It’s no surprise that 2025 is the year of agentic AI.
LLMs have evolved beyond sentence completion to execute end-to-end work, with the promise of improving business outcomes and saving costs across verticals.
While there has been a lot of hype around initial use cases like software engineering, customer support, and sales, the time has finally come to automate one of the largest and most complex markets: financial services.
Financial services is one of the most interesting markets for AI – it represents $16 trillion of aggregate market cap, has large amounts of unstructured data with manual processes, and there’s significant economic benefit from making even slightly better decisions, more quickly. Zooming in further, financial crimes is one of the largest categories of labor spend, representing a $22 billion market riddled with inefficiencies, including excessive false positives, prolonged onboarding processes, and annual fines exceeding $5 billion.
Meanwhile, compliance analysts spend their days sifting through mountains of alerts—mostly false alarms—and manually compiling reports, rather than focusing on strategic risk management.
Enter Greenlite AI, the leading AI agent platform for compliance in financial services. Greenlite AI’s agents automate investigations, dramatically cutting false positives and reducing alert handling times. And the impact it’s having on banks and fintechs is real. For Greenlite AI customer Meso, AI agents have already reduced alert processing times by 90% and false positives by 95%, enabling teams to scale their capacity tenfold without additional headcount.
When we first met Greenlite AI founders Will Lawrence and Alex Jin during Y Combinator in 2023, we recognized a rare blend of domain expertise, product intuition, and customer-centricity. Since our Seed investment, they have built a trusted platform serving customers like Ramp, Mercury, Betterment, Gusto, RSM UK, and multiple U.S. banks, are tackling increasingly complex use cases and are building an impressive, mission-driven team.
We are thrilled to double down on our investment and lead Greenlite AI’s Series A as they redefine what’s possible in fighting financial crimes and beyond. At Greylock, we are focused on being the first partner to teams building AI agents that are tackling manual and repetitive tasks, so humans can focus on meaningful work. From Resolve AI with production engineering to 7AI with security operations, and others in stealth, our focus is on transformative teams solving large, practical problems.
If you want to build the future of financial services, Greenlite AI is hiring. If you’re a financial institution ready to streamline your compliance workflows, reach out to the team here.
