Principled Intelligence - About the company
Principled Intelligence is a seed company based in Rome (Italy), founded in 2024 by Edoardo Barba and Simone Conia. It operates as a Developer of AI agents, small language models, and oversight frameworks. Principled Intelligence has raised $2.15M in funding from National Technology Transfer. The company has 1686 active competitors, including 83 funded and 4 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like LangChain, Relevance AI and TrueFoundry.
Company Details
Developer of AI agents, small language models, and oversight frameworks. They provide tools for building and evaluating AI systems. The company focuses on creating technology tuned for real-world AI production challenges. They design open multilingual language models optimized for safety and governance. The company offers red-teaming and simulation to harden models.
- Website
- principled-intelligence.com
- Email ID
- *****@principled-intelligence.com
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2024
Location
Rome, Italy
Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$2.15M in 1 round
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
86th among 1686 active competitors
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Principled Intelligence's funding and investors
Principled Intelligence has raised a total funding of $2.15M over 1 round. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on Jan 12, 2026 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Principled Intelligence has 3 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Principled Intelligence:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 12, 2026 | 1909199 | Seed | 8831778 | 2649501 | 6011399 | 3179706 |
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Principled Intelligence's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Principled Intelligence are Edoardo Barba and Simone Conia. Simone Conia is the CEO of Principled Intelligence.
Here are the details of Principled Intelligence's key team members:
- Edoardo Barba: Co-Founder & CTO of Principled Intelligence.
- Simone Conia: Co-Founder & CEO of Principled Intelligence.
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Principled Intelligence's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Principled Intelligence include LangChain, Relevance AI and TrueFoundry. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Principled Intelligence, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | LangChain 2022, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Developer of tools for building, testing, and deploying AI agent applications | $260M | 72/100 | |
2nd | Relevance AI 2020, Sydney (Australia), Series B | AI-powered image data analytics platform | $37M | 66/100 | |
3rd |  TrueFoundry 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Provider of an enterprise-grade AI gateway that encompasses LLM gateway, MCP gateway, and agent gateway | $21.3M | 65/100 | |
4th |  Union.ai 2021, Seattle (United States), Series A | Developer of a platform for orchestrating, training, and serving AI | $48.1M | 64/100 | |
5th | Gimlet Labs 1990, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Developer of software to deploy and monitor AI applications across fleets | $392M | 63/100 | |
6th | Provider of AI workload orchestration and GPU management software solutions | $118M | 59/100 | ||
7th | Onyx 2024, New York City (United States), Series B | Provider of a secure control plane for managing AI agents | $153M | 59/100 | |
8th |  Kira 2025, Miami (United States), Seed | Provider of infrastructure for launching embedded fintech products with AI | $8.7M | 59/100 | |
9th | Clarifai 2013, New York City (United States), Acqui-Hired | Provider of AI based image and video recognition solution for multiple industries | $101M | 57/100 | |
10th |  Callosum 2025, London (United Kingdom), Seed | AI infrastructure company providing systems-level software | $110M | 56/100 | |
86th |  Principled Intelligence 2024, Rome (Italy), Seed | Developer of AI agents, small language models, and oversight frameworks | $2.15M | 28/100 |
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Principled Intelligence's Investments and acquisitions
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News related to Principled Intelligence
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Deeptech AI startup Principled Intelligence raises €1.85 million in pre-seed funding.BeBeez•Jan 12, 2026•Principled Intelligence, Eden Ventures, Scientifica, BlackSheep and 1 other
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