Virtue AI Raises $30 Million in Seed and Series A Funding to Bridge the Critical AI Security Gap

Virtue AI筹集了3000万美元的种子轮和A轮融资，以弥合关键的AI安全差距。

Renowned AI security experts from Stanford, Berkeley, and Illinois unite to solve enterprise AI deployment challenges

来自斯坦福、伯克利和伊利诺伊的著名人工智能安全专家联手解决企业AI部署挑战。

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2025-- Virtue AI, founded by world-leading experts in AI safety and security, today announced $30 million in Seed and Series A funding by 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.

旧金山，2025年4月15日——由人工智能安全与安保领域的世界顶尖专家创立的Virtue AI今日宣布，已获得3000万美元的种子轮和A轮融资，由光速创投（Lightspeed Venture Partners）和华登催化风投（Walden Catalyst Ventures）领投，Prosperity7及其他现有投资者跟投，包括Factory、奥赛奇大学合伙人（Osage University Partners）、谭立波（Lip-Bu Tan）、阿马尔吉特·吉尔（Amarjit Gill）和克里斯·雷（Chris Re）。

The funding will accelerate Virtue AI's mission to eliminate the traditional tradeoff between AI innovation and security, enabling enterprises to confidently deploy generative AI without worrying about security, safety, and compliance..

资金将加速Virtue AI实现消除人工智能创新与安全之间传统权衡的使命，使企业能够自信地部署生成式人工智能，而无需担心安全、保障和合规性问题。

Virtue AI was born from a critical insight shared by its founding team of AI pioneers—Bo Li, Dawn Song, Carlos Guestrin, and Sanmi Koyejo. After contributing more than 80 combined years to foundational research in AI safety and security, they witnessed firsthand how enterprises were forced to choose between moving quickly with increased risk or implementing cumbersome safety measures that dramatically slowed innovation..

Virtue AI 源自其创始团队——人工智能先驱李博、宋晓东、卡洛斯·格斯特林和桑米·科伊乔——的深刻见解。在为人工智能安全与保障的基础研究贡献了总计 80 多年的时光后，他们亲眼目睹了企业如何被迫在快速推进但风险增加，与实施繁琐的安全措施从而大幅拖慢创新之间做出选择。

The multi-billion dollar AI security market opportunity is expected to expand as agentic deployments proliferate in the enterprise. However, traditional computing security is insufficient for artificial intelligence use cases. As AI transforms industries, organizations face significant deployment risks—from data poisoning and hallucinations to prompt injections and jailbreaking attempts.

随着代理部署在企业中的激增，预计价值数百亿美元的AI安全市场机会将会扩大。然而，传统的计算安全对于人工智能使用案例来说并不足够。随着AI改变各个行业，组织面临着重大的部署风险——从数据中毒和幻觉到提示注入和越狱尝试。

These vulnerabilities expose companies to cyberattacks while creating regulatory and compliance challenges..

这些漏洞使公司面临网络攻击，同时带来监管和合规挑战。

“We saw companies struggling with the same challenges repeatedly—subpar evaluation methods, inefficient guardrails, and manual processes that created bottlenecks in AI deployment pipelines,” said Bo Li, co-founder and CEO of Virtue AI. “Our team has dedicated decades to solving these exact problems.

“我们看到公司反复面临相同的挑战——评估方法不合格、效率低下的护栏措施以及在AI部署管道中造成瓶颈的手动流程，”Virtue AI的联合创始人兼首席执行官Bo Li表示。“我们的团队花了数十年时间来解决这些问题。”

Virtue AI transforms that expertise into practical solutions that eliminate the false choice between innovation and safety.”.

美德人工智能将专业知识转化为实用的解决方案，消除了创新与安全之间的错误选择。”

Virtue AI's comprehensive platform offers integrated solutions that outperform existing alternatives by orders of magnitude, including:

Virtue AI的综合平台提供了比现有替代方案高出数个数量级的集成解决方案，包括：

• 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 reliable, comprehensive risk assessment while significantly reducing testing costs..

VirtueRed：一个基于算法而非人工的红队平台，涵盖超过320个基于法规和用例的风险类别，如幻觉、隐私泄露、越狱和提示注入等，提供可靠且全面的风险评估，同时显著降低测试成本。

• VirtueGuard: Guardrail models that are over 30 times faster than alternatives while delivering 40-50% better performance across text, image, audio, video, and code in over 90 languages.

VirtueGuard：护栏模型，比其他替代方案快30倍以上，同时在90多种语言的文本、图像、音频、视频和代码方面性能提升40-50%。

• VirtueAgent: Security agent that automatically interprets both internal company security requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements, eliminating tedious manual processes.

• VirtueAgent：自动解读公司内部安全要求、政策和监管要求的安全代理，消除了繁琐的手动流程。

The company's technology builds directly on groundbreaking research recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA), including a seminal, award-winning paper by co-founders that addresses multiple vulnerabilities in foundation models.

公司的技术直接建立在受到美国国家安全局 (NSA) 认可的突破性研究基础上，包括联合创始人发表的一篇具有里程碑意义、屡获殊荣的论文，该论文解决了基础模型中的多个漏洞。

This technical superiority has driven remarkable customer adoption. In just months since its launch, Virtue AI has secured top-tier enterprise customers.

这种技术优势推动了显著的客户采用。自推出以来的短短几个月内，Virtue AI已经获得了顶级企业客户。

Customer Accolades

客户赞誉

“Uber leverages Generative AI to deliver magical experiences for our end users. We've been collaborating closely with Virtue AI to implement robust content safety guardrails for our Gen AI applications, ensuring they are safe, responsible, and aligned with our community standards,” said Kai Wang, the Group product manager on AI Platform, Uber..

“Uber利用生成式人工智能为我们的终端用户提供神奇的体验。我们一直与Virtue AI密切合作，为我们的生成式AI应用实施强有力的内容安全护栏，确保它们安全、负责，并符合我们的社区标准，”Uber人工智能平台集团产品经理Kai Wang表示。

“At Glean, we’re committed to building AI that organizations can trust - secure, reliable, and enterprise-ready. Every company has unique security requirements, and we strongly believe in providing the flexibility to choose the approach that best aligns with those needs. Our collaboration with Virtue AI helps us stay ahead of emerging threats and deliver on our promise to keep users in control and their data protected,” said Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean..

“在Glean，我们致力于构建企业可以信赖的AI——安全、可靠且适合企业使用。每家公司都有独特的安全需求，我们坚信应提供灵活性以选择最符合这些需求的方法。我们与Virtue AI的合作帮助我们领先于新兴威胁，并兑现我们让用户掌控数据并保护其数据安全的承诺，”Glean创始人兼首席执行官Arvind Jain表示。

Redefining Industry Standards

重新定义行业标准

“Virtue AI is shaping the future of GenAI security,” said Lip-Bu Tan, Founding Managing Partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures. “Combining foundational research with advanced algorithms, Virtue AI is tackling the most critical vulnerabilities in AI systems head-on. Their disruptive technology and impressive market traction demonstrate the potential to redefine how organizations across the globe approach AI safety and security.”.

“Virtue AI正在塑造生成式人工智能安全的未来，”华登催化风险投资公司创始管理合伙人陈立武表示，“通过将基础研究与先进算法相结合，Virtue AI正在直面解决人工智能系统中最关键的漏洞。他们颠覆性的技术和令人印象深刻的市场吸引力，展现了重新定义全球组织如何应对人工智能安全和保障的潜力。”

“Built on the fundamental AI safety research of its cofounders, Virtue AI has quickly established a leadership position atop the fast-growing AI red-teaming and guardrails category,” said Guru Chahal and James Alcorn, Partners at Lightspeed Venture Partners. “We are thrilled to partner with the team to help them capitalize on a crucial industry inflection moment, as enterprises demand increasingly robust and sophisticated safety solutions for production LLM deployments.”.

“Virtue AI 基于其联合创始人在人工智能安全基础研究方面的成果，迅速在快速增长的人工智能红队测试和边界防护领域确立了领导地位，”光速创投合伙人古鲁·查哈尔和詹姆斯·阿尔科恩表示。“我们非常高兴能与团队合作，帮助他们抓住行业的关键转折点，因为企业在生产环境中部署大型语言模型时，对强大且复杂的安全解决方案的需求日益增加。”

With this new funding, Virtue AI will expand its platform capabilities, strengthen its market presence, and continue attracting world-class AI safety talent committed to enabling responsible AI deployment worldwide.

通过这笔新的资金，Virtue AI将扩展其平台能力，加强市场地位，并继续吸引致力于在全球范围内实现负责任的人工智能部署的世界一流AI安全人才。

For more information about Virtue AI and its safe and secure AI platform, visit virtueai.com.

有关Virtue AI及其安全可靠的AI平台的更多信息，请访问virtueai.com。

About Virtue AI

关于Virtue AI

Virtue AI is a leader in safe and secure AI, providing organizations with the tools to red team AI applications, train safe models, and deploy advanced guardrail solutions. Its Virtue AI 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 是安全可靠的人工智能领域的领导者，为组织提供用于红队测试人工智能应用、训练安全模型以及部署先进护栏解决方案的工具。其 Virtue AI 平台提供了一种全面的方法来评估、开发和维护安全、可靠且保护隐私的人工智能系统，使企业能够自信地充分发挥人工智能的潜力。

About Lightspeed

关于Lightspeed

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, Health, and Fintech sectors. Over the past 25 years, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 500 companies globally including Abridge, Affirm, Anthropic, Cato Networks, Epic Games, Glean, Mistral, Moveworks, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz, and more.

光速创投是一家多阶段的风险投资公司，专注于加速企业、消费者、健康和金融科技领域的颠覆性创新和趋势。在过去的25年里，光速团队支持了数百名企业家，并帮助在全球范围内建立了500多家公司，包括Abridge、Affirm、Anthropic、Cato Networks、Epic Games、Glean、Mistral、Moveworks、Navan、Netskope、Rubrik、Snap、Wiz等。

Lightspeed and its global team currently manage $30B in AUM across the Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia. www.lsvp.com.

光速及其全球团队目前在光速平台上管理着300亿美元的资产管理规模（AUM），其投资专业人士和顾问分布在美国、欧洲、印度、以色列和东南亚。www.lsvp.com。

About Walden Catalyst Ventures

关于瓦尔登催化剂风险投资公司

Walden Catalyst is a venture capital firm helping early-stage companies in the U.S., Europe, and Israel build the next generation of category-defining businesses in deep-tech. The firm is led by Young Sohn and Lip-Bu Tan, deep-tech industry pioneers who between them have invested in more than 600 startups across the globe, of which 138 have gone on to IPO.

Walden Catalyst 是一家风险投资公司，致力于帮助美国、欧洲和以色列的早期公司在深度科技领域打造下一代定义类别的企业。该公司由深度科技行业的先驱 Young Sohn 和 Lip-Bu Tan 领导，他们两人在全球范围内已投资了 600 多家初创企业，其中 138 家已成功上市。

Walden Catalyst is focused on deep- tech investments and their team of innovators and entrepreneurs are passionate about disruptive technologies and committed to excellence. This translates into unparalleled access to operational expertise, global reach, and a network of industry captains eager to help build and scale the companies of the future..

瓦尔登催化剂专注于深度技术投资，其创新者和企业家团队对颠覆性技术充满热情，并致力于卓越。这意味着可以获得无与伦比的运营专业知识、全球影响力以及渴望帮助打造和扩展未来公司的行业领袖网络。

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