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AIUC raises $40M Series A to certify and insure AI agents

Ribbit Capital leads round pushing AIUC's audit-and-insurance standard from AI agents toward frontier models.

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What to know

  • AIUC's $40M Series A, led by Ribbit Capital with First Harmonic participating, brings total disclosed funding to $55M; valuation undisclosed.
  • AIUC-1 pairs independent audits (about 5,000 risk-and-attack tests) with insurance covering AI-specific losses up to $50 million.
  • Customers carrying the AIUC-1 trust mark include Cursor, ElevenLabs, Harvey, Lovable, KPMG, UiPath and Intercom's Fin; over 250 Fortune 1000 security leaders help shape the standard.
  • New capital will extend AIUC's audit-and-insurance model from AI agents to frontier AI models, where the company says the same adoption bottleneck is emerging.

“We have spent over a decade backing companies in financial services where trust is the most important metric of success. AI is on that same path, and it is moving faster than the systems companies use to evaluate it.”

Micky Malka, Founder and managing partner, Ribbit Capital · PRNewswire ↗ · Sep 14

Rune Kvist AIUC co-founderRajiv Dattani AIUC co-founderMicky Malka Founder and managing partner, Ribbit CapitalNick Shalek General Partner, Ribbit CapitalNat Friedman Seed investor via NFDG

AIUC raises $40M Series A to certify and insure AI agents
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    AIUC says it will extend certification to frontier AI models

    AIUC states the risk-driven adoption bottleneck it addressed at the AI-agent layer is increasingly present at the model layer, and the new capital will fund audits, standards and insurance extended to frontier models.

    “Most enterprises have a list of AI agents that were approved in pilots but stalled at the security review. Evidence of security and reliability is now the main bottleneck.”
    — Rune Kvist, AIUC co-founder · source
    1. 6 outlets AIUC Raises $40M Series A

      first by The SaaS News, 12d ago · also SiliconANGLE, AIUC, Ventureburn, RuntimeWire, Coverager

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  2. background

    AIUC lists Cursor, ElevenLabs, Harvey and others as certified — AIUC names Cursor, Lovable, Harvey, ElevenLabs, UiPath, KPMG's aIQ Capture platform and Intercom's Fin as carrying the AIUC-1 trust mark; ElevenLabs said it completed more than 5,000 adversarial simulations before obtaining AIUC-1 certification and an associated insurance policy for its voice agents.

  3. background

    AIUC details its AIUC-1 audit and certification standard — AIUC-1 tests agents against roughly 5,000 risk-and-attack combinations covering jailbreaks, prompt injection, hallucinations and data leaks; more than 250 security and risk leaders from the Fortune 1000 shape the standard through the AIUC Consortium, and agents are recertified quarterly.

  4. background

    AIUC announces $40M Series A led by Ribbit Capital — The round, with First Harmonic participating, brings AIUC's disclosed funding to $55 million; the company's valuation was not disclosed.

  5. background

    AIUC closes $15M seed round led by NFDG — Nat Friedman led AIUC's earlier seed round through NFDG, joined by Emergence, Terrain, Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann and former security executives.