Whistleblower strikes again, with alleged receipts about ‘fake compliance’

A day after Delve founder and CEO Karun Kaushik published a lengthy post on X denying allegations that the startup was falsifying evidence for its customers’ compliance audits, the anonymous accuser posted again.

The accused, who goes by the name DeepDelver, doubled down and provided alleged receipts including a video and Slack messages. DeepDelver also said it expects more posts like this.

Delve automatically obtains security certifications and proves compliance with laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The company, which graduated from Y Combinator in 2023, was founded by 21-year-old MIT dropouts. The founders raised a $32 million funding round last summer led by Insight, just a few months after their $3 million seed round.

There are many who believe that security certifications, audits and compliance in general are meaningless in terms of accident protection. However, one prominent Delve customer, LiteLLM, suffered a viral moment of its own last week when its open source project was infected with malware. I used Delve to obtain two security certificates.