Will Lawrence is Co-Founder and CEO at Bretton AI, an AI platform automating financial crime compliance for regulated banks and global financial institutions. Bretton AI raised $75M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures in February 2026 and serves customers including Robinhood, Mercury, Ramp, and multiple federally regulated banks.

Will studied Economics at the University of British Columbia, with his thesis focused on mobile money networks. He spent nearly three years at Meta (Facebook) leading product teams on anti-money laundering platforms for payments, then built compliance infrastructure at Paxos before joining Y Combinator in 2023.

Will recognized that financial crime compliance would be a breakout use case for AI in financial services. He founded Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite AI) in 2023 after seeing firsthand how manual compliance work created bottlenecks for financial institutions.

Under Will's leadership, Bretton AI has grown from serving fintech startups to powering compliance for systemically important financial institutions with over $1 trillion in combined market cap. The company has saved customers over $10 million in compliance costs and eliminated 195,000 hours of manual work.

Bretton AI's platform is trusted by OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve regulated banks for mission-critical workflows across KYC, AML, sanctions, and ongoing monitoring. The company has signed five publicly traded companies as customers and increased average contract value from $25,000 at seed to $201,000 at Series B.