Lakera
Lakera's mission is to help enterprises adopt AI confidently by securing LLMs, generative-AI applications, agents and multimodal workflows. Its platform discovers, assesses, governs and protects AI interactions against prompt attacks, data leakage and other AI-specific threats.
At a Glance
- Fortune 500 enterprises
- Large enterprises deploying generative AI and autonomous agents
- AI-native technology companies and startups
- Security and platform engineering teams
- +2 more
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Lakera
Runtime Security for GenAI Apps
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Latest News
Check Point reported that its acquisition of Lakera had closed.
Check Point announced an agreement to acquire Lakera to deliver end-to-end AI security for enterprises.
Lakera published research on indirect prompt injection as a hidden threat to modern AI systems.
Lakera published research on zero-click remote-code execution through MCP and agentic IDEs.
Products & Services
API-first guardrails that screen user and external content entering LLMs and the resulting model output, detecting prompt attacks, data leakage, content violations and unknown links; supports monitoring, blocking and configurable policies.
Discovery, governance and runtime protection for enterprise AI agents and MCP-connected systems, including access controls, runtime guardrails, threat detection, data-leakage prevention and live action governance.
Continuous, risk-based evaluation and automated red teaming for AI applications and agents, uncovering security and safety weaknesses before and during production.
Expert-led adversarial testing and remediation guidance for AI systems.
Market Position
Lakera positions itself as an AI-native security platform rather than a conventional network or endpoint-security product: it combines model-agnostic runtime guardrails, enterprise governance and continuous AI red teaming. Its differentiation is the feedback loop between production protection and Gandalf's large adversarial community, enabling defenses to adapt to emerging prompt, agent and multimodal attacks.
Leadership
Founders
David Haber
Co-founder and CEO; previously worked on AI and autonomous-flight systems, including leadership at Daedaleal AI.
Dr. Matthias Kraft
Co-founder and CTO; previously led visual-positioning work at Daedaleal AI and worked on autonomous flight systems requiring high reliability.
Dr. Mateo Rojas-Carulla
Co-founder and CPO/CSO; background includes Credit Suisse, Google and Meta, as well as AI and autonomous-systems research.
Executive Team
David Haber
Co-founder and CEO
AI and autonomous-systems leader; previously associated with Daedaleal AI and aerospace, healthcare and finance AI work.
Dr. Matthias Kraft
Co-founder and CTO
AI engineer and former head of visual positioning at Daedaleal AI; co-led development of high-reliability autonomous flight systems.
Founding Story
Lakera was started in Zurich in 2021 by AI specialists who had built autonomous flight systems where safety, reliability and security had to be designed in from the beginning. They saw that traditional security controls were poorly suited to generative-AI risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks and data exfiltration, and set out to build AI-native, real-time defenses.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Enterprise B2B security software delivered through a hosted/API platform and enterprise plans, with paid access to advanced guardrails, runtime protection, integrations, governance and red-teaming capabilities; a free community tier supports limited usage.
Pricing Tiers
Free access with a limited number of requests and a reduced feature set.
Sales-assisted plan with advanced features, including enterprise integrations and SIEM integration.
Target Markets
- Fortune 500 enterprises
- Large enterprises deploying generative AI and autonomous agents
- AI-native technology companies and startups
- Security and platform engineering teams
- Organizations with employee AI-governance requirements
- Financial services, healthcare, education and other regulated industries
- Conversational agents and chatbots
- Document and RAG agents
- GenAI gateway security
- Connected and tool-using agents
- MCP-connected applications and agents
- Employee use of public chatbots, SaaS copilots, browser tools and IDEs
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- Pearson
- Hinge Health
- A top-three U.S. bank