
Patronus AI is the leading automated AI evaluation and security company. Our world-class platform enables enterprise development teams to score LLM performance, generate adversarial test cases, benchmark LLMs, and more. Customers use Patronus AI to detect LLM mistakes at scale and deploy AI products safely and confidently. Founded by machine learning experts from Meta AI and Meta Reality Labs, Patronus AI is on a mission to boost enterprise confidence in generative AI. We are backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, and Fortune 500 executives and board members.

Patronus AI is the leading automated AI evaluation and security company. Our world-class platform enables enterprise development teams to score LLM performance, generate adversarial test cases, benchmark LLMs, and more. Customers use Patronus AI to detect LLM mistakes at scale and deploy AI products safely and confidently. Founded by machine learning experts from Meta AI and Meta Reality Labs, Patronus AI is on a mission to boost enterprise confidence in generative AI. We are backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, and Fortune 500 executives and board members.
What they do: Automated evaluation, monitoring, and security platform for LLMs and multimodal AI
Founders: Anand Kannappan (CEO) and Rebecca Qian (CTO), both ex‑Meta
Headcount: Approximately 35 employees
Funding (disclosed): $20M total ($3M seed + $17M Series A)
Notable investors: Notable Capital (Series A), Lightspeed Venture Partners (seed); angels and strategic investors including Datadog, Gokul Rajaram, Amjad Masad
LLM evaluation, AI safety, monitoring and guardrails for production generative AI
2023
Technology, Information and Internet
$3M
Seed round announced at launch from stealth
$17M
Series A announced with participation from Lightspeed, Datadog, and multiple angel/strategic investors
“Backed by tier‑one VC (Lightspeed) and a later Series A led by Notable Capital; includes strategic and high‑profile angel investors”
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