Insider Brief
- Starseer has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Gula Tech Adventures to scale its AI exposure management platform focused on transparency, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Its model-agnostic tools help enterprises and government agencies detect and defend against AI risks like prompt injections and data poisoning, while meeting standards like the EU AI Act.
- The funding will support product development, team growth, and broader adoption across high-stakes sectors such as finance, healthcare, and autonomous systems.
PRESS RELEASE — Starseer, an innovator in AI Exposure Management and Compliance, announced it has secured a $2 million seed funding round led by Gula Tech Adventures. The investment will accelerate Starseer’s mission to make AI systems transparent, secure, and reliable for enterprise and government deployment.
Starseer’s model-agnostic platform eliminates the AI “black box” problem by providing unprecedented visibility into AI behavior. Organizations can confidently adopt AI with Starseer’s model-agnostic analysis, hardening, and management, ensuring robust security and compliance with regulations like the EU AI Act while defending against threats such as prompt injections, backdoors, and data poisoning. This visibility enables confident adoption of privately hosted models without sacrificing security or transparency.
“The era of ‘trust us, the AI works’ is ending,” said Tim Schulz, Starseer’s CEO. “As AI makes decisions that affect people’s lives and business outcomes, everyone from artists to regulators to corporate boards are demanding real transparency.”
Starseer’s AI exposure management platform addresses urgent needs in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, and autonomous systems, where AI failures can result in substantial financial, legal, or safety consequences. The platform’s intuitive tools enable security and compliance teams — regardless of technical expertise — to secure AI deployments and generate audit-ready documentation.
With this funding, Starseer will accelerate platform development, expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, and scale adoption among enterprises and government agencies prioritizing AI governance and secure deployment.
About Starseer
Founded by cybersecurity experts, Starseer develops enterprise-ready solutions that make AI systems transparent and secure. The company’s platform enables organizations to analyze, understand, and optimize AI models, ensuring confident decision-making in high-stakes environments. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Starseer serves enterprises and government agencies requiring AI transparency and security. For more information, visit www.starseer.ai and follow the company on X and LinkedIn.
About Gula Tech Adventures
Founded by cybersecurity entrepreneurs Ron and Cyndi Gula, Gula Tech Adventures invests in companies and nonprofits that help close the gap in needed technology and workforce to defend the country in cyberspace. They work directly with cybersecurity startups, investment funds and nonprofit organizations. Since 2017, the Gulas have made more than 40 investments in cybersecurity startups like Automox, Cybrary, Huntress and Scythe, cybersecurity funds including Inner Loop Capital, DataTribe and Forgepoint Capital, and also supported cybersecurity nonprofits like Defending Digital Campaigns and voting.works.
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