About us
Leading the Transition to MLSecOps
We're building a safer AI-powered world by empowering a community of AI focused security researchers, finding unique exploits in ML models, and providing tools to reduce risk inherent in AI development. MLSecOps puts security at the heart of AI/ML design, enabling AI developers and ML engineers to continue rapidly innovating while protecting against unique ML vulnerabilities.
![The three Protect AI founders, from left to right: Badar, Daryan, Ian](https://protectai.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ProtectAI2023_1115_184044-0739-web.jpg?width=3989&height=2661&name=ProtectAI2023_1115_184044-0739-web.jpg)
"We saw a gap between an enterprise’s AI and cybersecurity organizations. Protect AI will be the catalyst to collapse the silos between those teams to help them build safer, more secure AI systems to dramatically reduce enterprise risk."
— Badar Ahmed, Co-founder and CTO
Our Story
Running some of the largest AI businesses in the world gave us a unique view into the needs from thousands of customers in how to successfully scale AI applications. As we watched more ML models be deployed into production, we saw a need to give AI builders a solution that would help make their environments more secure and tailored to unique aspects of ML code. With offices in Seattle, Berlin, and Bangalore - Protect AI bridges the needs of cybersecurity and AI teams by helping them build the next stage of scaled, secure AI through the adoption of MLSecOps.
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Leadership
Backed by Industry Leading Capital Investors
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![Evolution Equity Partners logo](https://protectai.com/hs-fs/hubfs/evolution%20equity.png?width=388&height=130&name=evolution%20equity.png)
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Angel Investors & Advisors
![Shlomo Kramer Shlomo Kramer](https://protectai.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Headshots/Shlomo%20Kramer.jpg?width=250&height=275&name=Shlomo%20Kramer.jpg)
Shlomo Kramer
CEO, Cato Networks
![Dan Plastina Dan Plastina](https://protectai.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Headshots/Dan%20Plastina%202.jpg?width=250&height=275&name=Dan%20Plastina%202.jpg)
Dan Plastina
Former VP of Security at
Amazon Web Services
![Andrew Peterson Andrew Peterson](https://protectai.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Headshots/Andrew%20Peterson.jpg?width=250&height=275&name=Andrew%20Peterson.jpg)
Andrew Peterson
CEO, Signal Sciences