NeuralTrust
Category: AI in Cybersecurity
Centralized platform to discover, monitor, govern, and secure enterprise AI agents against threats, data leakage, and compliance violations. NeuralTrust was founded in 2022. The company is led by Joan Vendrell Farreny. Based in Barcelona, Spain. Team size: 101-500. Total funding raised: $20M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Alstin Capital, VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, Finaves (IESE Business School), European Innovation Council (EIC Accelerator), Spain's State Research Agency (AEI).
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- Barcelona, Spain
- Team size
- 101-500
- Total funding
- $20M
Value proposition
Centralized security platform that discovers, monitors, and secures all enterprise AI agents regardless of how or where they are deployed, providing real-time threat detection, governance, and compliance enforcement.
Products and solutions
TrustGate (Agent Gateway - brokers LLM, MCP, and tool calls as single enforcement point), TrustGuard (Runtime Security Engine - real-time threat detection across all agent endpoints), TrustLens (Agent Posture Management - discovers and governs all agents in the enterprise), TrustTest (AI Red Teaming - adversarial testing of models)
Unique value
Infrastructure-level security layer for AI agents (not just in-app guardrails) that enforces unified policy across all models, tools, and platforms with <100ms latency, 99% multilingual detection accuracy, and split-plane architecture for data sovereignty.
Target customer
Large enterprises (92% of customers have >$1B annual revenue) in banking, airlines, energy, and government sectors deploying AI agents at scale.
Industries served
Banking/Financial Services, Airlines/Travel, Energy, Government/Public Sector, Retail
Technology advantage
Split-plane architecture (control plane/data plane separation for data sovereignty); <100ms latency at 20K+ requests/sec per node; 99% multilingual detection accuracy; behavioral/contextual/multi-turn analysis beyond prompt heuristics; ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified; open-source AI gateway.
How they differentiate
European-based with deep EU AI Act compliance expertise; split-plane architecture enabling on-prem/VPC deployment for regulated industries; recognized by Gartner as Representative Vendor in both AI Gateways and Guardian Agents market guides; open-source AI gateway (TrustGate) with fastest performance claims; identified and documented novel attack techniques (Echo Chamber jailbreak, Semantic Chaining) added to OWASP taxonomy.
Main competitors
Protect AI (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for ~$500M), Enkrypt AI, Lasso Security, Holistic AI, Pillar Security, Lakera
Key partnerships
KPMG (strategic partner), Capgemini, Sopra Steria, Bentengo, M3Corp
Notable customers
AirEuropa, Abanca, Iberia, Banc Sabadell, ISDIN
Major milestones
Founded 2022, Dec 2024: First seed round (undisclosed) from Plug and Play, Jun 2025: EIC Accelerator grant, Jun 2026: $20M seed round (largest cybersecurity seed by an EU company), 2025-2026: Recognized by Gartner in Market Guide for AI Gateways and Market Guide for Guardian Agents, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, Doubled full-year 2025 ARR in Q1 2026.
Growth metrics
Doubled full-year 2025 ARR in Q1 2026; inspects millions of AI agent interactions daily; 1.2% of interactions flagged as malicious; 3M+ attacks blocked; 1000+ AI applications monitored; 22M+ AI interactions analyzed
Market positioning
Positioned as Europe's leading AI agent security platform, claiming the largest cybersecurity seed round by an EU company. Recognized by Gartner as Representative Vendor in Market Guide for AI Gateways and Market Guide for Guardian Agents. Named a Star in MarketsandMarkets Agentic AI Security Quadrant (2026).
Geographic focus
Europe (primary), with expansion into North America and UK. Offices in Barcelona, London, Munich, and New York.
Patents and IP
Identified and documented novel attack techniques: Echo Chamber (multiturn jailbreak) and Semantic Chaining (multimodal attack vector), both incorporated into OWASP AI Security Project taxonomy. Open-source AI gateway (TrustGate) on GitHub.
About Joan Vendrell Farreny
Ex-Chief Data Officer at Mango; former executive roles at Amazon and McKinsey & Company. MBA from London Business School.
Official website: https://neuraltrust.ai