Virtue AI
Virtue AI provides an enterprise AI safety platform for securing AI agents and applications.
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Ownership
- Part of Fortinet since 2026
- Certifications
- SOC 2
About Virtue AI
Virtue AI provides an AI security platform for enterprises. It sells to regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, government, and Fortune 500 firms. The platform covers agent security, AI guardrails, compliance, and red-teaming. It deploys in one hour and works across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. The company offers real-time guardrails that run in under 10 milliseconds. Its AgentSuite secures AI agents with runtime protection, red-teaming, and shadow AI detection. VirtueRed provides continuous automated red-teaming for models and chatbots. VirtueGuard delivers multimodal, multilingual policy enforcement. The platform integrates with frameworks like OpenAI, Google, LangChain, and Claude Code. It supports compliance with over 50 frameworks, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, and FINRA.
Products
- AgentSuite-RedAn enterprise-scale red-teaming service for agentic systems, with sandboxed environments and an autonomous attack agent.
- AgentSuite-BlueA security, governance, and compliance suite for agentic systems, featuring real-time alerts and a unified agent gateway.
- VirtueRedA continuous red-teaming platform for AI models and chatbots that generates audit-ready evidence.
- VirtueGuardA set of real-time safety models and policy guardrails that block harmful content across text, code, image, video, and audio.
- PolicyGuardA tool that lets users define and enforce AI policies in plain language across applications and agents.
- TextGuard LiteA fast text guardrail that covers violence, hate, PII exposure, jailbreaks, and other harm categories in over 100 languages.
Ownership and deals
- Fortinet acquired Virtue AIReport on Fortinet buying Virtue AI (opens in a new tab)
- Raised $23m in a Series A roundInvestors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Walden Catalyst VenturesReport on the Virtue AI funding round of April 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- Raised $7m in a seed roundInvestor FactoryReport on the Virtue AI funding round of April 2025 (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.