Vera, a New York- and San Francisco, CA-based startup that develops a conversational assistant to enforce and automate privacy, security, and fairness policies, raised $2.7m in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by Differential Venture Partners with participation from Betaworks, Everywhere VC, Essence VC, SaaS Ventures, Greycroft, and ATP Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts, and begin the onboarding process for a growing waitlist of customers.
Led by Liz O’Sullivan and Justin Norman, Vera is advancing a software platform which aims to enable companies to set one single policy that applies to any and all AI vendors they bring on to help out, whether those models are external (like OpenAI), or models that the team trained in-house. These policies work on any cloud or combination of them, and can be applied to language, image, and video use cases of Generative AI.
When someone in your organization asks a question, Vera scans before it’s sent across the airwaves. Then, before any responses come back, it scans it once more, to make sure whatever the model says is aligned with the policies and the brand.
With Vera, no one on a given team can externally send:
- PII/PHI
- Passwords
- API Keys
- Intellectual Property
- Hacking Attempts
- Off-Policy Tasks
Model responses won’t contain:
- Toxic or Biased Speech
- Off-Brand Content
- Listed Keywords
FinSMEs
11/10/2023