Unbound, a cybersecurity startup working on technology to enable organizations to securely and responsibly adopt generative-AI tools across their environments, on Thursday announced raising $4 million in seed-stage financing.
The investment round was led by Race Capital. Unbound said investors Massive Tech Ventures, Wayfinder Ventures, Y Combinator, Alpha Square Group, Liquid2, Northside Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Scale Asia Ventures, and SBXI also took equity positions.
The San Francisco-based Unbound provides software to help organizations control sensitive data flows and enforce policies, improving AI management and making AI adoption more secure and transparent.
Already used by mid-market and enterprise customers across sectors, including healthcare and technology, the company’s AI Gateway product connects to commonly used AI tools to surface usage patterns and provide model routing, real-time protection, and usage analytics.
To protect sensitive information, the solution redacts it in real time, and re-routes risky requests to internal models hosted in the organization’s cloud.
Unbound is also providing organizations with fine-grained control over model access and cost, allowing them to route lightweight tasks to smaller models and save thousands of dollars in unnecessary licenses.
The company is looking to expand its integration across the AI ecosystem, enhance its model routing capabilities, and provide internal model orchestration support to organizations using open source models.
“As AI tools become mainstream, enterprises are turning to flexibility and control. They want visibility into what’s being used, assurance that their data is protected, and the ability to swap in better models as the space evolves,” Unbound CEO and co-founder Rajaram Srinivasan said.
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