All the funding deals in the AI safety market
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The AI safety market is growing as companies seek safer, more reliable, and better-governed artificial intelligence systems.
We conducted deep research and collected 56 AI safety market funding deals announced between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026.
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- The 56 AI safety market funding deals raised about $1.31 billion between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026, showing strong investor interest in safer enterprise AI.
- AI safety market funding reached about $675 million during the first half of 2026. This amount was higher than the full-year totals for both 2024 and 2025.
- The average AI safety market funding round was about $23 million. However, a small group of large rounds raised a major share of the total capital.
- The ten largest AI safety market funding deals represented about 54% of all capital collected in this analysis.
- LMArena recorded the largest AI safety market funding deal, with a $150 million round announced in Q1 2026.
- AI-agent security became a major AI safety market theme in 2026. Many companies focused on agent identity, permissions, monitoring, and runtime controls.
- Several AI safety companies raised more than once during the period. Noma Security, Braintrust, WitnessAI, Knostic, Prompt Security, and Aim Security all returned for new rounds.
- The AI safety market covers more than cybersecurity. Investors also funded model evaluation, red teaming, governance, explainability, compliance, and reliability platforms.
- Early AI safety market rounds were often below $10 million. By 2026, rounds of $30 million or more had become much more common.
This chart, featured in our AI safety market deck, shows annual venture capital investment in AI safety startups
Summary table of the funding deals for the AI safety market since 2024
We define the AI safety market as products and services that reduce harms and failure modes from AI systems by measuring, mitigating, and governing model behavior and AI-specific risk.
We include AI evaluation and red teaming, safety monitoring and incident response, safety/guardrail layers, and AI trust–risk–security management capabilities such as governance, robustness, privacy/security controls, and explainability when used for risk reduction.
We exclude generic MLOps, general cybersecurity, and general compliance or content moderation offerings unless they are specifically designed to address AI-model behavior or AI-specific threats.
We focused exclusively on pure players, defined as companies with at least 70–80% of their business directly tied to the AI safety market.
Our analysis has been done at a global level with a minimum funding threshold of $300k.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the AI safety market has evolved recently.
If you want a longer-term view, we also have a study of how funding activity in the AI safety market has changed over the years.
Also, you should know that we have a dedicated page, updated weekly, with all the latest fundraising deals in the AI safety market.
| Name | What they do | Amount in $ | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trent AI | Protects AI agents and autonomous workflows from security threats. | $13.0M | Q2 2026 | Business Wire |
| AIM Intelligence | Provides automated red teaming and real-time security controls for generative AI. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | SeDaily |
| Tynapse | Blocks hallucinations, data leaks, and unsafe actions from enterprise AI agents. | $3.17M | Q2 2026 | Wowtale |
| Iridius | Builds compliance controls and evidence generation into regulated AI workflows. | $8.6M | Q2 2026 | Business Wire |
| Aigentsphere | Helps enterprises monitor, govern, and manage autonomous AI agents. | $4.0M | Q2 2026 | Startup Daily |
| White Circle | Monitors AI outputs and applies safety, drift, and policy controls. | $11.0M | Q2 2026 | Business Wire |
| CodeIntegrity | Provides security guardrails against prompt injection and unsafe AI-agent behavior. | $5.0M | Q2 2026 | GeekWire |
| Geordie AI | Provides security, visibility, and governance for enterprise AI agents. | $30.0M | Q2 2026 | Geordie AI |
| Gray Swan | Tests AI systems through red teaming and adversarial evaluations. | $40.0M | Q2 2026 | Gray Swan |
| Archestra.AI | Controls how AI agents access sensitive enterprise data and tools. | $10.0M | Q2 2026 | Tech.eu |
| ZeroDrift | Detects and replaces AI outputs that could create compliance risks. | $10.0M | Q2 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Willow | Manages identity, access, and oversight for autonomous enterprise AI agents. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| NewCore | Provides identity and access controls for people, machines, and AI agents. | $66.0M | Q2 2026 | NewCore |
| Arcade | Provides authorization and governance infrastructure for production AI agents. | $60.0M | Q2 2026 | Pulse 2.0 |
| NeuralTrust | Secures, tests, governs, and monitors enterprise AI agents. | $20.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| LMArena | Measures and compares the performance and reliability of AI models. | $150.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| WitnessAI | Provides security, governance, and guardrails for enterprise AI applications and agents. | $58.0M | Q1 2026 | Axios |
| Coxwave | Verifies AI agents and measures the reliability of AI systems. | $4.8M | Q1 2026 | Wowtale |
| Braintrust | Helps teams test, trace, and improve production AI systems. | $80.0M | Q1 2026 | Axios |
| Portkey | Helps enterprises observe, govern, and control production AI traffic. | $15.0M | Q1 2026 | Economic Times |
| JetStream Security | Provides visibility, governance, and risk controls for enterprise AI usage. | $34.0M | Q1 2026 | JetStream Security |
| Guild.ai | Helps companies deploy, govern, audit, and reuse AI agents. | $30.0M | Q1 2026 | Guild.ai |
| Galtea | Tests AI agents with realistic scenarios and reliability checks. | $3.2M | Q1 2026 | Tech.eu |
| OpenBox AI | Provides oversight, verification, and audit tools for enterprise AI agents. | $5.0M | Q1 2026 | OpenBox AI |
| Lumia Security | Secures and governs enterprise AI agents and their activities. | $18.0M | Q4 2025 | Lumia Security |
| Darwin AI | Helps governments deploy AI systems safely and transparently. | $15.0M | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| ALIGNMT AI | Provides AI compliance and risk monitoring for healthcare organizations. | $6.5M | Q3 2025 | ALIGNMT AI |
| Noma Security | Monitors and protects enterprise AI applications and agents. | $100.0M | Q3 2025 | Noma Security |
| Promptfoo | Tests and red-teams LLM applications for security and reliability problems. | $18.4M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Starseer | Tracks AI exposure, compliance, and risk across enterprise deployments. | $2.0M | Q3 2025 | FinSMEs |
| Repello AI | Provides automated AI red teaming and real-time protection against attacks. | $1.2M | Q2 2025 | Repello AI |
| Unbound | Provides visibility, governance, and data protection for enterprise AI usage. | $4.0M | Q2 2025 | Citybiz |
| Pillar Security | Protects AI applications with threat intelligence, monitoring, and security guardrails. | $9.0M | Q2 2025 | Pillar Security |
| Virtue AI | Combines AI security, safety testing, and compliance in one platform. | $30.0M | Q2 2025 | Business Wire |
| Aurascape | Provides visibility, protection, and automated governance for enterprise AI. | $50.0M | Q2 2025 | Business Wire |
| Knostic | Controls which information enterprise AI systems can reveal to each user. | $11.0M | Q1 2025 | Knostic |
| Fiddler AI | Monitors, explains, and evaluates enterprise AI models for safety and reliability. | $18.6M | Q4 2024 | Fiddler AI |
| Prompt Security | Protects enterprise generative AI tools, applications, prompts, and sensitive data. | $18.0M | Q4 2024 | Prompt Security |
| Noma Security | Protects AI applications, training data, and development processes from AI-specific threats. | $32.0M | Q4 2024 | Yahoo Finance |
| Galileo | Evaluates and monitors generative AI outputs for quality, safety, and reliability. | $45.0M | Q4 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Braintrust | Helps teams test, evaluate, and improve AI products. | $36.0M | Q4 2024 | Braintrust |
| ModelOp | Helps enterprises apply governance rules across the full AI lifecycle. | $10.0M | Q3 2024 | ModelOp |
| Protect AI | Finds and reduces security risks across AI and machine-learning systems. | $60.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Credo AI | Helps enterprises govern AI systems and manage compliance and risk. | $21.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Lakera | Protects generative AI applications against prompt injection and other attacks. | $20.0M | Q3 2024 | Lakera |
| Aim Security | Helps enterprises adopt generative AI with security controls and risk management. | $18.0M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Patronus AI | Finds LLM errors and security problems before enterprise deployment. | $17.0M | Q2 2024 | Patronus AI |
| WitnessAI | Provides visibility, governance, and protection for enterprise AI usage. | $27.5M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Knostic | Prevents enterprise AI systems from sharing sensitive information with unauthorized users. | $3.3M | Q2 2024 | CTech |
| SydeLabs | Tests generative AI systems and helps companies manage AI security risks. | $2.5M | Q1 2024 | SecurityWeek |
| ValidMind | Helps financial institutions validate, document, govern, and monitor AI models. | $8.1M | Q1 2024 | ValidMind |
| Guardrails AI | Provides reusable validation and safety controls for LLM applications. | $7.5M | Q1 2024 | GeekWire |
| Armilla AI | Tests AI products and provides assurance and warranty services. | $4.5M | Q1 2024 | Armilla AI |
| Aim Security | Protects enterprise generative AI adoption from AI-specific security risks. | $10.0M | Q1 2024 | VentureBeat |
| Prompt Security | Prevents data exposure, prompt injection, and jailbreak attacks in generative AI. | $5.0M | Q1 2024 | Prompt Security |
| RagaAI | Tests AI systems for data, model, and deployment failures. | $4.7M | Q1 2024 | Entrackr |
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