Surge Ventures, the venture studio co-founded by FinTech entrepreneur and executive Sid Yenamandra, announced the launch of SurgeONE.ai, an integrated platform to provide compliance and cybersecurity services for broker-dealers, RIAs and other regulated financial institutions.
SurgeONE.ai is looking to combine the AI, expert services and secure data infrastructure capabilities of its subsidiaries, RegVerse, Kovair and Security Snapshot, into a single intelligent system.
By doing so, the firm says it will deliver end-to-end solutions that blend automation with domain expertise to address real-world regulatory complexity, cyber threats and fragmented systems. These are all problems legacy vendors and AI-only startups have tended to struggle to solve in isolation.
“This isn’t a rebrand or another AI wrapper,” said Sid Yenamandra, CEO of SurgeONE.ai. “It’s a new architecture, built by practitioners who’ve lived compliance and cyber from the inside, that will give firms clarity, agility and control in a time of mounting oversight.”
According to a firm statement, SurgeONE.ai is a modular, scalable and unified platform with three core domains: compliance, cybersecurity and data infrastructure.
- Compliance services include AI-guided policy surveillance, WSP gap testing, attestation workflows, trade oversight and marketing review — with embedded support for regulatory registration, audit readiness and ongoing program management.
- Cybersecurity capabilities provide real-time visibility across rep devices, vendors and networks, with risk scoring and compliance reporting aligned to SEC cybersecurity and ADV Part C requirements.
- Data Infrastructure is integration across core WealthTech systems, automated data hygiene and a centralized AI-ready lakehouse for reporting, analytics and regulatory response.
SurgeONE.ai’s value proposition is to be a single command center that reduces vendor sprawl, cuts risk and streamline operations for financial firms facing increasingly complex regulatory demands.
“We’ve spent years working with financial firms through audits, exams and breaches,” said Yenamandra. “SurgeONE.ai is the culmination of everything we’ve learned — a platform that delivers real value, not just automation for automation’s sake.”
Yenamandra described SurgeONE.ai as not only as a solution, but a foundation that will welcome collaboration with other compliance professionals and service providers who believe in combining human insight with smart technology.
He added, “Our mission is to modernize how the compliance and risk industry operates, We invite other expert-led firms looking to scale their impact to partner with us, because the future belongs to platforms built by practitioners, not just programmers.”
