Holistic AI

About Holistic AI

Holistic AI was founded in 2020 in London as a spinout from University College London (UCL) by Adriano Koshiyama and Emre Kazim, combining backgrounds in computer science, AI research, and AI ethics. The company began as a bias-auditing specialist and has since grown into a full-lifecycle AI governance platform. It operates from offices in London (its UK headquarters) and San Jose, California. The platform delivers end-to-end AI governance built around three functions: discovering shadow AI across the enterprise, assessing and continuously monitoring AI systems for bias and security risk, and enforcing regulatory compliance. It maps controls to major frameworks — the EU AI Act (with automated control mapping and gap analysis), the NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and NYC Local Law 144 — and runs 40+ specialised tests covering bias, fairness, toxicity, hallucination, prompt injection, and adversarial robustness. An AI Management System (AIMS) layer connects inventory, controls, assessments, evidence, and sign-off in a single platform. As a governance tool, Holistic AI primarily processes metadata about an organisation's AI systems — inventories, assessments, and compliance evidence — rather than acting as a model that trains on customer data. It does not use customer data to train models. Data hosting region and the company's own independent security certifications (such as SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001) were not publicly confirmed at the time of research; this should be verified directly with the vendor, and the trust scores below reflect that uncertainty conservatively rather than assuming certifications that were not found. Holistic AI is VC-backed, having raised roughly $11M to date, including a seed round led by Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup with participation from Collaborative Fund, plus investments from Tola Capital, Mozilla Ventures, and Premji Invest. The company has been recognised by CB Insights among the most promising AI companies and positioned by Everest Group as a major AI-governance contender. For EU and UK enterprises preparing for the EU AI Act, its breadth of framework coverage and UK jurisdiction make it a strong governance fit, with data-residency and certification specifics worth confirming during procurement.