Key Global RegTech investment stats in H1 2026:
- Global RegTech deal activity increased 8% YoY in H1
- US companies secured half of all deals to cement the country’s place as the main global RegTech hub for the first half of the year
- Complyance, a New York-based developer of an AI-native governance, risk and compliance platform, raised $20m in a Series A round, making it one of the biggest RegTech deals of the period
Global RegTech deal activity increased 8% YoY in H1
Global RegTech companies recorded 365 deals in H1 2026, up 8% from 337 transactions in H1 2025 and down 9% from 399 in H2 2025.
Funding fell to $2.4bn, a 32% decline from $3.5bn in H1 2025 and a 53% drop from $5bn in H2 2025.
The rise in deal volume against a sharp contraction in funding points to a market where transaction activity has broadened but average deal sizes have fallen considerably.
The H2 2025 funding figure in particular appears to have been driven by a concentration of larger transactions that did not carry through into H1 2026.
US companies secured half of all deals to cement the country’s place as the main global RegTech hub for the first half of the year
US retained its position as the most active global RegTech market in H1 2026, recording 181 deals and a 50% share of total activity.
This compares with 169 deals and a 50% share in H1 2025, a 7% rise in volume that left its proportional standing essentially unchanged.
UK held second place in both periods, edging down from 23 deals and a 7% share in H1 2025 to 22 deals and a 6% share in H1 2026, a marginal 4% decline in volume and a slight narrowing of its share.
India climbed into third place in H1 2026 with 17 deals and a 5% share, displacing Israel, which had held third position in H1 2025 with 14 deals and a 4% share but did not feature in the equivalent ranking in the more recent period.
India’s arrival and Israel’s exit is the most notable shift in the ranking.
It points to a broadening of the global RegTech landscape, with South Asian markets gaining ground even as the overall composition of the top three remained broadly stable.
Complyance, a New York-based developer of an AI-native governance, risk and compliance platform, raised $20m in a Series A round, making it one of the biggest RegTech deals of the period
The round was led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Creandum, HV Capital, Speedinvest and Everywhere Ventures.
New angels from Anthropic and Mastercard also joined, with GV partner Luna Schmid taking a board seat.
The platform automates manual risk and compliance workflows, including evidence review, vendor assessments and policy management.
Its AI agents use domain expertise and human-like reasoning to deliver proactive automation across GRC processes.
The platform centralises risk and compliance data across an organisation, with integrations and workflow automation built in.
It is already in use at Fortune 500 companies including CVS Health, Dropbox, Major League Soccer and Wellstar Health System.
Proceeds will fund go-to-market expansion and the deployment of over 30 new specialised AI agents in 2026, covering frameworks including HIPAA, ISO and NIST.
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