Top 13 Generative AI security startups

Updated: Jan 19, 2026
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These startups develop solutions that safeguard the integrity and privacy of generative AI models and fiuture AGI.
1
WitnessAI
Country: USA | Funding: $85.5M
WitnessAI develops a security system that creates the confidence layer for enterprise AI. It enables to monitor all AI activities within organization, protect models and applications (using next-generation AI Firewall and content controls), detect shadow AI use, catalog entire AI inventory (applications, MCP servers, agents), visualize all conversations with AI chats, including prompts and responses, implement intelligent controls and advanced business rules that record AI interactions among employees and agents, adapt to different usage contexts and reduce the cost of AI compliance.
2
Safe Superintelligence
Country: USA | Funding: $3B
Safe Superintelligence is a startup by OpenAI co-founder (and CTO) Ilya Sutskever, which aims (as its name suggests) to create safe AGI. The startup doesn't declare any commercial goals, on the contrary, it claims that its single focus eliminates the distraction of management costs or product development cycles and its business model assumes that safety, reliability and progress are not dependent on short-term commercial requirements. Ilya plans to solve the problem of strong AI safety through revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. This means the startup likely wants to create strong AI and keep it in secret until it develops security measures for it.
3
Cyera
Country: USA | Funding: $1.3B
Cyera is the AI-powered data security platform that gives enterprises deep context on their data to assure cyber-resilience and compliance.
4
Pindrop
Country: USA | Funding: $318.3M
Pindrop uses AI-based IVR authentication and anti-fraud solutions to increase efficiency in call centers and stop fraudulent transactions.
5
Irregular
Country: Israel | Funding: $80M
Irregular is a frontier security lab dedicated to protecting the globe from increasingly complex AI systems.
6
Distributional
Country: USA | Funding: $30M
Distributional makes AI safe, reliable and secure.
7
Lakera
Country: USA | Funding: $30M
Lakera AI is a real-time GenAI security company that utilizes AI to protect enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities.
8
Aim Security
Country: Israel | Funding: $28M
Aim Security is the industry to secure GenAI adoption providing security executives with the power to boost business productivity
9
Prompt Security
Country: USA | Funding: $23M
Prompt Security enables organizations to safely and securely adopt Generative AI with a Singular GenAI Security Platform.
10
Pillar Security
Country: USA | Funding: $9M
Pillar empowers companies to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying and mitigating risks across the entire AI lifecycle
11
Protecto
Country: USA | Funding: $4M
Protecto.ai focuses on ensuring privacy and data security across the AI lifecycle, prioritizing safety in GenAI interactions
12
Skyflow
Country: USA | Funding: $500K
Skyflow is a data privacy vault, delivered as a simple and elegant API.
13
Apart Research
Country: Denmark
Apart Research advances AI security research through mentorship, collaboration and research sprints. It maintains a community of enthusiasts and hosts monthly hackathons, bringing together developers to prototype defense systems that can protect us from AI-related threats (currently, these are various LLM hacks). Hackathons are held online on Discord and at Apart Research locations worldwide. Apart also runs a research accelerator to help young specialists accelerate their career in AI security research. It offers an 8-week program with access to top-notch advisors, project management support and research assistance. The company also conducts research focused on critical AI security paradigms and publishes scientific papers.
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro