Virtue AI, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that provides an AI safety and security platform, has raised $30 million in Seed and Series A funding.
Investors
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Prosperity7, Factory, Osage University Partners, Lip-Bu Tan, Amarjit Gill, and Chris Ré.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations in the enterprise, consumer, fintech, and health sectors. With $25B in AUM, it has backed over 500 companies globally over two decades, with teams across the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia.
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 focuses on deep-tech investments and has invested in more than 600 startups across the globe—138 of which have gone on to IPO.
Virtue AI Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to expand its platform capabilities, accelerate product development, strengthen go-to-market efforts, and attract top AI safety talent.
About Virtue AI
Founded by Bo Li, Dawn Song, Carlos Guestrin, and Sanmi Koyejo, Virtue AI provides a unified platform to monitor, assess, and safeguard AI models, applications, and agents across all modalities—including text, image, video, audio, and code. Its primary products include VirtueRed (automated red teaming), VirtueGuard (ultra-fast guardrails), and VirtueAgent (AI security agent), helping enterprises secure their AI systems and agents from development to deployment. Notable clients include Uber and Glean.
Funding Details
Company: Virtue AI Inc.
Raised: $30.0M
Round: Seed + Series A
Funding Date: April 2025
Lead Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Walden Catalyst Ventures
Additional Investors: Prosperity7, Factory, Osage University Partners, Lip-Bu Tan, Amarjit Gill, Chris Ré
Company Website: https://www.virtueai.com/
Software Category: AI Security
Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250415693312/en/