
FireTail provides a unified AI and API security platform designed to protect organizations from evolving cyber threats. The platform offers complete visibility into AI integrations and APIs across all environments, from code to cloud. It proactively identifies and assesses vulnerabilities, enabling real-time threat response through advanced AI and API security posture management and runtime protection. FireTail's API-native design ensures tailored defense against modern threats, unlike solutions retrofitted for AI. The platform is built for developers, security teams, and CISOs, offering features like AI discovery, inventory management, continuous updates, and detection of shadow AI and sensitive data in prompts. FireTail has tracked over 1 billion API calls and raised $5 million in venture capital, indicating significant traction and market interest.

FireTail provides a unified AI and API security platform designed to protect organizations from evolving cyber threats. The platform offers complete visibility into AI integrations and APIs across all environments, from code to cloud. It proactively identifies and assesses vulnerabilities, enabling real-time threat response through advanced AI and API security posture management and runtime protection. FireTail's API-native design ensures tailored defense against modern threats, unlike solutions retrofitted for AI. The platform is built for developers, security teams, and CISOs, offering features like AI discovery, inventory management, continuous updates, and detection of shadow AI and sensitive data in prompts. FireTail has tracked over 1 billion API calls and raised $5 million in venture capital, indicating significant traction and market interest.
What they do: AI and API security & governance platform for discovering, monitoring, testing, and protecting AI/LLM integrations and APIs
Founders: Jeremy Snyder (CEO) and Riley Priddle (CTO)
Funding: $5M seed announced Dec 14, 2022; lead investor Paladin Capital Group
Traction signal: Platform has tracked over 1 billion API calls
AI security, API security, AI governance, and runtime protection for LLM/AI integrations
2022
Cybersecurity / AI security
$5,000,000.00
Round included participation from investors such as Zscaler, General Advance, Secure Octane, and several cybersecurity executives
“Backed by a strategic cybersecurity investor syndicate including Paladin Capital Group and participation from established cybersecurity firms and executives”