# Cyber Company Profiles: General Analysis

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## At a Glance

- Website: [generalanalysis.com](https://generalanalysis.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/general-analysis
- Type: Security for AI
- Market readiness: Established (25/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (12/21)
- Funding: $10M total
- Last updated: 2026-07-15

## Executive Summary

One adversarial agent built by General Analysis persuaded 50 of 55 live customer-service bots to hand out more than $10 million in fake perks, each within minutes. The San Francisco startup, backed by Y Combinator and a $10 million seed led by Altos Ventures, runs these simulated attacks on enterprise AI agents and then hardens them with runtime guardrails. Security researcher Simon Willison cited a separate constructed attack scenario in which a Supabase database connected to the Cursor coding agent could be leaked through a single malicious support ticket. General Analysis has far less to show commercially. It names no customer publicly, and a co-founder told Axios it is targeting $2 million in revenue within 12 to 18 months.

## 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 | General Analysis runs automated adversarial red teaming against enterprise AI agents and turns the findings into runtime guardrails, detection, and monitoring for models, tools, and MCP servers. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, USA | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $10M total | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Seed, $10M (April 2026) | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Automated AI Red Teaming | Context-aware adversarial testing that maps an agent's tool and permission graphs and generates multi-step exploit chains before release. |
| Runtime Guardrails and Observability | Runtime guardrail models and monitoring that screen prompts, responses, and tool calls and watch for poisoning and drift. |
| MCP Guard | A guard that inspects and controls calls to MCP servers to protect MCP-based agents from injection and data exfiltration. |
| AI Security Asset Management | Inventories models, knowledge bases, MCP servers, and agent pipelines while scanning for prompt injection and data leaks. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources):

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

Automated AI Red Teaming maps an agent's tool and permission graphs and generates multi-step exploits, while Runtime Guardrails, MCP Guard, and AI Detection and Response screen prompts, tool calls, and MCP traffic and contain risky agent behavior. These lines are 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 (25/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-05. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## 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

**Exposed (12/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-15. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [About General Analysis (what the company does)](https://generalanalysis.com/about) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f2 | [General Analysis seed announcement (location)](https://generalanalysis.com/blog/general-analysis-raises-10m) | official | 2026-07-03 |
| f3 | [Tech Startups: General Analysis raises $10M seed (investors)](https://techstartups.com/2026/04/29/general-analysis-raises-10m-in-seed-funding-to-secure-agentic-ai-against-real-world-attacks/) | press | 2026-07-03 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [General Analysis homepage](https://generalanalysis.com) “General Analysis helps security teams adversarially test, monitor, and protect AI agents and systems in production.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [About General Analysis (approach)](https://generalanalysis.com/about) “We train proprietary adversarial agents that digest a customer's runtime environment, map the full graph of tools and permissions, and generate multi-step exploits that target the seams between components.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [General Analysis seed announcement (founding team)](https://generalanalysis.com/blog/general-analysis-raises-10m) “Our founding team of top AI safety and security researchers has built RL infrastructure at DeepMind, trained state-of-the-art models at Jane Street, NVIDIA, and Cohere, and published leading research at top conferences, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and more.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [General Analysis guardrails documentation](https://docs.generalanalysis.com/guardrails) “Our safety stack ships in two guard families, both trained on the same adversarial pipelines we run for production deployments. Public guards, Open checkpoints published on Hugging Face. Custom enterprise guards, Bespoke detectors we train against your policies and red-team data.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [General Analysis MCP Guard documentation](https://docs.generalanalysis.com/mcp-guard/quickstart) “You'll be automatically enrolled in a 30-day free trial for Guardrail Basic. No payment method required! The GA CLI and MCP Guard proxy are implemented in Python.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Axios: Agentic AI security startup General Analysis raises $10M](https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/29/agentic-ai-security-startup-general-analysis) “General Analysis, which helps companies safely deploy agentic AI, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Altos Ventures, co-founder Rez Havaei tells Axios Pro. The company aims to hit $2 million in revenue in the next 12 to 18 months and then will look to raise a Series A.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [Tech Startups: General Analysis red-team demonstration](https://techstartups.com/2026/04/29/general-analysis-raises-10m-in-seed-funding-to-secure-agentic-ai-against-real-world-attacks/) “In March, a single adversarial agent persuaded 50 live customer service bots to hand out more than $10 million in fake perks. Million-dollar gift cards. Years of free services. Anything it could extract. Each target took only a few minutes. Out of 55 systems tested, just five held the line.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | [Simon Willison: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/) “In this case, General Analysis identify all three components in a single MCP, the Supabase MCP. They imagine a scenario where a developer asks Cursor, running the Supabase MCP, to list the latest support tickets.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s9 | [General Analysis raises $10M seed (location and investors)](https://letsdatascience.com/news/general-analysis-raises-10m-seed-to-secure-agentic-ai-33e27740) “General Analysis, a San Francisco startup building security infrastructure for agentic AI. The round included participation from 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, and other strategic investors and angels.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s10 | [General Analysis homepage trust probe 2026-07-03 (footer badges, /security and /trust paths, trust subdomains), no SOC 2 or ISO attestation found](https://generalanalysis.com) “Understand your AI risk.” | official | 2026-07-03 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [General Analysis homepage](https://generalanalysis.com) “General Analysis helps security teams adversarially test, monitor, and protect AI agents and systems in production.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s2 | [About General Analysis (approach)](https://generalanalysis.com/about) “We train proprietary adversarial agents that digest a customer's runtime environment, map the full graph of tools and permissions, and generate multi-step exploits that target the seams between components.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s3 | [General Analysis seed announcement (founding team)](https://generalanalysis.com/blog/general-analysis-raises-10m) “Our founding team of top AI safety and security researchers has built RL infrastructure at DeepMind, trained state-of-the-art models at Jane Street, NVIDIA, and Cohere, and published leading research at top conferences, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and more.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s4 | [General Analysis guardrails documentation](https://docs.generalanalysis.com/guardrails) “Our safety stack ships in two guard families, both trained on the same adversarial pipelines we run for production deployments. Public guards, Open checkpoints published on Hugging Face. Custom enterprise guards, Bespoke detectors we train against your policies and red-team data.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s5 | [General Analysis MCP Guard documentation](https://docs.generalanalysis.com/mcp-guard/quickstart) “You'll be automatically enrolled in a 30-day free trial for Guardrail Basic. No payment method required! The GA CLI and MCP Guard proxy are implemented in Python.” | official | 2026-07-03 |
| s6 | [Axios: Agentic AI security startup General Analysis raises $10M](https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/04/29/agentic-ai-security-startup-general-analysis) “General Analysis, which helps companies safely deploy agentic AI, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Altos Ventures, co-founder Rez Havaei tells Axios Pro. The company aims to hit $2 million in revenue in the next 12 to 18 months and then will look to raise a Series A.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s7 | [Tech Startups: General Analysis red-team demonstration](https://techstartups.com/2026/04/29/general-analysis-raises-10m-in-seed-funding-to-secure-agentic-ai-against-real-world-attacks/) “In March, a single adversarial agent persuaded 50 live customer service bots to hand out more than $10 million in fake perks. Million-dollar gift cards. Years of free services. Anything it could extract. Each target took only a few minutes. Out of 55 systems tested, just five held the line.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s8 | [Simon Willison: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/) “In this case, General Analysis identify all three components in a single MCP, the Supabase MCP. They imagine a scenario where a developer asks Cursor, running the Supabase MCP, to list the latest support tickets.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s9 | [General Analysis raises $10M seed (location and investors)](https://letsdatascience.com/news/general-analysis-raises-10m-seed-to-secure-agentic-ai-33e27740) “General Analysis, a San Francisco startup building security infrastructure for agentic AI. The round included participation from 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, and other strategic investors and angels.” | press | 2026-07-03 |
| s10 | [General Analysis homepage trust probe, re-run 2026-07-15 (footer badges, /security and /trust paths, trust subdomains), no SOC 2 or ISO attestation found](https://generalanalysis.com) “Understand your AI risk.” | official | 2026-07-03 |

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