New York-based KPMG LLP has announced a minority equity investment in Anecdotes, a data-driven governance, risk and compliance (GRC) startup focused on transforming enterprise companies. This investment underscores the firm’s ongoing commitment to harnessing AI and innovation to help compliance programs and processes to be faster, more agile and scalable as organizations respond to today’s complex risk and compliance environment.
Anecdotes redefines how companies collect, structure and operationalize data to enhance rapid, risk-informed decision making. This robust data foundation is essential for building and deploying AI capabilities and supports KPMG’s broader strategy of advancing AI across the enterprise.
“Anecdotes’ technology transforms data into information enabling actionable intelligence and AI,” said Thomas Mackenzie, audit chief technology officer at KPMG. “This investment strengthens KPMG’s ability to leverage data as an asset, adding exciting and differentiating capability to our technology ecosystem powering our AI and agentic workflows.”
This investment aligns with the firm’s commitment to delivering an AI-enabled and people-powered compliance experience for clients, pairing technology with KPMG’s domain insights and oversight to enhance quality.
“Our collaboration with KPMG represents a pivotal moment in our mission to revolutionize how organizations approach compliance,” Yair Kuznitsov, CEO and co-founder of Anecdotes. “KPMG shares our commitment to turbo-charging compliance for enterprise organizations with real-time data and insights.”
