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Atlas Beyond Ventures is pleased to announce that the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund — a U.S.-focused corporate venture capital fund launched in collaboration with Fin Capital — has invested in Cymphony, an AI governance and security platform that gives enterprises visibility and control over how employees and AI agents access sensitive data, interact with critical systems, and create new risks across the organization.

AI is transforming the enterprise workforce. Alongside human employees, organizations now rely on AI agents that access company systems, interact with sensitive data, and take autonomous actions every day — often reaching far beyond what individual employees typically access. Security teams must manage the resulting risks across identity, access, data, and activity, yet the tools they rely on were built for a human-only workforce and provide only a fragmented view of this new operating model.

Cymphony addresses these challenges through a unified AI governance and security platform built for the modern workforce. Cymphony continuously maps every AI agent and employee across the enterprise, showing what systems they can access, what sensitive data they interact with, and how their activity creates risk. By combining AI, data, identity, and behaviour signals into a single graph, the platform understands the business context behind every action — not just whether it violates a policy — then prioritizes the risks that matter most, recommends or automates remediation where possible, and coordinates the remaining work to completion.

Cymphony's approach brings together information that has traditionally been distributed across identity and access management, data security, security operations, and other enterprise systems. This unified view enables organizations to prioritize risks with greater context, reduce fragmented investigations, and take more informed remediation actions across their entire workforce of employees and AI agents.

The financial services industry has a particularly strong need for comprehensive and context-aware workforce security and AI governance. Banks and other regulated institutions operate in environments where employees, third parties, and increasingly AI agents interact with sensitive customer’s data, transactions, and proprietary information across a growing number of applications and collaboration platforms. At the same time, the adoption of generative AI and AI agents is creating new questions around data exposure, access rights, accountability, and oversight. Greater visibility into workforce activity, access, and data interactions — can help institutions innovate while maintaining the security, governance, and operational resilience expected in a highly regulated environment.

“We are excited to partner with the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund as we build the security and governance layer for the new enterprise workforce,” said Shy Dekel, Co-Founder and CEO of Cymphony. “AI agents are becoming active participants in the business, and security teams need to know what they can access, what data they touch, and how they interact with employees before they can secure them. Cymphony gives organizations that visibility and control, so they can adopt AI without losing control of their data. We believe SMBC and Fin Capital bring valuable financial-services expertise, regulatory perspective, and global reach as we continue supporting large enterprises.”

“Cymphony is addressing a critical and increasingly complex security challenge as AI agents join employees at the center of enterprise operations,” added Logan Allin, Founder and Managing Partner at Fin Capital, and Investment Committee Member of the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. “The platform connects AI, SaaS, data, and identity signals that have historically been managed in silos, helping enterprises see how every employee and AI agent reaches sensitive data and prioritize the risks that matter most. We believe Cymphony has built a differentiated foundation for helping organizations strengthen security while adopting AI with confidence.”

About SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund
The SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, launched in collaboration with Fin Capital, invests in DeepTech and FinTech companies from seed through expansion stages across the United States, serving as a strategic partner by leveraging deep industry expertise, regulatory insight, and a global network to help accelerate growth.

About Cymphony
Cymphony is an AI-native governance and security platform helping organizations securely transition to an AI-integrated workforce. The platform maps every employee and AI agent, their access, and their interactions across enterprise systems, giving security teams the context they need to understand risk, govern AI adoption, and take action where it matters most. Cymphony is backed by Sequoia Capital and Fin Capital.

Atlas Beyond Ventures is pleased to announce that the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund — a U.S.-focused corporate venture capital fund launched in collaboration with Fin Capital — has invested in Blee, an AI-first marketing compliance platform building the content governance layer for the enterprise.

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly embedded in enterprise workflows, organizations require governance infrastructure that enables innovation while maintaining compliance, regulatory oversight, and brand integrity. Content governance is emerging as a critical component of responsible AI adoption across regulated industries.

Blee addresses this challenge by working alongside the content creation tools marketing teams already use. Its platform applies AI to provide real-time feedback across regulatory, compliance, legal, brand, and company-specific requirements before materials reach formal review. Blee also supports the full pre-publication workflow, including submission, review, approval, comment cycles, version history, and audit trails. After publication, the platform continuously monitors content, including websites, digital channels, and influencer social media, for regulatory and brand adherence.

For regulated enterprises, content governance is becoming an increasingly important component of responsible AI adoption. Financial institutions and other large organizations must manage growing volumes of marketing, product, and sales content while maintaining clear standards for disclosures, customer protection, recordkeeping, internal policies, and regulatory compliance. Blee’s platform has the potential to help marketing teams move faster while providing legal and compliance teams with stronger visibility, consistency, and defensible audit trails.

“As AI-generated content grows across channels, enterprises need governance infrastructure that can keep pace,” said Guy Shahar, Founder and CEO of Blee. “Blee brings marketing, legal, and compliance teams into a unified workflow, helping organizations move faster while maintaining the accuracy, transparency, and accountability expected by customers and regulators. We value the industry insight and global perspective that SMBC and Fin Capital bring, and look forward to exchanging perspectives and exploring opportunities to collaborate as we expand our platform.”

“Blee is building the governance layer enterprises need as AI transforms how content is created and distributed,” added Matthew Mann, General Partner at Fin Capital and Investment Committee Member of the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. “By embedding compliance intelligence directly into existing workflows, Blee enables marketing teams to move faster while giving legal and compliance teams the control, consistency, and auditability required at enterprise scale.”

About SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund
The SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, launched in collaboration with Fin Capital, invests in DeepTech and FinTech companies from seed through expansion stages across the United States, serving as a strategic partner by leveraging deep industry expertise, regulatory insight, and a global network to help accelerate growth.

About Blee
Blee is an AI-first marketing compliance platform that helps legal and compliance teams automate the review, oversight, and governance of marketing, product, and sales materials. The platform proactively identifies and flags potential compliance risks before content reaches consumers and centralizes regulatory requirements, brand standards, and internal policies into a single system. Blee supports structured review and approval workflows, version control, and consistent, defensible audit trails across channels and regions. Built to work within existing tools and workflows, Blee is based in New York and serves enterprises across financial services, travel, life sciences, and consumer brands.

Atlas Beyond Ventures is pleased to announce that the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund — a U.S.-focused corporate venture capital fund launched in collaboration with Fin Capital — has invested in Harmony, an AI-first enterprise service management platform designed to help organizations automate and scale internal service operations across IT, HR, legal, finance, procurement, and other enterprise functions.

Harmony is building an autonomous enterprise service management platform that enables organizations to move beyond traditional, reactive ticket-based support. At its core, Harmony combines AI service desk agents, proactive agents, automated knowledge generation, and workflow orchestration to resolve employee requests faster, reduce operational complexity, and help enterprise teams deliver more consistent and scalable support.

As enterprises continue to adopt AI across mission-critical workflows, internal service operations are becoming an increasingly important area for transformation. Large organizations often face growing volumes of employee requests, fragmented systems of record, manual approval processes, and operational bottlenecks across functions. Harmony’s platform addresses these challenges by integrating with existing IT service management tools, learning from tickets and organizational context, and enabling AI agents to automate routine service requests while allowing human teams to focus on higher-value work.

The financial services industry has a particularly strong need for secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise service operations. Banks and other regulated institutions operate in complex environments with high standards for governance, auditability, security, and operational resilience. AI-enabled service management has the potential to improve employee productivity and operational efficiency, while also supporting stronger controls, clearer ownership, and faster response times across enterprise functions.

“We are excited to partner with SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund as we continue to advance our mission of making enterprise service management autonomous,” said Nitzan Shapira, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmony. “As organizations face growing complexity across IT, HR, legal, finance, and procurement workflows, Harmony is focused on helping teams resolve work faster, reduce operational friction, and deliver more scalable employee support. We believe SMBC and Fin Capital bring valuable strategic perspective as we continue expanding in large enterprise environments.”

“I am pleased to support Harmony’s mission of transforming enterprise service management through AI-first automation,” added Logan Allin, Founder and Managing Partner at Fin Capital, and Investment Committee Member of SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. “The company is building a differentiated platform that helps enterprises move from manual, reactive support models to more autonomous and intelligent operations. We believe Harmony is addressing a critical need as enterprises seek to modernize internal operations and apply AI in ways that deliver measurable business value.”

About the SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund
The SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, launched in collaboration with Fin Capital, invests in DeepTech and FinTech companies from seed through expansion stages across the United States, serving as a strategic partner by leveraging deep industry expertise, regulatory insight, and a global network to help accelerate growth.

About Harmony
Harmony is an AI-first enterprise service management platform designed to operate autonomously. The platform combines AI help desk agents, proactive agents, continuous knowledge generation, and flexible workflow automation to help organizations resolve employee requests faster and scale internal service operations across functions such as IT, HR, legal, finance, and procurement. Harmony integrates with existing enterprise tools and service management systems, enabling organizations to modernize internal operations while maintaining flexibility as they transition toward more autonomous workflows.

SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund — a U.S.-focused corporate venture capital fund launched in collaboration with Fin Capital — is pleased to announce its investment in Synctera, a leader in Banking as a Service (BaaS) and embedded finance. The fund co-led a strategic financing along with the National Bank of Canada.

Founded in 2020, Synctera has established itself as a leader by simplifying complexity, improving transparency, and enabling banks and FinTechs to innovate in a compliant and scalable way. Its platform provides everything companies need to build and scale innovative banking products while equipping sponsor banks with tools to manage embedded finance programs securely.

Synctera currently supports customers including BTG Pactual, Mazlo, Float, Alpha Modus Financial Services, and Bolt, and partners with more than 10 financial institutions such as TransPecos Banks, Lincoln Savings Bank, Stearns Bank, Midland States Bank, and Coastal Community Bank.

“We have worked closely with Logan Allin and Fin Capital since they led our Series A back in 2021, and when we learned they were launching a fund alongside SMBC, we were eager to partner with them,” said Peter Hazlehurst, CEO and Co-Founder of Synctera.

“I am pleased to further support Synctera’s mission of powering financial innovation through smart, scalable, and compliant solutions,” added Logan Allin, Founder and Managing Partner at Fin Capital, and Investment Committee Member of SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. “The company meaningfully scaled metrics again in 2025 while expanding channel partnerships, launching new credit products, and extending its flexible ledger offerings to community banks through branded core deployments.”

About SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund
The SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund invests in companies from seed through expansion stages across the United States, serving as a strategic partner by leveraging deep industry expertise, regulatory insight, and a global network to help accelerate their growth.

About Synctera
Synctera is a banking and payments platform powering financial innovation. It provides companies with everything they need to build and scale innovative banking products and equips sponsor banks with the tools they need to manage compliant embedded finance programs.

SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund — a U.S.-focused corporate venture capital fund launched in collaboration with Fin Capital — is pleased to announce its participation in WitnessAI’s $58 million funding round, marking the fund’s first investment.

WitnessAI is an emerging leader in AI security and governance for enterprises. The company offers a comprehensive, purpose built platform to secure enterprise AI usage—protecting sensitive information, governing prompts and outputs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling transparency and control without slowing innovation. By providing deep visibility and intelligent oversight across AI interactions, WitnessAI enables organizations to scale AI adoption with confidence.

As generative AI becomes embedded in mission critical workflows, AI security has evolved from a forward-looking consideration into an immediate operational priority.

The financial services industry stands to benefit significantly from secure and well-governed AI deployment, given the sensitivity of customer and transaction data, the complexity of regulatory obligations, and the industry’s increasing reliance on AI-enabled operations. Robust AI security is foundational to maintaining trust while unlocking the full potential of next-generation financial services.

As a corporate venture capital fund backed by global financial leaders SMBC and Fin Capital, SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund views AI security as a domain of both strategic importance and substantial societal relevance. We are excited to partner with WitnessAI as they work to establish a trusted, enterprise-grade foundation for responsible AI adoption, and we look forward to collaborating to shape the future of secure, compliant, and sustainable enterprise AI.

About WitnessAI
WitnessAI is a unified AI security and governance platform trusted by enterprises to govern and protect all AI activity. The platform delivers comprehensive, network-level visibility into AI interactions involving both employees and autonomous agents, including usage within native applications where traditional tools lack coverage. Unlike security that relies on outdated keywords, WitnessAI enables intelligent policies that mitigate emerging threats such as prompt injection while empowering productivity. Built on an enterprise-first, single-tenant architecture, the platform ensures data sovereignty and compliance, transforming AI security from a constraint into a strategic enabler.

Official Press Release: WitnessAI Raises $58 Million for Global Expansion and Announces New Ways to Secure AI Agents

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation ("SMBC", President and CEO: Akihiro Fukutome) is pleased to announce the establishment of "SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund" in collaboration with Fin Capital (Founder & Managing Partner: Logan Allin), marking the commencement of corporate venture capital ("CVC") activities to invest in U.S financial technology startups.

Establishment of SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, a Corporate VentureCapital Fund.pdf