Repello AI, an innovative AI security startup with dual headquarters in San Francisco and Bengaluru, has successfully raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round. The significant investment underscores the growing urgency to secure Generative AI (GenAI) applications against an evolving landscape of cyber threats.
The fresh capital will be strategically deployed to accelerate Repello AI’s product development, enhance its red teaming and threat intelligence capabilities, scale its go-to-market efforts, and forge crucial strategic partnerships and integrations.
Founded in 2024 by IIT Roorkee alumni Aryaman Behera and Naman Mishra, Repello AI is dedicated to proactively safeguarding GenAI applications from a wide array of vulnerabilities. These include critical threats such as prompt injection attacks, sensitive data leaks, and data poisoning, all of which can lead to significant disruption, financial losses, and reputational damage for enterprises.
By combining deep cybersecurity expertise with advanced machine learning, Repello AI aims to ensure the secure deployment of AI systems, simplify compliance requirements, and swiftly convert identified vulnerabilities into clear, actionable fixes.
Repello AI’s flagship offering is ARTEMIS (Automated Red Teaming Engine for Mapping, Identification and Scanning), touted as the first continuous security platform built specifically for GenAI applications. ARTEMIS shifts LLM security from a reactive to a proactive stance by continuously running millions of automated adversarial tests across various modalities like text, image, and audio. This rigorous testing provides actionable mitigation strategies, integrations, and guardrails for secure AI deployment.
Aryaman Behera, Co-Founder & CEO of Repello AI, highlighted the critical need for a new approach to AI security. “We’re at an inflection point where AI adoption is accelerating faster than security solutions can keep pace. Enterprises are deploying generative AI across every function, but they’re doing it with yesterday’s security playbook,” Behera stated. “The best defense is a strong offense, and we’re ensuring our customers can proactively identify and neutralize emerging AI security threats before they become enterprise risks. The market needs a new approach – one that’s as sophisticated and scalable as the AI systems it’s protecting. That’s exactly what we’re building.”
Naman Mishra, Co-Founder & CTO of Repello AI, added, “As GenAI transforms industries, its security architecture cannot be an afterthought. From day one, our goal has been to stay ahead of emerging threats. With our products, we’re reimagining AI security from the ground up – merging proactive adversarial testing with automated scale to preempt threats before they are exploited.”
Roopan Aulakh, Managing Director at pi Ventures, lauded Repello AI’s innovative solution. “Generative AI introduces a fundamentally new threat landscape—one that traditional cybersecurity solutions weren’t built for. Accurately detecting and mitigating threats in the dynamic GenAI attack surface is a complex challenge,” Aulakh remarked. “Having built in security and AI since their college days, Aryaman and Naman have built a GenAI-native security solution to go beyond perimeter defense, identify unknown threats and optimize for high precision and recall.”
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