All the funding deals in the AI trust market
Last updated: 13 July 2026
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The AI trust market is attracting growing investment as companies look for safer, more reliable, and more compliant AI systems.
We conducted deep research and collected 55 funding deals in the AI trust market between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026.
We refresh this page very often to include new AI trust market funding deals and updated company information.
Insights
- The 55 AI trust market funding deals raised a combined $1.42 billion between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026.
- AI trust market funding reached $658.8 million during the first half of 2026. This was already 61% more than the total raised during 2025.
- The average AI trust market funding round increased from $16.1 million in 2024 to $38.8 million during the first half of 2026.
- The median AI trust market funding round also increased. The median rose from $9.1 million in 2024 to $30 million in 2026.
- The five largest AI trust market deals raised $500 million. These deals represented more than one-third of all funding in the dataset.
- AI security remains a major investment category. Investors are backing tools that protect AI models, applications, agents, data, and enterprise access.
- AI evaluation companies are also attracting larger rounds. LMArena, Braintrust, Arize AI, Fiddler AI, Galileo, and Coval all raised significant capital.
- Agent governance became a stronger AI trust market theme in 2025 and 2026 as enterprises started deploying more autonomous AI systems.
- Financial services, healthcare, and government are creating demand for specialized AI governance platforms with clear compliance and risk controls.
Summary table of the funding deals for the AI trust market since 2024
We define the AI trust market as software and services that make AI systems safer, more reliable, more explainable, and more compliant.
It includes Model Evaluation Tools, AI Governance Platforms, AI Security Tools, Bias Detection Software, Model Monitoring Systems, and Explainability Tools.
It excludes broader adjacent markets unless the product is built specifically for this use case.
We focused exclusively on pure players, defined as companies with at least 70–80% of their business directly tied to the AI trust market.
Our analysis has been done at a global level with a minimum funding threshold of $300k.
If you want a longer-term view, we also have a study of how funding activity in the AI trust market has changed over the years.
| Name | What they do | Amount in $ | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NewCore | Provides identity, authentication, governance, and control infrastructure for AI agents. | $66.0M | Q2 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Geordie AI | Helps enterprises govern and secure the use of autonomous AI agents. | $30.0M | Q2 2026 | EIN News |
| Gray Swan | Provides AI security and red-teaming tools for enterprises and AI laboratories. | $40.0M | Q2 2026 | Gray Swan |
| Willow | Gives enterprises visibility, access controls, and governance for autonomous AI agents. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Coval | Evaluates, simulates, monitors, and reviews voice AI systems used in production. | $28.0M | Q2 2026 | Coval |
| Lyrie.ai | Builds security infrastructure for AI agents and autonomous cybersecurity workflows. | $2.0M | Q2 2026 | GlobeNewswire |
| Iridius | Builds compliant AI workflows for companies operating in regulated industries. | $8.6M | Q2 2026 | Business Wire |
| ActionAI | Provides testing, evaluation, debugging, and monitoring tools for reliable AI systems. | $10.0M | Q2 2026 | PR Newswire |
| AIM Intelligence | Develops AI red-teaming, guardrail, security, and safety-testing products. | $7.0M | Q2 2026 | Seoul Economic Daily |
| Sycamore | Provides governance and security infrastructure for autonomous enterprise AI systems. | $65.0M | Q1 2026 | Sycamore |
| Onyx Security | Builds a control plane for governing and securing enterprise AI agents. | $40.0M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| Galtea | Provides testing and evaluation tools for reliable AI agents. | $3.2M | Q1 2026 | EU-Startups |
| JetStream | Provides real-time visibility and governance for enterprise AI usage. | $34.0M | Q1 2026 | Tech Startups |
| LMArena | Provides community testing and benchmarks for comparing the quality of AI models. | $150.0M | Q1 2026 | LMArena |
| WitnessAI | Helps enterprises monitor and secure employee, application, and agent AI usage. | $58.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Fiddler AI | Monitors, evaluates, secures, and controls enterprise AI models and agents. | $30.0M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| Braintrust | Provides evaluation and observability infrastructure for production AI applications. | $80.0M | Q1 2026 | Braintrust |
| Lumia Security | Helps enterprises monitor, control, and secure the adoption of autonomous AI agents. | $18.0M | Q4 2025 | Lumia Security |
| Alinia AI | Provides AI guardrails and compliance tools for regulated industries. | $7.5M | Q4 2025 | Alinia AI |
| eRoun&Company | Provides generative AI security and governance tools for enterprises and public organizations. | $1.4M | Q4 2025 | WowTale |
| Darwin AI | Helps governments deploy AI systems safely, transparently, and responsibly. | $15.0M | Q4 2025 | Darwin AI |
| Promptfoo | Provides open-source and enterprise testing, evaluation, and red-teaming tools for AI applications. | $18.4M | Q3 2025 | Promptfoo |
| Noma Security | Monitors, tests, governs, and protects enterprise AI models, applications, and agents. | $100.0M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Datumo | Provides no-code testing for AI safety, bias, accuracy, and reliability. | $15.5M | Q3 2025 | TechCrunch |
| ALIGNMT AI | Provides AI compliance, governance, and risk monitoring for healthcare organizations. | $6.5M | Q3 2025 | Tech Startups |
| Starseer | Provides AI exposure management, compliance, transparency, and security tools. | $2.0M | Q3 2025 | Business Wire |
| LMArena | Evaluates AI models using human preferences, community testing, and benchmark results. | $100.0M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Virtue AI | Tests, scans, and secures enterprise AI applications and models. | $30.0M | Q2 2025 | Axios |
| SplxAI | Provides automated security testing and red teaming for AI agents. | $7.0M | Q2 2025 | Business Insider |
| Repello AI | Develops security guardrails and red-teaming tools for generative AI systems. | $1.2M | Q2 2025 | The Economic Times |
| Arize AI | Monitors, evaluates, and troubleshoots production AI models, applications, and agents. | $70.0M | Q1 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Knostic | Controls access to sensitive information used by enterprise AI assistants and agents. | $11.0M | Q1 2025 | SiliconANGLE |
| Ethos | Helps banks and fintech companies manage AI and quantitative model risk. | $6.0M | Q1 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Harmonic Security | Prevents sensitive enterprise information from leaking into generative AI tools. | $17.5M | Q4 2024 | Business Wire |
| Fiddler AI | Provides AI monitoring, observability, explainability, evaluation, and safety tools. | $18.6M | Q4 2024 | Dallas Innovates |
| Protect AI | Secures AI models, machine learning systems, and the development process. | $60.0M | Q4 2024 | Business Wire |
| Galileo | Evaluates and monitors generative AI applications for quality, safety, and reliability. | $45.0M | Q4 2024 | Galileo |
| Braintrust | Provides AI evaluation, logging, prompt management, testing, and monitoring infrastructure. | $36.0M | Q4 2024 | Braintrust |
| Noma Security | Secures enterprise AI data, models, applications, and development workflows. | $32.0M | Q4 2024 | SecurityWeek |
| Prompt Security | Protects enterprises from data leakage, shadow AI, prompt injection, and related threats. | $18.0M | Q4 2024 | Prompt Security |
| Mindgard | Tests enterprise AI systems for security weaknesses and adversarial threats. | $8.0M | Q4 2024 | Mindgard |
| SurePath AI | Detects enterprise AI usage and controls access to sensitive company data. | $5.2M | Q4 2024 | SurePath AI |
| Calvin Risk | Measures and manages AI risk through automated tests and quantitative assessments. | $4.0M | Q4 2024 | Forbes |
| Credo AI | Helps enterprises govern AI systems and meet safety and compliance requirements. | $21.0M | Q3 2024 | Credo AI |
| Lakera | Protects generative AI applications from prompt attacks and other security threats. | $20.0M | Q3 2024 | Lakera |
| Redactive AI | Helps enterprises use generative AI without exposing sensitive company information. | $7.5M | Q3 2024 | Axios |
| FairNow | Helps enterprises manage regulatory, operational, and business risks linked to AI. | $3.5M | Q2 2024 | Business Wire |
| Patronus AI | Tests large language models for accuracy, safety, security, and data leakage. | $17.0M | Q2 2024 | Patronus AI |
| Apex Security | Detects, investigates, and responds to cyberattacks targeting enterprise AI systems. | $7.0M | Q2 2024 | Access Newswire |
| TrojAI | Protects enterprise AI models and applications from attacks and operational risks. | $5.75M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Aim Security | Helps enterprises identify, govern, and secure employee and application use of generative AI. | $10.0M | Q1 2024 | TechCrunch |
| ValidMind | Helps financial institutions validate AI models and meet regulatory requirements. | $8.1M | Q1 2024 | Business Wire |
| RagaAI | Tests AI systems for errors, failures, safety issues, and reliability problems. | $4.7M | Q1 2024 | Forbes |
| SydeLabs | Manages security and operational risks across the generative AI development process. | $2.5M | Q1 2024 | SecurityWeek |
| Enkrypt AI | Provides security, privacy, safety, visibility, and compliance controls for generative AI. | $2.35M | Q1 2024 | Enkrypt AI |
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