John Daley

Co-founder and CEO, HelmGuard · helmguard.ai ↗

Compliance teams still judge risk through questionnaires and documents. HelmGuard’s co-founder, a former Palantir executive, is betting AI agents can check the evidence at source instead

seed round, September 2026: $7.3m
counterparties assessed for one US insurer in under a week: 1,250
cut in assessment time, HelmGuard says: 80%

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