From left to right: Benoit Martinet, CTO; Nathalie Beslay, CEO & co-founder; Isabelle Perl, CSMO; Côme Sauzay, COO & co-founder
This Series A round, led by Ventech, will enable the company to accelerate its expansion across France and Europe, strengthen its AI-powered automation capabilities, and become the reference platform for AI trust and safety orchestration.
PARIS, France – July 7, 2026 – Naaia, the French AI risk and compliance management platform, announced today a €6 million Series A funding round led by Ventech, a pan-European venture capital firm, with the participation of software industry operators, including the founders and executives of a fintech unicorn.
Organizations today are facing an unprecedented acceleration in the deployment of artificial intelligence. Fragmented inventories, manual assessments, dispersed accountability, a growing number of tools and vendors, scattered documentation, and increasingly complex audit preparation are driving up operational costs and slowing down the industrialization of AI.
In many organizations, no one has a consolidated view of all AI systems currently deployed. By providing centralized visibility, standardized workflows, audit evidence, and continuous monitoring, Naaia delivers the trust and orchestration layer that public and private organizations need to deploy AI at scale, with the level of governance, trust, and control required to move from experimentation to industrialization.
Founded in 2022 by Nathalie Beslay, Benjamin May, Olivia Rime, and Côme Sauzay, Naaia has been commercializing its platform since 2023. The company supports large enterprises and mid-market companies in governing their AI systems, managing risks, and steering their regulatory obligations related to AI (AI Act, all applicable AI regulations worldwide, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, OWASP, and others), as well as cybersecurity requirements (Cyber Resilience Act)
Already deployed by several major CAC 40 groups and leading mid-market companies, the platform acts as a true AI control tower within the enterprise, and, over time, as a control tower for all digital assets. It centralizes AI products into a single consolidated registry, assesses risks, assigns responsibilities, automates controls, operationalizes action plans, and enables continuous monitoring of AI use cases.
Naaia changes the equation: organizations can deploy more AI use cases while streamlining and keeping under control the complexity, governance costs, and control efforts, without increasing risk exposure.
Nathalie Beslay, CEO et co-founder of Naaia, said:
“Organizations are facing an unprecedented paradox in the history of transformative technologies, and one whose effects are delayed: the more artificial intelligence they deploy, the more they lose visibility, control, and the ability to demonstrate mastery. With Naaia, we are pursuing a single objective: to make trusted AI not a constraint that slows organizations down, but the infrastructure that accelerates them. That is our monumental goal.Our approach is simple: Text to Action, transforming a rule into execution, with as little friction as possible, to bring back into the organization what truly matters: efficiency, security, quality, and operational impact, where overregulation has left only complexity and a loss of meaning.”
Jean Bourcereau, President & Managing Partner at Ventech, commented :
« We had identified Compliance and Auditability as critical prerequisites for the large-scale deployment of AI agents in enterprises and were looking for the right platform to invest in to lead this category. Naaia’s founding team convinced us through its deep business expertise in this field, which is reflected in an impressive commercial deployment among major global enterprise leaders. We are very proud to lead this €6 million Series A round, which will help accelerate adoption of the Naaia solution and establish it as the leader in this emerging category.»
About Naaia
Founded in 2022 by three lawyers, Nathalie Beslay, Olivia Rime, and Benjamin May, and digital transformation expert Côme Sauzay, Naaia is an AI risk and compliance management platform. Commercialized since 2023, the solution enables organizations to industrialize AI deployment while maintaining control over their risks, responsibilities, and regulatory obligations. Already adopted by several major CAC 40 groups and leading mid-market companies, Naaia centralizes AI system inventories, qualifies risks, orchestrates decision-making processes, automates controls, and facilitates the demonstration of compliance.
For more information : www.naaia.ai | LinkedIn
About Ventech
Ventech is a well-established early-stage venture capital firm (from seed to Series A) in both Europe and Asia with a strong digital focus. Founded in 1998, Ventech backs the most innovative and visionary tech entrepreneurs in diverse sectors with a global ambition. With its dual structure platform, Ventech has dedicated funds for Europe (Paris, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki & Stockholm) and Asia (Shanghai and Hong Kong).
Since its inception, Ventech has raised over 1B€ and has realized over 320 investments, (including Vestiaire Collective, Prewave, Ogury, The Customization Group, Veo Technologies, Crossbeam, Speexx, Keep, etc.) and 180 exits, including Believe — BLV.PA, listed on Euronext; Arteris — AIP, listed on Nasdaq; FintecSystems; Withings; 4Stop; and others.)
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