regulatory guidance, model risk management, continuous AI evaluation, and quality assurance into each agent. This framework is designed to enable financial institutions to deploy AI solutions that are audit-ready, explainable, and aligned with regulatory requirements from their initial deployment. Human analysts typically navigate numerous tools and data sources, manually compiling evidence and narratives under evolving regulatory mandates. Bretton AI’s agents are engineered to operate across disparate systems, process complex and incomplete data, and complete investigations significantly faster, aiming for minutes rather than days. This is intended to result in immediate return on investment, improved consistency, and more robust financial crime decisions.
Rajeev Dham, Partner at Sapphire Ventures, commented, “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.”
Since its Series A funding in May 2025, Bretton AI has observed increased adoption among customers, expanded use cases, and engagement with systemically important financial institutions. The total market capitalization of companies using its platform has risen from $150 billion to over $1 trillion in the past year. In 2025, Bretton AI secured five new publicly traded companies as customers. The average customer contract value has increased to $201,000, up from $85,000 at Series A in 2025 and $25,000 at Seed in 2023, reflecting deeper client relationships through production-scale deployments. Bretton AI reports helping customers save over $10 million in compliance-related headcount costs and risk reduction, and eliminating more than 195,000 hours of manual compliance work.
Measurable customer results include a financial institution with assets exceeding $15 billion reducing BPO spend by $5.35 million in its first year with Bretton AI, a Fortune 500 company cutting institutional client onboarding time by 50%, and an FDIC-regulated bank decreasing loan origination timelines by up to 90% through the deployment of Bretton AI agents across workflows.
Brian Hamilton, President at Coastal Community Bank, stated, “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.”
The rebrand from Greenlite AI to Bretton AI signifies the company’s progression from an AI tooling provider to a platform focused on financial crime operations. The name Bretton AI is a reference to Bretton Woods, the post-World War II agreement that shaped the modern financial system. For Bretton AI, AI represents a comparable turning point, enabling financial institutions to expand, innovate, and serve more customers while upholding regulatory trust. Lawrence explained, “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.”
The Series B funding is designated for expanding Bretton AI’s platform into additional financial crime domains, enhancing regulatory engagement, and accelerating adoption within larger and more complex institutions. The company also plans to continue investing in product development and growing its engineering and go-to-market teams. Bretton AI aims to establish the industry standard for trustworthy, audit-ready AI in the financial system. Bretton AI was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
