Breaking: SolidCore.ai emerges from stealth with $4M seed Led by Runtime Ventures + Epic Ventures Every LLM prompt & response - captured, immutable, in your own cloud Backed by NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft & AWS Founded by HyTrust veteran Eric Chiu 70% of compliance leaders name GenAI their top concern NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001 · EU AI Act - audit-ready Breaking: SolidCore.ai emerges from stealth with $4M seed Led by Runtime Ventures + Epic Ventures Every LLM prompt & response - captured, immutable, in your own cloud Backed by NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft & AWS Founded by HyTrust veteran Eric Chiu 70% of compliance leaders name GenAI their top concern NIST AI RMF · ISO 42001 · EU AI Act - audit-ready
Company Dossier · Menlo Park, CA
SolidCore.ai logo - a purple interconnected network node mark
SolidCore.ai · est. 2024

SolidCore.ai

The flight recorder for enterprise AI. Every prompt, every response, every configuration - captured, monitored, and made audit-ready inside your own cloud.

AI Security GenAI Governance GRC Seed / $4M

The mark: six nodes wired to one core. A picture of the pitch - many models, tools and teams, all reporting to a single system of record.

The Scene

A model answered a customer at 2:14am. Can you prove what it said?

Somewhere inside a large enterprise right now, a generative AI application is drafting an email, approving a refund, or summarizing a contract. It is fast. It is helpful. And when the auditor, the regulator, or the general counsel asks what exactly it told the customer - and whether it was allowed to - the honest answer, for most companies, is a shrug.

SolidCore.ai exists to replace the shrug with a record. The Menlo Park startup builds the security and governance layer that sits beneath first-party enterprise GenAI: it captures every prompt, response, configuration, and scrap of metadata, stores it immutably inside the customer's own cloud, and watches the whole thing for misconfigurations, policy violations, and usage that looks off. When the hard questions come, the receipts are already filed.

It is a decidedly unglamorous idea in an industry drunk on demos. Nobody tweets a screenshot of a compliance log. But that is rather the point - the interesting companies are usually the ones handling the parts everyone else would prefer to skip.


$4M
Seed Raised
2024
Founded
~22
Team, Remote-First
4/4
AI Cloud Giants Backing
What It Actually Does

Three jobs, one thankless mission

01 / SYSTEM OF RECORD

Capture everything

Prompts, responses, configuration data and metadata from every GenAI interaction - stored inside your own cloud, giving full transparency across teams, tools and environments. No proxy in the data path.

02 / RISK MONITORING

Watch continuously

Real-time detection of misconfigurations, access violations and anomalous usage patterns, with alerting and recommended resolution workflows so problems surface before they become incidents.

03 / COMPLIANCE

Prove it on demand

Automated compliance monitoring and defensible, audit-ready evidence aligned with NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act - the alphabet soup turned into a green checkmark.

SolidCore gives enterprises the missing infrastructure layer they need to move with speed.
- Eric Chiu, Co-Founder & CEO

The Founders

Two veterans, one trust gap

Eric Chiu

Co-Founder & CEO

Second act in infrastructure security. Chiu founded HyTrust - which secured cloud and container infrastructure for demanding enterprises and was acquired by Entrust. A UC Berkeley materials science graduate who traded materials for the harder problem: securing the thing that talks back.

Hemma Prafullchandra

Co-Founder & CTO

Former CTO for M365 Security and Compliance at Microsoft, then Microsoft Security's AI Security, Privacy and Data Residency Architect. A contributor to NIST and Cloud Security Alliance standards - which is to say, she helped write some of the rules SolidCore now helps enterprises pass.

The stakes are incredibly high for every organization to integrate GenAI into their existing products.
- Hemma Prafullchandra, Co-Founder & CTO

The Money

$4M to close the trust gap

$4,000,000
Seed · Announced Sept 2025
Led by Runtime Ventures, with participation from Epic Ventures and angel investors from the cybersecurity industry. A third-party estimate pegs the round at roughly a $20M valuation - unconfirmed by the company.
The Unlikely Coalition

All four AI cloud giants, same startup

Rivals who rarely agree on anything each backed SolidCore at seed stage - a rare signal about where enterprise AI governance is heading.

NVIDIA Inception
Google Cloud Builders
Microsoft Founders Hub
AWS Activate
Schellman Compliance Validation

The Story So Far

Stealth to spotlight

2024

Eric Chiu and Hemma Prafullchandra found SolidCore.ai in Menlo Park, betting that AI governance is the next infrastructure layer - not a feature bolted on later.

SEPT 2025

The company emerges from stealth with $4M in seed funding led by Runtime Ventures, and reveals partnerships with all four major AI infrastructure providers.

OCT 2025

Coverage spreads across FinSMEs, The AI Insider, Funded.com and others, framing SolidCore as an early answer to the enterprise GenAI trust gap.


Marginalia

Five things worth knowing

The Scene, Revisited

Same model. Same 2:14am. A different answer.

The AI still drafts the email. It still approves the refund. It is still fast. But now, when the auditor asks what it said and whether it was allowed to, nobody shrugs. There is a timestamped, immutable line in the log - and a monitor that already flagged the one time it drifted.

SolidCore's wager is simple: enterprises will trust AI the same way they learned to trust the cloud - not on faith, but on visibility. Trust, it turns out, is not a slide in a deck. It is a log line with a timestamp. That is the unglamorous, necessary thing SolidCore is building.

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