# Cyber Company Profiles: Lakera

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## At a Glance

- Website: [lakera.ai](https://www.lakera.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/lakera
- Type: Security for AI
- Status: acquired
- Market readiness: Established (27/40)
- Defensibility: Defensible (15/21)
- Founded: 2021
- Funding: $30M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-09

## Executive Summary

Lakera is a Zurich AI security company, founded in 2021, that screens prompts, model responses, and agent tool calls for AI-specific attacks, with detectors trained on Gandalf, a public attack game that drew more than 80 million attempts from over a million players. Check Point completed its purchase on October 22, 2025. Check Point's annual filing puts the price near $201.8 million and allocates $150.1 million to goodwill and $44 million to core technology against only $4.4 million for customer relationships, while recording the revenue it inherited as immaterial. Check Point booked far more value in technology and goodwill than in the customer relationships it acquired. Lakera's Zurich office became Check Point's AI security research center.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Lakera is a security platform for GenAI and agent applications that provides runtime protection against prompt injections, data leakage, and jailbreaks, and red-teams AI systems to surface vulnerabilities. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Acquisition | Check Point Software Technologies, announced 2025-09-16 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2021 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Zurich, Switzerland | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $30M total | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | $20M Series A led by Atomico, July 2024 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS, Self-hosted | [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Compliance | GDPR, SOC 2 | [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Lakera | Runtime guardrails plus adversarial testing for LLM and agent apps, screening prompts, responses, and tool calls for prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f7\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runtime AI Data |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Orchestration Tools |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Lakera provides runtime guardrails and adversarial testing for LLM and agent apps, screening prompts, responses, and tool calls for prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

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

**Established (27/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-02. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | The prompt injection, jailbreak, and data leakage scope names a clear enterprise buyer, and independent research treats the threat as real, but the cited press corroborates funding and customers rather than quantifying buyer pain at scale. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | The public docs portal details guardrails, an API reference, and an evaluation framework, the company ships runtime enforcement plus automated red teaming, and external validation now extends beyond the NVIDIA NeMo collaboration to independent academic work that benchmarks Lakera Guard and adopts its PINT dataset. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | Buyer-side demand shows through the 2025 consolidation wave, with Cato, SentinelOne, Tenable, and Check Point all acquiring in the category within roughly 18 months, multiple signals short of the analyst plus regulatory plus budget combination an exceptional mark requires. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | Founders David Haber, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, and Matthias Kraft built Lakera in Zurich in 2021, and the team's standing is independently corroborated by academic adoption of its Gandalf datasets and PINT benchmark and by Check Point naming the Zurich hub its global AI-security research center. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | Dropbox speaks publicly on the homepage and a regulated banking customer is quoted, but Check Point's filing records the revenue it inherited as immaterial and values customer relationships far below the technology it bought, so named references stand without independent corroboration of scale. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | Lakera raised a modest $30 million and reached a $201.8 million sale about four years after founding, but Check Point recorded the inherited revenue as immaterial, so output per dollar is not confirmed and the raise sits at the honest default rather than proven efficiency. \[[s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | Runtime AI security with guardrails and red teaming is a recognizable but still forming slot, with contested labels and no analyst ranking in the cited record that places Lakera, so buyers can locate it yet the category is nascent like its same-asset peers. \[[s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | The Gandalf corpus is real friction that a rival cannot crowdsource by writing code, and an independent study confirms the detectors learn from it, but the 2025 consolidation wave and Lakera's own absorption show the capability is absorbable into platform suites. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Check Point could fold the standalone product into platform bundles. A stalled docs changelog or release cadence after the June 2026 entries would confirm this.
- Model providers and cloud platforms shipping native guardrails could erode the third-party budget line, with buyers defaulting to built-in moderation instead of a separate screening layer.
- The Gandalf corpus skews toward chat-style prompt attacks, so the data advantage decays if agentic tool-call exploits evolve faster than the dataset.
- Headline efficacy figures, including 98%+ detection, sub-0.5% false positives, and sub-50ms latency, are vendor and acquirer claims, and independent studies already test detectors like Lakera Guard against bypass techniques, so an adverse public benchmark would undercut the positioning.
- Customers who require vendor neutrality or compete with Check Point could churn now that Lakera belongs to a platform security vendor.

### Problem & Market

Lakera frames the problem as runtime risk in LLM and agent applications, covering prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and agents taking unsafe actions through tool calls. Conventional application-security controls do not inspect natural-language input to probabilistic models, which is the traffic Lakera screens.

The buyer is the security organization of an enterprise shipping GenAI features or agents, and named customers corroborate the pain beyond vendor marketing. Dropbox gives a homepage testimonial about safeguarding its LLM-powered applications, and a banking customer describes a regulated GenAI deployment that needed Portuguese and Spanish coverage.

Acquirers validated the market in 2025. Cato bought Aim, SentinelOne bought Prompt Security, Tenable bought Apex, and Check Point bought Lakera, a run of deals that shows platform vendors expect sustained enterprise budget for this problem. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Lakera Guard, now marketed as AI Agent Security, screens prompts, model outputs, and agent tool calls inline against configurable policies. The product deploys without model retraining or prompt changes. Lakera's platform is available as SaaS or self-hosted on the Enterprise plan, and the security page documents Lakera Guard as a self-hosted container. Check Point's announcement cites detection rates above 98 percent, sub-50ms latency, and false positives below 0.5 percent, and those figures remain vendor and acquirer claims.

Lakera Red covers pre-deployment testing with automated red teaming for AI applications and agents. Lakera also built red-teaming capabilities into NVIDIA's NeMo Agent Toolkit, packaging the same work for an ecosystem partner's developer audience.

The detection models learn from proprietary attack data. The Gandalf game has produced more than 80 million attack prompts, and an independent study describes Lakera Guard as a proprietary detector trained on that red-team data.

External validation reaches beyond the vendor's own pages. Academic work on prompt-injection guardrails uses Lakera Guard as a standard baseline and adopts Lakera's PINT benchmark as an evaluation dataset, while a separate study of a chat-template injection technique tested Lakera Guard among the defenses it ran against. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Lakera competes in runtime AI security alongside guardrail and AI red-teaming vendors. Most direct rivals now compete from inside larger platforms, after a 2025 consolidation wave that also placed Prompt Security inside SentinelOne, Aim inside Cato, and Apex inside Tenable.

The comparison going forward is platform suite against platform suite. Check Point built its AI-security strategy and its Global Center of Excellence for AI Security around Lakera, so buyers will weigh Check Point's AI layer against the rival platforms that bought into the category, including SentinelOne, Cato, and Tenable.

No analyst ranking in the cited record places the segment. The labels span guardrails, AI security, and runtime AI defense, and no cited analyst report ranks Lakera in a named category, so the slot is recognizable but still forming. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Public customer references are unusual for a company at this stage. Dropbox gives a testimonial describing production use for its LLM-powered features, and an unnamed banking customer is quoted describing an enterprise GenAI deployment in a regulated environment with Portuguese and Spanish language requirements.

The acquisition terms reframe the traction read. Pre-close press estimated the deal near $300 million, but Check Point's annual filing puts the total consideration at approximately $201.8 million and records the revenue it inherited from Lakera as immaterial through year-end 2025. The purchase price allocation assigns far more value to core technology and goodwill than to the customer relationships it acquired.

Public revenue figures are otherwise absent, so traction is read from named customers and the acquirer's willingness to pay. The allocation favors technology and goodwill far above the customer relationships, a technology-and-synergy purchase more than a customer book. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

CEO David Haber, CTO Mateo Rojas-Carulla, and CPO Matthias Kraft founded Lakera in Zurich in 2021, and press counts put the team at about 60 to 70 people at acquisition time. Press describes the founders as former Google and Meta AI practitioners.

The team's standing is independently corroborated rather than self-asserted. Lakera built Gandalf, an AI-security game that drew over a million players, and independent academic work now uses its PINT benchmark and tests Lakera Guard in studies of prompt-injection defenses.

Check Point added an acquirer-side endorsement. The acquirer bought all of Lakera's shares, so Lakera AI AG now operates under full Check Point ownership, positioned at the center of the parent's AI security work. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

The public trust posture is solid for an enterprise security vendor of this size. The security page states that Lakera undergoes regular independent audits against SOC-2 requirements, complies with GDPR, and can be configured not to retain prompt or output content.

A dedicated Trust Center lists SOC 2, CSA STAR Level One, and HIPAA compliance and offers downloadable artifacts behind a request-access gate, including a SOC 2 Type 2 report, a 2025 HIPAA report, and a CSA CAIQ questionnaire. Reaching these through sales is normal for security attestations, and the self-displayed portal is table stakes rather than a moat. Lakera Guard also runs as a self-hosted container for control-sensitive buyers.

Lakera operates under Check Point, a publicly traded security vendor, so large buyers may increasingly weigh an established parent rather than a four-year-old startup in procurement reviews, and the Swiss commercial register still lists Lakera AI AG as the registered entity. \[[s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt Security | competes with | Runtime LLM guardrails and red teaming vendor acquired by SentinelOne in the same 2025 consolidation wave. |
| CalypsoAI | competes with | Runtime AI guardrails and red teaming for the same enterprise buyer. F5 says it completed its CalypsoAI acquisition in September 2025 and reintroduced the capability as F5 AI Guardrails, so CalypsoAI now competes from inside a larger platform, as Lakera does inside Check Point. |
| Aim Security | competes with | AI security platform acquired by Cato Networks, named alongside Lakera in coverage of the category's consolidation. |
| Protect AI | competes with | AI security platform with overlapping AI runtime protection. Palo Alto Networks says it completed its Protect AI acquisition in July 2025 and folded the technology and team into its Prisma AIRS platform. |
| HiddenLayer | competes with | Independent AI security platform spanning model scanning and runtime defense for AI applications. |
| Noma Security | adjacent | Focuses on AI supply-chain and posture management, the discovery and governance layer adjacent to Lakera's runtime enforcement. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Defensible (15/21)**

Band guidance: press the advantage. Analyzed 2026-07-02. Scope: whole company.

What is hardest for a rival to copy is the Gandalf corpus, the crowdsourced attack data Lakera uses to train its detectors, and an independent study of prompt-injection defenses confirms the detectors learn from that red-team data. What customers buy is still software, a screening API metered by request volume, and SOC 2, CSA STAR, and HIPAA attestations ease procurement without blocking a replacement. Check Point's filing puts $44 million on core technology and $150.1 million on goodwill against $4.4 million for customer relationships, so the price favors technology and synergies far above the customer relationships. A funded rival can write the same features but cannot quickly crowdsource a comparable corpus, which likely leans toward chat-era prompts rather than agent tool-calls.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Customers pay for screening software, an API metered by request volume from a free Community plan up to enterprise contracts, and Lakera Red automates red teaming as a product rather than a judgment-and-accountability service. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | The product runs inline in production request flows with tuned policies across prompts, RAG, and MCP, so replacing it means re-integrating and re-tuning, expensive in effort rather than consequence because data is portable and a standard API ports the configuration to a rival. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | SOC 2 audits, GDPR, CSA STAR, and HIPAA attestations ease procurement but block nothing, since no regulation or certification regime mandates prompt-defense tooling and a determined replacement vendor could clear the same bars. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | In-house detector models that learn from adversarial data, claimed sub-50ms inline inference across 100+ languages, and a research agenda put the product in ML and real-time systems territory, and an independent study confirms current detectors including Lakera Guard can still be probed for bypasses. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The 3 comes from the line's own evidenced buyers, enterprises with strict procurement reviews that include Dropbox and a regulated banking customer. Check Point's channel is post-acquisition distribution reach, excluded from this calibration. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | The product is middleware that applications call in their request flow, a platform with policies and a dashboard rather than an end-user app, but customer applications keep functioning without it, so it stops short of infrastructure that other software depends on. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 3/3 | The Gandalf corpus of more than 80 million adversarial prompts feeds the detection models, an independent study confirms the detectors are trained on that red-team data, and Check Point's filing values core technology and goodwill far above the customer book, though it likely skews to chat-era attacks. \[[s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Lakera sells to the security organizations of enterprises that ship GenAI applications and agents. Named evidence spans segments. Dropbox describes production use on the homepage, and an unnamed banking customer quoted on the homepage describes a regulated GenAI deployment that needed Portuguese and Spanish coverage.

Lakera Guard targets the teams building LLM applications and agents, and those named references are the buyer set the line evidenced on its own. Check Point's installed base is post-acquisition distribution context rather than market proof, so any reach into the parent's enterprise security operations accounts would reflect the acquirer's channel rather than demand Lakera demonstrated itself.

Recent activity shows shipping cadence rather than direct customer demand. The docs changelog carries entries into June 2026 under Check Point AI Security branding, and the homepage banner now leads with a post on controlling what AI agents do, not just what they can access. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Lakera Guard, marketed as AI Agent Security, screens prompts, model outputs, and agent tool calls inline against configurable policies, and Check Point describes coverage across prompts, RAG, and MCP. The product page leads with securing AI agents from discovery to runtime, and the deployment needs no model retraining.

Lakera Red covers pre-deployment testing through automated red teaming for AI applications and agents. Lakera also built red-teaming capabilities into NVIDIA's NeMo Agent Toolkit, which packages the work for an ecosystem partner's developer audience.

The detection models learn from proprietary attack data. The Gandalf game has produced more than 80 million attack prompts, and an independent study describes Lakera Guard as a proprietary detector trained on that red-team data.

External validation reaches past the vendor's pages. Academic work on prompt-injection guardrails uses Lakera Guard as a standard baseline and draws benign data from Lakera's PINT benchmark, while a separate study of a chat-template injection technique ran Lakera Guard among the defenses it tested. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Lakera's own go-to-market record shows product-led entry paired with direct enterprise sales. Developers could start on a free Community plan and add screening with little integration work, and TechCrunch reported named North American interest alongside a planned U.S. expansion at the Series A. Lakera also built red-teaming capabilities into NVIDIA's NeMo Agent Toolkit, ecosystem distribution the company carries under its own name.

The disclosed terms set the commercial baseline for that record. Check Point's filing records the total consideration at approximately $201.8 million and the inherited revenue as immaterial, so the deal reads as an asset purchase rather than a measure of standalone sales.

Check Point ownership is distribution context rather than go-to-market proof the line earned. The acquisition makes Lakera the basis of the parent's end-to-end AI security offering, and Check Point's enterprise sales force may now carry the product into accounts the standalone startup did not reach, a channel whose conversion the public record does not yet show. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Lakera publishes its packaging and its free tier but no enterprise prices. The Community plan is free for a limited request volume on SaaS, and the Enterprise plan moves to a sales conversation with flexible volume, configurable limits, and self-hosted deployment.

The pricing unit is screened request volume, which matches the unit buyers use to measure AI traffic. A customer's cost scales with how much AI traffic flows through the screening layer rather than with seat count.

Ownership adds a second layer. Check Point can fold the capability into platform-wide agreements, which makes the standalone price list less decisive for large buyers, and how Check Point prices the capability inside broader contracts is not publicly answerable. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Lakera Guard deploys as cloud SaaS through API endpoints or as a self-hosted container for organizations that require tighter control. Integration requires no model retraining or prompt rewrites, and inputs and outputs are screened in real time against pre-set policies.

Operational claims center on production scale. Check Point's announcement cites detection rates above 98 percent, sub-50ms latency, and false positives below 0.5 percent, and these remain vendor and acquirer numbers with no independent benchmark in the public record.

The documentation portal stayed public and active through the ownership change. It now carries Check Point AI Security branding, and the changelog shows releases continuing into June 2026. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Lakera's public trust posture covers the basics a procurement review asks for. The security page states regular independent audits against SOC-2 requirements and GDPR compliance, and customers can configure the product not to retain prompt or output content.

A dedicated Trust Center lists SOC 2, CSA STAR Level One, and HIPAA compliance and offers attestations behind a request-access gate, including a SOC 2 Type 2 report, a 2025 HIPAA report, and a CSA CAIQ questionnaire. Gating attestations through sales is normal, and the self-displayed portal is table stakes rather than a moat.

The counterparty question changed shape in 2025. Large buyers may increasingly diligence Check Point, a publicly traded security vendor, as the counterparty rather than a four-year-old startup, and commercial-register data via Moneyhouse still lists Lakera AI AG, now relocated to Spreitenbach. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Lakera is becoming the AI-security layer of someone else's platform rather than growing a platform of its own. Check Point describes Lakera as the way it delivers end-to-end AI security across prompts, RAG, and MCP, and the completion frames the combination as one stack covering models, agents, and human interactions.

Outward integrations stay model-agnostic and agent-aware. The product works with any LLM, and the Guard API screens agent tool calls and responses.

Gandalf is a proprietary data asset rather than a licensable product. The game's players continuously generate adversarial data that feeds the detection models, and an independent study confirms the detectors learn from that red-team data. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Founders David Haber, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, and Matthias Kraft started Lakera in Zurich in 2021, and press counts put the team at about 60 to 70 people at acquisition time. Press describes the founders as former Google and Meta AI practitioners.

The team's standing is independently corroborated. Lakera built Gandalf, which drew over a million players, and independent academic work now uses its PINT benchmark and tests Lakera Guard in studies of prompt-injection defenses.

Check Point's endorsement went beyond the purchase price. The acquirer bought all of Lakera's shares, so Lakera AI AG now operates as a Check Point subsidiary central to the parent's AI security work. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Lakera: The AI-Native Security Platform to Accelerate GenAI](https://www.lakera.ai) | official | 2026-07-09 |
| f2 | [SEC Check Point FY2025 Form 20-F (Lakera purchase price allocation, closed October 22, 2025)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891326001932/zk2634942.htm) | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| f3 | [TechCrunch on Lakera’s $20M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/lakera-which-protects-enterprises-from-llm-vulnerabilities-raises-20m/) | press | 2026-06-29 |
| f4 | [Calcalist Tech on Check Point’s $300M Lakera acquisition](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj5bc1vige) | press | 2026-06-11 |
| f5 | [BankInfoSecurity on Check Point’s Lakera purchase](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/check-point-adds-ai-application-defense-lakera-purchase-a-29460) | press | 2026-06-29 |
| f6 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/lakera/) | other | 2026-06-08 |
| f7 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/lakera/) | other | 2026-06-23 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Lakera homepage](https://www.lakera.ai/) “Dropbox uses AI Agent Security as our security solution to help safeguard our LLM-powered applications, secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s2 | [Lakera Guard (AI Agent Security) product page](https://www.lakera.ai/lakera-guard) “Secure AI Agents from Discovery to Runtime” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s3 | [Lakera Red (AI Red Teaming) product page](https://www.lakera.ai/lakera-red) “Strengthening Agentic AI in NVIDIA's NeMo Agent Toolkit. How Lakera and NVIDIA built red teaming capabilities for Agents.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s4 | [Lakera security and privacy overview](https://www.lakera.ai/security) “We undergo regular independent audits to verify that our controls and practices meet stringent SOC-2 requirements.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s5 | [Lakera Trust Center](https://trust.lakera.ai/) “SOC 2. CSA STAR Level One. HIPAA. Lakera SOC2 Type 2 Report. Lakera AI AG - HIPAA Report 2025.pdf. Lakera AI CSA CAIQ v.4.0.3.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [Lakera docs changelog (Check Point AI Security branding)](https://docs.lakera.ai/changelog) “Changelog \| Check Point AI Security. For AI agents: a documentation index is available at the root level at /llms.txt.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s7 | [Lakera pricing page (Community and Enterprise)](https://platform.lakera.ai/pricing) “The default pricing plan (Community) provides free access to a limited number of requests. Contact sales to update your plan and get access to advanced features.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s8 | [Check Point announcement of the Lakera acquisition](https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-enterprises/) “Delivers detection rates above 98 percent with sub-50ms latency and false positives below 0.5 percent, ensuring enterprises can protect AI-driven workloads without impacting speed or accuracy.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s9 | [TechCrunch: Lakera raises $20M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/lakera-which-protects-enterprises-from-llm-vulnerabilities-raises-20m/) “Founded out of Zurich in 2021, Lakera officially launched last October with $10 million in funding” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s10 | [CTech: Check Point's estimated $300 million Lakera acquisition](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj5bc1vige) “The value of the deal was not disclosed, but it is estimated at $300 million.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s11 | [CSO Online: Check Point acquires Lakera (undisclosed sum, Q4 2025 close)](https://www.csoonline.com/article/4058653/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-build-a-unified-ai-security-stack.html) “Proven at scale, its technology already protects advanced enterprise AI deployments using its Gandalf adversarial engine, which leverages over 80 million attack patterns.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s12 | [BankInfoSecurity: Check Point's Lakera purchase](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/check-point-adds-ai-application-defense-lakera-purchase-a-29460) “Lakera, founded in 2021, employs 60 people and has raised $30 million of outside funding, having most recently completed a $20 million Series A round led by Atomico in July 2024.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s13 | [SEC: Check Point FY2025 Form 20-F, Lakera purchase price allocation](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891326001932/zk2634942.htm) “Goodwill $150.1 Core technology 7 Years 44.0 Customer relationship 1 Years 4.4 Trademark 1 Years 0.3 Net assumed assets 3.0 Total $201.8” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s14 | [SEC: Check Point FY2025 Form 20-F, Lakera revenue immaterial and October 22, 2025 close](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891326001932/zk2634942.htm) “On October 22, 2025, the Company completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Lakera AI AG. From the Lakera Acquisition Date to December 31, 2025, the consolidated statements of income include immaterial revenue and operating results attributable to Lakera.” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s15 | [Moneyhouse: Lakera AI AG, Spreitenbach (Swiss commercial register CHE-153.024.821)](https://www.moneyhouse.ch/en/company/lakera-ai-ag-20963050441) “The company Lakera AI AG is registered under the UID CHE-153.024.821.” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s16 | [InjecGuard: Benchmarking and Mitigating Over-defense in Prompt Injection Guardrail Models (arXiv 2410.22770)](https://arxiv.org/html/2410.22770v2) “We employ five existing prompt guard models as baselines: Fmops, Deepset, PromptGuard, ProtectAIv2, and LakeraGuard ... we utilize benign data from both the PINT benchmark LakeraAI” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s17 | [ChatInject: Abusing Chat Templates for Prompt Injection in LLM Agents (arXiv 2509.22830)](https://arxiv.org/html/2509.22830v3) “The Lakera Guard model is a proprietary prompt-injection detector developed by Lakera AI. Lakera Guard combines proprietary AI detectors and rules trained on large-scale adversarial datasets collected from real-world red-teaming and from Lakera's Gandalf prompt-injection challenges.” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s18 | [F5 blog: F5 completes acquisition of CalypsoAI, introduces F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team (September 29, 2025)](https://www.f5.com/company/blog/what-are-ai-guardrails) “Today, F5 is pleased to announce that we have completed our acquisition of CalypsoAI, a pioneer at the frontier of AI security, and we are introducing the latest addition to securing our digital roads: F5 AI Guardrails, comprehensive runtime security for AI models and agents.” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s19 | [Palo Alto Networks press release: Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Protect AI (July 22, 2025)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2025/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-protect-ai) “Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Protect AI, an innovative leader in securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and models.” | official | 2026-07-02 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Lakera homepage](https://www.lakera.ai/) “Dropbox uses AI Agent Security as our security solution to help safeguard our LLM-powered applications, secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s2 | [Lakera Guard (AI Agent Security) product page](https://www.lakera.ai/lakera-guard) “Secure AI Agents from Discovery to Runtime” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s3 | [Lakera Red (AI Red Teaming) product page](https://www.lakera.ai/lakera-red) “Strengthening Agentic AI in NVIDIA's NeMo Agent Toolkit. How Lakera and NVIDIA built red teaming capabilities for Agents.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s4 | [Lakera security and privacy overview](https://www.lakera.ai/security) “We undergo regular independent audits to verify that our controls and practices meet stringent SOC-2 requirements.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s5 | [Lakera Trust Center](https://trust.lakera.ai/) “SOC 2. CSA STAR Level One. HIPAA. Lakera SOC2 Type 2 Report. Lakera AI AG - HIPAA Report 2025.pdf. Lakera AI CSA CAIQ v.4.0.3.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s6 | [Lakera docs changelog (Check Point AI Security branding)](https://docs.lakera.ai/changelog) “Changelog \| Check Point AI Security. For AI agents: a documentation index is available at the root level at /llms.txt.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s7 | [Lakera pricing page (Community and Enterprise)](https://platform.lakera.ai/pricing) “The default pricing plan (Community) provides free access to a limited number of requests. Contact sales to update your plan and get access to advanced features.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s8 | [Check Point announcement of the Lakera acquisition](https://www.checkpoint.com/press-releases/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-deliver-end-to-end-ai-security-for-enterprises/) “Lakera secures LLMs, generative AI, and agents across prompts, RAG, and MCP, providing real-time defenses against prompt injection, data leakage, and model manipulation.” | official | 2026-06-29 |
| s9 | [TechCrunch: Lakera raises $20M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/lakera-which-protects-enterprises-from-llm-vulnerabilities-raises-20m/) “Founded out of Zurich in 2021, Lakera officially launched last October with $10 million in funding” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s10 | [CTech: Check Point's estimated $300 million Lakera acquisition](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj5bc1vige) “The value of the deal was not disclosed, but it is estimated at $300 million.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s11 | [CSO Online: Check Point acquires Lakera (undisclosed sum, Q4 2025 close)](https://www.csoonline.com/article/4058653/check-point-acquires-lakera-to-build-a-unified-ai-security-stack.html) “Proven at scale, its technology already protects advanced enterprise AI deployments using its Gandalf adversarial engine, which leverages over 80 million attack patterns.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s12 | [BankInfoSecurity: Check Point's Lakera purchase](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/check-point-adds-ai-application-defense-lakera-purchase-a-29460) “Lakera, founded in 2021, employs 60 people and has raised $30 million of outside funding, having most recently completed a $20 million Series A round led by Atomico in July 2024.” | press | 2026-06-29 |
| s13 | [SEC: Check Point FY2025 Form 20-F, Lakera purchase price allocation](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891326001932/zk2634942.htm) “Goodwill $150.1 Core technology 7 Years 44.0 Customer relationship 1 Years 4.4 Trademark 1 Years 0.3 Net assumed assets 3.0 Total $201.8” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s14 | [SEC: Check Point FY2025 Form 20-F, Lakera revenue immaterial and October 22, 2025 close](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015922/000117891326001932/zk2634942.htm) “On October 22, 2025, the Company completed the acquisition of all outstanding shares of Lakera AI AG. From the Lakera Acquisition Date to December 31, 2025, the consolidated statements of income include immaterial revenue and operating results attributable to Lakera.” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s15 | [Moneyhouse: Lakera AI AG, Spreitenbach (Swiss commercial register CHE-153.024.821)](https://www.moneyhouse.ch/en/company/lakera-ai-ag-20963050441) “The company Lakera AI AG is registered under the UID CHE-153.024.821.” | regulatory | 2026-06-29 |
| s16 | [InjecGuard: Benchmarking and Mitigating Over-defense in Prompt Injection Guardrail Models (arXiv 2410.22770)](https://arxiv.org/html/2410.22770v2) “We employ five existing prompt guard models as baselines: Fmops, Deepset, PromptGuard, ProtectAIv2, and LakeraGuard ... we utilize benign data from both the PINT benchmark LakeraAI” | research | 2026-06-29 |
| s17 | [ChatInject: Abusing Chat Templates for Prompt Injection in LLM Agents (arXiv 2509.22830)](https://arxiv.org/html/2509.22830v3) “The Lakera Guard model is a proprietary prompt-injection detector developed by Lakera AI. Lakera Guard combines proprietary AI detectors and rules trained on large-scale adversarial datasets collected from real-world red-teaming and from Lakera's Gandalf prompt-injection challenges.” | research | 2026-06-29 |

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