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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.
Ravin Thambapillai
Ravin Thambapillai is the co-founder and CEO of Credal.ai, a New York security-first platform that lets large, regulated enterprises deploy AI agents without leaking the data those agents touch. A philosophy-politics-economics graduate from Oxford who taught himself to code into a job at Google, he spent seven years at Palantir building AI systems for banks, life-sciences firms, and public-health institutions before starting Credal in 2022, months ahead of the ChatGPT wave. Backed by Y Combinator and a $4.8M seed led by Spark Capital, Credal serves customers like MongoDB, Wise, Checkr, and the US government, processing over a million LLM queries a month.