Protect AI
Founded 2022 by Ian Swanson + Daryan Dehghanpisheh (ex-AWS); AI/ML supply-chain + GenAI security. **Acquired by Palo Alto Networks Apr-2025 for $700M.** Products: Recon (red-team), ModelScan (model artifact scanner), Sightline (vulnerability DB).
At a glance
- Type
- AI/ML model security platform (acquired by Palo Alto Networks 2025)
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2022 (founded)
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section
- Funding
- $60M Series B Aug-2024 (Evolution Equity; $400M val) → Palo Alto Networks acq $700M Apr-2025
Taxonomy
- storage
- none-trivial
- retrieval
- none
- persistence
- session-only
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- turn
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- out-of-scope
When to use
Optimised for: AI/ML supply-chain + GenAI security for enterprise + gov
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Largest pure-play AI-security exit to date; comprehensive ML supply-chain + GenAI; Palo Alto distribution post-2025.
Cons
Post-acquisition integration uncertainty; product roadmap subject to Palo Alto unified-platform direction.
Claims & capabilities
$60M Series B Aug-2024 ($400M val; Evolution Equity); **$700M acquisition by Palo Alto Networks Apr-2025** — one of largest AI-security exits to date
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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