COMPANY
Building trusted agents
Our mission: help enterprises use AI agents that are verifiably reliable, secure, and safe — by providing trust as infrastructure for agent development, operations, and continuous improvement.
2023
founded by senior leaders from AWS
$23M
raised — BrightMind, Gradient, Mayfield
LEADERSHIP
Leadership
Vin Sharma
Founder & CEO
Previously GM & Director of Engineering, AWS SageMaker. 30 years in cybersecurity, open source, AI/ML; 20 products, 10 patents, 5 papers.
Radina Mihaleva
Head of Business Development
COO at Astronomer; helped scale Lacework from $1M to $100M ARR; 20 years GTM in cybersecurity.
Tim G. J. Rudner
Chief Scientist
Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences (Status-Only) at the University of Toronto; CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute; Rhodes Scholar; 50+ publications.
Doug Rendler
Head of Sales
Built and led sales teams at Mist Systems (acquired by HPE) and BlueJeans Network (acquired by Cisco).
Steve Coplan
Head of Marketing
Founding marketing lead at Aim Security, Silk Security, and BigID; two decades in emerging technology.
Katrina Dickson
Chief of Staff
Managed AI research programs and operations at Oxford; 15 years driving engineering operations at Apple.
TEAM
Team
Akrura Gordillo
Staff Software Engineer
20+ years of software engineering; led threat modeling for FDA-bound medical devices. UC Berkeley.
Anuj Tambwekar
Founding ML Engineer
Previously Microsoft; trustworthy AI and ML for human safety. University of Michigan.
Varun Cherukuri
Software Development Engineer
Built the Marvis conversational interface at Mist (acquired by Juniper). UIUC.
Aditya Karan, PhD
Applied Scientist
Algorithmic fairness auditing and collective action. PhD UIUC; MS Harvard; BS Caltech.
Vele Tosevski
Senior Applied Scientist
Privacy-preserving ML at Lorica Cybersecurity; FHE and trusted execution for LLMs. U of Toronto.
Kai Wang
Senior Software Engineer
Previously AWS; observability.
Abhishek Kulkarni, PhD
Applied Scientist
Game theory and reinforcement learning; postdoc at UT Austin.
Rohan Zeller
Data Scientist
UC Berkeley.
Karthik Bhaskar
Senior Applied Scientist
Previously Vector Institute and CIBC; LLMs, NLP, and privacy-preserving ML. U of Toronto.
Bastien Bernath
Research Engineer
LLM pre-training, post-training, and evaluation for medical domains. EPFL; Yale.
Mohammad Al-Shehabi
Sales Engineer
Previously EagleEye, GitLab, and GitHub.
TJ Houston
Senior Director, Demand Gen
Previously VMware, Avi Networks, and FireEye.
INVESTORS
Investors
Vijay Reddy
Partner, Mayfield
Leads the $250M AI Start fund; investments across the AI stack — SambaNova, DataRobot, Landing.ai.
Darian Shirazi
General Partner, Gradient · Investor
Founder of Radius; one of the first engineers at Facebook; early investor in Palantir and OpenGov.
Steve Ward
Managing Partner, Brightmind
25 years in security — CISO at The Home Depot and TIAA; previously Managing Director, Insight Partners.
ADVISORS
Advisors
Leon Derczynski, PhD
LLM security pioneer · Principal Scientist, NVIDIA · founder of garak and NeMo Guardrails · lead, OWASP LLM Top 10
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, PhD
Deep learning pioneer · UPMC Professor of Computer Science, CMU
Bratin Saha, PhD
CEO, NTT Data AIVista · former VP & GM, AWS AI
Joe Spisak
Product Director, Meta Superintelligence Labs · previously Google, Amazon
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