NeuralTrust

Security for AI

Market readinessHow well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence. Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
DefensibilityHow well the company holds its position if competitors catch up on features, scored across seven dimensions against public evidence. Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure.
Funding $20M
Last updated 2026-07-15

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Executive Summary

NeuralTrust puts one gateway in the path of every AI-agent request, so a regulated bank or airline that routes its agent traffic through it faces real work to move off it. TrustGate's core is open source, offered to seed adoption, but a larger vendor can study the open code and rebuild the same control point. NeuralTrust names customers such as Iberia, Abanca, and Banc Sabadell and holds Gartner recognition as an AI-gateway vendor. It is most defensible where a European buyer has already wired agent traffic through the gateway, and weakest if Palo Alto Networks or a cloud provider ships an agent gateway buyers find good enough.

Sourced Details

Description NeuralTrust helps enterprises discover and secure the AI agents running across their teams, with products for runtime protection, a gateway that connects agents to models and tools, agent posture management, and adversarial red teaming. [f1]
HQ Barcelona, Spain [f2]
Funding $20M total [f3]
Latest funding Seed, $20M (June 2026, led by Alstin Capital) [f3]
Deployment Hybrid, SaaS, Self-hosted [f4]

Products

Product What it does
NeuralTrust NeuralTrust: AI gateway and runtime firewall that screens LLM and agent traffic for injection attacks and data leaks, plus automated red teaming.

Matrix Coverage

AI Defense Matrix

GovernIdentifyProtectDetectRespondRecover
AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain.
AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices.
AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD.
AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic.
AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes.
Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning.
Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history.
AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools.

NeuralTrust is an AI gateway and runtime firewall that screens LLM and agent traffic for injection attacks and data leaks, plus automated red teaming. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f5]

Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

Established 26 /40 Established: Market readiness of 25 to 30, the typical band where most analyzed companies land.
Dimension Score
Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. 3/5
Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. 4/5
Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. 4/5
Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. 3/5
GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. 3/5
Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. 3/5
Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. 3/5
Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. 3/5

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Business Risks
Problem & Market
Product Capabilities
Competitive Positioning
Go-to-Market & Traction
Team & Credibility
Trust Readiness
Competitors

Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.

Defensibility

Contested 13 /21 Contested: Defensibility of 13 to 14, the typical band, where a moat exists but is under pressure. reinforce or reposition

Dimension Score
Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. 1/3
Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. 2/3
Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. 1/3
Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. 3/3
Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. 3/3
Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. 2/3
Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. 1/3

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Product Delivery & Operations
Earning Customers' Trust
Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning
Team & Execution Capability

Sources

Company Detail Sources (5)
Id Source Tier Accessed
f1 NeuralTrust: The Platform for AI and Agent Security official 2026-07-09
f2 About us | NeuralTrust official 2026-06-14
f3 Tech.eu: NeuralTrust closes 20M to expand AI agent security platform press 2026-06-17
f4 AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry other 2026-06-10
f5 AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping other 2026-06-23
Profile Analysis Sources (23)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 NeuralTrust homepage with product line and customer testimonials official 2026-06-13
s2 NeuralTrust AI gateway (TrustGate) product page
“Code: docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yaml up -d”
official 2026-06-13
s3 NeuralTrust documentation with deployment modes official 2026-06-13
s4 NeuralTrust automated red teaming (TrustTest) page official 2026-06-13
s5 NeuralTrust news index with Gartner, ISO 27001, and 4YFN award official 2026-07-08
s6 NeuralTrust recognized by Gartner Market Guide for Guardian Agents official 2026-06-13
s7 NeuralTrust Echo Chamber attack announcement
“NeuralTrust has already integrated the Echo Chamber Attack into its AI Gateway (TrustGate) and Red Teaming (TrustTest) solutions”
official 2026-06-13
s8 The Hacker News on NeuralTrust's Echo Chamber jailbreak
“Early planted prompts influence the model's responses, which are then leveraged in later turns to reinforce the original objective.”
press 2026-06-13
s9 BankInfoSecurity on the Echo Chamber attack detailed by NeuralTrust
“A proof-of-concept attack detailed by Neural Trust shows how bad actors can steer LLMs into producing prohibited content, without issuing an explicitly harmful request.”
press 2026-06-13
s10 EU-Startups directory entry for NeuralTrust (Spain)
“TrustGate: The fastest open-source AI gateway, enabling enterprises to scale LLMs and agents with zero-trust security”
other 2026-06-13
s11 NeuralTrust research blog (GPT-5 and OpenAI Atlas jailbreaks) official 2026-06-13
s12 NeuralTrust ISO 27001 certification announcement
“NeuralTrust has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, the international standard for information security management. The certification was issued by Insight Assurance following an independent audit”
official 2026-07-08
s13 NeuralTrust wins Best Cybersecurity Startup at 4YFN during MWC 2026
“NeuralTrust was named Best Cybersecurity Startup at 4YFN during MWC 2026, receiving the Digital Horizons Award in recognition of its work securing AI agents operating inside enterprise environments.”
official 2026-06-13
s14 NeuralTrust recognized as Representative Vendor by Gartner Market Guide for AI Gateways
“NeuralTrust has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for AI Gateways.”
official 2026-06-13
s15 ABANCA customer testimonial on the NeuralTrust homepage
“With NeuralTrust we stress-tested our chatbot with GenAI 'SOFia,' validating a safe go-live that meets financial-sector security and regulatory standards.”
official 2026-06-13
s16 arXiv preprint: The Echo Chamber Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak
“Authors: Ahmad Alobaid (NeuralTrust), Marti Jorda Roca (NeuralTrust), Carlos Castillo (ICREA and UPF), Joan Vendrell (NeuralTrust)”
research 2026-06-16
s17 About us | NeuralTrust team page
“Meet our team Joan Vendrell GTM Victor Garcia Engineering Alejandro Domingo Salvador GTM”
official 2026-06-16
s18 NeuralTrust homepage customer logo wall
“Trusted by the world's leading companies (logos: sabadell-logo.png, iberia-logo.png, abanca-logo.png, isdin-logo.png, air-europa.png)”
official 2026-06-16
s19 NeuralTrust Trust Center (login-gated portal, rendered check)
“Sign in Use your email and password to sign in”
official 2026-07-08
s20 Gartner Peer Insights: NeuralTrust in the AI Gateways market, based on public information
“NeuralTrust focuses on addressing security and compliance challenges related to AI agents and large language model (LLM) applications. The company identifies vulnerabilities in AI systems, implements measures to prevent attacks, and monitors system performance”
other 2026-06-29
s21 TechFundingNews: NeuralTrust raises 20M, Europe's largest cybersecurity seed
“The $20 million will be used to hire more engineers, improve integration across the three product layers, and expand throughout Europe.”
press 2026-06-29
s22 TechFundingNews: NeuralTrust founder backgrounds
“Vendrell was previously chief data officer at Mango and also worked at Amazon and McKinsey. Domingo led AI transformation projects as an associate partner at McKinsey before co-founding NeuralTrust. Garcia designed security systems for telecoms and banks.”
press 2026-06-29
s23 Dark Reading: NeuralTrust's Echo Chamber technique used to jailbreak GPT-5
“The successful hybrid approach of the Echo Chamber and Storytelling technique to jailbreaking GPT-5, released Aug. 7, demonstrates how these techniques continue to evolve.”
press 2026-06-29
Deep-Dive Sources (11)
Id Source Tier Accessed
s1 NeuralTrust homepage: platform for AI and agent security
“Agent Runtime Security Protect agent interactions in real time TrustGuard. Agent Gateway Connect agents to models and tools securely TrustGate. Agent Posture Management Discover and govern every agent.”
official 2026-06-17
s2 NeuralTrust TrustGate agent gateway (open source, LLM/MCP/A2A)
“Point your agents at any model, OpenAI, Anthropic, or self-hosted. Every call routes through one place you control and meter. OPEN SOURCE Run TrustGate locally or self-hosted in your own cloud in minutes. Start from the open core.”
official 2026-06-18
s3 NeuralTrust TrustGuard runtime security and deployment modes
“TrustGuard inspects every interaction and stops attacks at the moment of execution. SaaS. Hybrid cloud SaaS control plane, privately hosted data plane. Data never leaves your boundary. On-premises / air-gapped Full isolation. For defence, government, and financial sector.”
official 2026-06-17
s4 NeuralTrust TrustTest AI red teaming and evaluation
“TrustTest is a red-teaming and evaluation framework that attacks your LLMs and agents with state-of-the-art adversarial techniques, then grades how they hold up. One taxonomy of attacks Prompt injection Indirect injection PII and data leakage.”
official 2026-06-17
s5 NeuralTrust raises 20M to secure AI agents (seed round, investors, products, customers, partners)
“today announced a $20 million seed round. The round was led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell. NeuralTrust's customers include AirEuropa, Abanca, Iberia, and Banc Sabadell, alongside other global banks, airlines, energy companies.”
official 2026-06-18
s6 Tech.eu: NeuralTrust closes 20M to expand AI agent security platform
“Echo Chamber and the multimodal attack vector Semantic Chaining, both incorporated into the OWASP AI Security Project taxonomy. NeuralTrust's platform combines three products: TrustGate, which manages agent traffic across models and tools, TrustGuard, runtime security for AI agents, and TrustLens.”
press 2026-06-18
s7 TechFundingNews: NeuralTrust seed (founders, customers, ARR, competition)
“Its customers include Iberia, AirEuropa, Abanca, and Banc Sabadell. Palo Alto Networks bought Protect AI for about $500 million. With EU AI Act compliance requirements tightening, several of its government and banking customers are actively seeking providers headquartered outside the US.”
press 2026-06-17
s8 NeuralTrust ISO 27001 certification announcement
“NeuralTrust has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, the international standard for information security management.”
official 2026-06-17
s9 The Hacker News: Echo Chamber jailbreak tricks LLMs
“Early planted prompts influence the model's responses, which are then leveraged in later turns to reinforce the original objective.”
press 2026-06-13
s10 NeuralTrust named Representative Vendor in Gartner Market Guide for AI Gateways
“NeuralTrust has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for AI Gateways.”
official 2026-06-13
s11 Gartner Peer Insights: NeuralTrust in the AI Gateways market, based on public information
“NeuralTrust focuses on addressing security and compliance challenges related to AI agents and large language model (LLM) applications. The company identifies vulnerabilities in AI systems, implements measures to prevent attacks, and monitors system performance”
other 2026-06-29

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