SSI - About the company
SSI is a series A company based in Palo Alto (United States), founded in 2024 by Daniel Gross, Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy. It operates as a Platform offering security solutions for AI models. SSI has raised $3B in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and SV Angel, with a current valuation of $5B. The company has 470 active competitors, including 60 funded and 14 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Enkrypt AI, Virtue AI and Protect AI.
Sectors and market segments that SSI operate in
SSI serves in the High Tech, Native AI market segments.The primary business model of SSI are:Company Details
Platform offering security solutions for AI models. The platform develops AI systems safe for human use. It aligns AI capabilities with human values for AI systems to not pose risks to society. Its safety measures are integrated from the outset.
- Website
- ssi.inc
- Email ID
- *****@ssi.inc
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2024
Location
Palo Alto, United States
Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$3B in 4 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$5B as on Sep 01, 2025
Investors
Ranked
3rd among 470 active competitors
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Legal entities associated with SSI
SSI is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Reports |
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SAFE SUPERINTELLIGENCE INC CIN: 03863845 , United States, Active | Jun 06, 2024 | - | - | - |
EXCLUSIVE 37 BARBER SHOP CORP. CIN: 3863845 , United States, Active | Oct 05, 2009 | - | - | - |
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SSI's funding and investors
SSI has raised a total funding of $3B over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on Sep 04, 2024. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Jul 27, 2026 for an undisclosed amount. 1 investor participated in its latest round. SSI has 10 institutional investors and 1 angel investor.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of SSI:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Jul 27, 2026 | Undisclosed | Series A | - | - | - | |
Jul 07, 2025 | Undisclosed | Series A | - | - | - | |
Apr 13, 2025 | $2B | Series A | $32B | - |
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SSI's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of SSI are Daniel Gross, Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy. Ilya Sutskever is the CEO of SSI.
Here are the details of SSI's key team members:
- Daniel Gross: Former Co-Founder of SSI.
- Ilya Sutskever: Co-Founder & CEO of SSI. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Daniel Levy: Co-Founder & President of SSI. Contact Info: 1 email address
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SSI's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of SSI include Enkrypt AI, Virtue AI and Protect AI. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of SSI, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Enkrypt AI 2022, Brighton (United States), Acquired | Provider of a platform for AI security and compliance solutions | $2.35M | 71/100 | |
2nd | Virtue AI 2014, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | Provider of AI security and compliance platform | $30M | 64/100 | |
3rd | SSI 2024, Palo Alto (United States), Series A | Platform offering security solutions for AI models | $3B | 63/100 | |
4th |  Protect AI 2022, Seattle (United States), Acquired | Provider of AI-based ML security solutions | $129M | 63/100 | |
5th | NeuralTrust 2022, Barcelona (Spain), Seed | Platform for securing and scaling LLM applications and agents | $20M | 62/100 | |
6th |  Straiker Sunnyvale (United States), Series A | Provider of security software for monitoring and protecting autonomous agents | $85M | 62/100 | |
7th |  Operant AI 2020, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Developer of runtime security solutions for cloud, AI, and applications | $13.5M | 61/100 | |
8th | Lakera 2021, Zurich (Switzerland), Acquired | Developer of AI and SaaS-based observability platform for computer vision developers | $30M | 60/100 | |
9th |  Protecto 2021, San Jose (United States), Seed | Provider of AI data security and privacy guardrail solutions | $5M | 60/100 | |
10th | Witness 2023, San Mateo (United States), Series B | Security and governance guardrails for large language models | $85.5M | 60/100 |
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SSI's Investments and acquisitions
SSI has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to SSI
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News related to SSI
Filter this listMedia has covered SSI for a total of 13 events in the last 1 year, 4 of them have been about company updates and 2 about partnerships.
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Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin Systems for AI-Powered R&DContract Pharma•Jul 20, 2026•Bristol-Myers Squibb, Nvidia, SSI
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Reflection AI signs $1B compute deal with NebiusTechCrunch+•Jul 14, 2026•Nebius, ReflectionAI, SpaceX, Nvidia and 4 others
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After AI ran out of books to read, two AI godfathers gambled on opposing futures.TMTpost•Jul 01, 2026•SSI
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CoreNest Capital Invests in 10 Frontier Companies Like Safe Superintelligence (SSI) & NeuralinkGlobeNewswire•Jul 07, 2025•CoreNest, SSI, Neuralink, Coverstar and 5 others
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Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent warThe Star Online•Jul 04, 2025•SSI, Meta
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Ilya Sutskever Named Safe Superintelligence CEO, Shuts Down Acquisition RumorsNeowin•Jul 04, 2025•SSI
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Ex-OpenAI Tech Chief Raises $2 Billion for New AI StartupPYMNTS.com•Jun 23, 2025•OpenAI, Thinking Machines Lab, SSI
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