Relyance AI is redefining how security leaders manage data governance and AI risk. Most legacy solutions rely on external surveys, static scans, or disconnected spreadsheets to manage compliance and data security, Relyance embeds these capabilities directly into the operational stack. It provides continuous, real-time visibility and control across the full data lifecycle—from source code to runtime to AI output—eliminating blind spots that traditional DSPM and compliance tools miss.
What makes Relyance truly disruptive is its architectural depth and extensibility. It’s not a point solution or checkbox compliance tool, it’s an infrastructure-aware platform that understands and links code, APIs, contracts, cloud infrastructure, and legal policies in one unified view. This enables CISOs to operationalize trust at scale, with built-in controls and automated enforcement that evolve alongside regulatory, engineering, and AI changes.
The company’s 2025 breakthrough innovations, Data Journeys™ and Data Defense Engineer (DDE), represent a shift from reactive security to proactive defense. Data Journeys provides unparalleled visibility by mapping real-time causality across code, cloud, AI models, and third-party systems—illuminating the 89% of cloud services enterprises typically can’t see. DDE builds on this comprehensive visibility foundation, autonomously observing, learning, and enforcing policies across thousands of sensitive data flows.
Security teams benefit from dramatically shortened response times and improved incident prevention. Customers using Data Journeys™ have reported a 70–80% reduction in time spent on compliance documentation and evidence gathering—what Relyance calls reducing “time to certainty.” This means CISOs can now answer urgent questions about data usage or exposure within minutes, not hours or days.
This visibility-first approach addresses the AI era’s most pressing challenge: enterprises track only 108 of their 975 on-average cloud services, while 65% of SaaS apps operate without IT approval and shadow data causes 35% of breaches. With 76% of enterprises concerned about AI data privacy, Relyance’s platform transforms this opacity into transparency, securing millions of data assets for category leaders including Coinbase, Canva, ClickUp, and Bolt.
Strategic integrations with AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake, and leading legal partners enable enterprises to embed trust directly into their infrastructure layer. Market validation came through Relyance’s $32.1M Series B in October 2024, led by Thomvest Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund)—bringing total funding to over $50M.
Relyance’s approach to AI governance, automated compliance, and real-time visibility across hybrid environments makes it a foundational technology for any enterprise securing AI-era innovation.
