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Clearly AI

Category: AI in Cybersecurity

An AI-native platform that automates security, privacy, and compliance reviews to replace manual assessments and accelerate the deployment of AI-driven features. Clearly AI was founded in 2024. The company is led by Emily Choi-Greene. Based in Seattle, USA. Team size: 12. Total funding raised: $8.9M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include ["Basis Set Ventures","Y Combinator","Argon Ventures","Ritual Capital","Fondo"].

Founded
2024
Headquarters
Seattle, USA
Team size
12
Total funding
$8.9M

Value proposition

Reduces AI security review cycles from weeks to minutes by automating threat modeling and design reviews, ensuring policy alignment without slowing down innovation.

Products and solutions

["Automated AI Security & Privacy Review Engine","AI Architecture & Design Document Risk Analyzer","Automated Threat Modeling System","Policy-Aligned Compliance Assessment Platform","Enterprise Integration Suite (SSO/SAML/SCIM & Private Cloud Deployment)"]

Unique value

Founded by the former lead of Alexa AI Security at Amazon, the platform productizes elite-level security review processes that were previously manual and labor-intensive.

Target customer

Enterprise security teams, privacy officers, GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) departments, and AI/ML engineering leads.

Industries served

["Cybersecurity","Artificial Intelligence","Enterprise Software","Financial Services","Healthcare & Life Sciences"]

Technology advantage

Leverages proprietary AI-driven threat modeling and 'security-as-code' heuristics to perform deep architectural analysis of AI systems, identifying risks that traditional static analysis tools miss.

How they differentiate

Clearly AI automates the deep architectural and privacy reviews specifically for AI/ML workflows—a process that is traditionally manual and takes weeks—whereas general compliance tools focus on broad evidence collection and model-centric tools focus on adversarial testing.

Main competitors

["Vanta","Cranium","Robust Intelligence"]

Key partnerships

["Y Combinator (S24 Cohort)","Basis Set Ventures (Lead Investor)","Argon Ventures","Ritual Capital","Fondo"]

Notable customers

["Enterprise Security Teams","AI/ML Engineering Departments"]

Major milestones

["Accepted into the Y Combinator S24 cohort","Raised $8.4M Seed round led by Basis Set Ventures in February 2025","Named a Finalist for the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest","Finalist in the Okta Startup Challenge (2025)"]

Growth metrics

Grew team to approximately 12-20 employees following Y Combinator S24 graduation; estimated early ARR of $330K.

Market positioning

Early-stage specialist in AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM), targeting the 'shift-left' security review market for AI-driven enterprises.

Geographic focus

North America (Headquartered in Seattle, WA)

Patents and IP

No registered patents disclosed as of latest update

About Emily Choi-Greene

Led Alexa AI Security at Amazon for 5 years, overseeing machine learning compute platform security; previously owned data security and privacy engineering at Moveworks.

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