Robust Intelligence
Founded 2019 by Yaron Singer (Harvard); ML risk management — model testing, validation, runtime detection. Acquired by Cisco (2024-10); now foundational to Cisco AI Defense and Cisco Foundation AI. Note: Harrison Chase (LangChain CEO) was an early Robust Intelligence ML lead.
Acquired · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 15 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- ML/AI risk platform (acquired by Cisco Sep 2024) vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2019 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: enterprise ML risk + AI security (Cisco SecureAI tier)
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Cisco-scale distribution post-acq; long history (one of first ML-risk vendors); broad customer base.
Cons
Post-acq direction uncertain; was historically more ML-eval than GenAI-runtime.
Claims & capabilities
Cisco acquisition Sep-2024 (terms undisclosed; reported ~$300M+); pre-acq raised ~$44M total
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
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- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (14 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is ML/AI risk platform (acquired by Cisco Sep 2024) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2019 by Yaron Singer (Harvard); ML risk management — model testing, validation, … vendor
- Claims / benefits Cisco acquisition Sep-2024 (terms undisclosed; reported ~$300M+); pre-acq raised ~$44M t… vendor
- Created 2019 (founded) vendor
- Funding Acquired by Cisco (2024-10; terms undisclosed); ~$44M raised pre-acquisition vendor
- Customers / scale Pre-acq: Fortune 100 financial + healthcare vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Yaron Singer (CEO; Harvard Prof. CS) vendor
- Optimised for enterprise ML risk + AI security (Cisco SecureAI tier) vendor
- Pros Cisco-scale distribution post-acq; long history (one of first ML-risk vendors); broad cu… vendor
- Cons Post-acq direction uncertain; was historically more ML-eval than GenAI-runtime. vendor
- Project & sources www.robustintelligence.com/ vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://www.robustintelligence.com/” → “https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/security/ai-defense/robust-intelligence-is-part-of-cisco/index.html”
- Funding / ownership “Acquired by Cisco Sep-2024 (terms undisclosed; ~$44M pre-acq)” → “Acquired by Cisco (2024-10; terms undisclosed); ~$44M raised pre-acquisition” source