NeuralTrust, the NYC-based AI security platform for enterprise agents, has raised $20 million in seed funding. Led by Alstin Capital, the round will fuel platform expansion and help address the growing governance and security needs of AI agent deployments at scale.
NeuralTrust, a NYC-based AI security company, announced a $20 million seed funding round. This round, described by the company as one of the largest cybersecurity seed financings in its category, was led by Alstin Capital with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, Finaves (the venture capital arm of IESE Business School), and support from public funding sources.
The funding comes at a pivotal moment in enterprise AI adoption. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents at scale for tasks ranging from customer service to internal automation, “agent sprawl” has created significant governance and security challenges. Traditional security tools struggle with these dynamic systems, which make independent decisions, interact with tools, data, and other systems, and operate across multiple platforms.
Industry projections highlight the urgency: Fortune 500 companies could soon run over 150,000 agents each, yet many enterprises lack visibility and control. Gartner has forecasted that a substantial portion of autonomous agents may face demotion or decommissioning due to governance gaps. NeuralTrust positions itself as the specialized security layer to address this, providing centralized discovery, monitoring, enforcement, and governance for AI agents.
What is NeuralTrust?
Founded in 2024, NeuralTrust focuses on turning AI security into a strategic advantage for large enterprises. The company is led by a team with deep experience in AI deployment, security, and transformation:
- CEO and Co-Founder Joan Vendrell: Former Chief Data Officer at Mango, with prior roles at Amazon and McKinsey.
- CTO Victor Garcia: Experience in security architecture for regulated sectors like telecom and banking.
- COO Alejandro Domingo: Former McKinsey Associate Partner with startup scaling experience.
This expertise informs a platform designed for complex, regulated environments, emphasizing performance, data sovereignty, and compliance.
Platform Overview and Key Products
NeuralTrust offers a unified platform with three integrated products:
- TrustLens: Provides posture management and discovery, creating a real time inventory of all AI agents, models, tools, and workflows across the organization.
- TrustGate: Acts as an agent gateway for routing, policy enforcement, and control over LLM, MCP (Model Context Protocol), and tool calls.
- TrustGuard: Delivers runtime security, detecting and blocking threats like jailbreaks, data leaks, tool abuse, and anomalous behavior in real time.
Key capabilities include:
- Discovery and Visibility: Complete mapping of agents and their interactions.
- Real Time Enforcement: Behavioral analysis, contextual/multi turn inspection, PII detection, and policy enforcement with low latency (<100 ms) and high scalability (20K+ requests per second per node).
- Advanced Features: Support for on-prem/VPC deployment (split plane architecture for data sovereignty), multilingual detection (99% accuracy), integration with SIEM systems, guardian agents, automated red teaming, and an extensive attack catalogue.
The platform secures homegrown applications, third party tools (e.g., integrations with major AI providers), and agentic workflows across the full AI stack. It has demonstrated strong results, including blocking millions of attacks and preventing significant financial losses.
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NeuralTrust serves major enterprises, including large banks, airlines, energy companies, and government agencies (with a high percentage reporting revenues over $1B). Customers value its ability to enable safe AI deployment in regulated sectors. The company has achieved notable growth, doubling ARR in early 2026, and earned recognition from analysts such as Gartner (Representative Vendor in relevant Market Guides), KuppingerCole (Leadership Compass), and MarketsandMarkets.
It maintains partnerships with firms like KPMG for enterprise rollout and contributes to industry standards, including research on emerging attacks (e.g., multi turn jailbreaks and multimodal threats).
How will NeuralTrust use the funds?
The $20M will primarily support:
- Engineering expansion and platform enhancements.
- Deeper integrations across AI models, tools, and ecosystems.
- Scaling operations to meet demand as enterprises move agents into production.
This round strengthens NeuralTrust’s position in the rapidly emerging AI agent security category, which is poised to become as critical as endpoint or cloud security. By addressing visibility gaps, runtime risks, and governance needs in one control layer, the company helps enterprises mitigate risks like data breaches, unauthorized actions, and compliance violations while accelerating safe AI innovation.
NeuralTrust’s funding underscores investor confidence in the need for dedicated infrastructure to secure the next wave of enterprise AI. With a strong team, proven technology, and timely market fit, the company is well positioned to capture significant share in this high stakes domain.
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