Probo Wants to Make Compliance Disappear for Founders

Probo, part of Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, is launching with a simple promise to early-stage companies: stop losing weeks to compliance. The company positions itself as a fully outsourced compliance team, handling everything from setting requirements to running the audit, so founders can focus on building their business instead of managing SOC 2 and ISO 27001 paperwork.

Founded in 2024 and based in San Francisco, Probo was built by Antoine Bouchardy and Bryan Frimin. Bouchardy, Probo’s CEO, comes from a cybersecurity audit background combined with data and product experience, giving him direct exposure to where compliance projects bog down inside startups. Frimin, the company’s CTO, is a French engineer who has been building an open-source AI platform aimed at simplifying SOC 2 and ISO 27001 work. Together, the founders are tackling a frustration nearly every B2B startup eventually runs into: enterprise customers demanding security attestations that were not designed for fast-moving startups, and audit firms quoting timelines and prices that swallow weeks of engineering time.

Probo’s product is structured around four steps that mirror how an in-house compliance team would operate. It first sets the right requirements for a customer’s stage and risk profile, deliberately avoiding the over-engineered control sets that bigger compliance vendors push. It then handles the artifacts — policies, risk registers, controls, and evidence — that auditors need to see. It runs the audit itself, coordinating with auditors on the customer’s behalf. And it keeps the program current after certification, monitoring for drift so that re-audits do not turn into another fire drill. The company’s stance is unapologetically founder-friendly: even a single day spent on compliance is too much for a team trying to ship product and close customers.