Highlights:

  • The service aims to handle security chores to lessen the likelihood of exploits, vulnerabilities, data leaks, and other problems while giving businesses easy control and management over their AI systems.
  • Kindo’s features include integration with over 200 SaaS apps, fine-grained controls, audit logging, and fully centralized access to AI governance and security controls for enterprise users.

Kindo reeled in USD 20.6 million in the latest funding and acquired WhiteRabbitNeo, an open-source security project. Kindo is a platform developed for business-wide AI security management.

Drive Capital led the investment, with participation from RRE Ventures, Marlinspike Partners, Riot Ventures, Eniac Ventures, New Era Ventures, and Sunset Ventures, among other current investors. The additional capital raises the company’s overall fundraising to USD 27.6 million, which includes a September 2023 USD seven million early funding round led by Riot Ventures.

Through a single interface with strong visibility and security controls, Kindo’s platform enables corporate enterprises to use any AI model, including private, commercial, and open-source models, even across software-as-a-service interfaces. The service aims to handle security chores to lessen the likelihood of exploits, vulnerabilities, data leaks, and other problems while giving businesses easy control and management over their AI systems.

Founder and Chief Executive Ron Williams said, “The easiest way to think about this is we’re an orchestration platform that lets enterprises of all sizes integrate any AI capabilities or any AI model that’s in the market. It’s in an API. You can integrate it, including your own models. In IT and security, you can control who accesses those models, applications or other data sources, and what agents can talk to which models. It gives centralized control.”

Kindo’s features include integration with over 200 SaaS apps, fine-grained controls, audit logging, and fully centralized access to AI governance and security controls for enterprise users. These features are compatible with cloud, hybrid, and on-premises settings. Numerous models are compatible with the platform, such as Llama 2 from Meta Platform Inc., Anthropic PDC’s Claude, Google LLC’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT4.

Additionally, Kindo offers complete access and control over AI content, including regulated data and personally identifiable information. This makes it possible for businesses to abide by laws like HIPAA and PCI-DSS by erasing sensitive information before it ever leaves the company’s firewall.

Additionally, the company offers readily deployable, proprietary, and fine-tuned models that may be incorporated within an organization’s security perimeter. These models are based on private data. It may become an expert on a company’s unique culture and knowledge base by merging corporate data with a general model, significantly improving its accuracy for knowledge work.

Apart from the investment, Kindo acquired an open-source cybersecurity AI-based project, WhiteRabbitNeo. Built on top of the Llama 2 large language model, WhiteRabbitNeo is an AI model family that specializes in attack and defense techniques for offering direction and training when coping with cyber-attacks.

Founder Migel Tissera stated, “When I introduced the first AI model for WhiteRabbitNeo in December 2023, I mentioned that someone needed to build an AI focused on offensive cybersecurity and that it would be best to do it in public. This visibility provides a level of transparency and accountability to what is normally seen as a ‘dark art.’

According to Tissera, the acquisition will provide the initiative with much-needed financial support and the technical know-how to extend and integrate LLMs across the security industry. It is planned for the WhiteRabbitNeo LLM model family to move into the Kindo platform and be included in the enterprise services for human-in-the-loop assistants and agents. Tissera will become an adviser for the Kindo team.

“We’re supporting the open-source project and expanding the community for it. It’s really good at finding security vulnerabilities in your code,” stated Williams.