Hyperproof, an innovative enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform, has acquired Expent.ai, a frontrunner in third-party risk management solutions. This acquisition, announced on October 7, 2025, bolsters Hyperproof's AI-powered offerings by incorporating Expent.ai's expertise in vendor management, security questionnaires, and risk assessment, enabling organizations to build resilient trust ecosystems amid growing regulatory and operational demands.
Expent.ai has established itself as a trailblazer in collaborative vendor assurance, addressing the complexities of modern supply chains with agentic AI that streamlines risk identification and mitigation. Its technology transforms third-party risk management from a cumbersome process into a proactive asset, allowing teams to synchronize efforts across functions with precision and efficiency. By acquiring Expent.ai, Hyperproof not only absorbs this cutting-edge capability but also amplifies its mission to foster trust ecosystems where organizations can quantify and project their reliability to stakeholders.
"Great businesses protect themselves by reducing risk and project enhanced trust to their stakeholders. With Expent.ai, we're helping organizations do both, through continuous control monitoring and shared vendor risk intelligence made transparent to drive competitive advantage. Our goal is to make trust something you can demonstrate, not just claim," said Craig Unger, CEO and Founder of Hyperproof.
This integration ensures seamless automation of vendor assessments, reducing manual interventions and enabling data-driven decisions that enhance resilience against supply chain disruptions.
The deal significantly broadens Hyperproof's addressable market, adding $22 billion to its global total addressable market (TAM) and $9 billion to its enterprise service addressable market (SAM). By consolidating vendor lifecycle management, third-party risk oversight, and trust portal functionalities into a single AI-native platform, Hyperproof positions itself to capture demand from enterprises seeking holistic GRC solutions. This expansion comes at a critical juncture, as regulatory pressures and stakeholder expectations intensify, making integrated risk management indispensable for sustainable growth.
"At Expent.ai, our mission has been to make third-party risk management smarter and easier for GRC professionals," said Srikanth Veeraraghavan, Co-Founder of Expent.ai. "We are thrilled to join Hyperproof and deliver that vision at scale, helping teams automate vendor risk with agentic AI, reduce manual work, and demonstrate their trustworthiness to drive tangible business results."
The acquisition aligns with Hyperproof's trajectory of serving high-profile clients like Reddit, Fortinet, and Thales, where demonstrating compliance and trustworthiness directly influences partnerships and market positioning.
Hyperproof's platform already excels in standardizing and automating controls for IT, security, and compliance teams, and Expent.ai's agentic AI enhances this by embedding advanced risk intelligence into core workflows. This synergy allows organizations to evolve from exploratory AI use to fully native implementations, scaling protections across vendor networks without disrupting operations. The combined solution facilitates rapid questionnaire automation, real-time risk scoring, and collaborative assurance, setting a new benchmark for GRC efficiency.
"Expent.ai was built on the belief that AI can fundamentally transform how organizations understand and manage third-party relationships, including third-party risk," said Harikrishna Narayanan, Co-Founder of Expent.ai. "Joining forces with Hyperproof allows us to bring this vision to a global audience, embedded into a platform that already sets the standard for intelligent GRC."
As a result, Hyperproof solidifies its status as the go-to GRC platform, offering comprehensive tools that not only mitigate risks but also unlock opportunities by projecting organizational integrity to key stakeholders.
Hyperproof's acquisition of Expent.ai marks a transformative milestone, redefining GRC through intelligent, AI-driven ecosystems that empower businesses to navigate third-party complexities with confidence, turning potential vulnerabilities into strategic strengths in an interconnected world.
Hyperproof is an AI-powered enterprise GRC platform that empowers IT, security, and compliance teams to scale compliance across the business by standardizing and automating controls to manage and reduce organizational risk. Hyperproof protects your business and unlocks new opportunities by automating security questionnaires and projecting your organization's trustworthiness to crucial stakeholders. Leading organizations like Reddit, Fortinet, Appian, Outreach, and Thales trust Hyperproof.
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