AI Safety Radar
Tuesday, 10 November 2026

AI-safety startups

November 2026

4
AI safetyYC Fall 20269 Nov

Axiomat

Software that formally verifies AI agents' answers to company data queries so businesses can trust them without manual checks.

SaaS · Big Data · AI · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Fall 20265 Nov

Stacktrace

Monitoring and control layer that lets teams see, bound, and intervene in what their AI agents do.

DevSecOps · Cybersecurity · Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Fall 20265 Nov

Asim

Standardized tests that show robotics companies where their robots fail under changing weight, friction and materials before deployment.

Deep Learning · Robotic Process Automation · Robotics · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Fall 20262 Nov

Routant

Zero-trust access controls letting outside AI agents work in enterprise customers' private systems, with approvals and audit logs.

AIOps · Cybersecurity · AI · San Francisco, CA, USA

October 2026

5
AI safetyYC Fall 202630 Oct

Mirrors

Scoped corrections that stop production AI agents from repeating recurring mistakes, for engineering teams running customer-facing agents.

AIOps · Developer Tools · SaaS · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Fall 202621 Oct

Latent

Flags likely-wrong LLM answers for finance, legal and healthcare teams before customers see them.

AI · B2B · Security · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Fall 202621 Oct

Armorer Labs

Security testing and runtime monitoring for AI agents at companies in regulated industries.

Funding: Backed by Paul Vixie (amount not stated)

Developer Tools · DevSecOps · Cybersecurity · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Summer 202314 Oct

Proof of Human

An API that continuously checks whether users are humans or bots and AI agents, for websites and apps.

AI safetyYC Fall 20261 Oct

DeepMark

Audio watermarks in AI agent voices that survive phone calls, for banks and call centers to verify agents.

B2B · Cybersecurity · Security · San Francisco, CA, USA

September 2026

1
AI safetyYC Summer 202628 Sept

Traceforce

Security monitoring that shows companies which AI apps employees use on their devices and blocks risky actions.

SaaS · Security · Cybersecurity · San Francisco, CA, USA

August 2026

1
AI safetyYC Summer 202612 Aug

Decawork

Small company-specific models that approve or block each action AI agents take, for businesses running agents.

B2B · Security · Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA, USA

July 2026

2
AI safetyYC Summer 202620 Jul

Fabraix

Automated red-teaming agents that find security holes in customer-facing AI agents for large enterprises.

Reinforcement Learning · Cybersecurity · AI · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Summer 20238 Jul

Energent AI

Agent that independently re-verifies every number in AI-generated results and shows its work, for analysts and teams.

Productivity · Big Data · Enterprise Software

June 2026

3
AI safetyYC Spring 202610 Jun

Lattice Health

Software that monitors deployed medical imaging AI for hospitals, tracking accuracy, drift and bias against radiologist reads.

Healthcare · Healthcare IT · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Spring 20263 Jun

Wato

A shared workspace where teams give AI agents permissioned access to company tools, context, and reusable workflows.

B2B · Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Spring 20261 Jun

BentoLabs AI

Monitoring for teams running production AI agents, catching silent failures and suggesting prompt or harness fixes.

B2B · Bengaluru, KA, India

May 2026

4
AI safetyYC Spring 202622 May

AGI Deploy Co

Insurance and security coverage for businesses running AI agents in production.

Health Tech · Healthcare · Health & Wellness · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Spring 20267 May

Clawvisor

Authorization layer letting teams give AI agents Gmail, Slack and Drive access without exposing credentials.

B2B · Security · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Spring 20267 May

Chronicle Labs

Staging environments that replay recorded production events so enterprises can safely test changes to their AI agents.

B2B · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Spring 20263 May

Klaimee

Liability insurance and risk certification for companies deploying AI agents that take actions autonomously.

Fintech · Insurance · San Francisco, CA, USA

April 2026

1
AI safetyYC Spring 202613 Apr

Silmaril

Prompt-injection defense for AI agents, plugged into frameworks like LangGraph, for companies running agentic apps.

B2B · San Francisco, CA, USA

March 2026

2
AI safetyYC Winter 20263 Mar

Agentic Fabriq

Identity, scoped permissions, approval flows and audit logs controlling what company AI agents can access and do.

B2B · Identity · Cybersecurity · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Winter 20261 Mar

Envariant

Interpretability SDK that lets foundation model builders analyze and steer their models' behavior.

B2B · San Francisco, CA, USA

February 2026

4
AI safetyYC Summer 20257 Feb

TwentyTwo

Debugging assistant that pinpoints where developers' AI agents went wrong and why.

Synthetic Biology · Biotech · Compliance
AI safetyYC Winter 20266 Feb

Salus

An API that checks AI agent actions at runtime, blocking wrong ones before they execute, for developers building agents.

Developer Tools · B2B · API · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Winter 20265 Feb

Sentrial

Monitoring and debugging for engineering teams running AI agents in production, catching loops and hallucinations live.

B2B · Engineering, Product and Design · San Francisco, CA, USA
AI safetyYC Winter 20265 Feb

Oximy

Enterprise software that tracks which AI tools and spending a company uses and routes employee AI requests to models.

B2B · Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA, USA