# Credal.ai

> Credal.ai is a New York-based enterprise AI startup building a control plane for company AI agents. Founded in 2022 by two former Palantir engineers, its platform connects internal company data - from Google Drive and Slack to Salesforce - to large language models while strictly enforcing existing user permissions, redacting sensitive data, and logging every prompt and action. Credal lets regulated enterprises build, govern, and deploy AI agents and MCP servers without leaking data or breaking compliance rules.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ravin Thambapillai (Co-Founder & CEO), Jack Fischer (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~18 employees
- **Products:** Control Plane for Enterprise Agents, Permission Synchronization, Agent Registry, Data Loss Prevention & PII Redaction, Audit & Risk Monitoring
- **Notable:** Raised a $4.8M seed round led by Spark Capital in October 2023 ($5M+ total funding)., Graduated from Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch., Reached production deployments at major enterprises and the US federal government (HHS).

## Products & services

- **Control Plane for Enterprise Agents** — A centralized platform to build, govern, and deploy AI agents and MCP servers powered by company data with enterprise-grade access controls.
- **Permission Synchronization** — Automatically inherits and mirrors user access controls across 50+ systems - Google Drive, Slack, Salesforce and more - so AI only ever sees what the end user is allowed to see.
- **Agent Registry** — A unified dashboard for registering, verifying, and revoking agents, tools, and MCP servers across the organization.
- **Data Loss Prevention & PII Redaction** — Automatically redacts, anonymizes, and warns when sensitive data is about to be sent to an external AI model.
- **Audit & Risk Monitoring** — Complete logging of every prompt, response, and action, with proactive flagging of risky agent behavior.
- **Human-in-the-Loop Approvals** — Configurable manual approval gates for sensitive agent operations.
- **RAG APIs & Low-Code Builder** — APIs and UIs to build retrieval-augmented generation applications and low-code agents embedded in Slack and the web.

## Achievements

- Raised a $4.8M seed round led by Spark Capital in October 2023 ($5M+ total funding).
- Graduated from Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.
- Reached production deployments at major enterprises and the US federal government (HHS).
- Processing over one million LLM queries per month with permission enforcement on each.
- Reported 20-30% month-over-month growth after pivoting toward AI security and governance.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance.

## Latest updates

- **2023-10** — Raised $4.8M seed round led by Spark Capital and launched publicly, covered by TechCrunch and SiliconAngle.
- **2024-01** — Reported growing 20-30% monthly and processing over a million LLM queries per month across enterprise customers.
- **2025-01** — Repositioned as 'the control plane for enterprise agents,' adding an agent registry, MCP server management, and multi-agent workflow governance.

## Links

- Website: https://credal.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credal-ai/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/credal_ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CredalAI

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Last updated: 2026-07-06