AI Agent Security Firm Vijil Raises $17 Million

Focusing on improving the resilience of AI agents, the startup will use the funding to accelerate deployments of its platform.

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 ...