Credo AI

About Credo AI

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Credo AI

All products by Credo AI reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Credo AIAI Compliance

AI governance software for enterprise risk and compliance teams

Free7.1/10

Competitive Landscape

Who Credo AI competes with, and how they differ.

IBM7.7/10

IBM sells AI governance as watsonx.governance, a module of its watsonx stack that lands through existing enterprise software and consulting relationships and pulls buyers toward IBM-hosted models and infrastructure. Credo AI is a standalone, model- and cloud-agnostic platform whose pitch is governing AI the customer did not build — third-party models, vendor tools and shadow AI — rather than instrumenting one vendor's pipeline.

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OneTrust7.6/10

OneTrust reaches the same enterprise risk and legal buyer as the incumbent in privacy and consent management, and added AI Governance in 2023 as a module on that install base. Credo AI was built AI-governance-first and goes deeper on AI-specific artifacts — use-case and model registries, technical evaluations, and a GenAI risk-and-controls library — where OneTrust's strength is breadth of data-privacy workflow.

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Holistic AI

London-based Holistic AI is the closest pure-play peer: an AI governance and auditing platform also selling EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF conformance to enterprises. It leans harder on third-party algorithm auditing and bias-audit services (NYC Local Law 144 and similar mandates), while Credo AI leads with policy packs and continuous GRC workflow owned by the customer's own governance team.

Vanta7.2/10

Vanta automates security-compliance certification (SOC 2, ISO 27001) for a largely mid-market buyer and extended into AI with ISO 42001 support in 2024 and an EU AI Act framework later that year. The overlap is real but the workload differs: Vanta collects audit evidence against a control framework, while Credo AI governs individual AI use cases and models — risk scenarios, evaluations, approvals — for Global 2000 AI and risk teams.

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MetricStream7.2/10

MetricStream is an established enterprise GRC suite that reoriented around an AI-first strategy in 2025 and competes for the same AI-risk budget from an existing operational-risk, audit and compliance install base. It approaches AI governance as another risk domain inside a general GRC platform; Credo AI starts from AI-native primitives (model cards, evaluations, use-case registry) and has no legacy GRC footprint to sell alongside.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in Credo AI's history, with sources.

1. May 13, 2026Launch

   Govern AI Assistant (GAIA) reaches general availability

   Credo AI made GAIA generally available, an AI governance agent that automates intake and registration of AI use cases and maps them to risks and controls, aimed at governance teams whose manual review queues cannot keep pace with enterprise AI adoption.

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2. Feb 20, 2026Partnership

   Partnership with G42 to advance responsible AI across the Global South

   Credo AI and Abu Dhabi-based G42 agreed to develop practical governance frameworks, risk-monitoring tooling and education programmes to help policymakers and practitioners in emerging markets operationalise responsible AI.

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3. Nov 19, 2024Partnership

   Collaboration with Microsoft Azure AI

   Credo AI announced a collaboration with Microsoft Azure AI so enterprises building on Azure can align AI applications with internal principles and regulatory requirements through Credo AI's governance, risk and compliance platform.

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4. Jul 30, 2024Funding

   $21M in new capital led by CrimsoNox Capital — $41.3M raised to date

   CrimsoNox Capital, Mozilla Ventures and FPV Ventures put in $21 million, with existing investors Sands Capital, Decibel VC, Booz Allen Hamilton and AI Fund participating. Credo AI stated the round brought total funding raised to $41.3 million; it said revenue had tripled and headcount grown 3x over the year, citing customers including Mastercard, Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen Hamilton.

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5. Jun 6, 2024Launch

   Launch of the GenAI Risk and Controls Library

   Credo AI released what it described as the world's largest and most comprehensive library of AI-specific risk scenarios and mitigating controls, built on academic research plus NIST and MITRE frameworks, and mapped into its GRC-for-AI workflows.

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6. Jan 18, 2024Partnership

   Databricks technology partnership

   Credo AI became an official Databricks technology partner, connecting its AI governance platform to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform so joint customers can apply policy and compliance controls inside their data and model workflows.

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7. May 3, 2023Funding

   Strategic investment from Booz Allen Ventures (amount undisclosed)

   Booz Allen Ventures, the $100 million corporate venture arm of Booz Allen Hamilton, invested in Credo AI alongside a partnership to deploy Credo AI Policy Packs and AI governance tooling across U.S. federal agencies and Booz Allen's AIOps pipelines. The amount was not disclosed.

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8. May 17, 2022Funding

   Series A — $12.8M led by Sands Capital

   Sands Capital led the $12.8 million Series A, with existing seed investors Decibel VC and AI Fund participating. Proceeds funded product development and the company's tech-policy function tracking emerging AI standards and regulations.

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9. Apr 26, 2022Launch

   Responsible AI Governance Platform reaches general availability

   Credo AI made its SaaS governance platform generally available, billing it as the first of its kind. It lets cross-functional teams run AI risk and compliance assessments across fairness, performance, privacy and security, and manage AI vendor risk.

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10. Apr 15, 2022Milestone

    Founder-CEO Navrina Singh appointed to the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee

    Singh was named one of the inaugural 27 members of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), the U.S. Department of Commerce body advising the President and the National AI Initiative Office on AI policy.

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11. October 2021Funding

    Seed round — $5.5M led by Decibel Partners

    Credo AI raised $5.5 million in seed funding to build its AI governance platform. Decibel Partners led the round, with Village Global and Andrew Ng's AI Fund participating.

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12. 2020Founded

    Credo AI founded by Navrina Singh and Eli Chen

    Credo AI was founded in 2020 by CEO Navrina Singh (previously Microsoft and Qualcomm) and CTO Eli Chen to bring context-driven governance and risk assessment to enterprise AI development and use.

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