Virtue AI, a San Francisco, CA-based privacy-preserving AI systems company, raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding.
Backers inlcuded Lightspeed Venture Partners and Walden Catalyst Ventures, and joined by Prosperity7 and other existing investors including Factory, Osage University Partners, Lip-Bu Tan, Amarjit Gill and Chris Re.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its platform capabilities, strengthen its market presence, and continue hiring AI safety talent.
Founded by Bo Li, Dawn Song, Carlos Guestrin, and Sanmi Koyejo, Virtue AI specializes in safe and secure AI, providing organizations with the tools to red team AI applications, train safe models, and deploy advanced guardrail solutions. Its platform offers a comprehensive approach to assessing, developing, and maintaining safe, secure, and privacy-preserving AI systems, empowering businesses to harness the full potential of AI with confidence.
Virtue AI’s comprehensive platform offers integrated solutions including:
- VirtueRed: An algorithmic—rather than human-based—red teaming platform that covers over 320 regulation-based and use case based risk categories, such as hallucination, privacy leakage, jailbreaks, and prompt injections, providing comprehensive risk assessment while significantly reducing testing costs.
- VirtueGuard: Guardrail models that are faster than alternatives while delivering enhanced better performance across text, image, audio, video, and code in over 90 languages.
- VirtueAgent: Security agent that automatically interprets both internal company security requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements, eliminating tedious manual processes.
FinSMEs
15/03/2025