White Circle raises $11m Seed for production AI control platform

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Senior figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, Mistral, Datadog and Sentry have backed the Seed. The platform claims more than one billion API requests served and lists Lovable and two of the world’s largest digital banks among its customers.


White Circle, a platform that helps companies monitor, secure and control AI models in production, has raised $11m in Seed funding, the company announced today. The capital will fund product development and hiring across the US, UK and Europe.

The round features personal investments from a notable list of AI-industry figures: Romain Huet (OpenAI); Dirk Kingma (formerly OpenAI, now at Anthropic); Guillaume Lample (Mistral); Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face); Olivier Pomel (Datadog); François Chollet (creator of Keras); Mehdi Ghissassi (formerly DeepMind); Paige Bailey (DeepMind); and David Cramer (Sentry).

The participation list reads as senior practitioners from the labs that build the models White Circle is designed to police.

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