Acuvity Scores $9 Million Seed Round

<p><strong>SUNNYVALE<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <u>Acuvity<&sol;u>&comma; which operates a comprehensive AI security and governance platform for both employees and applications&comma; has scored a &dollar;9 million seed funding round led by Foundation Capital&comma; with participation from individual investors like Basil Alwan&comma; Sri Reddy and Jonathan Siddharth&period; Acuvity will use the funding to accelerate the development of its products to protect the rapid expansion of AI adoption in the enterprise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whether employees are using GenAI applications or building and deploying AI apps that leverage LLMs&comma; AI has the potential to both supercharge productivity and bring massive risk into the enterprise&period; Acuvity’s platform delivers full visibility&comma; unique language-based access controls and real-time enforcement across all AI models&comma; LLMs&comma; plugins&comma; custom apps and services without disrupting user experience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Most companies don&&num;8217&semi;t have visibility into how their employees are using GenAI platforms nor into all the risks to which they are exposed&comma;” said co-founder and CEO Satyam Sinha&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Employees may be accessing them against policy&comma; leaking data inadvertently or proliferating risky AI content into the enterprise&period; We’re taking those risks off the table and providing the visibility and control enterprises need to accelerate AI usage with confidence&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Acuvity’s discovery and visualization engines provide in-depth insights into all GenAI interactions and keep a comprehensive audit trail of inputs and outputs&comma; assisting with both regulatory compliance and cost optimization&period; Acuvity’s platform comprises AI security and governance products that help enterprises create a policy framework for GenAI&comma; monitor and report usage and risks&comma; alert users of risky behavior and block and redact sensitive data from being uploaded into LLM models&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Acuvity’s visualization capabilities alone are quite powerful&comma;” said Tarun Raisoni&comma; CEO and Founder&comma; Gruve&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The insights into the volume of interactions with GenAI platforms across our enterprise and the details of each interaction that Acuvity provided were eye-opening&period; It was easy to implement and gain full control with confidence regarding the secure use of AI at Maxwell&comma;” said Rutul Davé&comma; Co-Founder and CTO at Maxwell&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Acuvity’s platform not only governs employee accessing GenAI&comma; it also helps companies build GenAI applications securely without slowing innovation&period; It creates a separation of concerns and speeds up AI application development by making AI security &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pluggable&comma;” with no code changes required once deployed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pluggable AI security architecture deployed alongside AI pipelines means AI and ML application builders can innovate faster&comma; without fear&comma;” added Sinha&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We specifically built our platform to enable DevSecOps to implement AI security without code changes so that developers can focus on AI innovation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Every enterprise CEO—whether they make computer chips or potato chips—has announced an AI strategy&period; But many of these companies don&&num;8217&semi;t have visibility into the risks associated with AI adoption&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Ashu Garg&comma; General Partner at Foundation Capital&period; &&num;8220&semi;Acuvity turns that risk into a business accelerator&period; CEOs can move quickly to leverage the latest technology&comma; knowing Acuvity has them covered&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;