Hyperproof Acquires Expent.ai, Redefining GRC through AI-Native Third-Party Risk and Trust Ecosystems

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyperproof, the intelligent enterprise GRC platform, has acquired Expent.ai, an industry-leading third-party risk management solution. The acquisition reinforces Hyperproof's leadership in GRC through AI-powered third-party risk management that powers organizations' trust ecosystems. Expent.ai brings unmatched expertise in vendor management, security questionnaires, and risk management.

By pioneering the trust ecosystems that modern organizations urgently need, Expent.ai has set a new standard for collaboration and vendor assurance. Its modular, agentic AI for risk, sourcing, and supplier management eliminates bottlenecks common in traditional AI deployments by ensuring sourcing, procurement, risk, and legal teams operate in sync with speed, context, and control. Expent's Risk AI accelerates vendor risk assessment by 80%, transforming third-party risk management from a time-intensive burden into a strategic advantage.

"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.

Expanding market opportunity

The acquisition significantly expands Hyperproof's total addressable market (TAM). By unifying vendor lifecycle management and assurance, third-party risk management, and trust portal capabilities into one AI-native platform, Hyperproof adds $22B to its global TAM, including a $9B enterprise service addressable market (SAM).

"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."

Broadening Hyperproof's leadership

This acquisition strengthens Hyperproof's position as the GRC platform of choice, delivering best-in-class capabilities across GRC, along with a comprehensive trust and vendor assurance solution with advanced third-party risk management. Expent.ai's agentic AI complements Hyperproof's own AI innovations and strategy, ensuring organizations can move from being AI-curious to AI-native with a platform that grows with them.

"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."

About Hyperproof

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. To learn more about Hyperproof, visit https://hyperproof.io 

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