# Trust3 AI

> Trust3 AI sells an enterprise control plane for discovering AI agents, tracing their actions, and enforcing access policies at the moment they reach tools and data. The brand grew out of PAIG AI and Privacera, whose Apache Ranger roots explain its emphasis on data-layer authorization.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Balaji Ganesan (Co-founder and CEO), Don Bosco Durai (Co-founder and CTO), Neeraj Sabharwal (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Agent Discovery, Agent Observability, Agent Security, Data Security, Governance Intelligence Agent
- **Notable:** The predecessor Privacera raised a $50 million Series B in 2021; Trust3 states $63.5 million total funding., Founders previously created technology that became Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas., Trust3 says five anonymized Fortune 500 enterprises use its agent governance in production.

## Products & services

- **Agent Discovery** — Finds and inventories connected AI agents, owners, identities, data reach, and Trustscores.
- **Agent Observability** — Traces prompts, retrievals, tool calls, policy verdicts, and responses for review and audit.
- **Agent Security** — Applies purpose-based access and runtime guardrails, including MCP and agent-to-agent controls.
- **Data Security** — Centralized policy administration with native, fine-grained enforcement across enterprise data platforms.
- **Governance Intelligence Agent** — Natural-language interface to inventory, violations, policies, and remediation workflows.
- **Trust3 IQ** — Enterprise AI accuracy and evaluation product announced under the Trust3 brand.
- **PAIG open-source project** — Open-source generative AI security, safety and observability framework maintained under Privacera.

## Achievements

- The predecessor Privacera raised a $50 million Series B in 2021; Trust3 states $63.5 million total funding.
- Founders previously created technology that became Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas.
- Trust3 says five anonymized Fortune 500 enterprises use its agent governance in production.
- Published policy packs for NERC CIP, FERC, EU AI Act, and internal AI governance.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published agent security and Agent DOS field guides and comparisons with other security approaches.
- **2026-06** — Announced a multi-engine data access policy release and Snowflake MCP integration.
- **2026-05** — Launched MCP Security for enterprise agentic workloads.
- **2026-04** — Announced Google Cloud agentic stack and Apache Iceberg integrations; launched Trustscore.
- **2026-03** — Privacera announced the Trust3 AI platform and adopted Trust3 branding.

## Links

- Website: https://trust3.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trust3ai/
- GitHub: https://github.com/privacera/paig

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Last updated: 2026-09-30