White Circle Raises $11 Million Seed for AI Safety Control Platform
Tags AI · Enterprise
Paris-based White Circle raised $11 million in seed funding from AI industry leaders including executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and Mistral. The company's enterprise-grade platform monitors, secures, and controls AI model inputs and outputs in real time, processing over 1 billion API requests. Capabilities include hallucination detection, prompt injection prevention, harmful content detection, model drift flagging, and abusive user identification across 150+ languages. The platform is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified and HIPAA compliant. Founder Denis Shilov went viral in 2024 for discovering a universal jailbreak of major AI models. Customers include Lovable and two of the world's largest digital banks.
Technical significance
White Circle's investor roster — executives from competing AI labs — reflects a consensus that AI safety and control infrastructure is a critical unmet need as enterprises deploy AI agents in production. The 1B+ API requests processed demonstrates real-world traction. The SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance certifications address the regulatory requirements that have been a barrier to enterprise AI adoption.