Lakera
Lakera provides security software that protects enterprise AI applications from prompt attacks and data leakage.
- Based in
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Founded
- 2021
- Ownership
- Part of Check Point since 2025
- Certifications
- SOC 2
About Lakera
Lakera sells an AI-native security platform for organisations that build and run generative AI. Its customers include Fortune 500 firms, startups and regulated banks. The platform covers three areas. Workforce AI Security watches how staff use AI in browsers and apps, finds shadow AI and protects data in prompts. AI Agent Security discovers agents and MCP-connected tools, then enforces policy at runtime. AI Red Teaming Services provide expert-led adversarial testing of LLM applications and agentic systems. The platform inspects what goes into a model, controls what comes out and governs what agents do. It deploys through an API-first, cloud-native architecture without changes to models or prompts, and it works across any model and modality. Lakera says its context-aware approach cuts risk by three to four orders of magnitude, with a production false positive rate of 0.01% and sub-50 ms latency. It supports over 100 languages and learns from more than a million hackers.
Products
- Lakera GuardA screening layer that checks model inputs and outputs in real time for attacks and sensitive data.
- Workforce AI SecurityDiscovers shadow AI across apps and browsers and applies data protection and policy controls to employee AI use.
- AI Agent SecurityFinds agents and MCP-connected tools, assesses their risk and enforces runtime guardrails on what they do.
- AI Red Teaming ServicesExpert-led adversarial testing of LLM applications and agentic systems, with validated findings and remediation advice.
- AI Defense PlaneA unified architecture for discovering, protecting and governing AI across workforce, applications and agents.
Ownership and deals
- Check Point acquired LakeraReport on Check Point buying Lakera (opens in a new tab)
- Raised $20m in a Series A roundInvestor AtomicoReport on the Lakera funding round of July 2024 (opens in a new tab)
- Raised $10m in a seed roundInvestor RedalpineReport on the Lakera funding round of October 2023 (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.