Lakera
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Lakera is a Swiss company founded in 2021 that protects applications built on large language models from prompt injection, jailbreaks and data leakage. Its Guard product inspects traffic in real time using detectors trained partly on data from Gandalf, a public prompt injection game it created that attracted millions of players. Check Point acquired the company in 2025 to add AI security to its platform.
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Lakera - Test your AI hacking skills
Test your AI hacking skills and experience the limitations of large language models firsthand.
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Lakera Launches Open-Source Security Benchmark for LLM Backends in AI Agents
SAN FRANCISCO & ZURICH, October 28, 2025--Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, and Lakera, a world leading AI-native security platform for Agentic AI applications, with researchers
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Check Point Acquires Lakera to Deliver End-to-End AI Security for Enterprises
Together, Check Point and Lakera deliver one of the industry's most advanced AI-native security platforms, built to protect the full lifecycle of AI
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Zero-Click Remote Code Execution: Exploiting MCP & Agentic IDEs Lakera - Protecting AI teams that disrupt the world.
Discover how a zero-click MCP attack turns a shared Google Doc into remote code execution, stolen secrets, and enterprise-wide compromise.
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The Security Company of the Future Will Look Like OpenAI Lakera - Protecting AI teams that disrupt the world.
As AI systems become foundational to modern infrastructure, traditional cybersecurity approaches fall short. This opinion piece explores why AI security demands a complete shift in mindset-not just an update to the old playbook.
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How we use Lakera Guard to secure our LLMs
With its robust capabilities, Lakera Guard helps us secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.
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Lakera, a Swiss cybersecurity for generative AI startup, just raised $20 million using this 10-slide pitch deck
Swiss startup Lakera has built a platform aimed at better identify ing cybersecurity risks emerging from generative AI.
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Lakera AI raises $20M to ward off malicious prompts on generative AI models
Lakera AI raises $20M to ward off malicious prompts on generative AI models - SiliconANGLE
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$20M
Latest round
Series A
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| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2024 | $20M | Details |