HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments
AI security startup HiddenLayer raised a $100 million Series B led by Delta-v Capital as enterprise spending on securing AI deployments accelerates.
HiddenLayer, which protects AI models, agents, and workflows from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and code injections, raised a $100 million Series B led by Delta-v Capital with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, and Booz Allen Hamilton. The company says annual recurring revenue grew more than 10x to the tens of millions of dollars, with customers including the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and a frontier model provider with over 700 million weekly users. Gartner estimates enterprise spending on AI security products will reach $2.83 billion in 2026, up 83% from 2025, and nearly $4.78 billion next year.
- Funds earmarked for sales and distribution expansion into Europe and EMEA plus continued R&D
- Product scope covers discovery, runtime protection, attack simulation, and supply chain security
- Scans about 50 AI file frameworks to detect hidden models inside open-weight model files
- Competitors Noma and Zenity each raised over $100 million in the adjacent AI security space
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