About Lakera

The AI Security Company.

Lakera empowers developers to confidently build secure AI applications and deploy them at scale.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

San Francisco, U.S.

People

15+ nationalities

AI attacks detected

100K+ per day
Mission
We are leading and accelerating secure AI adoption.

Lakera was founded to empower developers and organizations to build and operate AI systems that are secure and safe.

Securing AI to solve world's biggest challenges.

AI holds tremendous potential to solve the most pressing global challenges. At the same time, its malfunctioning poses one of the greatest risks of our times - we are here to address it.

AI Security
for AI companies of all sizes.

Lakera delivers best-in-class AI security intelligence through developer first products.

Gandalf
We've created Gandalf for the AI community 🧙

Our game “Gandalf” has been played by millions of people around the world, making it the most popular AI security game in the world.

It has given us completely new insights into what it means to secure AI systems. Give it a go yourself and let us know what you think.

The Founders
A team with a decade of experience building AI for high-stakes environments.

“When you build AI for aerospace, healthcare, and finance, the highest safety and security standards are naturally baked into everything you do. For AI to reach its full potential, we need to ensure these same standards are available to everyone.”

Co-founded by ex-Google and Meta ML engineers, Lakera’s team combines practical expertise across AI, LLMs, and computer vision with deep regulatory and commercial experiences.

Investors
We are backed by world-leading investors.

Lakera is backed by some of the brightest minds in AI and cybersecurity from academia to enterprises.

and 20+ more AI and cybersecurity pioneers, including the founders of Snyk, CISO Palo Alto Networks, SVP Datadog, leading DeepMind researchers, and the Hammer Team.
News
Lakera in the News
No items found.
No items found.
Activate
Lakera Guard today.
Get started for free.

Lakera Guard protects your LLM applications from cybersecurity risks with a single line of code. Get started in minutes. Become stronger every day.

Join our Slack Community.

Come join us and 1000+ members to discuss AI security best practices and how to put them into action.