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 

Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260512448166/en/