AI Data Provenance & Regulatory Compliance at Seed

VCs increasingly require data provenance, SOC2, EU AI Act readiness. Anthropic $1.5B settlement, Twitch lawsuit, 80% UK VCs require provenance. New frameworks and checklists integrated. OpenAI executive departures (14 core execs) highlight governance risk at scale — reinforces need to evaluate team stability and IPO readiness in AI deals. Compute concentration in two labs (Anthropic/OpenAI) adds dependency risk for startups. This is a critical DD factor for AI startups.