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Funding and backers
Total raised
$75M
1 round on record
Latest round
$75M
Series B · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
open roles
Backers
4
Y Combinator, Greylock
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 8
Launched Bretton AI Launches AI-Native Managed Services, Appoints Financial Crimes Veteran Rick Shooman to Lead Offering · 01net.it
Feb 10
Raised a round Series B $75M
2025
Founded
Jun 2023
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Feb 2026 | $75M | — | axios.com |
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How Bretton AI hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Bretton AI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Bretton AI is an American software company that builds an AI platform for banks and other financial institutions, focused on financial crime compliance work such as anti-money-laundering investigations and customer due diligence. Its AI agents take on review tasks that compliance analysts would otherwise do by hand, and the company runs education sessions for bankers on adopting AI safely. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
News
Beyond AI Cyberattacks: The Long-Term Threat Leaders Are Missing
Leaders should take notice: New weapons are here and bound for imminent deployment.
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CORRECTING and REPLACING MVB Bank Selects Bretton AI to Run Its Back-Office Operations as It Scales Its Fintech Business
FAIRMONT, W.Va. & SAN FRANCISCO, August 10, 2026--Please replace the release dated August 6, 2026 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.
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CORRECTING and REPLACING MVB Bank Selects Bretton AI to Run Its Back-Office Operations as It Scales Its Fintech Business
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CORRECTING and REPLACING MVB Bank Selects Bretton AI to Run Its Back-Office Operations as It Scales Its Fintech Business - Company Announcement - FT.com
The latest company information, including net asset values, performance, holding & sectors weighting, changes in voting rights, and directors and dealings.
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Bretton AI CEO Wants Banks to Kick the AI Tool Habit
Bretton AI CEO Will Lawrence shares why banks may get more value from one governed platform spanning multiple risk workflows.
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Bretton AI: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Will Lawrence About AI-Native Operations For The Financial Back Office
Bretton AI runs AI-native operations for the financial back office. Banks regulated by the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC use Bretton AI to run compliance, risk, fraud, and operations on one platform, on their own data and policies, with every output trac
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Bretton AI Launches AI-Native Managed Services, Appoints Financial Crimes Veteran Rick Shooman to Lead Offering
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Bretton AI Raises $75M to Reinvent Financial Crime Compliance
Hey FinTech Fanatic!Bretton AI just raised $75M to automate one of the least glamorous but most critical layers of financial services: financial crime remediation.Bretton is betting generative AI can handle that complexity. Not just flagging risk, but hel
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Bretton AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
Datadog
GCP
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Bretton AI tech stack
22 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$185k
Typical range
$140k – $270k
Open positions
6
3
Jobs
Junior
33.3%
Staff
66.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $200k | $200k |
| Staff | 2 | $242k | $213k – $270k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$270k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Bretton AI
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
HR
50% ▼
Marketing
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack
Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack
Aug 2026
New location: San Francisco
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 25% remote 50-200 est. staff $208k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
Jobs
$150k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
AI Agents
Management
Stripe
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$200k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Datadog
Kustomize
Azure
GitOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
Progressive Delivery
IAM
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Management
Stripe
Apply
$168k – $213k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
React.js
Management
Stripe
Apply
$130k – $170k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
AI Agents
Edge AI
Management
Stripe
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$75M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2026 | $75M | Details |

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