# Wallarm

> Wallarm is a San Francisco-based API and application security company protecting more than half of public-facing APIs at large enterprises with a unified platform for API discovery, attack prevention, and AI-era threat protection.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Ivan Novikov (Co-Founder & CEO), Stepan Ilyin (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~210 employees
- **Products:** API Discovery, API Attack Prevention, Advanced API & AI Testing, Agentic AI Protection, Next-Gen WAF
- **Notable:** Named API Security Platform of the Year 2025, Closed 2024 with 134% net revenue retention across enterprise accounts, Raised $55M Series C in July 2025 led by Toba Capital

## Products & services

- **API Discovery** — Continuously inventories every external and internal API, surfacing shadow endpoints, sensitive data exposure, and leaked secrets.
- **API Attack Prevention** — Runtime layer that blocks malicious API requests in real time, covering OWASP API Top 10, injections, credential stuffing, and business logic abuse.
- **Advanced API & AI Testing** — Pre-production testing that probes APIs and AI endpoints for vulnerabilities and unsafe behaviors before they ship.
- **Agentic AI Protection** — Defends AI agents against prompt injection, jailbreaks, system prompt extraction, and agent logic abuse.
- **Next-Gen WAF** — Cloud-native web application firewall with negligible false positives, deployable on-prem, in cloud, or as managed SaaS.

## Achievements

- Named API Security Platform of the Year 2025
- Closed 2024 with 134% net revenue retention across enterprise accounts
- Raised $55M Series C in July 2025 led by Toba Capital
- Y Combinator alumnus (W16 cohort)
- Protects APIs for Panasonic, Dropbox, Miro, Semrush, and others

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Closed $55M Series C led by Toba Capital to expand AI-era API protection.
- **2025-01** — Launched Agentic AI Protection for defending autonomous AI agents.
- **2024-12** — Ended fiscal year with 134% net revenue retention.

## Links

- Website: https://wallarm.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wallarm
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wallarm
- GitHub: https://github.com/wallarm
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wallarm
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/wallarm/

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Last updated: 2026-05-22