Claudio Fuentes
Technical founder who builds and ships. Deep expertise in AI products, enterprise sales, and scaling teams from zero.
Press kit
For media inquiries: claudio@trycomp.ai
Short bio
Claudio Fuentes is co-founder of Comp AI, the AI-native compliance and security platform. Founded in January 2025, Comp AI serves more than 1,000 companies after 15x year-over-year ARR growth and raised a $34M Series A in 2026. Previously, Claudio co-founded Leap AI, which scaled to one million users. Born in Mexico City and based in Miami.
Standard bio
Claudio Fuentes is co-founder of Comp AI, the AI-native compliance and security platform for fast-moving companies. Founded in January 2025 with CEO Lewis Carhart and CTO Mariano Fuentes, Comp AI serves more than 1,000 companies and reported 15x year-over-year ARR growth. In 2026, it raised a $34M Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures to expand from compliance automation into continuous cybersecurity. The company is also backed by OSS Capital.
Previously, Claudio was co-founder of Leap AI, a no-code AI workflow platform that grew to more than one million users and served customers including Heineken, Inflection, and Live Nation. Leap raised $1.4M from Founders Inc., David Cramer (founder of Sentry), and Paul Copplestone (founder of Supabase). Earlier, he led AI product at Pypestream, building enterprise AI for Fortune 500s including Shell, JPMorgan Chase, P&G, and HBO Max, and joined WeWork during its hyper-growth era.
Born in Mexico City and based in Miami, Claudio began his career as an electronic music producer under the alias Klaud, performing at Ultra Music Festival and opening for Steve Angello.
Long bio
Claudio Fuentes is co-founder of Comp AI, the AI-native compliance and security platform for fast-moving companies. Founded in January 2025 with CEO Lewis Carhart and CTO Mariano Fuentes, Comp AI serves more than 1,000 companies and reported 15x year-over-year ARR growth. In 2026, it raised a $34M Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures to expand from compliance automation into continuous cybersecurity. The company is also backed by OSS Capital.
Previously, Claudio was co-founder of Leap AI, a no-code AI workflow platform that grew to more than one million users and served customers including Heineken, Inflection, and Live Nation. Leap raised $1.4M from Founders Inc., David Cramer (founder of Sentry), and Paul Copplestone (founder of Supabase). Earlier, he led AI product at Pypestream, where he ran cross-functional teams building enterprise AI for Fortune 500s including Shell, JPMorgan Chase, P&G, HBO Max, and Royal Caribbean. He joined WeWork during its hyper-growth era as a Growth Associate.
A self-taught full-stack engineer, Claudio writes the first line of code on every product he founds. He is a vocal advocate for in-person startup culture; his Business Insider piece on returning Comp AI to a five-day office argued that the pace of innovation he sees in person is unattainable over Slack.
Born in Mexico City and raised in Florida after relocating during the 2008 financial crisis, Claudio began his career as an electronic music producer under the alias Klaud. As a teenager, he performed at Ultra Music Festival, headlined a tour in Malaysia, and opened for Steve Angello (Swedish House Mafia) and Sander Van Doorn before signing tracks to Universal Music. He credits the Klaud era with teaching him distribution before product. Claudio is based in Miami.
Quick facts
- Title: Co-founder, Comp AI
- Based: Miami, Florida
- Hometown: Mexico City
- Languages: Spanish, English
- Press contact: claudio@trycomp.ai
Boilerplate: Comp AI
Comp AI is an AI-native compliance and security company using agentic AI to reduce manual work and make security continuous. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Miami with an office in New York, Comp AI serves more than 1,000 companies globally. In 2026 it raised a $34M Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures after reporting 15x year-over-year ARR growth. Learn more at trycomp.ai.
Background
Claudio Fuentes Salinas, born in Mexico City in the 1990s. Moved to South Florida at 14 during the 2008 financial crisis. Everything we owned in Mexico was sold. Within two years, it was all gone - at the lowest point, months in a motel.
That experience woke something up in me. I realized that if I wanted things in life, I'd have to go out and get them myself. Spent six years in New York and four in San Francisco building companies. Returned to the US in 2025 to scale Comp AI.
Native Spanish and English speaker.
First business: music
Started on piano, guitar, and drums early. At 14, taught myself to produce electronic music as “Klaud.”
At 16, started hustling clubs in Miami - selling tickets, building leverage, then negotiating my way onto stage. Built a team around me: manager, marketer, designers. Scaled to 20,000+ fans and signed to Bash Records at 18.
That leverage got me to Ultra Music Festival (2013-2014), headlining tours in Malaysia, clubs in Ibiza, and opening for Steve Angello (Swedish House Mafia), Sander Van Doorn, and Disco Fries. Signed tracks to EMPO (Universal Music) and Disco Fries' label, with an offer from Armada (Armin van Buuren's label). This was my first lesson in building something from zero - and it's what pushed me toward tech.
Education
Associate's Degree in Music Composition from Miami Dade College. Studied Computer Information Systems at Baruch College (Zicklin School of Business) before leaving to build companies. Certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School Online (2020).
Technical
Self-taught full-stack developer since 2017. Web: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Nest.js, Tailwind. Backend: Python, Node.js. Mobile: React Native, Flutter, Swift.
Deployed to Vercel, AWS, and GCP. Comfortable with serverless, traditional server, and event-driven architectures. Built every product I've founded from the first commit.
Enterprise experience
WeWork (2016)
Growth Associate during the hyper-growth phase. Focused on operational scaling and market expansion.
AskNed (2017-2018)
Co-founder. Built an AI-powered analytics engine that connected to Facebook Ads, Google AdWords, and Shopify. Closed enterprise deals with NBCUniversal and Lionsgate. Left to join Pypestream for a stronger product opportunity.
Pypestream (2019-2022)
Senior Product Manager leading AI product development. Owned the self-serve AI studio, visual flow designer, NLP capabilities, and analytics platform. The platform handled 50M+ customer interactions monthly.
Directly impacted enterprise clients including Shell, Chase, Procter & Gamble, HBO Max, Royal Caribbean, and Gillette. Supported sales cycles for top accounts and presented the product to potential acquirers during M&A conversations.
Led cross-functional product teams of 12+ engineers and designers.
Elise AI (2025)
Staff Software Engineer building healthcare AI voice products. Left to co-found Comp AI - couldn't sit out the generative AI wave as anything other than a founder.
Founder
Comp AI (2025 to present)
Co-founder. Building with CEO Lewis Carhart and CTO Mariano Fuentes since January 2025. Agentic compliance and security software that handles audit readiness today and is expanding into continuous monitoring, control validation, and security testing.
$34M Series A, 1,000+ companies, and 15x year-over-year ARR growth. Headquartered in Miami with an office in New York. The Series A was led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, following a $2.6M pre-seed co-led by OSS Capital and Grand Ventures.
Integrates with 580+ tools. Customers span healthcare, financial services, higher education, professional services, and software.
Runsy (2026-present)
Founder. An iPhone running coach that plans each week around a runner's goal race and rebuilds the plan when a week goes sideways. Alongside it, free training plans, pace calculators and race guides on the web.
Leap AI (2023-2024)
Co-founder. Wrote the initial codebase and scaled the engineering team. No-code platform for AI workflows. Spun out from Founders Inc. after joining as studio founder, working with mentors Hubert Thieblot (Curse, then Twitch) and Furqan Rydhan (AppLovin, Bebo, then Amazon).
Scaled to $1M ARR and 1M+ users in 18 months. Raised $1.4M seed led by Founders Inc., with David Cramer (Sentry), Paul Copplestone (Supabase), and executives from Google and AngelList. Clients included Heineken, Inflection, and Live Nation. After two years, we couldn't find deeper product-market fit and made the decision to wind down.
Noonshot (2022-2023)
Co-founder. Solo-built the platform - no-code tools for digital collectibles. Scaled to 120,000+ monthly active users. Raised $160K but ran out of runway as the market shifted.
Approach
I'm a generalist who goes deep. Technical enough to build and ship product, commercial enough to close enterprise deals. I care about craft and moving fast without sacrificing quality. Success is consistency over time - there's nothing else to it.
Strong believer in in-person work. Comp AI builds together five days a week from its Miami headquarters and New York office. One morning, a teammate walked up and said “What if we build an AI agent for customer support?” Twenty minutes later, we had a working prototype that cut support requests by 95%. That kind of innovation doesn't happen over Slack.
Podcast
Documenting the Comp AI journey on Vibe Scaling. Three co-founders building in public.
