Laika provides a centralized, automated platform for security and privacy compliance, offering integrations, integrated audits, penetration testing, and security questionnaires across customers’ software stacks. The platform connects to roughly 100 software packages to measure compliance posture and supports continuous assessments used in RFPs and vendor due diligence. Laika reports about 500 customers, a four-fold increase in the past 12 months, and is seeing adoption beyond finance into broader enterprise use cases. The company plans to expand platform functionality, increase its customer base, and add more data sources to measure protection and compliance metrics across organizations’ digital footprints. Laika positions itself as an easy-to-adopt, tech-enabled audit and compliance leader amid a rapidly growing compliance automation market. Laika is a SaaS compliance-as-a-service platform that helps companies establish compliance practices to meet requirements from regulators and enterprise customers. The platform combines automated infosec workflows, audits, monitoring and vendor due diligence while customers are supported by subject matter experts at every step. The company plans to develop additional automation and integrate audit experiences into the platform. Laika also intends to build out its team and extend its market growth. The company currently has 100 employees and expects to grow headcount by approximately 120 in the next 12 months. Laika was co-founded by Austin Ogilvie, Eva Pittas and Sam Li and is based in New York City. Laika is a NYC-based information security and compliance-as-a-service platform that provides compliance audit management through automated workflows and subject-matter experts. Its platform centralizes and automates workflows for audit preparation, due diligence, vendor management, control implementation and other compliance tasks. A concierge team streamlines audit prep and management through enterprise procurement. The company plans to use new funding to expand the team and platform capabilities and to simplify the compliance and audit process for growing businesses. Laika raised $10M in Series A equity financing led by Canapi Ventures with participation from Bain Capital, NYCA Partners and Third Prime. Founders are Austin Ogilvie and Sam Li, both two-time founders and Y Combinator alumni, alongside Eva Pittas, who oversaw global risk and compliance functions at Citigroup for 20 years.

Total raised

$95M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Nov 2022