Cybersecurity startup Vijil on Tuesday announced raising $17 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $23 million.
The investment round was led by BrightMind Partners, with additional support from Mayfield and Gradient.
Founded in 2023 by AWS senior leaders, California-based Vijil has built a platform that helps build AI agents that are reliable, secure, and safe by design.
The solution allows developers to test the reliability and security of AI agents before deployment, mitigate risks during development, secure them at runtime, and constantly improve them in production.
Vijil provides agent templates that adapt to the organization’s needs, hardens models against prompt injections and jailbreaks, and preconfigures and fine-tunes them for security and policy compliance.
The company also enables organizations to deploy agents in secure containers in confidential cloud environments, delivering real-time detection and response, along with comprehensive observability and compliance reporting.
Vijil says its modular platform helps developers and enterprises increase success rates, shorten time-to-value, and reduce operational risk and time-to-trust.
The startup will use the new investment to accelerate deployments of its platform.
“Most enterprises are experimenting with AI agents but only a small fraction is scaling them. The biggest barrier is trust, which point solutions cannot overcome. Vijil is the most comprehensive platform to solve this with continuous learning from observability data,” Mayfield partner Vijay Reddy said.
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