Optro has acquired Midship, an AI-native SOX automation solution, the Los Angeles-based GRC software provider said.
Midship uses AI agents to complete high-volume, repetitive auditing and control testing processes that have traditionally been done manually. Midship will be fully integrated into Optro’s Controls Management product. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Optro reported that Midship’s co-founders — Kieran Taylor, Aahel Iyer and Max Maio — would join Optro’s product team.
“We moved internal audit from spreadsheets to the cloud, and now we are leveraging agentic AI to transform the function from tactical and manual to strategic and automated,” Raul Villar Jr., CEO of Optro, said in a statement. “By embedding the market’s leading agentic SOX solution directly into Optro’s system of action, we are delivering the next generation of AI to our customers.”
The Midship acquisition is the latest in several months of moves for Optro. In March, the company rebranded to its current name from Auditboard. In fall 2025, the company announced it was acquiring FairNow, an AI governance platform. In July 2025, Villar was named as the company’s CEO.
