Pathfounders Live: With Richa Kaul, Founder & CEO of Complyance, in conversation with Pathfounders Editor Mike Butcher, followed by a live audience Q&A. 

Subjects covered during the interview and Q&A:

* Why compliance is suddenly becoming a boardroom issue

* How AI is changing governance, risk and compliance

* The hidden danger of employees using “Shadow AI” via their personal accounts

* Why third-party vendors are now one of the biggest enterprise risks

* How AI agents can monitor company risk in real time

* What the Equifax breach taught Richa Kaul about consumer data

* Why protecting consumers means protecting the companies that hold their data

* How Complyance raised a $20M Series A led by GV

* Richa’s unusual fundraising strategy, informed by a Silicon Valley playbook

* Why founders may be oversharing with VCs too early

* Whether SaaS is dead, or simply being rebuilt around AI agents

* The shift from software as a “system of record” to a “system of action”

* Why AI-native startups operate differently from traditional SaaS

* How AI is reshaping sales, engineering and implementation teams

* The future of junior jobs in an AI-powered workforce

* Why compliance teams may actually become more strategic, not less relevant

* How the EU AI Act could reshape enterprise compliance

* Why legal and compliance teams interpret regulation differently

* Why fully agentic systems still need guardrails and human judgment

* Who audits the AI — and why AI governance standards matter

* Why the future of software may be about selling outcomes, not tools

* What still does not scale in an AI-native company

* Which AI tool Richa Kaul uses personally

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