Repello AI, an Artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity startup, has raised $1.2 million in its seed funding round from Venture Highway (acquired by General Catalyst), pi Ventures, Entrepreneurs First and angel investors including Charles Songhurst (Board member- Meta), Vivek Raghavan (CEO- Sarvam.ai) and Satya Vyas (CEO- Project Hero).
The funds raised will be used to accelerate its product development and expand the platform’s red teaming and threat intelligence capabilities, to scale its go-to-market efforts and to build strategic partnerships and integrations that will fuel the company’s growth.
Founded in 2024 by Aryaman Behera and Naman Mishra, Repello AI is an AI security company with offices in San Francisco and Bengaluru. The company proactively protects Generative AI applications from an evolving range of threats – including prompt injection attacks, sensitive data leaks, data poisoning, and other vulnerabilities – to prevent disruption, financial losses, and reputational damage.
Repello AI introduces ARTEMIS and Repello Guard, automated AI red teaming and AI guardrails platforms, that enable enterprises to continuously identify and mitigate threats to their GenAI applications.
The startup aims to enhance its product with advanced multimodal and agentic capabilities. Repello AI plans to expand its market by targeting enterprise customers in healthcare, insure-tech, financial services, and digital native companies and grow its global presence.
Aryaman Behera, Co-Founder & CEO of Repello AI, said, “We’re at an inflection point where AI adoption is accelerating faster than security solutions can keep pace. Enterprises are deploying generative AI across every function, but they’re doing it with yesterday’s security playbook. The best defense is a strong offense, and we’re ensuring our customers can proactively identify and neutralize emerging AI security threats before they become enterprise risks. The market needs a new approach – one that’s as sophisticated and scalable as the AI systems it’s protecting. That’s exactly what we’re building.”
Naman Mishra, Co-Founder & CTO, Repello AI, said, “As GenAI transforms industries, its security architecture cannot be an afterthought. From day one, our goal has been to stay ahead of emerging threats. With our products, we’re reimagining AI security from the ground up – merging proactive adversarial testing with automated scale to preempt threats before they are exploited.”
Roopan Aulakh – Managing Director, pi Ventures, said, “Generative AI introduces a fundamentally new threat landscape—one that traditional cybersecurity solutions weren’t built for. Accurately detecting and mitigating threats in the dynamic GenAI attack surface is a complex challenge. Having built in security and AI since their college days, Aryaman and Naman have built a GenAI-native security solution to go beyond perimeter defense, identify unknown threats and optimize for high precision and recall.”
