History, Vision & Values

Giskard defends the vision of an AI that can be trusted by its makers and users. We are committed to ensuring companies can deploy AI Agents with trust, by advancing research in AI safety and providing the leading standards for LLM quality & security testing in critical applications.

We are AI professionals: Data Scientists, AI Researchers & Engineers. In 2021, we created Giskard to address the challenges we faced in ensuring the performance, fairness, and security of AI models. We combine 25 years of experience developing mission-critical AI systems, particularly at Dataiku and Thales.

In 2022, we raised our first round of 1.5 M€ led by Elaia with participation from Bessemer & notable angel investors including the CTO of Hugging Face. To learn more, you can read our announcement.

In 2023, we received a strategic investment of 3 M€ from the European Commission as part of the EIC Accelerator Horizon 2030 program. You can read more here.

In 2024, we won a 3 M€ grant from Bpifrance to lead research in evaluation & mitigation for Large Language Models (LLMs), in a collaborative consortium with Mistral AI, Artefact, INA and BnF. You can learn more here.‍
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We believe in good engineering, collaboration & responsible innovation. We are: