Alice Raises $140M to Make Sure AI Does Exactly What It's Supposed to Do
The round lifts Alice’s total funding to $280 million as the company expands red-teaming and post-deployment monitoring for frontier models.
- On Tuesday, AI security company Alice announced it raised $140 million in a funding round led by Apax Digital Funds to harden AI systems against emerging vulnerabilities and adversarial attacks.
- Formerly known as ActiveFence, Alice leverages its "Rabbit Hole" dataset—compiled since 2018 from tracking fraud and extremism—to simulate malicious prompts and agentic tasks probing for jailbreaks and unintended behavior.
- Alice reports over 500% business growth in two years while approaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Its lab protects more than three billion people across Google, Meta, TikTok and Amazon platforms.
- Chief Executive Noam Schwartz told Bloomberg the round values Alice close to $1 billion, though Calcalist reports suggest a range between $700 million and $800 million. Apax partner Patrick Kane cited widening AI attack surfaces.
- Britain's AI Security Institute recently warned about rogue AI agents, intensifying regulatory pressure on the industry. Schwartz said the round addresses a critical gap: "the industry democratised capabilities faster than it democratised defences.
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AI safety startup Alice has raised $140 million to expand its work stress-testing advanced models and helping companies protect against emerging risks. CEO Noam Schwartz explains how threats once carried out by individuals are increasingly amplified by AI, why recent incidents involving frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic have sharpened attention on the issue, and how the company works with AI labs and enterprises to identify vulnerabiliti…
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Alice has raised $140 million to tackle a problem that gets harder as AI systems gain more autonomy: keeping models and agents from doing things their developers never intended. The New York and Tel Aviv-based AI security startup announced the […] The post Alice raises $140M to secure AI models as revenue nears $100M ARR first appeared on Tech Startups.
Alice raises $140M as its AI security business grows more than 500%
AI trust, safety and security company Alice today announced a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds. Until a rebrand earlier this year the company was called ActiveFence. It sells adversarial testing and guardrails for AI models, with frontier labs and large enterprises as customers. Alice began in 2018 as a trust and […] The post Alice raises $140M as its AI security business grows more than 500% appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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