Bretton AI Secures $75 Million to Deploy AI Agents Against Financial Crime

Bretton AI rebranded from Greenlite AI and raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to expand the deployment of artificial intelligence across financial crime operations in regulated financial institutions.

The company offers AI agents that perform financial crime workflows, including know your customers (KYC) and know your business (KYB) reviews, anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions investigations, and ongoing monitoring, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 10) press release.

It will use the new funding to expand its platform across additional financial crime domains, deepen its regulatory engagement and accelerate the adoption of its platform among larger and more complex institutions, per the release.

“Financial crime is the breakout use case for AI in financial services,” Bretton AI CEO and Co-founder Will Lawrence said in the release. “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’s rebranding reflects the company’s expanded mission, Lawrence said. The name is an homage to the Bretton Woods agreement that helped define the modern financial system, according to the release.

“Greenlite AI was about proving that trusted AI agents could work in compliance,” Lawrence said in the release. “Bretton AI is about defining the standard for how AI operates inside regulated financial institutions.”

The company’s latest funding round came about nine months after a May 2025 Series A in which it raised $15 million and brought its total capital raised at the time to $20 million.

Since the May 2025 round, Bretton AI has accelerated the adoption of its platform among top-tier customers, according to the Tuesday press release. The total market capitalization of companies using its platform has grown from $150 billion to over $1 trillion, and the average customer contract value has increased from $85,000 to $201,000, per the release.

Rajeev Dham, partner at Sapphire Ventures, which led the latest funding round, said in the release that Bretton AI has proven that AI agents can transform compliance teams from cost centers to force multipliers.

“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,” Dham said.

The company’s agentic AI-driven solution is designed to relieve compliance teams from labor-intensive reviews and to handle the “enhanced due diligence” that regulators demand for high-risk clients, Lawrence told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in an interview posted in June 2025.

“These high-risk customers might be some of your most profitable,” Lawrence said. “But they require a lot of work to maintain. And if you can’t keep up, you might turn them away.”

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