A GenAI-focused security startup, Repello AI, based in San Francisco and Bengaluru, has raised $1.225 million in a seed funding to strengthen its mission of securing generative AI systems against emerging threats.

Founded in 2024 by IIT Roorkee alumni Aryaman Behera and Naman Mishra, the company is said to be building continuous AI red teaming and guardrail solutions under its flagship platforms, ARTEMIS and Repello Guard. It plans to use the funds to improve these products. The company is also claimed to addresses risks related to generative AI, including data breaches, compliance failures, and unsafe outputs. Its clients include companies like Groww and PhysicsWallah.

Venture Highway (now part of General Catalyst); pi Ventures, Entrepreneur First, and notable angel investors including Charles Songhurst, a Meta board member, Vivek Raghavan, CEO of Sarvam AI, and Satya Vyas, CEO of Project Hero participatedin the funding round.

 

 

The company’s core offering, ARTEMIS (Automated Red Teaming Engine for Mapping, Identification and Scanning), proactively scans GenAI models for vulnerabilities across modalities, including text, image, and audio. Complementing this is Repello Guard, a runtime security tool that filters unsafe outputs and flags risks like prompt injection, competitor mentions, and prompt leaks in real time.

 

 

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A Co-Founder and CEO of Repello, Aryaman , “We are at an inflection point where AI adoption is accelerating faster than security solutions can keep pace. Enterprises are deploying generative AI across every function, but they are doing it with yesterday’s security playbook.”

Repello AI claims active deployments with firms like Groww and PhysicsWallah, and is currently running proof of concepts (POCs) across the US, Europe, and the Middle East.While specific revenue figures remain undisclosed, the new funding will be used to expand products, enhance brand credibility, scale go-to-market efforts, and form global partnerships.