# Virtue AI

> Virtue AI is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI security company that helps organizations deploy generative AI and AI agents safely. Founded in 2024 by AI-safety researchers from Berkeley, Stanford, and Chicago, its platform combines automated red-teaming (VirtueRed), real-time multimodal guardrails (VirtueGuard), and an end-to-end agent security suite (AgentSuite) to catch prompt injections, jailbreaks, data poisoning, and policy violations before they reach production. The company raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding and counts frontier AI labs and enterprises in finance, healthcare, and IT among its customers.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Bo Li (Co-Founder & CEO), Dawn Song (Co-Founder), Carlos Guestrin (Co-Founder), Sanmi Koyejo (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~44 employees (2026)
- **Products:** VirtueRed, VirtueGuard, AgentSuite, VirtueAgent
- **Notable:** Raised $30M in seed and Series A funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Walden Catalyst Ventures (April 2025)., Founded by a rare group of four leading AI-safety academics from Berkeley, Stanford, and Chicago., Guardrail models the company claims are up to 30x faster and 40-50% higher performing than alternatives, across 90+ languages and five modalities.

## Products & services

- **VirtueRed** — Automated red-teaming that evaluates AI models and agents across 320+ safety categories using 100+ proprietary attack algorithms, 600+ attack vectors, and 30+ high-fidelity sandbox environments to surface jailbreaks, prompt injection, privacy leaks, and hallucinations before deployment.
- **VirtueGuard** — A family of real-time multimodal guardrail models covering text, image, audio, video, and code across 90+ languages, with sub-10ms latency the company says is up to 30x faster and 40-50% higher performing than alternatives. Includes PolicyGuard, TextGuard, ImageGuard, VideoGuard, AudioGuard, and CodeGuard.
- **AgentSuite** — An end-to-end, AI-native security and governance platform for enterprise AI agents. AgentSuite-Red provides autonomous red-teaming across sandboxed environments; AgentSuite-Blue adds runtime protection via MCP Guard, Action Guard, and Shadow AI discovery, plus access control and audit trails across the agent lifecycle.
- **VirtueAgent** — A customizable security agent that interprets internal company policies and external regulatory requirements to automate compliance work that would otherwise be manual.

## Achievements

- Raised $30M in seed and Series A funding co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Walden Catalyst Ventures (April 2025).
- Founded by a rare group of four leading AI-safety academics from Berkeley, Stanford, and Chicago.
- Guardrail models the company claims are up to 30x faster and 40-50% higher performing than alternatives, across 90+ languages and five modalities.
- Launched AgentSuite, positioned as the first multi-layer security and compliance platform for enterprise AI agents (January 2026).
- Adopted by frontier AI labs and global enterprises including OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Zoom, and Uber.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Launched AgentSuite, an AI-native security and governance platform for agentic frameworks, covering red-teaming, MCP/tool validation, runtime action enforcement, and access control across the agent lifecycle.
- **2025-04** — Emerged from stealth and announced $30M in seed and Series A funding, unveiling VirtueRed, VirtueGuard, and VirtueAgent.

## Links

- Website: https://virtueai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/virtue-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/VirtueAI_co

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Last updated: 2026-07-10