Ecosystem/Lakera

Lakera

Series APreliminary

AI security company that defends against prompt injection attacks, content filtering, and LLM firewalls. Protects AI applications in production from adversarial inputs.

HQCH
Est2021
Raised$20M
lakera.ai
Score
47.8 / 100
Confidence
Preliminary

Developing safety practices - core foundations in place with room for improvement.

Strengths:Technical Safety, Risk Assessment
Weaknesses:Governance Maturity, Regulatory Readiness, External Engagement
Competitive positioning

Leading prompt injection defense company. Competes with Protect AI (broader). Swiss-founded with EU privacy credibility.

Key risk

Prompt injection defense may become a commoditised feature in cloud AI platforms. AWS, Azure already building native guardrails.

Enterprise traction

Enterprise customers. Product in production environments.

technology
Safety area

Robustness & Adversarial

Enterprise business needs
Protect my AI in production

Security Assessment

Security-relevant indicators for vendor evaluation

Security Posture
57
TS-01dim: 62
Red Teaming & Pre-deployment Testing
Adversarial testing before deployment
TS-05dim: 62
Robustness & Adversarial Resilience
Resistance to adversarial attacks
RA-01dim: 52
Sector-Specific Risk Assessment
Risk analysis for deployment context
RA-03dim: 52
Dual-Use & Misuse Risk
Dangerous capability awareness
RA-07dim: 52
Incident History & Track Record
Past incidents and response quality
EE-04dim: 38
Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Bug bounty or CVE reporting process
Incident History
Lakera incident records sourced from AIAAIC Repository and public reporting.
Integration: AIAAIC, OECD AI Incidents Monitor
Third-Party Audits
External audit reports, SOC 2 attestations, and ISO certifications verified where published.
Sources: Company filings, registry lookups
CVE & Disclosures
Known vulnerabilities and security advisories from NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, and vendor pages.
Sources: NVD, GHSA, vendor disclosure pages

Dimension Breakdown

GM
Governance Maturitypreliminary
Published policies, corporate structure, safety mandate, whistleblowing, executive commitment.
45
TS
Technical Safetypreliminary
Benchmarks, adversarial robustness, fine-tuning safety, watermarking, model cards, research output.
62
RA
Risk Assessmentpreliminary
Dangerous capability evaluations, thresholds, external testing, bug bounty, halt conditions.
52
RR
Regulatory Readinesspreliminary
ISO 42001, EU AI Act compliance, GPAI obligations, international commitments, incident reporting.
42
EE
External Engagementpreliminary
Survey participation, research support, transparency, behavior specs, open-source contributions.
38

Social Impact & Safety Profile

Emerging

Lakera defends against prompt injection attacks, provides content filtering, and LLM firewall capabilities. Swiss-founded with EU privacy credibility. Enterprise customers using their prompt injection defense in production environments. $20M Series A validates the category.

prompt injection defensecontent filteringllm security

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