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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We believe in good engineering, collaboration & responsible innovation. We are:

Passionate about building robust solutions to real-life problems
Driven by customer needs and outstanding user experiences
Hungry to learn and improve every day
Conscious about technology's role in our society
Empathetic team players

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Meet the team

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Alex Combessie
Co-founder & co-CEO
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Jean-Marie John-Mathews, PhD
Co-founder & co-CEO
Matteo Dora, Giskard's ML Researcher
Matteo Dora, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
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Kevin Messiaen
Software Engineering Lead
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Blanca Rivera Campos
Marketing Manager
Weixuan Xiao, PhD
Machine Learning Engineer
Guillaume Sibout
Head of Sales & Partnerships
Bazire Houssin
Senior Software Engineer
Henrique Chaves
Junior Software Engineer
Pierre Le Jeune, PhD
Machine Learning Researcher
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Myriam Brouillet
Executive Assistant
David Berenstein
Developer Advocate
Etienne Duchesne, PhD
AI Researcher
Stephane Changarnier
Frontend Design Engineer
Manoli Arora
Growth Intern
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Meet some of theInvestors of Giskard

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Julien Chaumond
CTO of Hugging Face
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Sébastien Lefebvre
Partner at Elaia
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Charles Gorintin
Co-founder of Alan & Mistral AI
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Oscar Salazar
Founding CTO of Uber
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Nathalie Gaveau
Co-founder of Price Minister
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Shéhérazade Semsar de Boisséson
CEO of McCourt Global
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Nick Hernandez
CEO of 360 Learning
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Niall Murphy
CEO of Stanza Systems
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