Founded out of Harvard University, Robust Intelligence has raised seed and series A capital to push its initial slate of AI security products.
Robust Intelligence, a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) security spinout of Harvard University, has emerged from stealth with $14m in combined seed and series A funding.
Venture capital firm Sequoia led the transaction with participation from Engineering Capital and Harpoon Ventures.
Founded in 2019, Robust Intelligence is working on software tools to prevent malicious attacks on enterprise AI models.
The spinout now plans to double its 15-person headcount in the hope of adding to the 10 clients it currently works with.
Robust Intelligence is led by Yaron Singer, the Gordon McKay professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Harvard University. Singer has taken a sabbatical from Harvard to focus on the spinout.
He told Forbes: “For me, I have climbed the mountain of tenure at Harvard, but now I think we have found an even higher mountain, and that mountain is securing artificial intelligence.”