Acin

Name: Acin
Brand: Acin

Acin is an operational risk and non-financial risk management platform that consolidates and normalizes banks' controls and risk inventories, applies analytics and machine-assisted diagnostics to identify duplication and gaps, and enables opt-in anonymized benchmarking and regulatory mapping with traceability from controls to regulatory obligations.

Est 2018|Valuation $94.5M|Raised $36M

LinkedIn 20K|Web traffic 2K|FTEs 235

MarketsInternal Controls & Audit Management Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Acin versus broad GRC platforms (ServiceNow/MetricStream/Archer): Acin differentiates on a network model for benchmarking controls and sharing calibrated control libraries. Broad platforms may be chosen where an organization prefers a single platform for many GRC domains.
Acin versus configurable GRC (LogicGate): LogicGate emphasizes configurable workflow and program administration; Acin emphasizes controls data calibration, quality, and peer comparison.
Acin versus regulatory change specialists: After acquisition, Acin’s value will be increasingly assessed within the acquirer’s regulatory intelligence and change management positioning.

- Acin versus broad GRC platforms (ServiceNow/MetricStream/Archer): Acin differentiates on a network model for benchmarking controls and sharing calibrated control libraries. Broad platforms may be chosen where an organization prefers a single platform for many GRC domains. - Acin versus configurable GRC (LogicGate): LogicGate emphasizes configurable workflow and program administration; Acin emphasizes controls data calibration, quality, and peer comparison. - Acin versus regulatory change specialists: After acquisition, Acin’s value will be increasingly assessed within the acquirer’s regulatory intelligence and change management positioning.

Adoption signals

Notable indicator: strategic investment by multiple major banks.
Structural change: acquisition by a larger compliance platform suggests integration into a broader compliance and regulatory risk platform strategy.

	Acin (acin.com)	ServiceNow GRC	LogicGate Risk Cloud
Starting Price	Not public (quote-based)	Not public (quote-based)	Not public (quote-based)
Typical buyers / Use case	Large banks seeking controls data standardization, peer benchmarking, and regulatory mapping	Enterprises standardizing on ServiceNow seeking integrated risk workflows across the organization	Teams seeking configurable/no-code GRC workflows; often mid-market to enterprise
Key strength	Network model and benchmarking concept; focus on control data quality & duplication/gaps	Broad platform integration, workflow depth, large ecosystem	Configurability and modular approach; focus on administrative flexibility
Key weakness	Limited public transparency (pricing, security feature detail, user reviews); narrower scope compared with full GRC suites	Can be complex/expensive; may require significant platform expertise	Costs can rise with apps/services; procurement typically still quote-based