White Circle, a Paris, France-based AI control platform, has raised $11 million in Seed funding.
Investors
The funding round included backing from leading AI industry figures associated with OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, Mistral, Datadog, and other major technology companies.
White Circle Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to accelerate product development, expand its teams across the U.S., UK, and Europe, and grow its global customer base.
About White Circle
Founded by Denis Shilov, White Circle is an AI control platform that helps companies monitor, protect, and improve AI models in production. Its platform checks inputs and outputs against custom policies, detects hallucinations and prompt injection attacks, and provides real-time analytics on model behavior. Headquartered in Paris, France, White Circle is SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant and supports more than 150 languages.
Funding Details
Company: White Circle
Raised: $11.0M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: May 2026
Investors: Romain Huet, Dirk Kingma, Guillaume Lample, Thomas Wolf, Olivier Pomel, François Chollet, Mehdi Ghissassi, Paige Bailey, David Cramer, Tiny VC
Company Website: https://whitecircle.ai/
Software Category: AI Security / AI Governance Platform
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