# Vijil

> Vijil is a Menlo Park-based AI company building trust infrastructure for enterprise AI agents. Founded in 2023 by senior AWS leaders, its modular platform tests, defends, and continuously hardens agents so they are verifiably reliable, secure, and safe - cutting the time it takes enterprises to trust an agent from about six months to six weeks. Vijil raised $17 million in 2025 (total $23 million) and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founders:** Vin Sharma (Co-Founder & CEO), Zdravko Pantic (Co-Founder & Head of Engineering), Subho Majumdar (Co-Founder & Head of AI)
- **Team size:** ~30 employees
- **Products:** Vijil Diamond, Vijil Dome, Vijil Darwin, Vijil Depot
- **Notable:** Named a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 for Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM), Named to CB Insights Most Innovative AI Startups 2025, Raised $17 million in 2025, bringing total funding to $23 million

## Products & services

- **Vijil Diamond** — Testing and evaluation platform that validates entire agent systems before deployment through context-specific red-teaming across LLMs, tools, and delegated agents.
- **Vijil Dome** — Production defense layer using multi-layer protection - pattern matching, ML classifiers, embeddings, and LLM verification - for real-time safety checks in about 17ms.
- **Vijil Darwin** — Continuous improvement system that uses reinforcement learning on production telemetry to automatically strengthen agent defenses against observed threats.
- **Vijil Depot** — Development accelerator providing hardened LLMs, production guardrails, and pre-configured agent templates.

## Achievements

- Named a Gartner Cool Vendor 2025 for Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM)
- Named to CB Insights Most Innovative AI Startups 2025
- Raised $17 million in 2025, bringing total funding to $23 million
- Helped SmartRecruiters cut AI agent time-to-trust by ~75% (six months to six weeks)
- Real-time production safety checks in approximately 17 milliseconds via Vijil Dome

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Launched a platform update enabling AI agents to adapt to attacks and failures, expanding the Darwin continuous-improvement capability.
- **2025-11** — Raised $17 million led by BrightMind Partners with Mayfield and Gradient; named a Gartner Cool Vendor.
- **2025** — Named to CB Insights Most Innovative AI Startups 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://vijil.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vijil
- GitHub: https://github.com/vijil

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Last updated: 2026-07-10