AI trust, safety and security company Alice announced Tuesday that it has raised $140 million in a funding round to protect AI systems from emerging vulnerabilities and adversarial attacks.
The latest capital injection brings the company’s total funding to $280 million. These will be used to further develop the AI platform, expand the team behind the proprietary intelligence data set, and scale go-to-market efforts.
The funding round was led by Apax Digital Funds, with participation from MoreTech, Phoenix Financial, Resolute Ventures, Grove Ventures, CRV, Highland Europe, Vintage Investments, Norwest, NFX and Claltech.
The company works with AI developers to stress test baseline models before release. Its research department executes fake malicious inputs and complex agent tasks to detect erratic behavior and ultimately protect the models against instant injection and jailbreak attempts.
When models go into production, Alice offers continuous red teaming and dynamic runtime guardrails to align processes with specific business rules. Companies can configure custom internal policies, simulate violations, and monitor system traffic in real time.
The company uses a proprietary database called Rabbit Hole. This repository was built over a period of nearly a decade by tracking digital fraud, ideological extremism, and manipulation campaigns. By leveraging this vast archive of malicious content, the platform can detect and intercept hostile actions against generative AI systems.
Alice also maintains a dedicated research facility to study the vulnerabilities of machine learning architectures. The lab employs more than 150 specialists who work with major model developers to anticipate failures, analyze potential manipulation vectors, and proactively close security gaps.
“There are infinite ways to break an AI, and you can’t defend against something you’ve never seen before,” said Noam Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of Alice. “We’ve spent nearly a decade learning exactly how people misuse technology by the billions, first on the world’s largest platforms and now on the models that those same people test. We’re democratizing capabilities very quickly before we’ve democratized defenses. This round is about closing that gap.”
Alice previously operated under the name ActiveFence and has headquarters in New York and Tel Aviv.
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