You asked about Regtech
20 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 6% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | YCHadrius Automating Securities Compliance · hadrius.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAiPrise AI-powered Global Compliance Platform · aiprise.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCRegology AI Agents for Regulatory Compliance · regology.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCNotabene The Notabene platform is the trust layer for global money movement. · notabene.id | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCComplif Compliance tools & AI agents for financial companies · complif.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI-native AML compliance platform for fintechs & banks · flagright.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCKodex Easiest way for companies to process data requests from governments · kodexglobal.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCReadily AI Compliance Platform for Healthcare Organizations · readily.co | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCArva AI AI Agents to scale AML, KYB and KYC operations · arva.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAer Compound compliance: the central hub for meeting SEC obligations · aercompliance.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAxis Knowledge base for corporate affairs teams · axis.xyz | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCCardamon AI compliance co-pilot for regulated financial businesses · cardamon.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCDiligent AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations · godiligent.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCROE AI for risk and compliance · getroe.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTrueBiz Instant Background Checks for Businesses · truebiz.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCKyber Instantly draft, review, and send complex regulatory notices. · askkyber.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCLuthor Real-time governance for enterprise communications · luthor.ai | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCRitivel AI-native platform for Life-Sciences Documentation · ritivel.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCTovenAI AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms · toven.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We help companies comply with privacy laws like GDPR. Many of these… · preclus.io | gone |
How this compares
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.