Alice Raises $140 Million to Expand AI Security Platform

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Summary

AI security company Alice raised $140 million to expand its platform, which it says tests AI models for prompt injection and jailbreaks and provides runtime guardrails. The company previously operated as ActiveFence.

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  • Alice announced a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds, bringing its total funding to $280 million.
  • The company says it stress-tests foundation models with simulated malicious inputs and agentic tasks to identify vulnerabilities, including prompt injection and jailbreaks.
  • For deployed models, Alice offers continuous red-teaming and runtime guardrails that monitor system traffic and enforce configurable business rules.
  • Alice says its Rabbit Hole database draws on nearly a decade of tracking digital fraud, extremism, and manipulation campaigns.
  • The company was previously known as ActiveFence and is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv.

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Funding announcement
Impact
Alice raised $140 million to advance its AI security platform, expand its research team and proprietary intelligence dataset, and scale go-to-market efforts. The company says its services include pre-release model testing, continuous red-teaming, and runtime guardrails.

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